Times when you have felt genuinely sorry for Chris

[Count Olaf]

The only time I think I would have felt sorry for him was when his father died (and I say "would have" because I didn't come to know of Chris until a few years after that occurred). Losing a loved one is hard no matter who or what you are, especially when in Chris' case it was the parent who actually cared about him and wanted him to have a meaningful future. But that aside I can't say I have ever felt sorry for him. I've pitied and still pity him, certainly, but I don't feel sorry for him. Chris is who he is today because over the years his greed, his lust, his pride, and his ego made him choose to swallow every piece of bait that was put in front of him, choose to dance every dance (literally and metaphorically) that he was told to do, and most of all because he chose and STILL chooses to scorn and slap away every means by which he could improve or help himself.

Yes, life dealt him a very bad hand of cards at the start. Yes, Chris' parents also have their own equal share of responsibility for what their son has become. But the hole that Chris has dug himself into is his own, and one day--one way or the other--he will lie in it and suffer the consequences.

And I still won't feel sorry for him.

 

[Tanti-Fanti]

I feel for Chris in a sense that he is a victim of circumstance. People like Chris don't come out of nowhere, they're made. While he is responsible for his own decisions, he's also a product of his environment. It's clear that Chris did not get the help he needed and his parents basically choosing to ignore all the issues he had and basically emotionally abuse him and instead let him indulge in his fantasies made this ten times worse. Would Chris have been in a better position if they weren't given the hands they were dealt? Absolutely. And to that point, I sympathize, but for everything else, I really can't. Chris, while extremely naive and not smart, still has enough cognitive function to know what he is doing. And he only has himself to blame for his own crappy decisions. I can't say I hate Chris, but I do pity how he turned out.

 

[Doubledeckercheese]

I feel for Chris in a sense that he is a victim of circumstance. People like Chris don't come out of nowhere, they're made. While he is responsible for his own decisions, he's also a product of his environment. It's clear that Chris did not get the help he needed and his parents basically choosing to ignore all the issues he had and basically emotionally abuse him and instead let him indulge in his fantasies made this ten times worse. Would Chris have been in a better position if they weren't given the hands they were dealt? Absolutely. And to that point, I sympathize, but for everything else, I really can't. Chris, while extremely naive and not smart, still has enough cognitive function to know what he is doing. And he only has himself to blame for his own crappy decisions. I can't say I hate Chris, but I do pity how he turned out.

Agreed. I also don't want to spend too much time defending Chris, but the poor guy was destined to be miserable from the moment Borb conceived him.

 

[Tanti-Fanti]

Agreed. I also don't want to spend too much time defending Chris, but the poor guy was destined to be miserable from the moment Borb conceived him.

I know some people might disagree, but I think Chris never had a chance to be normal. Not within his own circumstances. I don't want to defend him too, but that's just the sad reality of it. Not everyone is given a good deck in life.

 

[Rogowski]

There is zero chance that any sort of high school reunion would have been anything less than a disaster for Chris. The fact that it did not happen is the absolute best case scenario here, for him at least

I always thought it was a good thing that Chris left the town he attended high school in, even if it was through no effort on his own and it was done for reasons that were not in his interests at all, best or otherwise. Imagine Chris being in the same small rural community he went to high school in, at least during high school he was a joke but it was a polite joke that was behind his back and he was blissfully unaware.

Now imagine the same rednecks he went to high school with who also never left their hometown growing older, starting to drink, no longer being restrained in their ridicule by the school system. Chris would have seen many of the gal pals around town and Chris not knowing how to be normal would be all up in their shit anytime he saw them at the mall or walmart and eventually they or their boyfriends/husbands would have to at the very least told him politely to fuck off with his bullshit. Then when the real trolling began someone would have caught wind of it since Chris vomits personal information with no provocation and that probably would've altered the timeline drastically. Then you have the current year Chris who’s existence alone is a solid argument against the existence of God at this point and if he existed like that around people who knew him in high school I feel like the local public perception would be way worse about him.

TLDR imagine being a dumb redneck who don’t know shit about no internet and watching from a close distance as that weird reee.tard from high school slowly morphs into tranny Ben Franklin

 

[SemenRecycler]

I've seen a couple of people mention that Bluespike wasn't that bad because Chris probably wanted to experiment with his ass and he got over it pretty much instantly. For me, that's not really what's fucked about it. Chris was cybering with a 13 year old for who knows how long without even realizing it. Even if Chris didn't spend much time actually thinking about it, there's zero chance that the revelation he was actually saying all this nasty shit to a barely pubescent boy didn't affect his mind somehow. It certainly didn't stop him from falling for more troll girlfriends, but IMO none of them did anything as bad as coerce Chris into having cyber sex with a minor. Goddamn dude. These groups of people who got/get together and coordinate these psyops are so fucking gay.

Idea Guy saga is where I feel the most pity. Dude's a fucking idiot and let those fags mold him like clay. To this day their fingerprints are all over every goddamn thing he says.
Also, selfishly, they ruined the lore of Sonichu. The comic is probably one of the more entertaining parts about Chris, even if it is nigh impossible to read, and now there's multiple timelines with Hitler Sonichu and Christine fisting Sonichu and shit... It sucks.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

I guess Chris saved himself from the embarrassment of attending the reunion in full tomgirl regalia.

Lol, can you imagine. Chris being ignored for a few hours, then finally going up to the famous quarterback of his class to throw hair flips his way and tell him, "You know, the dimension 276 B is filled with ants, and I am their queen ".

 

[Observing From A Distance]

I feel bad for Chris in the sense that he did not get the specialized care that he needed when he was younger. I think that could have helped him at least a little bit. But now, he's just too stupid and egotistical (no doubt that ego was fed by his mother; he seems to taken after her) for me to feel much sympathy. What a wasted life.

 

[Wallfacer]

I've always felt a pang of guilt for Chris. The poor bastard never got the care he needed. If he did, I have a feeling he never would've gotten to the point he's at now. He may never have been a super productive member of society, but he would be in a lot better shape than he is currently. He's way too far gone now.

And Bluespike.

 

[biledriver]

Agreed. I also don't want to spend too much time defending Chris, but the poor guy was destined to be miserable from the moment Borb conceived him.

I've always felt a pang of guilt for Chris. The poor bastard never got the care he needed. If he did, I have a feeling he never would've gotten to the point he's at now. He may never have been a super productive member of society, but he would be in a lot better shape than he is currently. He's way too far gone now.

And Bluespike.

That's definitely why I feel both pity and a bit of compassion for Chris, even though he's very flawed person. Because had his parents been younger, less isolated and more knowledgeable about autism (or whatever he has, sometimes he sounds legit schizophrenic)...That and Bob was a loner, Blarb was a weirdo dummy couch potato.

For example, the actress Jamie Brewer has Down syndrome. She's aware that she has it and what that means, but her parents raised her telling her that "yes, having Down syndrome is different, but that doesn't mean that you aren't just as good as everyone else". In an interview, she said her parents would adjust education and activities to her mental and health needs, but otherwise essentially treated her as normally as possible. When she said she wanted to be an actress, her mum found a theater group accessible for all kinds of people, and she really flourished. She was my favorite on American Horror Story: Coven.

If he'd been told to go to art school, he might've actually gotten better at drawing, maybe met some other really weird people and had friends.. idk. It's a nice thought, anyway (unrealistic though it might be).

The Bluespike chats really reveal how narrow Chris' perception can be. That makes me feel genuinely sorry for him because feeling unrelentingly confused while people fuck with you has to be a miserable, dark experience. And then since he really doesn't conceptualize actions, emotions, faces, voices, maps, lots of things---with the way it integrated into his real life, his imaginary life/city/comic..you're gonna have a bad time.


Also TAINTGATE, the "my vagina is growing in so I cut it with a knife"... it's kinda hard not to feel pity (not sympathy) for someone who would do something some vile, dirty and stupid to themselves that way. Seeing his posts and stuff from that time, it's like watching his brain melting with a sudden increase of acceleration. Makes me wish I were a musician so I could write a King Diamond-type horror story song about that incident. Maybe some day I can try to draw it as a comic, since I don't think Junji Ito would...

 

[biledriver]

I feel bad for Chris in the sense that he did not get the specialized care that he needed when he was younger. I think that could have helped him at least a little bit. But now, he's just too stupid and egotistical (no doubt that ego was fed by his mother; he seems to taken after her) for me to feel much sympathy. What a wasted life.

I don't think Chris' life is a total waste. Sure, there are loads of very obvious problems, wrong things going on with him... he is a terminally, terminally confused man. Of course he's fucked up. But I find his art really charming and hilarious, I don't think he is a waste of a person. He is a difficult, strange person and that's kind of interesting. He's not bad at everything--- he's remarkable at world building but his concepts are memetic/copies/versions of stuff he sees. And it's likely his drawings are probably what his "mental images" look like. He's quite imaginative. Something about that strikes me as not worthless. There's plenty of weird shit to be learned from him anyway, and he's too confused to have much shame or reaction. I'm an art-oriented person though so maybe that's just me.

Personally I think what's so sad about his narcissism and egotism and weird/really negative/selfish ideas---if he didn't have those things, he'd probably have a safety net of friends who considerd him like a Wesley Willis/weirdo crazy art guy/Wildman. He could've had more real life friends if he weren't so difficult to be around, there are plenty of people who can set specific boundaries and be a good friend to a mentally disabled person. I guess he seems ok inventing his own friends though, he truly does not really seem to care if anyone thinks he's insane and that's kind of impressive.


Chris is complicated and Rabelasian as fuck

 

[Poo Twister]

The whole Bluespike thing, that's the only time. I did have a lot of sympathy for Bob though.

 

[FreddyKrueger]

I am not going to lie, the time he wrote that poem about his dog really touched me...

 

[CheesyBoy]

When I realized that the trolls are the closest thing he has to actual friends. They want to spend time with him, they want him to do things, they give him gifts, they encourage his interests, all things good friends do, except for the wrong reasons.

 

[Argh My Cigar]

When I realized that the trolls are the closest thing he has to actual friends. They want to spend time with him, they want him to do things, they give him gifts, they encourage his interests, all things good friends do, except for the wrong reasons.

The trolling was the best thing that ever happened to him.

 

[Hogar Grupal]

The trolling was the best thing that ever happened to him.

It's way better than paying for friends.

 

[Yamcha's Only Fan]

The only time I think I would have felt sorry for him was when his father died (and I say "would have" because I didn't come to know of Chris until a few years after that occurred). Losing a loved one is hard no matter who or what you are, especially when in Chris' case it was the parent who actually cared about him and wanted him to have a meaningful future. But that aside I can't say I have ever felt sorry for him. I've pitied and still pity him, certainly, but I don't feel sorry for him. Chris is who he is today because over the years his greed, his lust, his pride, and his ego made him choose to swallow every piece of bait that was put in front of him, choose to dance every dance (literally and metaphorically) that he was told to do, and most of all because he chose and STILL chooses to scorn and slap away every means by which he could improve or help himself.

Yes, life dealt him a very bad hand of cards at the start. Yes, Chris' parents also have their own equal share of responsibility for what their son has become. But the hole that Chris has dug himself into is his own, and one day--one way or the other--he will lie in it and suffer the consequences.

And I still won't feel sorry for him.

What makes me not feel too bad for him over his dad's death is the reminder that before Bob died, all chris did was act like a twat online and use his dad for sympathy points. Then afterwards Chris hit snyder with his car and barb used all of Bob's money on a lawyer.

I do believe chris's tears over his dad are real, but it wasn't long before he was trying to pawn his mother onto Chole and get a girlfriend to take care of him like he was 12 again.

I will agree losing a parent or close relative is bad, and there is some sympathy I can muster up for chris when the lumberjack died but its just as quickly smothered in its crib by the actions and sentiments surrounding it.

 

[Chan Fan]

What makes me not feel too bad for him over his dad's death is the reminder that before Bob died, all chris did was act like a twat online and use his dad for sympathy points. Then afterwards Chris hit snyder with his car and barb used all of Bob's money on a lawyer.

I do believe chris's tears over his dad are real, but it wasn't long before he was trying to pawn his mother onto Chole and get a girlfriend to take care of him like he was 12 again.

I will agree losing a parent or close relative is bad, and there is some sympathy I can muster up for chris when the lumberjack died but its just as quickly smothered in its crib by the actions and sentiments surrounding it.

It shouldn't be too surprising since he always got over his "relationships" so quickly. I always wondered if him selling Bob's stuff was something he'd thought about for years or if it was spur of the moment. It also makes me wonder what he'll do with Barb's stuff when she passes, if he thinks anything she owns is worth money (and what suckers online will try to 'help' by buying it)

 

[Hogar Grupal]

What makes me not feel too bad for him over his dad's death is the reminder that before Bob died, all chris did was act like a twat online and use his dad for sympathy points. Then afterwards Chris hit snyder with his car and barb used all of Bob's money on a lawyer.

I do believe chris's tears over his dad are real, but it wasn't long before he was trying to pawn his mother onto Chole and get a girlfriend to take care of him like he was 12 again.

I will agree losing a parent or close relative is bad, and there is some sympathy I can muster up for chris when the lumberjack died but its just as quickly smothered in its crib by the actions and sentiments surrounding it.

To add insult to injury, Chris literally scoffed at Bob's idea that he could use Sonichu as a mascot for autism (from Bob's letter to Chris; I don't think they talked about it). At the end of the day, Bob still held out some hope that his son could do something worthwhile with his life, only to be insulted by Chris.

 

[biledriver]

The trolling was the best thing that ever happened to him.

Anytime Chris gets really immersed in his self-created unreality thing, he vomits out some art that makes me laugh. When he makes videos--- like the one where he's pretending to be the Easter bunny? It's like watching someone who is REALLY good at psychodrama yet has no idea. He likes to feel feelings, but doesn't have any idea what they mean, so he just accepts it and forgets about it.

Getting trolled was probably the closest thing to either Chris getting to play D&D (without realizing it, I don't think he could keep track of how that type of game works? maybe he could?). Or, like an ARG but with only one single person not knowing it's a game, but that doesn't matter because it's irrelevant to them like literally everything else (except zappin to da extreme, the blueheart, being a mayor of a place that doesn't exist is kinda poetic really).

Sadness is put in a very different terms for Chris. I think a huge part of why he's like this is because he couldn't speak, but could hear. His parents talked about him in front of him so he was de-contexualized from their conversation, and found other ways to relate to it. They just don't make sense or are rote memorizations.