Chris's GameStop Assault - What happened? Why? How?

[Tragi-Chan]

I took a look at his Sonic group, and holy shit. There are a ton of asshats encouraging him to "keep fighting the good fight!" Why in the world would anyone do that? Chris is mentally a child. People who are, presumably, neurotypical adults are cheering him on. I'm not blaming the trolls for Chris pepper-spraying an innocent bystander, but seriously, does anyone else think he's going to do something stupid again before his hearing? He has nobody in his life to sit him down and explain that these facebook idiots are not his friends, that they don't support his cause, they are just making fun of him. If we've learned anything in all this, it's that Chris is completely unpredictable, and encouraging him to act out could result in other people getting hurt. I know, weeners gotta ween, but seriously, that shit isn't funny.

Given that he's now threatened someone else with pepper spray, I'm inclined to agree. On the other hand, I don't think the weens have much of an influence on him. Chris is going to do what he wants to do. If people support him, great. If people don't, well, he'll call them trolls and do it anyway. He only listens to people if they are in a position to give him something or to punish him - the Facebook weens can do neither.

 

[Napalmxxx2]

The only thing we can really do now is sit back, crack open a nice cold beer and watch the case, there's 2 possible outcomes and both outcomes with a myriad of other potential possibilities and factors, if he's acquitted which is very doubtful we could end up with a very entertaining followup saga this side of the coin is perhaps a little too optimistic though, however on the other side of the same coin he gets convicted, if he pleads guilty and gets a plea bargain also doubtful since it means he would have to be willing to cooperate with his defender he could end up being required to recieve treatment, possibly longer probation and some hellish court costs with a big maybe of expunging on the side again big maybe or he trys to contest it by pleading not guilty and gets found guilty and gets some time in jail possibly prison and could end up with that reality check that he has been needing for a good number of years, this last option is very likely given the track record of our boy Chris. From personal experience with pepper spray from an accidental spraying at the age of 5 it burns like hell, like someone lighting you on fire from initial contact and it gets better very slowly with potential lasting effects, in short not fun.

 

[Jaimas]

I think the key to remember here is what CatParty, Marvin, and several others have brought up, in that 2014's Christorical events were brought on only by Chris himself. In many ways, this has led many of our best Psychoanalychrists to scramble to try to figure out the fucking hell is going on in Chris's head right now. What we know for sure is that this can't simply be the 'tism, nor is it really any one issue, instead being a rich pastiche of almost every bit of Chris-related Lunacy we've seen to date. None of this was put upon him by weens - instead we've seen this frankly insane reaction where Chris has become increasingly divorced from reality. It's easy to lock onto shit like Soul Vaginas and similar, but for me, I started going "What the fuck is he doing?" right around the time that fucking this happened.

Chris and reality have always had a tenuous relationship, but now, we see the full apsect of this coming into focus. If I had to guess at it, the Blue Arms debacle is, for Chris, a desperate attempt to gain some kind of control over his life. CWCville is gone, the sanctity of his happy places systemically destroyed. His memories, the place he used to hide, are fabricated from whole cloth. His history is, in essence, an engineered construct. He had a good experience in high school because his parents paid off his so-called friends. He only had Sonic left, and then Sonic Boom happened. Do you remember the rage over Alec forcing Chris to do away with Simonla? It was that that showed us that he felt fictitious characters were real, so it's very likely, IMHO, that the Blue Arms debacle is a natural evolution of this.

 

[AnOminous]

It was that that showed us that he felt fictitious characters were real, so it's very likely, IMHO, that the Blue Arms debacle is a natural evolution of this.

And it is ripe with pathos.

Its seeds were planted before the Internet even noticed Chris.

 

[Chuggernaut]

It was that that showed us that he felt fictitious characters were real, so it's very likely, IMHO, that the Blue Arms debacle is a natural evolution of this.

I don't necessarily think he believes his characters are "real" as much as everyone is something he doesn't quite understand so he sees them in kind of the same way he sees other people. It's not so much that he considers his characters "real" as that people are equally as "unreal" to him as things on the TV. The "Toon World" argument he made was Chris saying anything if it will let him feel like he won an argument.

 

[Tragi-Chan]

I think the key to remember here is what CatParty, Marvin, and several others have brought up, in that 2014's Christorical events were brought on only by Chris himself. In many ways, this has led many of our best Psychoanalychrists to scramble to try to figure out the fucking hell is going on in Chris's head right now. What we know for sure is that this can't simply be the 'tism, nor is it really any one issue, instead being a rich pastiche of almost every bit of Chris-related Lunacy we've seen to date. None of this was put upon him by weens - instead we've seen this frankly insane reaction where Chris has become increasingly divorced from reality. It's easy to lock onto shit like Soul Vaginas and similar, but for me, I started going "What the fuck is he doing?" right around the time that fucking this happened.

Chris and reality have always had a tenuous relationship, but now, we see the full apsect of this coming into focus. If I had to guess at it, the Blue Arms debacle is, for Chris, a desperate attempt to gain some kind of control over his life. CWCville is gone, the sanctity of his happy places systemically destroyed. His memories, the place he used to hide, are fabricated from whole cloth. His history is, in essence, an engineered construct. He had a good experience in high school because his parents paid off his so-called friends. He only had Sonic left, and then Sonic Boom happened. Do you remember the rage over Alec forcing Chris to do away with Simonla? It was that that showed us that he felt fictitious characters were real, so it's very likely, IMHO, that the Blue Arms debacle is a natural evolution of this.

Yeah, the Megagi thing was definitely a warning sign. As I and many others have suggested, the blue arms thing may well be an instance of Chris transferring his rage at the world and the awfulness of his life on to an outsider, and his bizarre communication with Megan looked like something similar, with a hefty dose of rewriting reality. I guess he was hoping she'd break down and confess her sins, and then his problems would all be magically solved. Plus of course the death wish, which we've seen over and over again since then.

 

[timtommy]

I don't necessarily think he believes his characters are "real" as much as everyone is something he doesn't quite understand so he sees them in kind of the same way he sees other people. It's not so much that he considers his characters "real" as that people are equally as "unreal" to him as things on the TV. The "Toon World" argument he made was Chris saying anything if it will let him feel like he won an argument.

Chris knows that Sonic is fictional and that the people around him are real. I think it is just that the gulf between the two is not as big as it is for some people.

I remember when I was a kid, and I read a book or watched something on TV or even looked at cartoons on cereal boxes, the characters always seemed somewhat real. My suspension of disbelief was so great that I would perceive these characters as having lives. Those of us in the real world just saw a snap shot of it.

Now if you had asked me "do these characters exist?" or "did these things happen?" I would have said "of course not", just like Chris would. But those fictional characters seemed realer to me than they do as an adult. I think Chris still sees things that way.

Maybe an easy way of putting it is that if reality is a 10, and fiction for us is a 1, fiction for Chris is a 5 or 6. It is still not real, but it has more real aspects than it does for us.

His issues with reality are different I think. He doesn't understand the real world or other people. When he is confused about something, which is often, he ponders it using very faulty and self-serving logic. He then forces that logic onto the real world. Or if something he doesn't like pops up, he just shuts it out and pretends it doesn't exist. So then he has a very warped view of reality. And he is so isolated and egotistical that he is convinced that view is correct and blocks out anything that contradicts it.

But he doesn't confuse realty with fiction.

 

[Johnny Silverhand]

I've personally thought for years, since even first hearing of this guy and watching the subsequent saga unfold, that he's got way deeper issues than autism. I'll stand by it that as the years go on, and the more fucked up shit he puts himself through and life puts him through (in the giga-rare occasions where he is going through something messed up that actually isn't his own fault) these other issues will manifest more and more. We're watching the start of it right now. I can tell you that much. His behavior has become so particularly vindictive and pathological, it's all very worrying considering his astoundingly isolated scope of reality.

 

[Tubular Monkey]

His behavior has become so particularly vindictive and pathological, it's all very worrying considering his astoundingly isolated scope of reality.

He really is transitioning into impressing Jodie Foster territory.

 

[Tenacious D]

Now if you had asked me "do these characters exist?" or "did these things happen?" I would have said "of course not", just like Chris would.

Except Chris wouldn't say that. He has stated quite clearly that cartoon characters exist in some bizarre Roger Rabbit-style parallel tooniverse. He has also said that Cwcville is literally real. In Chris' mind, it isn't just a setting for fantasy; it is as real as the material world we inhabit. Once you understand this, the events of the last few weeks take on a different hue and it becomes (in my opinion) easier to see why he treats real world authorities with such contempt.

 

[spehgeddaboudit]

Two older people in rural Virginia had a child with autism and likely other conditions that were never diagnosed. They did a piss-poor job raising him, left him with an abusive babysitter, were allegedly alcoholics (or at least binge drinkers) and threatened to sue educators who attempted to help him. After years of pointless and ineffective schooling, a tugboat was arranged for junior, eliminating any reason for him to leave the house and work. Finally, around the time that most young people begin establishing a career and family, everyone here decided to just retire from life and slowly fade away in an isolated house filling with hoarded garbage, insect infestations, video games, toys, VHS tapes of Red Skelton, rotting christmas trees, old jazz records, Hungry Man dinners, blowup dolls, neglected pets, mother-son spooning and a mercifully brief period that included nightly phone sex/masturbation sessions in the family kitchen. And like diarrhea icing on a shit cake, add the years of trolling.

I'm shocked to learn that after 30+ years of this glorious, charmed life, Chris appears to be losing his marbles.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Two older people in rural Virginia had a child with autism and likely other conditions that were never diagnosed. They did a piss-poor job raising him, left him with an abusive babysitter, were allegedly alcoholics (or at least binge drinkers) and threatened to sue educators who attempted to help him. After years of pointless and ineffective schooling, a tugboat was arranged for junior, eliminating any reason for him to leave the house and work. Finally, around the time that most young people begin establishing a career and family, everyone here decided to just retire from life and slowly fade away in an isolated house filling with hoarded garbage, insect infestations, video games, toys, VHS tapes of Red Skelton, rotting christmas trees, old jazz records, Hungry Man dinners, blowup dolls, neglected pets, mother-son spooning and a mercifully brief period that included nightly phone sex/masturbation sessions in the family kitchen. And like diarrhea icing on a shit cake, add the years of trolling.

If Chris's life were a Star Wars film, this would be the opening crawl.

 

[AnOminous]

You make it sound like Chris's life is a version of The Devil's Rejects, but with more autism.

 

[Xarpho]

Ok, where did Chris get it in his head to buy pepper spray? Someone suggested that it was some militant activists at one of the LGBT events, but I think not because Chris would've thrown them under the bus in his "I was the victim" screeds. I'm sure it wasn't Thetan, Catie, or Barb either.

 

[AnOminous]

We're in the territory of genuinely rank speculation, but I seriously doubt anyone told him to do anything like what he did. I could easily see someone, though, making a well intentioned comment about pepper spray as a defense weapon. After all, people who look as visibly odd as Chris might tend to attract hostile responses.

Chris being Chris, though, he would put anything he heard through his weird autistic filters and hear "you can buy magic jerk repellent and spray anyone who annoys you."

 

[BillRiley]

List of Chris's Weapons (Re-revised)

1 - Fangs.
2 - Megatron Pistol (possibly melted.)
3 - Small Pen Knife.
4 - Bent Duck (tucked.)
5 - Fingernails.
6 - Pepper Spray (used.)

 

[Paladin]

List of Chris's Weapons (Re-revised)

1 - Fangs.
2 - Megatron Pistol (possibly melted.)
3 - Small Pen Knife.
4 - Bent Duck (tucked.)
5 - Fingernails.
6 - Pepper Spray (used.)

What about curse shot and CURSE-YE-HA-ME-HA?

 

[BillRiley]

What about curse shot and CURSE-YE-HA-ME-HA?

List of Chris's Weapons (Re-re-revised)

1 - Fangs.
2 - Megatron Pistol (possibly melted.)
3 - CURSE-YE-HA-ME-HAAAA! (imaginary.)
4 - Small Pen Knife.
5 - Bent Duck (tucked.)
6 - Fingernails.
7 - Pepper Spray (used.)

 

[unfer]

Except Chris wouldn't say that. He has stated quite clearly that cartoon characters exist in some bizarre Roger Rabbit-style parallel tooniverse. He has also said that Cwcville is literally real. In Chris' mind, it isn't just a setting for fantasy; it is as real as the material world we inhabit. Once you understand this, the events of the last few weeks take on a different hue and it becomes (in my opinion) easier to see why he treats real world authorities with such contempt.

The Thesis Of CWC~

 

[Henry Bemis]

Re: Chris and weaponry: What ever became of the pocket knife?

Not asking what happened to the one he had before; it was lost in the fire, no doubt. What I mean is, Chris used to be all about that little knife - slicing an imaginary Clyde Cash and all - so what happened to make him switch to something with (marginally) less aggressive connotations?