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- Sep 16, 2013
That's the part that really stuck out to me. Chris is actually taking some sort of responsibility for the self destructive shit he's done in the past. Of course, he then immediately goes back to making those same mistakes all over again. But that's...progress, I guess.
I'm not sure, there are a set of tropes he has used for years, like "I am only human" and "I have learned from my mistakes".
He uses them when someone is bringing up something stupid or embarassing he has done, which he can't deny and can't really defend, and he just wants the subject to go away. His thought process seems to be more like "yeah, yeah, get off my back".
It is probably the best response. If someone says to him "you filmed yourself sitting on a cake naked, wtf?", what is he supposed to say? If he denies it, there is proof, he he tries to justify it, he has to talk about it for a long time. If he just says "yup, that happened. Not my finest hour, won't happen again.", the person making fun of him can't really say much.
So I guess he derserves some credit. But I don't think it means he has actually learned any lessons. If he has, it is something ridiculously specific like "don't film yourself sitting naked on a cake", and if someone asks him to sit naked on a pie, he will go right to it.