The more I think about it, the more him going to Fightcade for his members thing makes sense. Super Turbo is his video gaming safe space, but the HD collection's playerbase has been getting more and more sparse. The next Capcom fighting game collection isn't out until June and it only has Hyper Fighting, no Super Turbo or 3rd Strike. Phil is not gonna get any mileage out of Darkstalkers, it will get dropped faster than King of Fighters.
Meanwhile, Fightcade is there, it's free, and people have been telling him it's the best way to play Super Turbo online for literally years. His lame excuse has always been that people cheat with macros, but I think he will agree to try it for the low low price of a 400 member goal, whereupon it will become his standard Friday night game until the heat death of the universe.