FB 9/7 - Reminder of creative prime

[Taily Puff]

This is one of the only posts lately that's made me legitimately sad for Chris.

He's so self absorbed and resistant to outside influence that he's losing the ability to speak fluent English. He's turned so far inward, mentally, that his mannerisms and speech are like a unique dialect that only he possesses and only his hated "trolls" readily understand. He's never been a great communicator, but he's getting worse and worse and each facebook post is slightly less clear than the one before.

If Chris makes it to 60 or 70, he's going to be stuck rambling unintelligibly, not because of dementia or senility, but because he refuses to see anything in the world from a perspective other than the severely damaged viewpoint of Chris Chandler.

 

[timtommy]

When I saw the title of this I felt a bit of sympathy and a tiny pang of guilt, because I assumed it'd be about his high school days or the Sonichu heyday. That vanished immediately as soon as I saw it was the mangled Amiibos.

Of course he thinks his creative prime was that brief window where he managed to flog shite, not when he was producing content.

Fair enough, I suppose. But if you take out the word "creative" and replace it with "productive" or "engaged", and take into account the fact that Chris often mangles language use, then you can see where he was coming from. As you say, the Amiibos were pretty shitty and derivative, but he seemed to enjoy making them and feel a genuine sense of accomplishment. And there were a bunch of people who liked the idea enough to buy one. Those factors do give it a genuine purpose.

Most people's reactions to realizing they've been unproductive: "Wow, I really should get back to work on that!"

Chris's reaction to realizing he's been unproductive: "Dang dirty TROLLS!"

The only trolls in Chris's life right now are himself and Barb, we didn't take out a $115,000 mortgage on their house or make Chris buy all of those Lego sets with his own money. We didn't make Barb drive up a debt she couldn't pay off or make Chris slack off on his sales until his shops were closed. But, you know, perfect snowflake who can do no wrong.

It's a shame none of his Facebook friends has enough of a backbone to call him out on this, I'd love to see him explain just how the trolls are the root of his troubles at this point.

You have to keep a couple things in mind about Chris thinking. One is, he ses his feelings/emotions as always completely justified. It is basically taking the idea of self-acceptance and embracing your feelings to it's logical and ridiculous extreme. If Chris feels pissed off, hurt, or otherwise generally shitty, and that makes him not want to work, that's just how it is. He doesn't try to fight through it. He doesn't try to make himself feel better. He just waits for the world to do something to make him feel better.

The second thing is, his thinking is, in some ways, incredibly linear. And he tends to stop thinking as soon as he comes to a conclusion he likes.

So his logic is something like. "Last year I was having a great time making those Amiibos. Why is that not happening anymore? Well it got hard and I feel a lot shittier now. Why is that? Because of trolls." Now he has trolls to blame, which is a conclusion he likes, so he immediately stops thinking it through and sticks with that conclusion.

 

[Ray Streip]

You have to keep a couple things in mind about Chris thinking. One is, he ses his feelings/emotions as always completely justified. It is basically taking the idea of self-acceptance and embracing your feelings to it's logical and ridiculous extreme. If Chris feels pissed off, hurt, or otherwise generally shitty, and that makes him not want to work, that's just how it is. He doesn't try to fight through it. He doesn't try to make himself feel better. He just waits for the world to do something to make him feel better.

The second thing is, his thinking is, in some ways, incredibly linear. And he tends to stop thinking as soon as he comes to a conclusion he likes.

So his logic is something like. "Last year I was having a great time making those Amiibos. Why is that not happening anymore? Well it got hard and I feel a lot shittier now. Why is that? Because of trolls." Now he has trolls to blame, which is a conclusion he likes, so he immediately stops thinking it through and sticks with that conclusion.

Oh I know, I just wish he had a parental figure to rectify his behavior instead of encouraging it

 

[Caz]

His ''creative prime'' is imagining himself as the Mary Sue-ish dictator of a wacky city-state and leading a personal guard of Pokemon/Sonic ripoffs in a war against a cabal of villans who's only objective is to prevent Chris from getting laid finding a sweetheart.

Still, it's kinda sad that he discontinued it.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

The second thing is, his thinking is, in some ways, incredibly linear. And he tends to stop thinking as soon as he comes to a conclusion he likes.

Put Simply, he's a tard that enjoys justifying his bad behavior
Chris' thinking patterns are very easy for him to shut off because of his defective brain, but he has been through this so many damn times that you would think a lesson would be learned. I am not turning this into a LGBT discussion, I just wanted to say that the inner Tomgirl is perfect for this facet of Chris' behavior. In Chris' mind, he can easily justify his ineptitude in general because he is a man without realizing his life is probably a lot worse than before. Some people throw a few "You go, Girls" or "You Look Cute in that" and Chris distorts it with his linear logic into being just as pretty and passable as the rest of the female species, even though he was never on a feminizing dose of hormones. I know he was on hormones, but at that dose they did nothing.
It is that same linear logic that has Chris thinking that his lipstick lesbian sweetheart is just around the corner, and if he gives up now, he will have missed her by just a little bit.

 

[Dain Bramage]

Did he even make money on the ambiibos he sold? He included parts from several more expensive and rare ones...

And by Chris and his stupidity, he made them even more rare.

Christian Weston Chandler, the Amiibo flippers of eBay salute you.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Chris's creative prime was Sonichu. It wasn't just bad, it was giftedly bad. I don't think I for one am capable of producing a comic so utterly awful as Sonichu. Sonichu was a creation of true anti-genius.

 

[ZehnBoat]

what i love is that in true lolcow fashion (almost dobson-esque) chris notes his past glories
and instead of using it to improve himself, he just wallows in glory days while frowning at the camera and saying "Pity me people, show me pity!"

 

[Arnold J. Rimmer]

Back in his glory days Chris was the Ying to the trolls Yang, they gave him purpose, a least his life was filled with some form of meaning back then (even if it was humping his PS3 on camera etc). Now that Chris slowly declining into an even more lazy and purposeless shadow of former himself, the only creative thing he will ever do anymore is whine for money, until his inevitable death.

What a sad saga

 

[r00]

chris's creative peak was clearly from 2005 -2009 when he was a writer/artist/musician/sculptor/filmmaker.

Now he is just a big, lazy, mooching tranny.

 

[King Kong... with wings?]

I don't know why his inability to fulfill orders would anger you. The way I see it, if you're :autism: enough to actually order something from him expecting to receive it, then you kinda got what was coming to you.

actually, that does help me think of it differently.

No, that's incorrect. Barb's debt dwarfs Chris'. Chris' debt* is pretty much irrelevant as far as 14BC's financial situation goes.

* That is, the stuff that Chris acquired on his own. There are almost certainly loans Barb got Chris to cosign (or even things entirely under his name, like the car).

forgot that she will force chris to do things like cosign loans

 

[Georges St. Pierre]

forgot that she will force chris to do things like cosign loans

Does Chris even have enough credit himself to cosign a loan?

 

[King Kong... with wings?]

Does Chris even have enough credit himself to cosign a loan?

ask marvin on that because I personally have no clue

 

[Darndirty]

I wouldn't call it his creative prime but no doubt that couple months when Chris was running all over the place (he had to go out of the way cause he's banned everywhere local) putting them all together, shipping etc. Was the most productive period in chris's life by far. Let that sink in.

 

[Buck Mullet]

Think he peaked here.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Chris's creative prime = the brief website before Chris decided work was too hard and asked he could find someone with a 3d printer to run his business for him

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

Does Chris even have enough credit himself to cosign a loan?

All you have to do is look at him and all the stupid things he has done with money to realize he does not. Chris blew his last credit limit increase, so yeah, there's that.

Chris's creative prime = the brief website before Chris decided work was too hard and asked he could find someone with a 3d printer to run his business for him

Wasn't there supposed to be some big announcement video about that and whatnot, amongwhich?

 

[Lurkette]

Wait, website? Before the 3D printer? Was that mentioned in a video or...?

 

[Tubular Monkey]

Chris has always romanticized the past. Imagine how horrible his life will be next year, when he looks back fondly on September 2016. This was his creative peak after all. Dang trolls and their diabetic amputations, among which.

 

[waffle]

I don't understand why he thinks amiibo's is his creative prime rather than when he was (at least sort of) regularly making Sonichu comics that required actual though to make the story, as bizarre and autistic as it may have been.