"Most of OPN’s stuff could be parodied by a fourth grader messing with a few synths and random ’80s…throw some predictably minimal cover art on it, release it whatever the ironicly cool format is this week (elusive RealPlayer codecs), and watch the indie press go gushing."

it's the realplayer codecs part that made me laugh for five minutes.

that shit was annoying. there was no freeware workaround. you had no choice but to use their proprietary software, which was maddeningly bad. like, seriously. using realplayer software would seriously make you angry at the world. you have to wonder if it's a factor for violent crime in society.

now, somebody will produce a chart that correlates the rise and fall of urban violence in the 90s with the rise and fall in the popularity of realnetworks.

you kids don't even want to know about this. just be happy it went away.