Last month, the alleged horror/sci-fi author Nickolaus Pacione resurfaced on Reddit with a very strange and incoherent
attack on the Publix supermarket chain. It honestly makes little sense, in true Pacione fashion. There's a link to an employee complaining that he or she wasn't being offered enough money by Publix to settle an injury claim, and Nicky adds some odd sidebar about a college graduate he saw working at one of the stores and how he "felt his intelligence insulted".
Keep in mind that Nickolaus Pacione has not held any sort of job since 1999, and claims that he has a "career" in writing and publishing. He claims to be disabled and has collected a monthly tugboat in lieu of working; most of which is gone within days of receiving the check (Pacione isn't as bad as Chris when it comes to managing money). And he also has had a history of attacking his enemies who hold down full-time employment, insinuating that these people aren't intelligent enough or creative enough to be a full time writer and editor.
Other Redditors begin commenting, claiming to be "confused" and pointing out that he can't string a sentence together. Nickolaus argues with a lot of them, boasting about his "accomplishments" and challenging the "grocery baggers" to produce articles and blog posts like he has done. Eventually, and perhaps unwittingly, Pacione reveals the true reason for his animosity towards Publix. Spoilers: It has nothing to do with the treatment of its hourly employees, or how someone with a college degree might feel having to work in retail while working towards another goal:
My family is trying to get me to work at Publix though I saw the stigma my classmates, family friends and extended family had when they worked at Jewel where they had some college or graduated. The degree they studied for became obsolete.
Yes, a 43 year old man-child is mad that his mother and stepfather are suggesting that he get off the computer once in a while and actually find something to do that will get him out of the house and out of their hair for twenty to forty hours a week. Sounds familiar, doesn't it.
A big similarity between Chris and Nicky is, they both have their fantasy words that they're going to protect at all costs, so they're going to get pissed at anyone suggesting they go out and find work. Chris has Sonichu and CWCville; Nick has an imaginary publishing company. However, Pacione never seemed all that interested in collecting toys and obsessing over video games, since that would go against his persona of an internet tough guy from Chicago who thinks he's the darkest horror author to ever commit word to paper.
