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I liked his earliest stuff best. As the years went on, his vocals got brighter and brighter, and the lyrics less...primal, in a way, I feel. The instrumentals also became less dark EBM and more generic futurepop-ish. My favorite album of his is still Contempt. To be honest, I feel this way about most electronic artists that I like(d). Assemblage 23, Covenant, Lights of Euphoria, The Azoic, VNV Nation...they've all moved away from their roots of lyrically-raw dark EBM/synth, and have all moved into this brighter futurepop stuff, and I just don't really have much of a stomach for the latter, so it's very disappointing. VNV Nation is the only one that has managed to really keep my interest so far.

What a game. First half was a little lackluster - not too bad, but not that good for an opening game, either - but the second half was great. Too bad about the Broncos hitting Newton in the head so many times - I wanted the Broncos to win, but I started losing sympathy after the second hit (first one looked pretty incidental to me, so I was able to forgive it), and basically didn't care about who won by the third. Why is Newton the "anti-christ"?

has he stopped singing in his terrible higher pitched voice yet has he stopped making ultra generic futurepop yet nope on both counts, into the trash it goes

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.