Containment What If?

If "da merge" happened, wouldn't that make the Harvesters (Independence Day aliens) real, and 1996 would've been a very different year?

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mudwogg said:
Chris became his classic self again
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That would take a competent person guiding Chris and at this point because everybody wants him to be "classic Chris" again, it would probably have the opposite effect and just be cringy.

Live long enough you become the villain sort of thing you know
 
What if....Chris had more edgy 2000´s weaboo friends including a girl (he was always a proto-incel simp so we always was into the girl stuff to try to woo her) and one of the girls was obsessed with Jojo Bizarre Adventure and he met her before the Bianca saga?
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What if when Chris went to Cleveland to save Julie, he got hurt and died on the trip? I wonder how his story would be told if that had been his end, lured out to nowhere by internet trolls and accidentally killed.
 
What if Chris had never been taught sex ed?

Chris is quoted as saying:
High Schools SHOULD have Dating Education Classes along with the Sexual Education Classes. In my humble opinion, Sex ED is fine for AFTER 3 or so DATES, but HOW DO WE EVEN GET TO THE FIRST DATE?!!! If I had the Dating Education back then, I wouldn't have to had suffered being a frustrated virgin for soo many years.
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Clearly he viewed it as a "how to" class, when really it's information that he didn't need and wasn't ready for. So much of his mindset is very childlike -- in many ways he acts like a little kid, except for all his sex pest nonsense. But if he'd never been taught about sex, could he have remained an innocent if stunted manchild? Could all of the sex toys, pornography, and sexual assault have been avoided, leaving Chris thinking that relationships are no more than a boy and a girl who like to hold hands? Or would his animal instincts have taken over anyway?
 
FattyMcFatterson said:
First Ive ever heard of it either. Googled it and had to look past a bunch of Roger Rabbit (I had that movie on a Handmedown VHS) and JojoRabbit before finding a clip, and boy its bad... Rabbit goes from New Orleans up to Niagara Falls. Why couldnt Barb put PBS on after school so he could watch Carmen Sandiego instead?
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What if Chris watched Carmen Sandiego and became a Geography nerd?
 
If you had the opportunity to write and direct a 90-minute CWC movie, where would it begin and end, and what changes/cuts (if any) would you make for the story to flow better?
 
themarchivist2 said:
If you had the opportunity to write and direct a 90-minute CWC movie, where would it begin and end, and what changes/cuts (if any) would you make for the story to flow better?
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That's an interesting thing to think about. I think my answer will depend upon the genre.

If it's a documentary, I would center it on his mental state and learning disabilities, focusing mostly on his early life and schooling. I would depict him as a cautionary tale about the importance of special education and of nurturing a neurodivergent mind.

If it's a love story, I would take several liberties with the facts, starting out showing him as simply an awkward guy who is unfortunately unlucky in love, ending with him finding true love through serendipity -- maybe have a similarly shy girl tangentially encountering him every step of the way (e.g., in his class at Manchester, then maybe worked at the mall that he frequented, then attended PVCC at the same time) but passing like ships in the night until they finally have a "meet cute' moment when he's not actively looking for a mate.

A tragedy might be the obvious choice. I'd probably show him slowly self destructing over time, again modifying the facts quite a bit, especially toward the end, His ultimate tragic demise would need to be fictitious because no movie audience wants an incest storyline.

A drama might be particularly challenging. It's hard to make Chris a sympathetic character for any length of time. It might be fun depicting him as an incredibly patient secret genius, taking abuse for years before exacting his revenge on his trolls in a way that is ultimately unsatisfying to him.

Counterintuitively, a comedy might be the most difficult genre of all to pull off. Much of what Chris has done over the years is very funny, but it is also so outlandish that no one would buy it as a movie storyline. Maybe reenact some of the classic "sagas" with real actors, complete with cutaways showing what Chris thought was the truth juxtaposed against the trolls behind their computer screens. But this wouldn't appeal to general audiences -- only those already familiar with CWC.



A trickier question: Which actor do you cast to play Chris?
 
Chromeo said:
What if when Chris went to Cleveland to save Julie, he got hurt and died on the trip? I wonder how his story would be told if that had been his end, lured out to nowhere by internet trolls and accidentally killed.
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Genuinely interesting hypothetical

I believe the story would be FAR less famous, and framed in the public sphere totally differently. Goes without saying no documentary etc etc. Almost certainly would have (by Chris's innate ability to get on TV as a man child who never leaves home) been picked up by local news. Framing would be of a totally innocent, naive young man who was taken advantage of. Obviously the horrendous flaws Chris had already displayed by this point would be wiped under the carpet (see Jay Slater for a key example of this).

Chris would go down as a late 00s oddity, remembered by a distinct few people as a weird guy and ultimately a victim.
 
What if Donald Trump, after hearing about how Matthew Devoria fought Saddam Hussein and beat him, sent Mr Devoria to Iran to take out the Ayatollah? Md.png
 
D is for Stupid said:
The issue is tards when they are under gravely stress they lock up. So what happened with project 100k is that it caused more more casualties and deaths to fully functioning normal of the minds soldiers because the tards couldn't fight back or react.
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The infamous Dirlewanger brigade of WWII was composed of the mentally insane and the worst of criminal offenders. It had a casualty rate of over 300 percent even though they usually were only fighting partisans, mostly because they had lots of 'friendly fire.' :stupid:
 
What if generative AI began to exist during the Classic Chris era? How would Chris and his trolls be altered?
 
JimmyJones said:
What if generative AI began to exist during the Classic Chris era? How would Chris and his trolls be altered?
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Chris would absolutely be on AI like hotcakes I feel, but the trolls would have been better.

Obviously, he has used it in some of his work currently. However, Chris was more interested in artistic expression and trying to (you know, actually being fucking arsed to make Sonichu) bring his vision to life. I imagine more AI usage during the classic era in writing/researching the comic, and particularly in the Christian and the Hedgehog boys album.

As for the trolls: I am CERTAIN Bob and Barbara would have fallen for AI repeatedly, as well as Crhis, so as a result:

Many, MANY prank phone calls of celebs, family members and whatnot
More graphic and visual memes made (as AI is low effort, people would have made more)
Julay could have been an AI girl
Etc

Some events I consider plausible but not totally out of the realm of possibility:

Chris resolving the love quest by dating one of them AI chatbot girlfriends who "gets him"
Chris making a Sonichu AI to talk to (wouldn't be surprised if this happens in future, to be fair)
Consulting AI to try and resolve the trolling issues to limited success
 
What if Chris had gotten the advertising degree he wanted instead of the CAD degree his dad had wanted and become obsessed with the show Mad Men instead of Pokemon?
 
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Acoustic Virgin said:
He'd still be a sex pest, but he'd also be a smoker and an alcoholic. He might have worn some Goodwill suits instead of those rugby shirts, though, so that would be something.
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I wonder if he would have taken up smoking to be more like the characters in the show or if he would make his own ads and slogans on Youtube for his favorite products.
 
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