What keeps him going?

[milkshark]

Vidya is his main focus in life. He seems to get every new console at launch and stocks up on games rather than play them one at a time. At least Pokemon cards made him some actual friends. I really think it's sad how he buys portable game systems and just loiters in McDonald's alone, playing them all day. It's the most antisocial thing you could possibly do in public, yet he wonders why he's lonely.

 

[Holdek]

No, I'm not saying Chris should simply give up and kill himself

With that established, I ask my fellow forum members, after both wasting his life up to this point and dooming to failure whatever prospect he had of a decent future, what do you think that keeps Chris getting up in the morning? (or afternoon). Is it the autism that makes him see everything like a video game? Like how he has spent so much time alone that a sweetheart its bound to spawn right in front of him at any moment and save him from the hell pit that is 14 BC? Is it his ego that makes him think the world owes him one for being high-functioning autistic and should magically fix his life?

What are your thoughts on this dudes and dudettes?

He's not "going." He pretty much stopped after Bob died and he lost his trial. He doesn't make Sonichu anymore. He doesn't try to defeat the trolls. I guess he still thinks he may get a sweetheart, but that seems more like a cry for help about his mother's future death than hope. Honestly I don't think he has any hope for anything anymore.

I mean, he doesn't take care of himself or his surroundings, and accomplishes only the bare necessities that keep himself alive and Barb placated. Well and I guess he earns vidya trophies.

So I think his only motivators to get out of bed are:

1. He's hungry

2. He's tired of lying in bed and wants to get up for a while

3. He feels compelled to help his mother in the day's business, whatever that may happen to be

4. Video games and cartoons are still fun

 

[Da Pickle Monsta]

4. Video games and cartoons are still fun

Honestly, I don't know if even this is true any more. I've been getting an impression as of late that Chris only plays vidya because he doesn't have anything else to do, and it provides a little escape from Barb.

I'd love to be bringing in an extra $1000 a month, but I wouldn't trade places with Chris. Ever.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Elbow-greased strength and just a little bit of red-necked stubbornness.

... nah, I actually came here to post this:

inertia.

I think he's probably given up on having hopes and dreams, besides the dream of having a room to himself like he used to.

 

[Sexual Stallone]

I recently got a job after 5 months of being unemployed (The longest stretch of time since I started working) and I can say, after the 3 months I was close to banging my head against the wall just to keep my mind occupied.

I can't see how Chris can get up in the morning, or well, afternoon, walk around his cluttered, bug infested home, look at his sick, slave-master of a mother and think "Hmm yeah, I bet this is the day were I'll meet my sweetheart at McDonald's" Ego or not, he must have a gigantic case of depression knowing that he threw away the best years of his life fucking blow up dolls, playing PS3 all day and doing Youtube videos were he screams like a retard for 5 minutes.

 

[Some JERK]

I recently got a job after 5 months of being unemployed (The longest stretch of time since I started working) and I can say, after the 3 months I was close to banging my head against the wall just to keep my mind occupied.

I can't see how Chris can get up in the morning, or well, afternoon, walk around his cluttered, bug infested home, look at his sick, slave-master of a mother and think "Hmm yeah, I bet this is the day were I'll meet my sweetheart at McDonald's" Ego or not, he must have a gigantic case of depression knowing that he threw away the best years of his life fucking blow up dolls, playing PS3 all day and doing Youtube videos were he screams like a exceptional individual for 5 minutes.

Well i think you point out the difference between Chris and most people in your first sentence. You were unemployed for 5 months, but i'm assuming that prior to that, you were employed for a lot longer. Chris doesn't really know what it means to 'work', so his life now is how it's always been. He wakes up, fucks around, eats, fucks around some more, eats again and then goes to sleep. This is what he's done for basically his entire adult life. The only things that have changed are where he fucks around, and the fact that he can no longer fuck around in private. Alec calls it 'routine', i called it 'inertia', but i think we're talking about the same thing.

 

[Holdek]

I recently got a job after 5 months of being unemployed (The longest stretch of time since I started working) and I can say, after the 3 months I was close to banging my head against the wall just to keep my mind occupied.

I can't see how Chris can get up in the morning, or well, afternoon, walk around his cluttered, bug infested home, look at his sick, slave-master of a mother and think "Hmm yeah, I bet this is the day were I'll meet my sweetheart at McDonald's" Ego or not, he must have a gigantic case of depression knowing that he threw away the best years of his life fucking blow up dolls, playing PS3 all day and doing Youtube videos were he screams like a exceptional individual for 5 minutes.

Chris has said that his youth was wasted, but he thinks it's due solely to the trollings, not anything you mentioned.

If you're clinically depressed, it's easy to get into a pattern of sloth. Even more so if you were lazy to begin with.

 

[DangDirtyTrolls]

Chris has never traveled outside the US, and has rarely left Virginia or even the Charlottesville area. He's never really seen how other people live. He's never had a significant other--not even really a best friend who liked him unconditionally. He's pursued no real education beyond a CADD certificate, and he only did that because Bob made him. He doesn't read. He doesn't travel. He doesn't seek out friendships beyond his own autistic, passive aggressive means of doing so (berating strangers on Facebook to come visit him.)

You remind me very much of life as a young child. Back then the world was your local neighbourhood because you knew so little about what life is like, so you just assume what you have got is everything there is and everyone else does the same stuff you do.

As you grow up your world view expands and you realise how varied life is. If Chris never had this awakening, and by your description it would seem not, then he probably keeps going just because he doesn't know there's a world outside of Charlottesville. He literally did not believe Australia even existed.

 

[Anchuent Christory]

I suppose at the end of the day, his scope is so spectacularly limited that he doesn't really dream great dreams. He's always been happy of the routine of eat, sleep, vidya. When it comes down to it, Making money from Sonichu and/or having his sweetheart support him are merely devices for maintaining this very same routine.

If Barb suddenly relented and granted him his freedom, it's not like he'd spend his time any more constructively is it? The only difference is that at the moment, the routine is imposed on him, but he's just continue to do the same things if he wasn't being held captive with the only difference being periods of loitering.

 

[The Dude]

What keeps him going? A proprietary mixture of Fanta orange soda and comeuppance. It's better than cocaine man!

 

[applecat]

His monthly tugboat.

 

[bradsternum]

Dumb animal instinct to survive.

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

Dumb animal instinct to survive.

This ^^^

Anyone else would see the on coming darkness of Chris's life post Blorb and either would make some changes or just give into dispair and end it. There is nothing left for Chris but increasing isolation and loneliness as he ages.

But not OPL. He carry on as is, suffering each day while blaming the world for his pain.

It's why I love him.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

I suppose at the end of the day, his scope is so spectacularly limited that he doesn't really dream great dreams. He's always been happy of the routine of eat, sleep, vidya.

Sometimes, I look at a cat or a dog, and I think to myself, how does this animal endure its lifestyle? How does it feel satisfied living in such a limited fashion, where its greatest triumph is earning a treat from its master for trivial tricks?

The thought is absurd, of course. Cats and dogs can't comprehend higher purposes or desires as we humans can. I only think it when I am idly bored, and of course I laugh about how silly it is to desire for an animal to pursue non-material concerns.

Yet, this is the same way Chris lives.

 

[Donald Duck]

I suppose at the end of the day, his scope is so spectacularly limited that he doesn't really dream great dreams. He's always been happy of the routine of eat, sleep, vidya.

Sometimes, I look at a cat or a dog, and I think to myself, how does this animal endure its lifestyle? How does it feel satisfied living in such a limited fashion, where its greatest triumph is earning a treat from its master for trivial tricks?

The thought is absurd, of course. Cats and dogs can't comprehend higher purposes or desires as we humans can. I only think it when I am idly bored, and of course I laugh about how silly it is to desire for an animal to pursue non-material concerns.

Yet, this is the same way Chris lives.

Well it's been said that Barb does seem to treat him more like a pet than a son, no?

As long as he has food, a roof over his head, his entertainment, and the occasional petting from his master, he's satisfied. Maybe not perfectly, but he's satisfied with his life to continue on with it nonetheless. Other than the lack of freedom he's experiencing for the moment, the only other real concern for him is that his current owner is nearing her expiration date and he doesn't have a viable replacement lined up. But that's still no reason to cross the despair horizon yet as he's still somewhat optimistic, to the point of delusion of course, that someone will come along and take care of him... It's just too bad that he doesn't realize he does NOT have the same advantages of stray cats or dogs to be able to tug at a person's heartstrings and make one want to take him home, which seems to be what he's trying to emulate with his constant loitering, pity partying, and what I presume is him trying to look "cute".

 

[Zim]

Sometimes, I look at a cat or a dog, and I think to myself, how does this animal endure its lifestyle? How does it feel satisfied living in such a limited fashion, where its greatest triumph is earning a treat from its master for trivial tricks?

My dog had a much more fulfilling and happy life then Chris ever will now. My dog lived outside on a farm where he ran around, ate roadkill, chased stuff, played, pooped in the field, and got to sniff a wide variety of stuff. He did all the stuff dogs love to do and the when he got old you could see it in his eyes that he had been happy and had licked, pooped, sniffed, and chased as much stuff as he possibly could. I'm sure that when he finally laid down and died that he had an amazing life for a dog.

Yep, as it stands, my dog had a far better life then Chris. I bet my dog even had far more ambition then him too. He might not have caught everything he went after but he always chased things when he could and that's a lot more then CWC has done or ever will do.

 

[snowkitten91]

The hope of china that he won't have to pay for and will stay with him to make all of his dreams come true.

 

[Lil]

What's funny is that even IF Chris read all these reasons and actually thought about them...not like, going and complaining to Anna about them and her giving asspats, but REALLY thought about them...he'd just feel down about them for a couple of days before forgetting about it and still doing nothing to help himself.

 

[The Dude]

What's funny is that even IF Chris read all these reasons and actually thought about them...not like, going and complaining to Anna about them and her giving asspats, but REALLY thought about them...he'd just feel down about them for a couple of days before forgetting about it and still doing nothing to help himself.

Vidya helps make the STRESS go away for a while and helps a poor Tomgirl forget about his Shattered Heart Level for a short time.

 

[Anchuent Christory]

Sometimes, I look at a cat or a dog, and I think to myself, how does this animal endure its lifestyle? How does it feel satisfied living in such a limited fashion, where its greatest triumph is earning a treat from its master for trivial tricks?

Yep, as it stands, my dog had a far better life then Chris. I bet my dog even had far more ambition then him too. He might not have caught everything he went after but he always chased things when he could and that's a lot more then CWC has done or ever will do.

If Chris were a dog, he'd be one of those that expect you to walk up and pick up the ball for them, bark repeatedly for you to throw it then refuse to run after it.