Count Dankula interviews Chris

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TheMockTurtle said:
Yeah what you're describing is someone lying

Its a work-in-progess because its not a real experience he has had
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I think it's less lying and more that it hasn't been rendered into his imagination yet. Ask too many questions considered "pressing" to an autistic person and they'll refuse to answer and go into a meltdown. It's why when Chris said "I won't go into any more details" about the portal, dank gives a reason Chris can comprehend as to why they shouldn't talk about it.

I know dank mentioned he used to work in a mental health unit so he's likely seen this behaviour before with people who believe their imagination is reality.
 
The extreme shit always happens when I'm busy at work *sigh*

This totally seems like the anti-Braveryjerk too. I'm off for the day shift, so maybe I'll have time to watch all this after morning.
 
TrippinKahlua said:
The extreme shit always happens when I'm busy at work *sigh*

This totally seems like the anti-Braveryjerk too. I'm off for the day shift, so maybe I'll have time to watch all this after morning.
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Be sure to have some kettlebells handy! Just lift every time Chris says "among which" and you'll be buff in no time.
 
I don't like Dankula, I think he's a bit of a tool, but he handles this interview really well. He's able to ask some interesting questions while keeping Chris animated and talkative, all while successfully veering off subjects that make Chris uncomfortable without shutting him down completely. He's good at it. Hell, he even plainly says that he's a troll at one point and Chris still gives him the time of day.

The Fat Albert impression got a genuine laugh out of me, but overall this interview is saddening. Chris really has lost himself in his escapism. I don't think he's pants on head mental or really gone off the deep end, but yes buried himself so far in escapism as a coping method that he's trying to actually live it. It'll probably worsen when Barb kicks the bucket.

Ted Bundy? The what now? Fuck me drunk, between that and astral projection I can't imagine the kind of stuff he'd come out with after he's had a few.
 
I know early on he spoke about Astral Projection, but did he delve into anything further in that regard, or talk about the Third Eye nonsense?

I kinda hope he truly doesn't believe his Third Eye is what causes his "trips" into CWCVille. The Third Eye is really something you shouldn't play with. Its not for playing but for using.

Chris doesn't have a job so that's why it bothers me.
 
Last night I was trying to figure out why some people seem to think that there was a lot of content in this interview, when to me it had absolutely nothing to say. I think it may be the fact that the whole interview dealt with how Chris has built a philosophy around the TV shows he watches. Alternate worlds aren't places that are completely different places with completely different people living there, they're based on Gilligan's Island or the Smurfs. He isn't imagining strange and different worlds, he's concocting worlds to retreat to based on his electronic babysitter.

I have very little interest in children's TV shows and I'm ignorant of a lot of the references Chris and Dankula were making. So the whole interview was a bunch of aut-babble to me. I'm more interested in who Chris is and how he lives his life in 14 Branchland Court than I am how he lives his life in his TV induced fantasies. But I can see how people who actually watch these shows might be amused seeing them shoehorned into some sort of pseudo-religious science fiction. Perhaps there are people who actually enjoy Chris's comics for the stuff about pokemon and sonic too. To me, they are hard to bring myself to read. The only parts I have any interest in at all are the ones that reflect real things that happened to him, like Mary Lee Walsh or the jerkops. That tells me how Chris views the real world. I'm not interested in how he views TV.

I guess there's something for everyone with Chris, but for me he himself is more interesting than his TV aut-fixations and annoying impressions of cartoon characters and dialogue I have no connection to.
 
It never ceases to amaze me how effortlessly CWC manages to look like a well-fed, smug kindergartner and sound like a senile 80 year old at the same time.

EDIT: I kinda lova how ol' Danky pronounces CWCville as "quackville".
 
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bigshot said:
Last night I was trying to figure out why some people seem to think that there was a lot of content in this interview, when to me it had absolutely nothing to say. I think it may be the fact that the whole interview dealt with how Chris has built a philosophy around the TV shows he watches. Alternate worlds aren't places that are completely different places with completely different people living there, they're based on Gilligan's Island or the Smurfs. He isn't imagining strange and different worlds, he's concocting worlds to retreat to based on his electronic babysitter.

I have very little interest in children's TV shows and I'm ignorant of a lot of the references Chris and Dankula were making. So the whole interview was a bunch of aut-babble to me. I'm more interested in who Chris is and how he lives his life in 14 Branchland Court than I am how he lives his life in his TV induced fantasies. But I can see how people who actually watch these shows might be amused seeing them shoehorned into some sort of pseudo-religious science fiction. Perhaps there are people who actually enjoy Chris's comics for the stuff about pokemon and sonic too. To me, they are hard to bring myself to read. The only parts I have any interest in at all are the ones that reflect real things that happened to him, like Mary Lee Walsh or the jerkops. That tells me how Chris views the real world. I'm not interested in how he views TV.

I guess there's something for everyone with Chris, but for me he himself is more interesting than his TV aut-fixations and annoying impressions of cartoon characters and dialogue I have no connection to.
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I think I understand what you're saying. A lot of the stuff Chris is into now feels completely alien to me, too (I had no idea what Hyper-Dimension Neptunia was before OPL claimed it as part of the CWCverse) but, unfortunately, he seems to be bent in making it all his reality now. That says a lot about how things are for him in the real world.
 
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bigshot said:
He isn't imagining strange and different worlds, he's concocting worlds to retreat to based on his electronic babysitter.
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It's this aspect I scratch my head over, because to us that's exactly what it is. To him, it's a window into a different world and with every cartoon he watches, it gets added to his world of CWCville. It's now just a catch-all term for his Imagination-Land because it's grown into convoluted mess that he can't keep track of. I guess I shouldn't be surprised his logic regarding it all is full of holes. I always wondered how deep this rabbit hole goes, but as of this interview, not too too deep. I wonder if he'll just forget all the stuff Idea Guy had said was happening? Some forgotten chapter collecting imagination-dust as ponies prance around in his head.

It's hard to view what he thinks of the world around him through all of this. Without someone like Clyde Cash, or Mary Lee Walsh, his hugbox only grew in response to having nobody to challenge him. I'd love it if he brought back the sub-episodes, I wonder if at this point it'd be a healthier outlet for him?
 
bigshot said:
Last night I was trying to figure out why some people seem to think that there was a lot of content in this interview, when to me it had absolutely nothing to say. I think it may be the fact that the whole interview dealt with how Chris has built a philosophy around the TV shows he watches. Alternate worlds aren't places that are completely different places with completely different people living there, they're based on Gilligan's Island or the Smurfs. He isn't imagining strange and different worlds, he's concocting worlds to retreat to based on his electronic babysitter.

I have very little interest in children's TV shows and I'm ignorant of a lot of the references Chris and Dankula were making. So the whole interview was a bunch of aut-babble to me. I'm more interested in who Chris is and how he lives his life in 14 Branchland Court than I am how he lives his life in his TV induced fantasies. But I can see how people who actually watch these shows might be amused seeing them shoehorned into some sort of pseudo-religious science fiction. Perhaps there are people who actually enjoy Chris's comics for the stuff about pokemon and sonic too. To me, they are hard to bring myself to read. The only parts I have any interest in at all are the ones that reflect real things that happened to him, like Mary Lee Walsh or the jerkops. That tells me how Chris views the real world. I'm not interested in how he views TV.

I guess there's something for everyone with Chris, but for me he himself is more interesting than his TV aut-fixations and annoying impressions of cartoon characters and dialogue I have no connection to.
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Chris' daily life is so boring and empty even Chris struggles to describe it beyond "I eat breakfast, I draw, I eat dinner, and then go to bed".
The "things that come up" he talks about are literally just weekly chores like buy more cat food or get gas in the car.
Maybe once in a while he goes out with real friends which probably looks a lot like what we saw in the Copitz interview.
 
Harambe said:
@Marvin, does Chris have mental health care?
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Yes.
bigshot said:
Perhaps there are people who actually enjoy Chris's comics for the stuff about pokemon and sonic too.
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Yeah, I could never choke down the Sonichu comics. Certainly not in one sitting, anyway. I gleaned the plots after picking through them looking up references Chris made to them over the years.
 
zap2theextreme said:
hris' daily life is so boring and empty even Chris struggles to describe it beyond "I eat breakfast, I draw, I eat dinner, and then go to bed".
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Not to mention so chronically empty that he has to create his own make-believe world where people think he's sexy and powerful, and he has to rely on perfect strangers for direction.
 
This Magi-Chan/Cryzel stuff is a depressing anticlimax to the Love Quest shenanigans. I guess something like this was inevitable after more than a decade of trying IRL. At best, maybe it will be the end of the troll sweetheart shtick.
 
bigshot said:
That tells me how Chris views the real world. I'm not interested in how he views TV.
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I don't think you're wrong but I'm starting to think that (to Chris, at least) the real world and the television world are quickly becoming one in the same. Even though I'd known it for quite some time, this interview made it painfully apparent just how small Chris's world really is. Not only did Chris feel the need to tie virtually everything he said in the interview back to some sort of entertainment medium (Fat Albert, the Great Pumpkin, Family Guy, Neptunia, etc.) but I also clearly saw how Chris has no knowledge of (or, probably, interest in) what is going on in the real world. He literally lives in the here and now and the only things he could possibly care about are being shown on that little electronic box in his living room.

Another big eye-opener was when he said he'd never been to Disney or some similar large theme park. I know we can count one one hand the number of times he's left Virginia as an adult, but it's also pretty damn sad that Borb never took Chris on a Disney trip or to the beach or somewhere. Maybe, just maybe, if he had been shown that there is a world outside of Ruckersville/Charlottesville, he wouldn't have quite so parochial a view of his immediate surroundings. But, as it stands, all Chris really knows is Ruckersville and cartoons, so I don't think it's all that surprising that CWCville is located in Northern Virginia and that it is based upon the cartoons and games Chris loves so much.

Marvin said:
Yeah, I could never choke down the Sonichu comics. Certainly not in one sitting, anyway. I gleaned the plots after picking through them looking up references Chris made to them over the years.
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The first time I ever read them was for Taffy's Annotated Sonichu, and I found them fascinating. Not for the story, certainly, but for the subtext. The books truly serve as a snapshot of Chris's mind at various points in time, since each issue not only shows the important RL events but also show the media that Chris was currently consuming. The Sonichu series started off as a Sonic clone, then brought in elements of Pokemon, then mechanics from Yu-Gi-Oh, then Family Guy, then anime, and so on. From a tonal standpoint, it's kind of interesting to see how whatever Chris was sperging about changed over time, along with what elements from the previous interest(s) made the cut and which were summarily discarded.
 
What I learned from this interview? Well, Chris reminds me of the show duckman, not duckman himself but a weird hybrid of Ajax, Fluffy, and Uranus. Not because he's cute or anything but because his head is full of stuffing and I'm amazed he doesn't qualify as legally brain damaged.
 
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I find it hard to believe that Chris just sits at home and draws and watches TV all day. He is a full time caretaker for Barb. He has to go out into the real world to buy groceries, take her to doctor appointments, pay bills and do whatever chores there are in keeping up the house. I think Chris is running around a lot doing things. Maybe he doesn't think they're important so he tunes them out and forgets them as soon as he finishes .He's probably tuning out the real world and focusing on fantasies because the future looks so bleak for him. That could be potentially dangerous for Barb too. She must be totally dependent on him. When Bob died, Chris became half unmoored. Barb is slowly sailing off into the distance now. He might submerge himself entirely into his dream worlds soon.

Mariposa Electrique said:
What I learned from this interview? Well, Chris reminds me of the show duckmab, not duckman himself but a weird hybrid of Ajax, Fluffy, and Uranus..
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I'm guessing Chris might understand what you're saying, but thank God it means nothing to me.
 
Why does he keep saying "ay" at the end of sentences unnaturally? Does he think Dank is Canadian?
 
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