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So a Let's Play.

Yay I'm not alone. Touchscreens and phones are a huge step backwards in terms or usability as far as I'm concerned.LoTR is pretty dry and boring to read if you don't know the mythopoeia because it's filled with cryptic in-universe references you won't get. Also songs about every tree the fellowship sees.

Eh, I thought I would miss having a physical keyboard on my phone but I adapted to a touchscreen pretty quickly. Swype is a super cool thing as long as you pay attention to whatever autocorrect decides to do. It's especially fast when you can auto-fill longer words or just swipe your finger "close enough" to the right keys that it figures out what you meant.

I do agree that the touchscreen craze has gone a little too far, though. Touchscreen laptops? Really? ...You mean tablets with attached keyboards? And you want me to pay tons more for a feature I will never *need* to use?

Touchscreens are useful but it's not the wave of the future. Buttons work just as well for non-mobile things.

Edit: Re: LotR: I recently started re-reading the LotR series, it makes a lot more sense than it did when I was in middle school, because you realize that it's not in the straightforward fantasy style of fiction you see today (including stuff like Elder Scrolls, even though their lore is more fleshed out than most fantasy worlds). It's more like... halfway between epic poetry and medieval fantasy. It really started the whole fantasy mythos as we know it, before LotR there really weren't any other well-known stories of elves and dwarves and monsters like that. So it's a lot more cryptic, partially because so much of it refers to lore that only Tolkien knew about (and later put in stuff like the Silmarillion), but also because that world was so different from other fiction of the time; it creates that feel that there are ancient secrets and powers at work that the mortal characters (or the readers) never really understand.

I don't mind touchscreens at all. I've gotten to the point where I can type reliably without even looking at the phone. Controls in games have improved by miles too; I think the iOS port of Sonic 1 had the best controls of any other consoles I've played on. It just felt immediate and responsive. I can see where issues would very readily crop up for games with more complex controls, but for simpler stuff it works great. I'd say you could easily port any Game Boy series game to touchscreens and have it work flawlessly by now.

Lacking the tactile feedback from a physical button reduces your ability to quickly and accurately react in my experience. Sure, it's ok for simple games, but why would you ever pick a worse option that costs more?

It's free if you've already got the phone to use as a phone, though.

Tactile feedback was never an issue for me much, since if the game's set up right you won't have to feel your way around the screen. Most of the time when I'm using a console, I don't feel the buttons until I'm already pressing all the way down anyway, so I didn't miss the buttons when I moved to the screen. Of course, I'm mostly talking about really simple games with huge buttons, but even when I was playing the pared down port of SFIV with its five(? maybe just four, I forget) buttons I didn't miss any significant amount.
Having the buttons right there in your field of view made it really easy to acclimate, too.

I'm not exactly sure how popular of an opinion this is but I really like Owl City. His songs are so catchy and pop flyin'.

I truly believe Super Mario World is better than Mario Bros 3.

Better graphics (Even with the GBA remakes), better music, smoother controls, better powerups and it has mother fucking Yoshi in it. But everyone says SMB3 is the superior one...

I don't know about games, but I can type just as quickly on a digital keyboard as I can a physical keyboard.

It's exactly because of this that Tolkien said the Lord of the Rings should include the Silmarillion. He felt that you could never grasp everything tLotR was about without knowing what happened before. He explained all this in the letter that was included in the Silmarillion.
Everything became much more clear to me when I learned that tLotR is actually the last bit, bodaciously the ending, of the entire story that was his life's work.

understandable. It's just too detailed and they tend to hop around a lot n Lord of the Rings.
Merry and Pippin also bugged me kinda.

I find Batman incredibly boring. I seriously don't understand why everyone loves him so much.

Batman is okay when he's not written by people who have a huge fanboy boner for him that make him "I'm the smartest, alpha as fuck, every other superhero sucks. I'm Batman."

personally, if i were to write batman, id make him a bit more. mature and grounded. and make robin more of a cocky bastard. I mean sure hes smart, but yknow. "ey I make the thinsg and keep Gotham safe. Im batman but im also just a normal dude too"

I'll admit that part of the reason I like Batman as much as I do is because of the villains.