For fuck's sake, Null is almost 30. He wasted 2 years on an obviously lost cause.
They were his years to waste. I am considerably older than 30, and I have wasted far more of my time on various lost causes.
At the very least Null proved two things. First he proved that Chris is actually capable of financial security if he puts in the effort. Second, he proved (pretty damn conclusively) that Chris is not worth the effort.
Not a bad use of two years, if you ask me.
it's just impossible to get through him.
Hunger will.
I had to look up the buffalo cube, I had no idea what it was.
The actual fuck is that?
I still have no idea what it is.
Depends on the psychiatrist. One of those evil psychiatrists in fiction who break people’s minds could be neat.
Not much there to break.
That said, Chris could definitely benefit form the Ludovico Technique, making him a Clockwork Potato, as it were.
Chris was never going to starve in this country, stupider people than him don't.
Stupider people than Chris can actually be helped. Chris isn't a lost cause because he's stupid (though he is, indeed, stupid).
If only that were true.
Not all retards are necessarily dangerous.
Not all retards are sociopaths.
Let's list the common traits of sociopathy.
- A lack of empathy for others - That's Chris
- Little to no genuine remorse - Chris again.
- The manipulation of other people - Chris is too gormless to succeed, but he tries.
- Lying and deceit - More Chris.
- A sense of superiority over others - He's HIGH FUNCTIONING.
- Little to no regard for right or wrong - That's our Chris.
- The belief that rules do not apply to them - Chris thinks he should make the rules.
- Getting into legal trouble or a little regard for the law - "Don't call anyone!"
- A lack of responsibility or engaging in irresponsible behaviors - Some Lego. Enough said.
- Aggression or hostility - Show us those teeth, Chris! Wave that pocket knife!
- The exploitation of other people - He tries.
- Substance use - Sonichu is a hell of a drug.
The Sonichu comics are a window into Chris' idealized world, and, not to put too fine a point on it, they are fucked up. They reveal the sort of monster Chris has always been inside; The monster he only wishes he could be.
And he made them during the Classic Chris phase.
Chris has always been a sociopath. It's just that as time has passed, more and more he's acted on his impulses in real life.
I wasn’t suggesting it was a complex plan, just that by his own account he described basically grooming her into escalating sexual activity and on top of that setting up that ruse with Null about the older girlfriend. So it was at least more planned than just wasting money on toys or his other instant gratification shit. He probably could have just gone right to town on Barb but he wanted to set up this premise that he was doing her a favor and teaching her to enjoy it.
How much of that was planning ahead, and how much was Chris ret-conning afterward?
There were red flags, right. Him having dreams of him fucking his mother, Barb was having Chris spoon her in bed for years on end, there was an assortment of weird fuckin' things going on in that house.
Rural Virginia…