Chris' memory or lack therof

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There is definitely no way in hell Chris would ever play Portal. That game is a mind bender, even for people of normal intelligence. Chris wouldn't even make it out of the very first room before losing interest or getting stumped.
 
A combination of Autism, naturally low IQ , depression and loneliness since childhood. Depression especially can really dumb you down and make you forget shit and it's probably the primary cause of his laziness.
 
You think he was depressed all the way since childhood when he slept through class and goofed off? Nah, I think his laziness goes deeper than that.

(One day archaeologists are going to discover a "Shroud of Turin"-like image in grease, preserved between the pages of Night of the Living Dummy II. )
 
Subconsciously or not, Chris chooses what to and not to remember. He had difficulty remembering the fact Matthew's mother died on 9/11, but remembers Megan owing him some Sailor Moon DVDs from 7 years ago, and remembered his dogs death date.
It could be short term memory loss, but I think it's lack of empathy towards others that files some of these memories as 'not important.'
 
Chris has gotten angry, blown up, and revealed his presence in the past only to forget it happened 4 days later and use the same disguise with the same group of people.

I don't think that is entirely attributed to autism. When you have no structure in your life and spend most of your life home then the passage of time can seem weird. One big event can happen within a two week time period and you'll have difficulty remembering if it happened 3 days ago or 9. Most people can figure it out if they stop and think about. Chris isn't bright and isn't prone to moments of reflection. Throw in his lack of concern for anything that doesn't directly involve him with a heaping pile of skewed perception and it's amazing he doesn't forget his name whenever he falls asleep.
 
Alec Benson Leary said:
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Chris himself believes that he has a photographic memory. It's one of his superpowers. Of course, he doesn't know what this term means.
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When challenged on it and asked why he couldn't remember this or that basic thing, even if it was important, sometimes he would come up with some bullshit that it literally meant he could only remember pictures well.

Literally just pictures, which was his excuse for why he couldn't remember what people looked like.
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Brother, that explains his incredible artistic talent :tomgirl:
 
Hulk Hogan said:
Alec Benson Leary said:
asperhes said:
Chris himself believes that he has a photographic memory. It's one of his superpowers. Of course, he doesn't know what this term means.
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When challenged on it and asked why he couldn't remember this or that basic thing, even if it was important, sometimes he would come up with some bullshit that it literally meant he could only remember pictures well.

Literally just pictures, which was his excuse for why he couldn't remember what people looked like.
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Brother, that explains his incredible autistic talent :tomgirl:
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Fixed it, Hulkster.

I believe his staring into a mirror in his high school years to memorize his own appearance warrants another mention.
 
You also must consider the fact that Chris is a habitual liar. He's got a lot of stories to keep track of. Photographic memory is a lie. It's his imagined autistic superpower, but not a true statement. He wants people to think he's like that other autistic who can remember the entire contents of a single page of any book after seeing it for a few seconds. All Chris can do is build Lego dicks to the ceiling.

Chris is the most presumptive person on the planet. He expects everything in life to play out its predetermined scenario script without any effort on his part. His Carousel of Progress malfunctioned and he's stuck between the moving walls, being ground to death just like that lady in Orlando in the past greater than half-decade.
 
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Something I don't see discussed much (I guess it slips our minds a lot) is how Chris is extremely forgetful to a truly worrisome degree. He can remember a lot of stuff from his childhood, I guess (I don't know, maybe. Whatever) (It's probably almost entirely shit that doesn't matter, in addition to false memories), but it really seems that his mind is always in a haze. Shockingly enough.

The very best example is the Kacey call regarding the job interview. He forgot the events of the past few hours. And it wasn't background noise, either.

What determines what Chris will or won't remember? How much fake sugar might he consume? What serious conditions is this a symptom of?

Is this the primary reason why he's such a massive fucking dumbshit?

Or is he just too lazy to remember anything.

Occam's razor,
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He remembers shit when it's convenient to remember shit.
 
Maybe it depends on his mood.

Like paintingatree where he claims himself to be Chris but after a few days later he discusses for trolling plans. :ween:
 
Sakamoto said:
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Somebody should get Chris some crossword books or some sudoku, clear out those cobwebs.
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Nice idea, but games in a book would never be able to compete with PSN for Chris' attention.
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I guarantee if it came up on PSN he would buy it and any additional DLC. Given he might not play it but he'd still have it.
 
I think he just forgets things that don't directly impact him. His memory loss is all part of his 100% Chris-centric universe.

Maybe the trolls are just making him lazy. They record everything he does so he might not need to remember! :P
 
I think Chris has a good memory, the problem is, as others have gotten at, that he twists the past to fit his needs. You'll notice on the CWCki that Chris can recall dates of very minor events of people who have wronged him down to the exact minute they happened, but he'll forget important details like how the whole deal with getting sent of the English class at PVCC was because he went on an anti-gay tirade in class.

Chris's memory can be good about spergy things, but like I said, he tends to twist the past to favor himself. I've noticed that some people either take Chris's accounts of things to be pure fact or pure fiction. I think for the most part, Chris's accounts of his past have some truth in them, but he tends to overscore things that favor him and underscore things that don't. For instance, him going on about how he was a gym leader at The GAMe PLACe, making it sound like this was a regular position. According to Lucas and Mimms, who while not totally impartial I'm willing to view their recollection of the past as being a bit more objective than Chris, Chris was indeed a gym leader but only on one particular day when all the other gym leaders were out and there was no one else. There was truth in what Chris said but he twisted the past to completely favor himself. I think people do this in general, I think there's some formal bias that covers this, but the problem with Chris is he does this in more extreme than most people. People might slightly present their situation in a favorable light while omitting a fact or two that would detract from their case while Chris completely stretches the past for his own sake.
 
Chris basically sleepwalks through life. If something doesn't hold his total and immediate attention it just goes in one ear and out the other. For the job interview (assuming he actually did it and wasn't just lying to Kacey to avoid being chewed out) he would have just been going through the motions, probably thinking about LBP or Pokeboy.

As for fake memories, there is this thing were if you tell yourself a lie for long enough you begin to believe it is the truth. This is what Chris has been doing for decades and has made it into an art form.
 
How much does Chris remember?

Alright, it's been a long time since I last posted, but I have a musing for y'all.

On a recent FB outburst, Chris called Megan a GERMAN WARFARE BITCH. Now, we all know his memory is not very good (even with major events like the anniversary of Bob's passing). So I've been thinking; is it really possible that Chris remembered about Megan's WWII soldiers all on his own?

We mention details about his life routinely in this forum. Including jokes about Megan and her nazi pictures. Could it be he got that stuck in his head after checking out the forum a bunch of times, and was just repeating what he read here and on the CWCki?

The same could be said about a bunch of things (like that Sailor Moon DVD, for example; the CWCki has a register of the things Chris bought for Megan). What I'm asking is, how much of his life you guys think Chris remembers on his own, and how much he has to check the CWCki to be sure of?
 
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It's a mixture of remembering too much nothing and not remembering the important things.
 
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That's a good question... or at least, an interesting one... yeah, chris's memory is shitty, and he usually convinces himself to remember the things so they can favor him, even if none of that really happen... but, it makes me think... does he really remembers certain things but decides subconsciously to ignore them... or, maybe he doesn't even realize the things that happen in his life, and maybe that's because those memories never got "archived" in his brain...?
 
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I think month by month, Chris remembers fewer details and depends on much more general repeated themes. Past events are remembered in only their most superficial terms, and are liberally adapted and rewritten to put him in the role of the victim. The very strange thing is that with so many vague, blurry memories, he will retain a nearly photographic memory of a very few things that have no relevance to anything.
 
Re: How much does Chris remember?

He probably has a normal memory. His ego just warps his memories so that he thinks everything is the fault of those dang dirty trolls.

Remember that episode of South Park where Cartman and Jimmy write the fish sticks joke? Remember how every time Cartman tried to remember the event he became more and more the hero? This is how I imagine Chris's memory works.
 
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Chris just remembers what he wants to remember how he wants to remember it. He wants to paint Megan as evil, so he remembers things about her that serve that view. If he wanted to remember her in a positive way, he would only remember how nice she was to him at times. Oh, and I'm sure Borb has a helping hand in how he remembers things,
 
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