Interests Chris got the Sonic Boom game for Christmas -

[garbageraider]

I thought that this might be relevant, in light of recent events. This is a transcript of a conversation that took place IRL between Chris and a male person in December before Christmas.

TRANSCRIPT:

Spoiler

[MALE VOICE]
It's the uhh-the uhh- Sonic Boom game. [hand game to Chris]

CHRIS
Ok, I'll take it as a gift, thank you.

[MALE VOICE]
No problem man. I hope you enjoy it.

CHRIS
I'm hoping that they come out with an update where they change his arm color back.

[MALE VOICE]
Why-Why would they change his arm color?

CHRIS
Well, didn't you notice on the cover they did, it's. . . . . . .well, you look on his left arm. . . . .it's blue there.

[MALE VOICE]
Ohh. So he has blue arms?

CHRIS
Yeah. I really hate that change.

[MALE VOICE]
Ohh. What for?

CHRIS
Ehh. Just. . . . .too much. Just too drastic. It's like Michael Jackson changing his skin color.

[MALE VOICE]
Have, have you asked them, sent them any feedback, asked them to change it. . .

CHRIS
Yeah, yeah I did, when I first saw the TV trailer, the TV show trailer right before E3. They just pretty much swept me under the rug and blocked me from their facebook.

[MALE VOICE]
Why would they do that?

CHRIS
Well, they did. And also, I've been repetitive, like, "Sonic's arms are not freakin' blue". And. . . .yeah, I have threatened them like, you know, if you don't change his arms back. . . . .

[MALE VOICE]
What did you say? What did you threaten them with?

CHRIS
Life threats. Like you know, I took a- I had bought a plush of the new sonic with the blue arms, and I covered his new arms with flesh colored Crayola Model Magic, and I like took a couple of photographs of me holdin' it, and I'm like pulling his arms off, and I said, you better do it, or I will, parentheses, not, tear his arms off.

[MALE VOICE]
So you made life threats against Sega then?

CHRIS
Well, ehh, not in the direct sense.

[MALE VOICE]
You mean that you threatened to kill them?

CHRIS
No.

[MALE VOICE]
No? Well, I mean, you said life threats, so. . . . . . . .it sounds like you're really passionate about it.

CHRIS
Yes I am.

[MALE VOICE]
Well, I mean, Sonic, his arms were uhh, flesh colored before that, right?

CHRIS
Yeah.

[MALE VOICE]
So, I mean, can't you just ignore the blue armed Sonic?

CHRIS
I can- I can- it's just too much. Every time I look at the blue arms, even in anything related to the games which they show on cartoon network, I see the blue arms, I go into sensory overload and get really, really, more pissed off.

[MALE VOICE]
Yeah. Chris, when these cyberbullies first started attacking you, and stuff like that, you got pissed off then, right?

CHRIS
Yeah.

[MALE VOICE]
. . . and it ended up being a bad thing when you reacted, right?

CHRIS
Yeah, but except, I'm not reacting to a troll attack, I'm reacting to something which has been done. Like a, like a, presidential decision that has gone really wrong. Like, let's say Obama's. . . . .life-care thing?

[MALE VOICE]
Obamacare. The health-care thing. So you're anti-Obamacare then?

CHRIS
Well, uhh, I'm not one hundred percent, I have heard about uhh, hmmmm, uhh, I don't remember exactly-but-or how to phrase it, but I have the gist of it.

 

[warongiygas]

What a complete and utter shock!

 

[SonChu's Oil Change]

Can you elaborate a little on the context of this conversation, please?

 

[applecat]

It takes a truly special kind of person to react to receiving a present by getting himself arrested.

 

[Objection!]

This issue is really speaking to him at his core. I still can't figure out the rationale behind such vitriol for the BLARMS besides, 'CWC doesn't like them" but the man just got arrested for his strong belief in this issue. Man, I don't know what to think anymore.

Chris is probably just Chris and it's probably really as simple as, 'I DO NOT LIKE THESE BLUE ARMS AND HAM, I WILL NOT PLAY THEM, SAM I AM"

 

[Bobby Boulders]

According to PSNProfiles, Chris hasn't played his PS3 (or at least sync'd trophies) in four weeks. I find it hard to believe that he'd get new vidya and not play it right away.

EDIT: I'm an idiot. Apparently it's a Wii U exclusive.

 

[Ravenor]

I would like to know the source of this.

 

[Someone in a Tree]

According to PSNProfiles, Chris hasn't played his PS3 (or at least sync'd trophies) in four weeks. I find it hard to believe that he'd get new vidya and not play it right away.

Sonic Boom is exclusive to Nintendo platforms

 

[Arkangel]

I like how Chris compares Sega's aesthetic change of Sonic with Obamacare.

 

[garbageraider]

According to PSNProfiles, Chris hasn't played his PS3 (or at least sync'd trophies) in four weeks. I find it hard to believe that he'd get new vidya and not play it right away.

I've been informed that Chris is waiting for Sega to come out with an downloadable update to change the game, to change Sonic's arm color.
Until then, Chris is holding onto the game, but is not willing to play it.

 

[Vitriol]

I love the 'life threats' and how they are totally not death threats.

If he was half as good at actual gymnastics as he is at mental ones he'd be an olympian.

 

[garbageraider]

Can you elaborate a little on the context of this conversation, please?

In time, all shall be revealed.

 

[ChurchOfGodBear]

When, exactly, did this happen? If it was less than 72 hours before the GameStop incident, I can't imagine it's a coincidence.

It almost... ALMOST sounds like a dialogue between Chris and the retail clerk as he buys the game for himself, with Chris telling himself if he calls the game a "gift", he doesn't break his boycott. That's pure speculation on my part, though.

 

[MayMay]

According to PSNProfiles, Chris hasn't played his PS3 (or at least sync'd trophies) in four weeks. I find it hard to believe that he'd get new vidya and not play it right away.

Well it IS a Wii U exclusive.

If it is true, "too drastic" can't be the real reason he's so mad. I mean, he apparently liked the far more drastic changes in Knuckles (Testosterone to the extreme!) and Eggman (not actually fat... which was his most consistent feature along with baldness in every other media some time ago)

 

[Hyperion]

Well, uhh, I'm not one hundred percent, I have heard about uhh, hmmmm, uhh, I don't remember exactly-but-or how to phrase it, but I have the gist of it.

 

[Male]

guess the game wasn't very good huh chris

 

[Nikolai Drozdov]

I've been informed that Chris is waiting for Sega to come out with an downloadable update to change the game, to change Sonic's arm color.
Until then, Chris is holding onto the game, but is not willing to play it.

Why oh why can't he use that kind of self-control in other parts of his life?

 

[garbageraider]

I like how Chris compares Sega's aesthetic change of Sonic with Obamacare.

In Chris's mind, Sonic's arms changing color is as important as a multi-billion dollar heath-care law that will affect tens of millions of people's lives.

 

[Optimus Prime]

I go into sensory overload and get really, really, more pissed off.

He says this while looking at the actual game cover that he's pointed out the blue arms on and clearly doesn't seem to be pissed off in the slightest.

I don't believe sensory overload is a voluntary thing as Chris clearly is trying to excuse his behavior by claiming such.

I've been informed that Chris is waiting for Sega to come out with an downloadable update to change the game, to change Sonic's arm color.
Until then, Chris is holding onto the game, but is not willing to play it.

Does he think such an update would somehow retroactively change the cartoon, too?

 

[Clown Doll]

Does he think such an update would somehow retroactively change the cartoon, too?

He's been already watching the cartoon, so maybe he's willing to rescind his hate about it since the show's quality is so good according to him.