DarksydePhil / TheyCallMeDSP / Phil Burnell: General Discussion #2

Where is DSP?

  • He is in Connecticut visiting family/funeral

    Votes: 213 47.9%
  • He and Khet are on a honeymoon style trip

    Votes: 12 2.7%
  • He has an issue (s) with the HOA requiring immediate fixes

    Votes: 27 6.1%
  • Comcast/ISP/Internet Issues

    Votes: 16 3.6%
  • He is taking a Kino Casino style break by not announcing when he comes back

    Votes: 30 6.7%
  • Phil and/or Khet Health Issue

    Votes: 48 10.8%
  • This is a social experiment from DSP

    Votes: 99 22.2%

  • Total voters
    445
  • Poll closed .
i think his commentary added something to the videos
because in all honesty, what he uploaded was a cam corder aimed at his TV, other people did direct capture.
Phil was playing every major release at the time in the early days, at a time when YouTube was only a hobby to everyone. No one else was playing as many games he was, add in the video spam and Phil dominated search results for any given game at the time. The moment people were able to keep up, people noticed how little Phil brought to the table.

Also no one liked the whole camcorder at the TV setup, everyone kept asking for him to change to using a capture card.
 
i think his commentary added something to the videos
because in all honesty, what he uploaded was a cam corder aimed at his TV, other people did direct capture.
It was his charm for a while, but it seemed like the moment people started to capitalise on the TIHYDP trend his channel immediately started to spiral downwards and he never really hit a new wave of popularity again and was slowly losing viewers over the passage of time. YouTube changed its algorithm greatly over the years and not only was Phil slow in a lot of aspects about how he ran his "business" but it took him years to really notice viewers (new and old) were not really interested the in way he was doing videos as far back as nine years ago, and quite frankly most random viewers who have the unfortunate encounter of stumbling upon his videos feel pretty turned off with how they are made. His livestreams feel absolutely rubbish when they're all spliced up into these long-ish type videos he's resorted to uploading, he breaks up the flow by shout outs, his demands for money sound incredibly repetitive, reading off a chat you can't see, going off topic mostly about things nothing to do with the game itself or tahxic shit, randomly stopping and checking things on his computer, in turn taking his attention away from what he's doing and creating dead air etc.
 
Yea, support this awesome game by giving a scammer a money instead of the company who made the game. This is soo fucked up and he really doesnt give a shit.

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Goddamn, how does he struggle so badly with speaking like a human being? 'We've had some issues with support', as though 'support' is some kind of appliance on the fritz? Who tf talks like that?

'Swing by and support this game', but no mention of any reason for why you should that pertains to the actual gameplay or what he's going to do to make it entertaining. The only reason to attend that he can give you is that he isn't making as much money as he'd like to, so you need to make up for that.
 
That actually has me wondering why Dave and Linda didn't have more children. Phil has talked about their marital issues before, and I'm guessing there's more to it than even he knows because he's obviously not the sharpest knife in the drawer. In fact, I'm surprised he noticed THAT much, TBH, given his very clearly narrowly-focused attention on when he's next going to be handed something. The Wolverine Toy Story alone demonstrates that.

I know he grew up with a cousin or something, and I wonder how that plays into this, if it does at all. Perhaps Linda WANTED an only child to spoil? Seems odd, but plausible, though I'm starting to doubt my own thoughts on her now that I know she agreed to confiscate Phil's car after he crashed it. I'm pretty sure she did that knowing his reaction, because it was after the Wolverine Toy Story, and what are the odds that the pigroach kept his thoughts to himself on that one until years later when he had a camera to talk to? That doesn't paint her as being so prone to sheltering her kid as I initially thought. Suggests having a threshold, which Phil does not seem to possess. So where did that trait come from?

So many questions, so little chance of an honest answer.
Maybe Linda didn't want a kid at all, and being a good little Catholic girl couldn't go to a clinic so she tried Grandma's trusty wire coat hanger method. That would explain the odd shaped head and the brain damage, spoiling the ungrateful kid may just be her guilty conscience.

With a home situation like that I wouldn't blame Dave for sowing his seed in a secretary at the office.
 
Maybe Linda didn't want a kid at all, and being a good little Catholic girl couldn't go to a clinic so she tried Grandma's trusty wire coat hanger method. That would explain the odd shaped head and the brain damage, spoiling the ungrateful kid may just be her guilty conscience.

With a home situation like that I wouldn't blame Dave for sowing his seed in a secretary at the office.
Phil has famously said he has allergies and bad lungs because Linda smoked while pregnant. That could explain some of the brain damage and underdevelopment.
 
He is the ultimate victim, suffering horrendous wrongs before even being born.
Phil compared himself to Job from the Bible. I would argue that Phil's situation is even worse than Job's. Job at least had a good life before God for some reason had the bright idea to accept a bet with Satan, the penultimate detractor, Phil's willpower and piety to his god Mammon have been tested ever since he was in the womb. That's why he needs your tips. Sound good?
 
He has started announcing the time since the last tip as a means to beg, as if that means something (personally I find this to be one of the most entitled things he has ever openly done to his audience)

I said a while back that this is one of the things he does that most blows my mind for how much it has become a normal thing that people who give him money seem to accept. It's something that someone might say out of frustration, immediately regret, and be really careful to never say again because of how greedy, ungrateful, and entitled it sounds. It's crazy how regularly he does it now though, and not in situations where it's been hours and hours since he last received money, but where it's been maybe as little as a half an hour.

He is holding every single playthrough hostage now - one 'slow' stream and there is a gun to the head of any game, and sometimes entire genres. But he also now warns people ahead of every stream, even if the previous one was successful.

A good recent example of this was a few weeks ago when he played that King of Fighters beta. I couldn't believe how much he went on and on about how 'nervous' it made him, based solely on how much he made on ONE slow stream, about playing the game when it comes out. It's seriously a whole new level for him that, based on the financial outcome of literally just a few hours of gameplay, he's now making whether he'll play a game months from now dependent on how much money you're going to give him. It's impossible to believe him when he says that gaming is his 'hobby and passion' when you see that every way he engages in it, or if he will even engage in it at all, completely depends on the financial outcome.
 
I can't think of anyone that even comes close. It's like an art form. Wings begs every now and then, but not so often in one stream like Phil does.
Wings doesn't even beg anymore. He just straight up holds shit hostage. They want him to play a game. He says "pay me 500 and I will"

He logs in and plays what he wants when he wants these days with zero energy or motivation. He doesn't even look like he cares at all anymore.

DSP is a broken record (that should be his new emote) with his constant begging. I have zero idea how anyone can sit through it time after time.
 
Phil has famously said he has allergies and bad lungs because Linda smoked while pregnant. That could explain some of the brain damage and underdevelopment.
As much as I'm willing to believe that Phil literally has brain damage, I have a hard time taking his claims seriously when it sounds like an excuse for him to not do something. Especially since allergies are more likely to be genetic than from a pregnant woman doing certain things, like smoking. It obviously could fuck up one's respiratory system, but since when does Phil talk about how he wishes he didn't get so easily winded by moving some lightweight boxes around on stream? Motherfucker doesn't even ACKNOWLEDGE that such a task kicks his ass.

And let's not even mention that if his lungs are actually bad, he wouldn't have even bothered with the push-ups he didn't do. He would've stated outright that he couldn't do them "on account of his bitch mother smoking while pregnant". We know how Phil is when he legit feels wronged, and his attitude towards his mother doesn't match.
Wings doesn't even beg anymore. He just straight up holds shit hostage. They want him to play a game. He says "pay me 500 and I will"

He logs in and plays what he wants when he wants these days with zero energy or motivation. He doesn't even look like he cares at app anymore.
That's pretty based compared to Phil, because the pigroach doesn't fess up to what he's doing, he always tries to wriggle his way out of responsibility. So how about that, Wings has more balls than Phil.

And Phil openly complaining about the timespan between tips (and even Superchats, I've noticed) to me demonstrates further that his gacha spending is well above what it used to be at its peak. It HAS to be for Superchats to suddenly matter to him, we know his legit bills aren't going up, how could they be? Yes, he suddenly bought a bunch of stuff at Fred Meyer's for a bit, but that was probably not out of necessity. Especially if I'm wrong about his mother living with him.

What I'm curious to see is how much worse he's going to get over time, because it's obvious that his paypigs aren't meeting his spending ever again, and he's obviously not getting it under control in order to compensate. Probably ever. It's tough to say what's next because there's only so much worse he can get before he runs into the problem of not having the balls to be like LTG or, apparently, Wings. Obviously he can shorten the window between tips/superchats, start bitching after only five minutes, but I think even he considers that pushing it to scary territory his spine can't handle.

There is, after all, a reason he keeps framing his hostage-holding as him being business-minded, following the money, when in reality he'll drop a game if he damn well feels like it, tips or no, and tips shouldn't be dictating your business decisions because a real business doesn't rely on them. GotG doesn't rake them in but he loves that shit because he doesn't have to worry about TIHYDP, so he's full of it when he asserts to be following the money.
 
two things that I'm late on but..

I don't get what PP's charm ever was, his commentary was the same back then just he had a little bit more of a grip on reality, a little less arrogant and at the very least kept his delusions in check.

He was part of that wave of people who read the best page in the universe before maddox became a parody of himself and went "I'm angry too and aren't I edgy and funny cause I said fuck, cock, shit, and titties a lot? AREN'T HIL-AR-IOUS?", just DSP was the wish version.

I never got the horribly acted fake rage phase of youtube content creation, DSP eas exceptionally bad at it. His charm was he abused the easily abusable algorithm by pumping out content at spam levels.

and he makes up so much shit to become a victim, so mama burnel...not the khet one, very well and more than likely didn't smoke when she was preggers.
 
To explain, let's compare him, and other lolcows like Boogie, to someone from way-back-when who did NOT become a joke: James Rolfe. I know we do this a lot, but there's a pretty good reason. He's the best example of what happens when your iconic character is NOT literally you. That's the problem with folks who become a meme, as opposed to merely inspiring memes. Angry Joe turned a lot of people off many years ago by demonstrating that his shtick wasn't just that, he really is an asshole at times, and even Total Biscuit managed to soil his rep a bit towards the end of his life with a few instances of getting into it with critics of his behavior (not the least of which being when Trump won the election and all his talk of "let's handle this with dignity and grace" went right out the fucking window).

But even those two obviously pale in comparison to the people who have entire sections of this site to themselves, because the former apparently started getting his shit together and the latter was admittedly not doing well since he was dying of cancer. Boogie, the Spoony One, Phil, they've all shown their true colors and they're ugly. Just plain fucking ugly, and what's more is that, thanks to having folks like James Rolfe to compare them to, it shows that their "acts" aren't acts. Francis isn't a character, he's what Boogie really is deep down inside, and Phil wasn't kidding around when he behaved like a toddler, he is one.

How the pigroach has managed to avoid being where Spoony is now, I'll never know, because he deserves it every bit as much. More, even.

Basically what I'm saying is that people can find a childish person endearing if it's a deliberate joke, being done by somebody who is NOT going to go on to charge 2k to reveal a cat, or lie about everything, or talk all kinds of shit after losing a match in a fighting game because they can't stand losing. The AVGN is somebody you can laugh at or with, either one is okay because he isn't real. It doesn't matter. Phil wasn't on his level, but he still could've held onto some popularity if his on-camera persona had been a fictional character instead of him being himself.
 
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To explain, let's compare him, and other lolcows like Boogie, to someone from way-back-when who did NOT become a joke: James Rolfe. I know we do this a lot, but there's a pretty good reason. He's the best example of what happens when your iconic character is NOT literally you. That's the problem with folks who become a meme, as opposed to merely inspiring memes. Angry Joe turned a lot of people off many years ago by demonstrating that his shtick wasn't just that, he really is an asshole at times, and even Total Biscuit managed to soil his rep a bit towards the end of his life with a few instances of getting into it with critics of his behavior (not the least of which being when Trump won the election and all his talk of "let's handle this with dignity and grace" went right out the fucking window).

But even those two obviously pale in comparison to the people who have entire sections of this site to themselves, because the former apparently started getting his shit together and the latter was admittedly not doing well since he was dying of cancer. Boogie, the Spoony One, Phil, they've all shown their true colors and they're ugly. Just plain fucking ugly, and what's more is that, thanks to having folks like James Rolfe to compare them to, it shows that their "acts" aren't acts. Francis isn't a character, he's what Boogie really is deep down inside, and Phil wasn't kidding around when he behaved like a toddler, he is one.

How the pigroach has managed to avoid being where Spoony is now, I'll never know, because he deserves it every bit as much. More, even.

Basically what I'm saying is that people can find a childish person endearing if it's a deliberate joke, being done by somebody who is NOT going to go on to charge 2k to reveal a cat, or lie about everything, or talk all kinds of shit after losing a match in a fighting game because they can't stand losing. The AVGN is somebody you can laugh at or with, either one is okay because he isn't real. It doesn't matter. Phil wasn't on his level, but he still could've held onto some popularity if his on-camera persona had been a fictional character instead of him being himself.
Phil has one big thing over Spoony, and it's his only positive. He still shows up to "work". If Noah ever got up off his lazy ass and gave half the effort he did a decade ago, there would be people showering him in money.

Rolfe was smart enough to fully separate his real life and online persona, but he's among the few big enough to do that. Most need to engage in some drama to stay relevant and interesting over the years, plus Rolfe had his underling butt buddy scumbag Mike Matei to absorb any negativity. None of us really know James Rolfe.
 
Goddamn, how does he struggle so badly with speaking like a human being? 'We've had some issues with support'
It reads like he was trying to contact support at 343 or Microsoft.
Phil has famously said he has allergies and bad lungs because Linda smoked while pregnant. That could explain some of the brain damage and underdevelopment.
Linda = the Eve of detractors.
 
i guess you haven't been keeping up with him. he's definitely a joke now
yeah, cinemassacre channel is absolute garbage, the more james puts himself on camera the more we realize he is an insanely out of touch boomer

every new avgn is absolute garbage and all the other fucking losers on the channel are the cringiest fuckers alive
 
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