Times when you have felt genuinely sorry for Chris

[Uzumaki]

Oh yeah that's right, she'd say stuff to him like "turn me loose you silly goose", in a very flirty manner apparently.

What is that even supposed to mean?

Do I want to know? This isn't something I'm going to regret asking isn't it?

 

[Doctor of Autism]

Feeling sorry for Chris is easy. You'd be hard-pressed to hear anyone but the most vitriolic declare he deserved the Idea Guy saga or anything like it. Similarly, Chris getting a legitimate win (such as the Batman Caller) is invariably hilarious. Many moments in Chris' life are absolutely heartbreaking, from the deaths of Bob and Patty to his gradual retreat inside himself as a defense from an internet that wants the caged monkey to dance.

The thing is, Chris always makes you lament ever feeling bad about him when he doubles down on the fuck-up, which he does basically every time, and when this happens, even the most ardent of Chris defenders quickly realizes you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him shut the fuck up about Sonic's arms.

Yeah Chris is essentially someone you could feel bad for or pity easily but the moment he does something extremely retarded and then doubles down on it (His Merge beliefs, and many of his "Classic Chris" escapades) or does something awful that is unprovoked (his behavior towards women, and the constant e-begging) also makes it easy to despise Chris.

 

[StarDreamer2002]

Never ever. I mean everything's his own fault and he wants it that way.

 

[Troutsmacked]

When Bob died.

 

[Witthel]

Seeing pics of Chris as a little kid makes me feel sad in a "calm before the storm"-kind of way. The poor kid seriously had no idea just how fucked his adult life would be.

 

[idon'tknowhatyoumean]

Maybe at first, but then I realized he brought on a lot himself for falling for the trolls again and again. I never felt sympathy for Barb, but I did feel bad for Bob. Even though he was not completely innocent either.

 

[SssneakySssnek]

When Bob didn't respect condoms

The obvious trinity: Bob's death, the fire, and anytime one of her pets died.

Why would you feel bad for him when his pets died? Outside of Patty, maybe, he doesn't care in the slightest. He spent more time complaining about the firemen stealing broken garbage then his cat that was crushed and burned to death that he kind of off handed mentioned once

 

[Hitagi Senjougahara]

When Bob died.

The issue with that is that Chris and Barb wasted no time selling off his belongings that he wanted Chris to have and using Bob's death to get money from people. Up until today I still feel sorry for Chris that he had to interact with Kacey (Even if his getting laid quest was what made him do it but whatever) since listening to her grating voice is the worst part of the Liquid Saga and having HER call him out for being fat, despite both being a perfect match made in blubber heaven.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

When he came back from that basketball game and cried about changing schools. You can hear that he is emotionally exhausted.

Bob's death? No, but only because I despise Bob. Like really, he refused to treat Chrises state with all seriousness, but was demanding as if he was a normal healthy human. When he didn't meet his expectations, he just gave up and let his soon-to-be 30 years old son playing with toys. Chris learned his terrible diet from his lazy parents, learned to live in a pile of shit and even his delusions about his community conspiring against him came from them. Fuck, he could cut his fucking internet at any moment to stop Chris from making it worse. He deserved dying in a pile of garbage and bedbugs.

And him acting heartbroken too. Remember, we know that it was a ruse, Chris didn't, so from his perspective he swore an endless love to some women he barely knew and then got over it in the matter of days, when some of them even "died". That kinda shows what the word "love" means to him.

 

[Abilene]

Why would you feel bad for him when his pets died?

Because something like that always fucking sucks.

 

[benis154262]

All the time. CWC is literally the Daniel Johnston of the internet era

 

[Ace Robot]

With the Idea Guys, it's hard not to feel bad for him, since the Idea Guys went far beyond most of the people who came before them in the amount of abuse they subjected Chris to.

Up until the moment the IGs were caught out a second time, Chris was somewhere between being completely unaware of just how much damage they were doing, and terrified of what the Idea Guys were subjecting his fictional world to. Chris has previously shown some very, very slight degree of self-awareness when faced with an opponent to throw a tantrum at online, but here, considering the threats of being reported to the FBI, being forced to furnish these people with expensive games and consoles and the long discord chats in which the IGs basically demanded Chris watch as they 'brutalised' a character they themselves brute-forced into Chris's lore, it was almost as if Chris was too afraid to try to counter them.

 

[Liquid Vergil]

Unlike what I see a lot of people here saying my sympathy for Chris has gone down as time goes on. Now I'm mostly apathetic towards him. It doesn't help that outside of tiny blips like the gamestop fiasco nothing he's done in the last 5 years or so have been amusing. Like someone a while back in the thread said Chris now doesn't even feel like the same person anyway. Patti dying, Bob dying and Bluespike all got a big gut reaction out of me at first but looking at how they affected him at a macro level it makes me wonder just how performative his anguish over it all really was. He doesn't seem to have any lasting trauma from deaths or shoving crayola clay up his ass so maybe he's just too much of a tard to be traumatized.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

All the time. CWC is literally the Daniel Johnston of the internet era

Thats more Terry's position than Chris's

 

[Fidget]

When Megan left. It's not really genuinely feeling sorry for Chris, as much as it is feeling bad about a friendship being ruined because of his psychotic abusive behavior. Still, though, it must be traumatic to lose the ''only'' person in your life you can count on besides family.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

It goes from an innocent, childish escape fantasy

What? First couple of issues maybe, but then it quickly turned into sex-filled power fantasy, even with graphic depiction of Sonichu fucking Rosechu. And to be fair, escape is one thing, for Chris it was wish-fulfilment masturbatory session from day 1. I mean, ask yourself - if you wanted a power fantasy about being a mayor of something, you would've picked New-York, Rome or Tokyo, whatever, some famous real city. But Chris picked his own town with one minor change - it's named after him. He basically wanted his own unsatisfying reality to bend to his will, not to create some other to escape from shitiness of the original. Hell, he even placed Walsh as main villain there with the army of jerkcops to beat her, like he did to her in Soul Calibur. Chris was losing grasp on reality long before Dimensional Merge.

 

[Naamaleipuri]

I used to have some modicum of sympathy for him. Not anymore though, the merge shit took all that away.
I think it was that last Brony stream that actually made me genuinely angry at Chris.
Yeah, calling other peoples lives mundane is something I'd expect from him since the man simply can't show empathy or sympathy. But all this shit he says about Covid and how he's better because he doesn't work and understands us if we happen to be "glad that we live such simple, mundane lives working". Then the guy starts talking about how he's above everyone else with his "active lifestyle" and how "not everybody can be tough and durable" like him.

Spoiler: Beer fueled powerleveling

So first of all I was laid off from my job because Covid.
My local gym is closed because Covid.
Can't use my larger dumbbell because the old bitch that lives under my apartment is the kind that looks for any kind of excuse to get someone evicted.
Good thing there are no restrictions on going out for a run.
So I'm basically living Chris' high life here currently and I hate it.

Basically I'm currently of the mind that Chris slipping on some ice or something, smashing his nose, losing a few teeth and maybe getting a broken leg would do him some good.
He's been coddled so much through his whole life that he's lost all perspective on how a person should act. It's like he's still on the mental level of a 5 year old that thinks everything they do is special and no one can top them at anything. And having autism doesn't excuse anyone for being a terrible person.
I'm damn glad that my father beat me when I did something fucking stupid.

TL;DR Chris is an asshole and you shouldn't feel bad for him.

 

[GirlInThePickleSuit]

There are times when people just lay into him that make me feel bad for him. He isn't mentally old enough to understand why they're laying into him. He's grown up with two old, abusive, racist parents who left him to grow up on TV. He's trying his best but he's still so lonely, and it might be too late for him. I wish it could've gone differently, but if he doesn't get help when Barb dies, who knows what could happen.

 

[naught sock account 1]

when ive browsed /cow/ or the orbiters threads here, or when bob died...

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

This, but completely apart from Chris, on a basic level.

This is 30 year old man, who'd given up on growing up and taking responsibilities, so he plays with toys.
He'd given up on accomplishing something, so he is proud that "It took me over thirty hours in a whole week".
He'd given up on conquering a woman, so he dresses like one, even though it just makes him look even worse.
He'd given up on living his life as it was, so he recreated his school in detail to relive his school days.
He'd also given up on admitting that people just felt sorry for him, so in his fantasy he is almighty hero and a star.
He'd given up on fighting his own fights, so he wins them with ease in this power fantasy.
He is so lonely, that even his mother doesn't want to film this, so the one who does it is the woman, who'd given him the worse advices possible and enabled his bad behavior.
And all of this was going on in a fucking MCDonalds, because his own house is a trash pile.

That was a complete capitulation in the face of life itself. When I realized this, it made me die inside a little.