Bartimaeus

Yeah, Link is supposed to be left-handed. The Wii version is obviously non-canon.

It might depend upon the method of input. The Gamecube version of Twilight Princess is pretty widely considered the definitive version, not the Wii version...so it might depend.

Heh, no surprise, given the circumstances - idiot girl texts him in advance, wasn't it, that she'd pull something like this if he broke up with her? Not the best plan, lady.

Man, player interviews today were so brutal. Everyone's just devastated about it. Not a great way to open up the season. ...Part of the reason the Packers tend to get good deal on their own players is because their players love being here and want to stay. You do something stupid like this, you tear apart these guys' football families for no apparent reason at a moment's notice and in such a callous manner (management won't even explain to them why it happened), and maybe they won't feel as strongly about it when negotiations come around again. I think this is probably something they'll remember for a while.

...at least it wasn't the Vikings, who probably still have the best chance of challenging for the division (with Bradford, anyways). What a shame that this game is also, first and foremost, a business.

Josh Sitton signs 3 year deal with Bears.

He is still one of the top 5, maybe top 3 guards in football...I hope he goes to an AFC team, or at least a non-NFCN team.

packers releasing 3x (second team) all-pro guard josh sitton today RIP 2016 packers season

The Chiefs did ruin our 16-0 season in 2011...I think the Packers should be able to handle the Jaguars alright.

ok, technically, it's not totally "officially" over for everybody, but it's over for me, and what a stinker of an ending it was,

THE PRE-SEASON IS OFFICIALLY OVER HERE WE GO FOR REAL (in exactly 7 days)

What about skippable end credits that have a hidden cutscene in the middle/near the end? That would infuriate me even more!

Try Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link when you finish that for a...different experience*.

it looks like a torture device

...a useless, uncomfortable chair at that, too.

Hello, Volourn.

These guys put their bodies through pretty extreme duress - even simply how large (height, weight, build) seems to play an effect. Their bodies are trained to take it, but sometimes, crap just breaks.

Yeah, I prefer to get rescue animals that are of at least middling age. They're generally already trained to some degree, and really deserve just as much love as their younger brethren, too. Particularly if they didn't receive much earlier in life... ...My only regret is that they leave you sooner.

In other news, Teddy Bridgewater is out for the season with a dislocated knee (torn ACL, structural damage, no arterial or nerve damage). Awful news...but not as bad it could've been given the circumstances - there were legitimate fears there would be nerve and perhaps arterial damage, which would likely be a career ender.

Packers had a punter competition all pre-season long...and decided just now to cut both of them (including long-time punter Masthay) and sign somebody totally new that was so bad he couldn't even make it on the Buccaneers (who, no, did not have good punting last season). How very odd.

"it isn't quite lying by omission" also, in the post before last, I did separate the way I was referring to the media - the people who initially questioned him, and the people trashing him

Accurate, but incomplete. It isn't quite lying by omission - because yes, Keapernick was stupid enough to only give that initial answer - but the more trash talking I hear about Kaepernick as a result of this story, the more it begins to feel like it, particularly when the media seems to have no interest in trying to help set the record a little more straight. If the media's only duty is to make money and be at least technically honest (avoiding breaking any laws and also thus not having any qualms about not bothering to follow up a story that affects the general perception of a person), then I'll be trying my best to avoid giving the media any clicks or views... ...But I already try to do that anyways.

Dakk's level of play is certainly encouraging, at the very least. We'll see what happens in the regular season, though: pre-season play is noted for lacking the normal game plan scheming that makes offense and defense most effective.

If the story was worth reporting to begin with, follow up on that report, particularly if that wasn't all there was to the story, which, by all accounts, it wasn't. Instead, they got one juicy bit that they ("they" being a combination of people, the organization who initially questioned him about it and then all these idiot talking heads going on and on about it) are using to drag his name through the mud for views and clicks, and they don't care about anything else he had to say on the matter. If it's SUCH a big deal, you'd think they'd want to know more about it and report about it. Instead...nothing: let the public drubbing continue.