Aether

I listened to all three books and The Hobbit via audio book read by Robert Englis. It made the experience much more enjoyable cause he had a soothing british accent and he was able to do characterizations of all the voices resonably well. So I didn't mind the extra long background stuff cause I had already seen the movies several times now (and played LOTRO) and wanted to know more backstory. It was like listening to a serial radio play every day at work. But I do agree that early parts of the Fellowship were tedious and could have been put in one of the appendixes.

In lower level games it can happen. Someone hops on a smurf to practice something, their team wants them to do something else,  so they feed or pick a troll build. Depending on the time you play you will run into a lot of trolls. Just got out of a game with AD Sona and AD Kennen and Revive Tele Alistar. It is annoying but like any online game you will run into assholes.
 
 Just develop a thick skin and play for yourself. Solo Queue is busted. People don't really care how they play. The best thing to do is look out for people who do care and friend them and maybe you can just queue up with them instead. I rarely play with anyone but my friends at this point and that is completely fine with me. Saves me a headache and every now and then the 4th and 5th spot are decent players who i can friend and queue up with when my RL friends are not on.
 
Just read the last paragraph again.
a) There is really nothing else to do. If you want to win then just do it. His team probably could have sent another person to the lane to prevent you from killing him by harassing you but chances are they just wanted the game to end.
b) Regarding tanks: Many of them are junglers. They have naturally high survivability and the current meta usually supports a tank jungler. The "euro" with having a bruiser champ top like Renekton, Garen, Irelia etc. can also have a tank instead like Leona, Skarner, Singed. For a solo top you want someone who not only has lane sustainability  but also has decent farm. Singed being  a wonderful tank in that regard. 
The biggest thing though is that sometimes a tank isn't needed. What you need is an initiate. People like Rammus, Shen, Singed, Alistar. They can run in there are start a fight. When people really want a tank what they want is an initiator. Alistar has one of the best in the game. Singed fling with his ult on and ghost makes at least a guarantee that someone will be out of position. 
Taunts aren't really a necessity. They are nice to have but this isn't an mmo. The action can be super fast and a team fight can be over after 2 or 3 ults from a carry. It usually just all pops off right after someone goes in. And thats where  the tank/initiator line is. Keep trying out whatever free tanks are available and see what kind you like. Some tanks just kind of blow their wad then have to auto attack and hope their carries don't die. Others can sustain themselves and put out a bit of dmg while the team does their thing but maybe they aren't the tankiest of the tanks. Leveling up is a time to find what playstyle works best for you.

1. NO replay feature. Can a video can backtrack the replay from a different angle?
2. NO pause function. What if something goes wrong in the middle of a professional match?
3. NO observer feature. Can you view another area during a live match?

I agree that those feature most def should have been included. Especially the pause which i think is coming. But they recently (a few months ago) implemented their spectator (observer) mode for the tournaments. Made a huge difference then their previous form of just having a 6th invisible player with a fog of war summoner spell.

There has been a replay program but it isn't inherent to the actual game. It is 3rd party and kinda borked but it is there. Its main problem is for whatever reason health and cooldowns are never captured correctly so it can be frustrating when watching them. Just another one of those things that they said they are working on to make inherent in the game.

The main reason i really keep playing LoL more is because it is casual friendly. My friends just couldn't penetrate DotA and it was just extremely frustrating for them to get dominated damn near every game by people who know what they are doing, to the point where they weren't learning anything. Was just feed fests and quick games because they would get denied and harassed so much.

@yorro said:

The reasons why LOL IS FOR KIDS(Casual Gamers): First of all, when say for-kids I meant less strategy, silly competitive gaming, passive gaming, and has players who play once a month(Casual Gamers)

1. Passivity
2. Overpowered towers, this gives players a sensation of safety and relaxation which promotes passivity
3. Mistakes are not punished properly which again promotes passive gaming. IE: When you die, you don't lose gold.
4. No complex skills (IE Rupture), LOL Lead Designed made this clear.
5. TOP REASON - Not viable for competitive gaming AKA for kids.

I agree with pretty much all of the reasons you have given except for the last one. There is a competitive gaming scene. The stream record being broken and tournament games with prize pools (albeit nothing spectacular in terms of money) have already shown this. If you don't like it that's fine but it already exists and will continue to exist. I have my LoL friends and DoTA friends. When i want a more laid back game with my friends, i will play LoL. When i want to play solo and be competitive i will play DoTA.

DoTA has been out for years and has had a community that has stayed strong to support it. LoL has a couple of years and is still growing, and with its more casual friendly game play will continue to grow. There is room for both. The only community i see potentially shrinking will be the HoN community. Something being aimed at kids does not make it garbage or for the painfully retarded. I know we like to polarize everything so we feel more comfortable with the choices and games we end up sticking with but in the MOBA community this shit has always seemed insane because to the people outside it, we are apparently all playing the same game.

I turn your attention to the story of Twixt, a city of heroes character that was ostracized by the other players for breaking a social contract (ie killing other players).

" @Jazz said:

" what the hell is wrong with Section 8? It's $15 has a full Single Player and Multiplayer option and it's fun.

How the fuck can you compare a $60 to a $15? Have people lost any sense of proportionality? 

Also Jeff is allowed to have his own opinion as much as you are allowed to have your own. I tend to find Jeff's reviews to not follow my own opinions but that's life

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Some people don't care about money, some people care about fun. Away with you peasant! I must have my lunch gilded, lest it taste cheap! "

I am on my 3rd playthrough of DA2 and they pretty much come out of the same spots on every fight. They spawn on the same sides and on the same stairwells. The jump down from the same places as well. So i have been pretty easily been able to position my mages and warriors to tank the dmg and rain down aoe on a specific spot. The only noticable difference is the amount of health seems different but that could be because i am facing these fights at different levels then my previous playthrough. 
 
It only seems random because you are going into an unknown area that hasn't been memorized. The fights are pretty scripted. Especially during the act 2 Qunari fights. The pride demon is always in the same place as are the mages. The more i play it the easier it becomes to predict. It isn't very random at all unless it is your first playthrough or you are playing again on a different difficulty. When i went from normal to nightmare a couple of things changed but that was more of quantities of enemies rather then them coming from nowhere.

I seem to remember in Awakening, Anders was a member of the Circle, who escaped many, many times, and when you encounter him, the templars you find dead are the ones who were trying to take him back. He was never branded an apostate because he was, in fact, a Grey Warden.