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Coldgrip said:
Chris had genuine friends. He drove them away.
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Kosher Dill said:
Exactly - like Joshua Martinez. He *did* have "that bro he met in special ed", but it didn't help matters much.
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I was thinking of some friend when Chris was 5 to 10 years old. I think he met Joshua way later. He did have Sarah Hammer (or whatever she was called), but she locked him up under her house... so I doubt that friendship was all that hot.
 
Fattys personality precludes genuine friendship. He simple doesn't have the mental tools to be a real friend so all he can muster is friends of conveince. All he knows is to take, and take and take and take until the relationship implodes from his sheer neediness, I guess he was never taught that relationships are a two way street.

Megan was the closet thing to a real friend and look how he treated her. However keep in mind Megan wasn't really a great friend to him but that don't excuse what he did.

Just one more example of how shitty his parents were. Somedays I pity him, not often but it happens.
 
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Sweet and Savoury said:
Fattys personality precludes genuine friendship. He simple doesn't have the mental tools to be a real friend so all he can muster is friends of conveince.

Megan was the closet thing to a real friend and look how he treated her. However keep in mind Megan wasn't really a great friend to him but that don't excuse what he did.

Just one more example of how shitty his parents were. Somedays I pity him, not often but it happens.
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Yeah, but that's the point I want to get across.
There was a time before he was that kind of guy. Before his character had developed into a mess of bad habits and silly behaviour that pretty much makes it impossible for him to have friends.

All I'm trying to say is: I think there was a time when Chris was still fixable. And I assume a friend would have helped a lot.
 
See I would disagree.

If you read over Fattys history he's never really had friends, he's had gal-pals and people he's tagged along with but you never read about a buddy, or the time someone came over to play with him.

I would reckon that his autism kept him apart and made it difficult to forms bonds with people around him. After all, that the nature of the disease.

Plus growing up he was given a terminal does of USI by his parents which couldn't of helped.

IMHO Fatty was screwed from the beginning but it's only 1/2 his fault. He's a big boy now and smart enough to understand how life works, it's just that he prefers his fantasy land to putting in effort in the real world.

We have seen some improvements though, I'm not sure if it's his new "love" or just the fact he's getting desperately lonely now. Either way it's better then his sad quest to relive high school forever.
 
Out of curiosity, how much would Chris' college degree have helped him in finding a job? If so, what jobs would he have been looking at had he taken the initiative? He majored in computer design. Surely that would have had some application.
 
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Konstantinos said:
Out of curiosity, how much would Chris' college degree have helped him in finding a job? If so, what jobs would he have been looking at had he taken the initiative? He majored in computer design. Surely that would have had some application.
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He doesn't have a degree. He has a certificate, which is worth much less than an AA- which isn't even worth all that much.
 
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Is Chris running a pyramid scheme of sorts? He uses the money from current customers to pay the shipping for previous customers, after all, so when people stop buying, he'd stop shipping, right?
 
Anathe said:
Is Chris running a pyramid scheme of sorts? He uses the money from current customers to pay the shipping for previous customers, after all, so when people stop buying, he'd stop shipping, right?
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No. Chris isn't saying "I can never ship merchandise if you don't pay me now", he's saying he's broke right now. Y'know, the tugboat comes around every month.
 
Picklechu said:
I thought he had an associate of applied science and a CADD certificate. That's why he claimed he had two degrees for awhile.
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Yup. That's the one. Sometimes its good to add on some certificates, like Microsoft Certification, accounting, paralegal, etc to your associates degree when you're in community college. The CADD? No. Not a good idea.
 
Sweet and Savoury said:
See I would disagree.

If you read over Fattys history he's never really had friends, he's had gal-pals and people he's tagged along with but you never read about a buddy, or the time someone came over to play with him.

I would reckon that his autism kept him apart and made it difficult to forms bonds with people around him. After all, that the nature of the disease.

Plus growing up he was given a terminal does of USI by his parents which couldn't of helped.

IMHO Fatty was screwed from the beginning but it's only 1/2 his fault. He's a big boy now and smart enough to understand how life works, it's just that he prefers his fantasy land to putting in effort in the real world.

We have seen some improvements though, I'm not sure if it's his new "love" or just the fact he's getting desperately lonely now. Either way it's better then his sad quest to relive high school forever.
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Autistics can have friends in one way or another. Chris mostly never had any because he's too self-centered to have any sense of solidarity.
Lots of those crazy Sonic fanboys post on forums, etc., form communities in one way or another. Chris would never even post on such a forum during the height of his Sonic fanboyism - the only time he'd ever say anything on the internet period was to promote himself or to rage at someone if he didn't get his way. Otherwise he's not even the kind of person you'd discuss anything with, not even Sonic, Pokemon or whatever.
And that's how he's still so unique among lolcows besides being the Ur Example, no one else took the form of a brick wall so well as Chris has.
 
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sparklemilhouse said:
Yup. That's the one. Sometimes its good to add on some certificates, like Microsoft Certification, accounting, paralegal, etc to your associates degree when you're in community college. The CADD? No. Not a good idea.
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I think there are 4 valid reasons for doing a community college degree.

1. As you say, the degree is linked to some formal certification or occupational license. There are dozens or hundreds of these available, and a lot of them are very valuable on the job market.
2. You are linking it to a Bachelor's degree. It can be a very affordable way of getting credits which can be transferred to 4-year college degrees.
3. You have a very specific job/promotion offer linke to it. For example, your boss wants you to run the company website, and says she will give you a raise/promotion if you take courses to learn how to do it. I suppose this could also apply if you were self-employed and thought that you needed more skills to do the accounting or IT for your business.
4. General interest. You have a job, but you think that spending a couple evenings a week learning new stuff would be fun or fulfilling.

People, like Chris, who don't fit into one of those categories should probably not attend community college, or should rethink things to see if they can fit themselves into one of these categories a little better.

I have worked in post-secondary education for years and I think that it is a pervasive problem. Schools have to market themselves and their marketing tends to give students very lofty and unrealistic expectations.
 
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Chris' grades obviously weren't that good in high school, and he's never mentioned anything about taking the SAT/ACT. I think, like others have thought, that community college was his sole option.
 
Gensdupays said:
I think, like others have thought, that community college was his sole option.
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His other option was just to stop with the high school diploma, not throw away money on a degree he couldn't use, and try to find a job he could handle.
 
DrTremolo said:
He never did, it's just how trolls have dubbed his favorite game of the day. And I guess it could be interpreted that way, Chris is a little pig and LBP was a blanket for him to deal with the stress.
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I can't find it, but Chris stuttered in a video once and whatever it was he actually said, it became a joke that he called it "little big backpack". So we might've just kept spinning off other mispronunciations.
 
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Marvin said:
I can't find it, but Chris stuttered in a video once and whatever it was he actually said, it became a joke that he called it "little big backpack". So we might've just kept spinning off other mispronunciations.
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He did call it "Little Fuck Planet" under one of his many misguided inner circle-penetrating pseudonyms.
 
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