Containment What will happen when Barb dies?

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Shiversblood said:
That will probably not happen unless the eccentric millionaire is a homosexual male who wants to have sexual relations with Christian Weston chandler. People who aren’t related to you usually won’t let you move in with them unless sexual relations is involved.
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That happens all the time, it's called having a roomate
 
Mister Hitler said:
At this point Barbara is clearly only living by vampirically sucking the soul and mental health out of Chris. At this point even that well is running dry, though, so we can expect her to drop within the next few years I'm sure.
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you're on the right track, but my belief is that barb has become a lich, fragmenting her soul and storing the pieces in the hoard. she wasn't bullshitting when she said she'd kill herself if they got rid of the hoard
 
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timecop said:
you'te on the right track, but my belief is that barb has become a lich, fragmenting her soul and storing the pieces in the hoard. she wasn't bullshitting when she said she'd kill herself if they got rid of the hoard
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So Barb has hoardcruxes?
 
Not in QUITE some time, as I believe I have made obvious since the last time I did... To the point that question is beyond pointless AND needless now.
 
Plague_Spectrum said:
Probably not very well.
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I'll be upset and worried for Chris when Barb dies.

His wellbeing afterwards, or lack thereof, would be almost completely Barb's fault in the way that she raised him. Unfortunately for Chris, the world doesn't care about who's "fault" something is. The bank surely won't let him keep the house. Even if, by some miracle, Chris did get to keep the house, he likely wouldn't be capable of taking care of it anyways. (Paging @Marvin for his opinion on that one.) His tugboat might go up a bit, but who is going to deal with the responsibilities of adult life with Barb gone? He always has been very oppositional towards help, so its not like any money managing advice would get through to him.

:optimistic:, but there is always the hope that Barb dying would be healthy for Chris in a weird, twisted way. Once he sees the cold, uncaring grip of reality close in he might realize that there is nowhere to turn other than being personally responsible for a change. It might finally force him to become somewhat of an adult, as he will no longer have anyone to enable his childish ways. Maybe Chris could manage living in an apartment with his tugboat money, possibly with a few roomates. He'd have to learn to be a tolerable person to be around, along with everything else, but when the options are grow up or starve he might change.

ForgedBlades said:
Well, as we might actually get some fucking content for a change.
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I'm quite sure that we would get much more content after Barb dies. Outside of a distant relative or family friend taking up the enabler role, Chris will either have to grow up, killing a decently sized part of what makes him a lolcow, or become homeless, cutting him off from the internet. At the very best, the farms is only going to get some begging videos, and a melancholy facebook post on the matter.

I honestly wish the best for Chris. I love laughing at his antics, but after Barb dies his life will more than likely take a depressing turn. Part of what made him THE classic lolcow was that his life was ten times better than he deserved for it to be, with people pouring oodles of money and time so he can continue making a mockery of himself. After Barb is gone he will hit rock bottom, and have to finally feel the consequences for actions that he was never able to learn where wrong.

The best reality I could possibly see for Chris is if someone steps in and helps manage his online presence and help him more effectively monetize it. He's still making laughably small amounts of money off his following considering how devout it is. I highly doubt it would be enough for him to support himself on its own, but combine that with the tugboat and literally any amount of money skills, he could skim by for a while in apartment living. What else is he gunna do, get a job?
 
Harambe said:
The bank surely won't let him keep the house. Even if, by some miracle, Chris did get to keep the house, he likely wouldn't be capable of taking care of it anyways.
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It's probably best if Chris sells the house, gets whatever equity out of it that he can, and gets an apartment or splits one with some roommates.
Harambe said:
His tugboat might go up a bit, but who is going to deal with the responsibilities of adult life with Barb gone? He always has been very oppositional towards help, so its not like any money managing advice would get through to him.
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Chris isn't that bad at managing money.

This is how it works: every month the tugboat comes in. Barb takes her cut and Chris is left with the rest to do with what he will, which includes paying his bills. Chris has been on this regimen since Bob died. It's not like Chris sits down and writes out a budget on paper, but he does do some basic estimates in his head about his financial state. So at any given point in the month, Chris does maintain something of a running total in his head of his situation; how much money he's got, how many days are left until the next tugboat, what bills he's got to pay, etc.

Chris is a dumbass, but even Chris knows he can't bitch the electric company into giving him free electricity. If Chris gets a bill for something on a regular basis, he's capable of remembering it and paying it. He's been doing that since Bob died.

This isn't a responsible way of handling money of course. It's like redneck financials, where you don't do any planning and you only pay the minimums, and you only think about them when they physically show up in your mailbox. But it's not the level of incompetence that reading the cwcki would lead you to believe. Remember: the cwcki documents facts, but it's not an unbiased perspective. It's a humor website, not a documentary.

Now what's going to happen after Barb dies, is that he's suddenly going to lose her half of the income (she's got a pension and social security or something). There's a big range of possibilities for how well he survives without her, depending on if he's got someone to steer him into a sustainable lifestyle or not.

I think trying to keep the house would be a mistake because even if he can sustain it (which is debatable), he'd be constantly stressed for money.

In fact, whichever route he takes, he's going to be constantly stressed for money. That's one thing that's going to happen regardless. Right now, Chris is actually in a a pretty comfortable situation, financially. If you don't give a shit about being a lifelong debtor (and rednecks never do), then Chris just lives a lazy life with barrels of disposable cash.

Yeah... when Barb dies and he's footing all the bills alone, he's going to feel every little bump in his finances. The thought of getting sued or being a little late on a payment is going to scare the shit out of him. And that will be the rest of his life. No more toys. No more fun. Just being all alone, being completely unprepared for life on his own.
Harambe said:
:optimistic:, but there is always the hope that Barb dying would be healthy for Chris in a weird, twisted way. Once he sees the cold, uncaring grip of reality close in he might realize that there is nowhere to turn other than being personally responsible for a change. It might finally force him to become somewhat of an adult, as he will no longer have anyone to enable his childish ways. Maybe Chris could manage living in an apartment with his tugboat money, possibly with a few roomates. He'd have to learn to be a tolerable person to be around, along with everything else, but when the options are grow up or starve he might change.
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I think he'll survive, but I'm not super confident of it though.
 
At least he has some type of degree, but he's too lazy to work.

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Degree=Associate's_Degree,_Computer_Aided_Drafting_&_Design_(CADD)/Salary

He actually could make a substantial amount of money. His ass is just too lazy. I mean, for an associates degree that's pretty decent. 40K a year is obviously much more than what he is making.

I know this isn't the same as PVCC, but according to Deltech (Delaware Technical Community College) He could make 30K-40K a year even with just an associates.

https://www.dtcc.edu/academics/programs-study/computer-aided-drafting-design-technology
 
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Chopinpiano said:
At least he has some type of degree, but he's too lazy to work.

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Degree=Associate's_Degree,_Computer_Aided_Drafting_&_Design_(CADD)/Salary

He actually could make a substantial amount of money. His ass is just too lazy. I mean, for an associates degree that's pretty decent. 40K a year is obviously much more than what he is making.

I know this isn't the same as PVCC, but according to Deltech (Delaware Technical Community College) He could make 30K-40K a year even with just an associates.

https://www.dtcc.edu/academics/programs-study/computer-aided-drafting-design-technology
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The laziness certainly doesn't help, and I wouldn't be surprised if he forgot most of what he learned there.
 
Trilby said:
The laziness certainly doesn't help, and I wouldn't be surprised if he forgot most of what he learned there.
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Yeah. It's ashame he never did anything (then again this is Chris) he actually could be doing decently if he got a job. But instead he's playing with Legos and shit. I wonder how much of his money will go to toys if he ever makes a reasonable amount of money.
 
Chopinpiano said:
At least he has some type of degree, but he's too lazy to work.

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Degree=Associate's_Degree,_Computer_Aided_Drafting_&_Design_(CADD)/Salary

He actually could make a substantial amount of money. His ass is just too lazy. I mean, for an associates degree that's pretty decent. 40K a year is obviously much more than what he is making.

I know this isn't the same as PVCC, but according to Deltech (Delaware Technical Community College) He could make 30K-40K a year even with just an associates.

https://www.dtcc.edu/academics/programs-study/computer-aided-drafting-design-technology
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No one would ever hire a college graduate who graduated 13 years ago and has absolutely zero experience in the CADD field.

It's very doubtful that Chris can even remember anything he learned in his CADD classes since he never utilized anything he learned after PVCC, since he didn't stay in his field since he never bothered to look for a job... I don't think he even did an internship anywhere...
 
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