Toys don't have feelings.

I swear these things just fully popped into existence one day. No lead-up, no buzz, just an instant deluge of them being everywhere all of a sudden.

YES

Are they more or less woke than Get Out?

There can be two jerks.

Giada I still love you. Please make sure my emails from Skynet HQ aren't being blocked by your spam filter.

This comment is true of most things.

Josh Gad: Lifetime Winner of World's Most Punchable Face Award

This is officially the longest I've ever thought about or discussed Linkin Park.

I'm imagining video of that header playing out in fast motion with Yakety Sax.

He's saying they're not trying to be successful by using a formula. When they are, in fact, using a formula that thousands of other bands have been using for decades.

Exactly, they're following the formula. Not Linkin Park though, no formulas for them.

Pro: he's significantly prolonged his life and avoided a tragic death.
Con: he has an unsellable nightmare house full of chalk-faced horror creatures.

Don't praise the Generic Indie Kid.

That sweet early 2000s nostalgia is right around the corner.

Says the band who writes three & a half minute verse/chorus/verse/chorus songs perfectly formatted to a rock radio formula.

My favorite instance of it came from Morbid Angel, who released the unlistenable Illud Divinum Insanus a few years ago and blasted lifelong fans who weren't especially enamored with their new clubthumping industrial rock sound.

Ah, the timeless "if you don't like our new sound you're not real fans anyway" fan antagonizing.

People love boring books.

This particular gritty remake reminds me of that awful minimal German expressionist version of Hamlet that appeared on the original MST3K.