Containment Chris in the Media - Mentions of Chris in different medias

[Anchuent Christory]

So back in the day when Nintendo Power existed, Animal crossing was a 'new' game and I had both, that collom on animal crossing towns frequently popped up. Really they would showcase any town so long as it looked like something unique was done with it or that alot of manhours were put into making it look good (or you could *cough* cheat, they wouldent really know)

Chris had both.

This pretty much sums it up I feel. These things have to feature somebody after all, and Chris' continuous trumpeting of "high functioning autistic" is pretty much guaranteed to allow him to jump the queue.

 

[Xarpho]

Chris has a ton of dumb luck in my opinion. His genes aside he's continually winning different contests, he got to have his pal-pals (-for-hire) in high school, he got on honor roll, got accepted to college, made the dean's list DESPITE being suspended, he got the SSI that he may or may not qualify for and his run-ins with the law has never amounted to anything.

He's like an IRL Forrest Gump.

Except instead of a feather floating in the wind, the symbol for Christian's life will be dirty crapped briefs.

Through dumb luck, Gump became a football star, war hero, ping-pong celebrity, and shrimp boat millionaire. I doubt anything in Chris' life came close to that.

 

[Blue Max]

Chris has a ton of dumb luck in my opinion. His genes aside he's continually winning different contests, he got to have his pal-pals (-for-hire) in high school, he got on honor roll, got accepted to college, made the dean's list DESPITE being suspended, he got the SSI that he may or may not qualify for and his run-ins with the law has never amounted to anything. He'll mutter in insults under his breath, go to the women's bathroom, act and dress flamboyantly and being a public nuisance in general and, again, has never had to face any repercussions.

Yeah, he has shitty genes and his family situation was never good, but I'd say that considering what he was born with, Chris has been pretty damn lucky IMO.

Here's a dirty secret:

Luck is all too often underappreciated skill.

When I was a kid, I was far better at math than most of my peers. I could play things like Risk or Monopoly and appear to be "lucky" but what I was actually doing was understanding the true odds and using it to gain an information advantage over people who didn't.

In the case of CWC, being pathetic is one of his skills. We often talk about it as the "Autism Card", but the fact is this form of begging is essentially one of the few life skills he has. He doesn't understand people, he doesn't understand what he's supposed to do as a man, but he is good at convincing the world to go easy on him:

He's not worth people's trouble if they are upset by him.
He's not a worthy foe to play the autistic with.
He clearly has serious mental issues.
It is still quite hard to distinguish between malice and stupidity.

The average person doesn't know Chris or how to blame he is for his own situation. Thus, they view him as a victim. Even the likes of Megan and Michael Snyder probably hold back because Chris is good at being pitied.

And that's why he's "lucky".

He won a contest because it looks good to give it to a mentally retarded child.
He gets a break because no one wants to be the guy taking a hard stand against a demonstrable idiot. Even the law itself tends to show some reluctance to hit him with full force, as it can be interpreted as being cruel to someone.

So the Autism card is a well understood gambit; it works. There's precious little in his life that does work, but Chris might have a shot at getting institutionalized when he's out on the street.

 

[Null]

My friend once said, "I'd rather be lucky than skillful any day", and I've sort-of adopted that as my personal motif.

I also roll all my Bethesda game characters to have 10 in luck. #swag #blackjack


Though honestly, I don't know if I'd consider Chris lucky. Of all the things mentioned, I'm not sure how many of those contributed to making Chris a better person. All of the things I'd consider myself lucky for having have increased my value to the world.

Edit: On second thought, I think Chris was very lucky to have someone with the foresight of Bob to be his father. I don't think he'd have a roof over his head without him.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

On second thought, I think Chris was very lucky to have someone with the foresight of Bob to be his father. I don't think he'd have a roof over his head without him.

Quite right. A couple years after Bob was gone, Barb burned that roof to smithereens.

 

[theobservdr]

the media works funny that way, it seems that back in the 1990s the media reported news on any and every thing that happened even the miniscule.

 

[WWWWolf]

I wonder what went on behind the scenes when Nintendo Power [...] decided to publish Christian's letters about being a frustrated virgin.

Dunno about Nintendo Power, but let me quickly translate a letter from the official Finnish Nintendo magazine from 1991.

I wonder if you will publish a letter from such an old Nintendo fan as myself? I'm a 25-year-old Nintendo maniac. All the time, all I can think of games. I've frequently called your hotline and asked for game tips. I go to the game store almost every week and the manager has really grown tired of me. [...]

...Did the Nintendo magazine laugh him out? Of course not, they called him the Power Player of the month and sent him the Power Glove, which wasn't even officially released here.

I sometimes browse the old magazines, and whenever I run into this letter, I just keep thinking this guy sounds a bit funny, but aside of a few problems he doesn't exactly sound like a proper lolcow, at least not in comparison to Chris.

But one thing is damn sure: Nintendo magazines probably rewarded fucktons of total insanity around the world. Chris wasn't an isolated incident.

(Wasn't there some Nintendo-crazy plumber that got featured in Nintendo Power too, who got in argument with Seanbaby when he poked fun at him?)

 

[theobservdr]

yea i think he wanted to try and get free stuff from them or something,

 

[Axiom]

Either that or he was hoping some girl would see his letter and somehow find out how to contact him and they could be Nintendo-loving sweethearts.

 

[Roger Rabbit]

The thing about people is they like seeing people less fortunate than they are on TV. Especially those with mental illnesses. Chris is just a person in this case that had all the attention go to his head.


It started, I believe, with the AoSTH contest win.

 

[Christ-Chan]

...Did the Nintendo magazine laugh him out? Of course not, they called him the Power Player of the month and sent him the Power Glove, which wasn't even officially released here.

Did it work on his Finnish Nintendo? Because I could totally get in on sending nerds gaming stuff they can never put to use.

 

[WWWWolf]

...Did the Nintendo magazine laugh him out? Of course not, they called him the Power Player of the month and sent him the Power Glove, which wasn't even officially released here.

Did it work on his Finnish Nintendo? Because I could totally get in on sending nerds gaming stuff they can never put to use.

As far as I know the NES controllers were the same in US and Europe, so I suppose it would have worked. Of course, just like in the US next to none of the games released here had special support for Power Glove so the advantage was questionable (can't remember if Bad Street Brawler was released here, and Super Glove Ball was Japan only).

 

[Stratochu]

Agreed on all of this. Plus, how lucky does he have to be for someone (Rocky, but still...) to give him a fucking Cadillac after he killed 3 other cars out of and .

 

[timtommy]

I have two unrelated comments on this.

Firstly, "lucky" and "unlucky" things happen every day. In everyone's life there are millions of "one in a million" things that could happen. The probability that any given person some remarkable events (good or bad) happen their lives is near certainty. Also, as people have said, Chris put himself into a position to have these things happen to him. He entered a lot of contests, and he sent a lot of rage filled letters. Odds are, he was going to win a contest or get a letter published from time to time. It just happened to be these ones.

Secondly, in terms of the "unlucky genetics/family situation" vs "lucky getting away with shit" debate: we can't ignore how much the former causes the latter. Chris, partly because of bad luck, is not at all equipped to deal with the real world, and is bound to get himself in some shit. The rest of the world recognizes this and takes it into account when he gets himself in some shit. As someone said earlier, he is able to use the autism card because of bad genetic luck, but he uses it to make himself very fortunate.

 

[_blank_]

I do believe Chris has an exorbitant amount of luck on his side, simply judging by the fact that he has been kicked out of a dozen establishments, has a criminal record, hasn't held down a job for longer than a few months (and that was over a decade ago), and had his house burned down, he is still somehow by and large relatively unscathed (I don't count emotional damages, simply because Chris goes out of his way to find things that may have emotionally scarred him for pity-pats).

But what I think has kept Chris floating on the cusp of media's attention is simply his "what the fuck, are you kidding me?" aura. Most of us here, when we first found out about Chris were attracted to leaning more, I would assume, because subconsciously, we were just trying to figure what kind of wrinkle of reality shat him out. I think the media in its own special chaotic way has seen Chris in a similar light, finding him quite the curiosity and more than willing to foist his bizarreness to the forefront for all to revel and wonder in Chris' mere existence.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

I don't count emotional damages, simply because Chris goes out of his way to find things that may have emotionally scarred him for pity-pats

You don't? I sure do. It's true that Chris looks for excuses to feel persecuted, but he's got very legitimate depression, too. His life has nothing at all in it and he knows it.

 

[Observers]

I don't count emotional damages, simply because Chris goes out of his way to find things that may have emotionally scarred him for pity-pats

You don't? I sure do. It's true that Chris looks for excuses to feel persecuted, but he's got very legitimate depression, too. His life has nothing at all in it and he knows it.

good point on the depression.

I am no white knight.

But I have real concern over his depression. He has no real support network (besides asspateers), and possibly no real idea how to find help (if he were suicidal). I really shouldn't think of such things. I do worry though that the depression may push him over the edge one day, And i wish that on no one.

 

[CatParty]

I don't count emotional damages, simply because Chris goes out of his way to find things that may have emotionally scarred him for pity-pats

You don't? I sure do. It's true that Chris looks for excuses to feel persecuted, but he's got very legitimate depression, too. His life has nothing at all in it and he knows it.

good point on the depression.

I am no white knight.

But I have real concern over his depression. He has no real support network (besides asspateers), and possibly no real idea how to find help (if he were suicidal). I really shouldn't think of such things. I do worry though that the depression may push him over the edge one day, And i wish that on no one.

You don't have to worry about that at all.

 

[_blank_]

I don't count emotional damages, simply because Chris goes out of his way to find things that may have emotionally scarred him for pity-pats

You don't? I sure do. It's true that Chris looks for excuses to feel persecuted, but he's got very legitimate depression, too. His life has nothing at all in it and he knows it.

Okay, let me rephrase- I realize I was being a bit glib.

Chris does has the signs of being depressed and has legitimate reasons for being so - those are something worth acknowledging. However, the reason I have difficulty in addressing those on their own merits is because Chris doesn't seem to treat actual hardships as they should be properly addressed, but more like merit badges or something similar. Instead of actually coming to grips about problems he's had, learning from them and carrying on, he instead seems to lump every single bump in the road into one morass of self-pity and in turn has time and again tried to use those as some kind of sign of bizarre superiority over others and/or justify why he is allowed to act like a spoiled toddler.

 

[CatParty]

I don't count emotional damages, simply because Chris goes out of his way to find things that may have emotionally scarred him for pity-pats

You don't? I sure do. It's true that Chris looks for excuses to feel persecuted, but he's got very legitimate depression, too. His life has nothing at all in it and he knows it.

Okay, let me rephrase- I realize I was being a bit glib.

Chris does has the signs of being depressed and has legitimate reasons for being so - those are something worth acknowledging. However, the reason I have difficulty in addressing those on their own merits is because Chris doesn't seem to treat actual hardships as they should be properly addressed, but more like merit badges or something similar. Instead of actually coming to grips about problems he's had, learning from them and carrying on, he instead seems to lump every single bump in the road into one morass of self-pity and in turn has time and again tried to use those as some kind of sign of bizarre superiority over others and/or justify why he is allowed to act like a spoiled toddler.

He totally learned that from barb.