What event made you feel genuinely sorry for Chris?

[Yawning Squirtle]

I would have to say this video, particularly around the 2:40 mark:

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That stuff is no good if I don't have, if I don't have many friends to share it with.

He made a lot of fake apology and crying videos, but this one seem kinda genuine. And seeing him surrounded by all this childhood stuff he can't let go of, I find this quote quite poignant.

Also, of course, Bob's death for the reasons previously stated by most of you.

 

[Paradox Man]

Honestly, I felt sorry forry him in the call from Kacey's "father". While he may have had good points, he seemed a bit cruel to me. Of course, I know he was a troll just pretending to be her father, so that makes it not so bad.

 

[Becomedizzy]

There are two instances that make me feel bad for Chris:
The loss of friendship between he and Megan (I do believe that was his fault though) and him now. I was watching videos from the CWCville Library on Youtube and the change is so dramatic. At least he kept his hair cut. Now it seems as if he doesn't care anymore. He's battered and broken. I sometimes think of what will happen to him when Barb passes. What'll happen then? He'll have all of his to himself, but at what expense? He clearly doesn't know how to handle money or fend for himself.


Thanks a lot guys. I feel all sad now.

 

[The Dude]

Honestly, I felt sorry forry him in the call from Kacey's "father". While he may have had good points, he seemed a bit cruel to me. Of course, I know he was a troll just pretending to be her father, so that makes it not so bad.

I've mentioned this a couple times, but there was going to be a call with Kacey's big brother Kale that was going to be much more harsh. Kacey had asked me to play her brother and we both came up with his background. I came up with the name, and of course Kale followed their father's influence and went into the USMC. I watched Full Metal Jacket every day for a week to get that drill sergeant voice down and I was basically going to dress down Chris. It was ultimately decided not to happen because it was basically rehashing the Father Call and would be cruel to the point that it could permanently harm Chris.

 

[GFYS]

Honestly, I felt sorry forry him in the call from Kacey's "father". While he may have had good points, he seemed a bit cruel to me. Of course, I know he was a troll just pretending to be her father, so that makes it not so bad.

If Matthew were real, I think it would be very reasonable for him to suspect the worst of Chris, after some of the crazy shit he said. I think that whole call was a lot more forgiving than many real parents would be, as most parents are quite protective of their kids. I'm pretty sure I'd be using harsh threats of violence to interrogate someone, if they were courting a hypothetical child of mine.

 

[Sexual Stallone]

Chris has not experienced life, is not experiencing life and probably will never experience life in the future. Thats depressing.

 

[Picklepower]

Now that I think about it, the house tour video. I actually, legitimately felt bad for him, that he has to live in that hoarders house, especially when he opened the door to that one room that was literally all junk, and you couldn't even tell what it used to be. And Barbs a psycho so its not like he and Bob could have really cleaned it.

 

[homerbeoulve]

Now that I think about it, the house tour video. I actually, legitimately felt bad for him, that he has to live in that hoarders house, especially when he opened the door to that one room that was literally all junk, and you couldn't even tell what it used to be. And Barbs a psycho so its not like he and Bob could have really cleaned it.

In this case then, Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz would love to dive in over those junk.

 

[Furina]

Most of the time Chris brings these things on himself, making it difficult to feel truly sorry for him. However, I did feel a bit sorry for him during the Emily date. Chris was 27 years old at the time and this was his FIRST EVER date... and he bought his 81 year old father on it!! The whole setup was just tragic and the date itself even worse. Most of the conversation was hogged by Bob talking about himself and his own accomplishments; making it implicitly clear how little Chris has done in comparison. But at the same time, from Bob's point of view, he was probably thinking, 'wow, maybe my son isn't such a total screwup. He actually has fans and he's going on a date with an attractive young woman.' But the whole time we are sitting there knowing full well that Emily is a troll and it's not a real date. It's just depressing to think how ashamed Bob would have been of his son had he known the whole truth.

I have to agree with you here. That whole date was far too cruel. The added humiliation of having his father with him, getting his hopes up and everything, just to be snapped away by that bitch Emily. One of a few moments I've genuinely felt bad for Chris.

 

[Furina]

Unfortunately, if they weren't publicized, I can't be the one to publicize them. When Chris sends them to the wrong person, then they get leaked. I'm waiting for that to happen.

Hold up... Are you saying you're sitting on information but can't release it for some reason? What of treasure troves of Christory are being hoarded?

 

[For The Internet]

What is the deal with this situation with Barb forcing him to be in her sight 24/7? How did that info get out?

I know that Chris mentioned she was crashing on his couch immediately following Bob's death, but how did that become her forcing him to play videogames under her watchful eye? When did it start? If she's not doing it to keep him from fucking up, then why? It's not like she even spent her day in the same room as Bob, let alone the same bed, so why has she become a disturbing stage-5 clinger?

Sorry, this is news to me and I'm quite surprised even though Barb has always been weirdly possessive and controlling of Chris.

I feel bad for him about the death of Bob.

I felt bad for him about losing Patti until I learned about how he walked out on her at the vet when she was barking and distressed. It made me think he cared about her on a far more shallow level than I'd previously believed.

I pity him for the control his mother has over him. Even though the tomgirl thing is ridiculous, it must have been extremely hard to hear all of Barb's insults about looking like a hooker and turning into a fag and her threats to kill him. She cut off his hair, which is extremely invasive and though Chris could have walked away it was still really wrong. I think that the Ohio debacle, as an earlier post said, basically knocked all the rebellion right out of Chris. She is so controlling and manipulative and crazy that Chris never stood a chance.

Could Chris escape her? Of course. If she were my mother and I were disabled I think I'd rather live in a group home than under her control. But even if he had a place lined up and friends to support him and could hold down a basic job I think Barb would pitch a huge fit and guilt-trip him into coming home to look after her.

I think Barb is scared of being alone. Her only other child loathes her and she seemingly has no friends or family that want anything to do with her. Chris is all she has. Even if Chris was completely neurotypical I think she would have coddled him all his life and she would have been one of those mothers who use guilt to manipulate and control their children. If Chris were married with a wife and kids, she'd be the mother in law who demands to move in with her son because she's all alone and she has a bad hip and her blood pressure is up ect ect. He had no chance with Barb. The only reason Cole dodged that fate was that she was more interested in the men she was sleeping in than him, and she was younger. He seems pretty screwed up by her, and he barely got any attention from her.

Barb is a terrible person and I pity Chris for having her in his life. Bob certainly had his flaws but I think a lot of his paranoia was Barb's influence. If Barb had passed instead of Bob I think Chris's life might have had a chance to improve, but he's stuck in that house being Barb's slave until she dies or needs to be hospitalised/taken into care.

 

[Picklepower]

Yeah I kinda didn't read the Jackie Emails till today, Holy Shit, that bit about Barb threatening him, Wow, I don't know what to say.

 

[For The Internet]

Yeah I kinda didn't read the Jackie Emails till today, Holy Shit, that bit about Barb threatening him, Wow, I don't know what to say.

Yeah, that was extremely fucked up. Being gay I can identify with being scared of coming out to your parents (thankfully mine never gave me a hard time), and Barb's reaction was actually way worse than Bob's. Off the top of my head she:

Called him a fag/queer
Said he looked like a hooker
Claimed Chris was going to kill her
Threatened to kill Chris
Physically forced him into a chair and cut off his hair

That's all pretty awful. The tomgirl stuff is... well... it's debatable what it means but clearly he has some gender identity issues, and Barbs' behaviour was pretty heinous and did absolutely nothing to try and help Chris work out what he's going through. In that sense I do feel very sorry for him.

 

[Da Pickle Monsta]

I did feel sorry for Chris during the "Julie Reveals Herself Call," because that's really the only time that it's been apparent to me that his developmental limitations keep him fro acting appropriately.

 

[Venusaur]

Numerous ones have already been mentioned, so I'll go with this:

I forget exactly where he said it, but Chris makes mention that Barb stopped cooking for him and Bob because they didn't eat one of her spaguetti dinners one time. Now, I kinda think that Barb would have just warmed up some disgusting canned spaguetti and just fed them that. BUT, let's say she actually did cook it. This woman is so spiteful that because her husband and child didn't eat one of her dinners once, she used it as an excuse to stop cooking.

I feel sorry for Chris, because he has a horrible, resentful woman for a mother, and because he probably doesn't know what eating a good home cooked meal is like.

 

[José Mourinho]

I did feel sorry for Chris during the "Julie Reveals Herself Call," because that's really the only time that it's been apparent to me that his developmental limitations keep him fro acting appropriately.

Same here. This is the incident which I feel sorry for Chris the most.

 

[Marvin]

What is the deal with this situation with Barb forcing him to be in her sight 24/7? How did that info get out?

Well, Chris has been talking to a few people about it for awhile. He's also posted about it on facebook a few times, so we gradually became aware of it.

I know that Chris mentioned she was crashing on his couch immediately following Bob's death, but how did that become her forcing him to play videogames under her watchful eye? When did it start? If she's not doing it to keep him from fucking up, then why? It's not like she even spent her day in the same room as Bob, let alone the same bed, so why has she become a disturbing stage-5 clinger?

The thing is, if all Barb wanted was to keep Chris out of trouble, then she wouldn't need to completely deny Chris his privacy like she does. And honestly, I have a feeling that Barb doesn't think of Chris getting into trouble as his fault. I think she has the same view of the situation that Chris does, that the world is out to get them. Keep in mind, she was a big contributor to Oct 28 and there was also the q-sand event. If Chris tells her a story about evil manajerks, I think there's a good chance she'll believe it.

Barb is a terrible person and I pity Chris for having her in his life. Bob certainly had his flaws but I think a lot of his paranoia was Barb's influence. If Barb had passed instead of Bob I think Chris's life might have had a chance to improve, but he's stuck in that house being Barb's slave until she dies or needs to be hospitalised/taken into care.

Yeah, pretty much.

 

[Golly]

I felt bad during the BlueSpike reveal. He seems to heal fast from the "I was never a real girl!" reveals (maybe because he never can understand women past a certain level and therefore never be able to truly fall in love?), but the Sonichu-medallion up the butt was a pretty serious case of insult to injury. People argue that he may not have even put the medallion up there, but considering , it can't be ruled out.

I also feel pretty bad for how things have turned out. He's kind of stuck in a perpetual loop of misery and failure that can't be broken until either a miracle happens where he realizes "Oh wow, I should probably change for the better and do stuff to improve myself!" or the system believes he's a menace to society and puts him in jail/rehab/some other place where people can tell him what to do and (maybe) teach him how to be a better person. And that's a shit situation.

 

[Raymond Burr in a Turban]

The transition from teen to man (highschook to bam, be self-sufficient) is what makes me most sympathetic toward chris. Tbh a lot of stuff with him hits pretty close to home with me.

 

[LordCustos3]

Your remark made me think of this:

I think it came out not that long after Bob died.

Y'know....i've seen that comic a grand number of times...its only now that I see what The Great Lumberjack is cradling in his arms.

That makes me strangely sad.