See, I'm in a similar position & was also feeling pretty salty about this (as well as having a shitty week in general), but you have to consider: Chris is an almost forty-year-old man who looks at least two decades older. His only family want nothing to do with him, including his ailing mother. He lives in literal shit, in a house he won't even own when Barb kicks it. He's managed to alienate everyone in his life, including the Brony community, of all people, & now lives in delusion because the gravity of his situation would crush him otherwise. Is that a life you'd trade for some vidya?