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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

      The part of the Christmas Past sequence in Dickens' book they usually skip past now, where Old Scrooge sees himself as a kid reading and actually physically sees all the fictional characters his younger self is imagining and starts squeeing like a fanboy That still slaps

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

      Including the extremely dark subtext of what is on the surface just a cute heartwarming scene Young Scrooge was completely alone at that horrible boarding school, for all the formative years of his life His *only meaningful role models* from that time are all fictional

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

      And the unfortunate implications of who Scrooge ended up becoming That because he was forced to live a life where all his emotional support and validation was internal, abstract, imaginary relationships he made up in his head It set up that cute kid to evolve into Old Scrooge

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

      That's what Scrooge is actually about, is someone who's become untethered from real life, from what actually matters He lives in a world of abstractions, powered by his own imagination, and as his own power of imagination fails as he ages that world collapses into a black hole

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

      The same superpower of imagination that allowed him to blot out his shitty school dorm and replace it with a world of fantasy adventure is the *same* power that lets him ignore a beautiful woman in love with him as being less real and relevant than a number on a bank statement

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

          It feels... very, very relevant to a world that is increasingly mediated by technology and defined by fiction *glances at wackjob Bitcoin fanboys and other get-rich-quick schemes' overlap with weird cloistered nerd culture*

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

          But, you know, even dropping the political angle That first scene tells you all you really need to know about who Scrooge is Someone who spent his most vulnerable years developing a coping mechanism for being alone "I'm fine, I don't need anyone, I can take care of myself"

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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

          And over time that shit if left unexamined and un-dealt-with mutates and festers "I don't need anyone" becomes "I don't WANT anyone" "I can take care of myself" becomes "I MUST take care of myself"

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        5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

          If I were gonna do my own modernized adaptation of the story I'd make Scrooge a Gen X latchkey kid from the '80s One of those nerdy, lonely kids whose first love was his NES and his Apple IIc his neglectful parents got him to keep him out of their hair

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        6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

          I'd go meta with it, like he gets defensive when he sees Christmas Past has brought him back to his childhood home "What do you think you're gonna show me? Mom and Dad never came home from the office, jocks shoved me into lockers at school, girls made fun of my braces?"

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        7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

          "I know that I've dealt with it I'm over it, it has nothing to do with me anymore" And the Ghost just shrugs and says, "That's not your past, Ben, this is your past" And just shows this time-lapse of Young Scrooge up till 2 am playing video games

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        8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

          I'd play it as wholesome and earnest as possible Like he scoffs at first, but the Ghost blows up the screen, makes it fill his vision, and he can't help giving in "Holy shit, I haven't even thought about this game in so long... I hated this boss, he fucked me every time"

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        9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

          "Until I realized -- there's like this one moment where he blinks, that's when you can -- YES, YES -- " "It took you two hours to actually beat this part, but once you figured it out -- " "I wouldn't go to bed until I made it -- " "Your heart was pounding, you were shaking"

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        10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

          "Because I felt like a genius, I felt like I was on top of the world -- " "You smiled for the rest of the week, you couldn't wait to get home from school" "I couldn't talk to anyone about it, everyone would've mocked the hell out of me, but it was... the happiest I'd ever been"

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        11. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

          "Remember? It was echoing in your head even two years later, when you were failing out of Algebra 1 Your teachers told your parents to take you to a doctor, get you put on Ritalin" "And I was terrified of it, and I told myself I didn't need any fucking pills"

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        12. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

          "And the music was still playing in your head" *tinny 8-bit music slowly turns into an orchestral score, pixelated image turns into a real fight scene with real actors* "I didn't even think -- you're right, it was... that was what was in my head when I said it..."

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        13. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

          "You've been saying it every time, any time someone tells you you can't do something" "I would... I would feel like throwing up and I would dig my nails into my palm, and I would say You can beat this There's always a way You're smarter than this fucking game"

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        14. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

          "That's what you told them when you were featured in Forbes 30 Under 30, wasn't it? You said it was your father who taught you that lesson, but -- " "Dad never taught me shit, he didn't care It was... it was here, in this musty basement It was all here"

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        15. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

          "Every day, you would come home from a school where your peers tormented you and your teachers held you in contempt, to an empty house with parents who didn't care about you" "And I'd... I'd walk into a world that hated me and wanted me to fail And I would beat it, and survive"

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        16. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

          "I would go looking for enemies and challenges, daring the game to get harder and harder Because I knew I was smarter than the game and there was nothing they threw at me I couldn't figure out Every day I would come home, and I would win the war, and I would save the world"

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        17. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

          *jump to 35-year-old Scrooge* "Because that's the world we live in, Bella Maybe your parents raised you differently, maybe they sheltered you from it But it's a fucking war out there Every day's a new crisis they throw at me and there's a million people hoping for me to fail"

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        18. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

          "I do what I *have* to do to succeed I'm only playing the game by the rules other people wrote, and if I happen to be smarter and better and clearer-headed about it than a hundred other people trying to be me, sucks to be them I *will not* apologize for choosing to play to win"

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        19. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

          Bella: "...And I'm just another obstacle to your success Another one of those tests you think you need to pass The hero of the story has to choose between his sentimental, wet blanket fiancee and his next great challenge on the way to conquering the world"

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        20. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

          Ben: "That's not what I -- " Bella: "Yes, it is, it is what you mean and you just haven't learned the game well enough to know it I've seen the men you surround yourself with these days, you'll learn the trick in due time"

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        21. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

          "In war you've got to protect your weakest flank, right? And what weaker spot does a man have than his heart Well, I'm going to give you what no one else ever has, according to you I'm gonna make it easy for you, you get to pass this test without trying" *slips off ring*

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        22. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

          "Congratulations, you get a free win, you get to focus on your next big project with undivided attention and no ball-and-chain dragging you down, and you don't even have to be the bad guy You can tell everyone it's my fault, it'll just be another chapter in your story"

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        23. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

          Old Scrooge, whispering: "Why are you showing me this? Do you actually think that's the connection -- she dumped me because I played video games when I was ten years old -- "

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        24. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Dec 2020

          Christmas Past: "I don't make connections, I only observe them Humans are the ones who connect things that shouldn't be connected"

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