Times when you have felt genuinely sorry for Chris

I felt really sad for Chris after re-reading Idea Guys's saga yesterday. For this and other reasons I hate PayDay 2 players.
 
When Christopher M. Duckworth and Kecay Y. Devoria humiliated him in their last phone call, I could not help but feel sorry for Chris Chan

 
in the times that he's brought things onto himself by being a genuine asshole or gross pervert, i've not felt sorry for him. i don't feel sorry for him for losing megan, for example, because he was being creepy and weird.

but almost every other time, yeah, i empathize with him a little. the shit that bluespike did, getting manipulated by the idea guys, his house being set on fire, things like that. i think it's easy to feel bad for chris during most of the goings-on after bob died, specifically, since that was sort of the true beginning of his mental decline into insanity.
 
spike the dragon said:
in the times that he's brought things onto himself by being a genuine asshole or gross pervert, i've not felt sorry for him. i don't feel sorry for him for losing megan, for example, because he was being creepy and weird.

but almost every other time, yeah, i empathize with him a little. the shit that bluespike did, getting manipulated by the idea guys, his house being set on fire, things like that. i think it's easy to feel bad for chris during most of the goings-on after bob died, specifically, since that was sort of the true beginning of his mental decline into insanity.
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The house fire was his own stupidity and fault.

I think the only real way Bob failed Chris and Barb is by not finding some way to have them both cared for.

Had he knew what would eventually happen then maybe he would have bought Chris a Russian mail order bride.

A stereotype Thai one would cook and clean but leave once she figured out that she could, especially once gets sick of battling the horde, but a stereotype Russian one would be more likely to stand up to Barb, pussywhip Chris and then send him out to work to buy her things.

At worst Barb and her horde would be confined to a single bedroom, while Chris sorted glass to see his earnings spent on handbags and cubic zirconia, rather than toys and games.
 
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garbanzobean said:
I felt bad when I heard his parents were ancient relics. That's already a bad sign for a child to be born with parents who are insanely old. You're gonna wind up with a mental illness or two. This dude wound up with autism and grew up with parents who refused to address or even take care of it. Chris never got the help he needed. But at the same time, I don't think he would have even changed had he gotten the proper help at school because he would have came home to parents who were just too old and too senile to help him grow.
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Chris-Chan is like a cake made with expired ingredients. There was no way of salvaging him into becoming even a semi-normal and functional human being. Not with his shitty upbringing and childhood environment, nor the multitude of genetic disorders he inherited from being born to such old parents.
 
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I still feel sorry for Chris for a couple things. One, for his house fire, and two, his incest sexual intercourse with his mother.
 
When he told the Internet to leave him alone, it was with the trucker outfit. There was such pain his voice that it really felt like a loss of hope because everything he said can be applied to him and it feels even worse knowing that. Other than that, the arrest not because of the events surrounding it but rather how it looks like a true act of god: the gunt recording it knowing what happens later, the gravity of the situation finally hitting Chris, and how it was truly the end of an era of the Internet because it is the most mainstream coverage of the alterative side of the Internet.
 
okay, i posted in this thread a while ago but some more moments came to mind recently.
1. chris filming barb and selling stuff like blankets (?) if i remember correctly. struggling financially sucks ass, been there before and i feel awful for him.
2. chris and his hoarding / his parents hoarding situation.
3. THE christmas video. its so stripped of any emotion, its almosy uncanny. makes me sad everytime i see it.
4. some of the calls chris has been on. he always sounds upset or angry.
5. oh, and not to forget the whole barb situation. i always knew something was off , when he patted her and said ''good, good!'' in that one video. https://youtu.be/Ulk2dLCUc-Q?feature=shared
i feel awful whenever i see barb. dementia is a horrible sight, my grandma died from it and i cant imagine how horrible life must be for barbara in her later years.
6. in the early vids of geno samuels comprehensive history, theres a blog entry from a female employee who saw chris and she describes his mentality as "being aware that he's not aware, and can't do anything about it" or something like that. that upset me a lot.
 
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It's easier for me to point out the few times I have NOT felt sorry for Chris. I mostly feel sorry for him.
 
soapy124 said:
6. in the early vids of geno samuels comprehensive history, theres a blog entry from a female employee who saw chris and she describes his mentality as "being aware that he's not aware, and can't do anything about it" or something like that. that upset me a lot.
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It's a little reminiscent of Terry Davis analogizing how his bird perceives reality and how people aren't really that different. We don't really fully understand what we're seeing, we just do the best we can with what we've got. Chris had a kind of paradigm for how love works that he learned from tv and (possibly worse) from his own parents, but he didn't really comprehend that there was never a chance any of those girls he tried to talk to would ever reciprocate his interest. I'm not sure he even understands now how his retreat into fantasies and delusions is a kind of coping strategy for his chronic loneliness. It's obvious to everyone else that's what it was, but I don't know if he's fully aware of that.
 
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Ted's of Beverly Hills said:
I don't know if he's fully aware of that.
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he surely is aware somethings wrong with him , however he has no idea how to fix that. and he tries, and tries all his life ... eventually resorting to barbara. i feel bad for him because he wasnt raised right and that's fundamental for a child like him. things couldve gone way differently.
 
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soapy124 said:
6. in the early vids of geno samuels comprehensive history, theres a blog entry from a female employee who saw chris and she describes his mentality as "being aware that he's not aware, and can't do anything about it" or something like that. that upset me a lot.
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IIRC that was from a female student who saw Chris loitering around JMU's library, with Chris surrounded by the greatest authors, yet he passed them all up in order to draw his childish cartoon characters. She said something like how he was aware that he didn't understand all the literary works around him, and was just smart enough to understand that.

I didn't really any pity for Chris for that given he picked that place to cruise for college booty and figured he could find a "smart girl" there
 
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