They seem to purposefuly leave a lot of that background stuff very hazy. Another example is Walter's horrible mother, who has been mentioned in passing but no actual details, tales or explanations have ever been offered.

Smoking a hella lotta meth will do that to a guy.

Only when Dads isn't on!

I don't know, let me check… you into the boards.

I just want you to know this isn't personal…

If only I had a dollar for every time I've said that to my dad.

God damn those sub-Saharan Africans. Always getting all the lucky breaks!

Atlas Shrugged, Because He Saw the Glory of Chairman Mao’s People’s Revolution and Realized He Could Do No Better

So he was in the shit?

My hairy wood works mainly in your mom's valley.

I suspect China's economy is going to tank sooner rather than later and it is going to tank HARD. Exponential growth from a moribund agrarian economy to a modern one can cover up a lot of the corruption, bad investment, class stasis and ecological horror that the expansion has spawned but at some point what goes up…

I liked the book but the movie might actually be better. It has all kinds of crazy depths of satire that get sharper and sharper with every passing year.

IMPOSTOR! If you were really from south Jersey you would have referred to the Eagles as "The Iggles". At least that's how other Southerners* at Rutgers back in the mid 80s referred to them.

I didn't even mention Greg Evigan of BJ and the Bear and TekWar "fame". Also a Sayreville War Memorial Alum. (Go Bombers!)

@avclub-832d86d3a05e2b4973c329471ee9d6c4:disqus - I'm not talking about reality, I'm talking perceptions. And to the rest of the country Kansas City sounds exactly like the middle of fucking nowhere.

Even games with good writing and strong stories - Portal 2 comes to mind - would be mere husks of themselves if the hands-on part of the experience is stripped away.

I have long felt that attempting to translate video games to movies is an intrinsically bad idea. Translating a movie to a game can work – frequently it doesn’t, but it can – but I don’t think the opposite is true or even can be true. The reason for this is because when you translate a movie into a game you add…

Atari's E.T.: The Movie or GTFLSNM*

"Mastrabulate" is when you masturbate but it take you so long to finish that you miss the first seven minutes of Girls.

How am I supposed to believe this man has anything important to say. He doesn't even have hair!