Who the fuck is Phil fooling, telling people that he didn't look up guides. We all know he does. Dude gets his ass reemed by Malenia for the first couple of tries. Then by the next stream he just so happens to bring a fire weapon and knows that she has a low resistance to it? Does he really mean for us to believe that under the haze of nightly gin and liquor that he somehow now knows the bosses elemental weakness? He's not fooling anyone, so why even ride this lie out.
So you don't use summons, Phil. And? That doesn't make you a better player, because you're still defaulting to the same boring Jump+R2 strategy, so you didn't learn anything. No one is going to give you props for that, especially since you've proven that you suck at the rest of the game without summons.
The only thing that "came through" is that Phil's Elden Ring playthrough is probably some of the most boring and more drawn out playthrough of the game that I've seen. I actually hope he doesn't do a redemption run of this game because watching him play this game is pain. Not even restreams do it justice, and that says a lot.
This tweet is so pathetic and pisses me off more than it should.
HE BEAT MALENIA BY STANDING STILL AND PRESSED L2 UNTIL SHE DIED.
He used a weapon that a guide said would kill her easily, he even upgraded that weapon early on without hesitation and saved it for her.
And yes......tapping L2 on a controller is a legit job.
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That part gets me, he literally read a guide on stream. Do his dents actually believe this?
He was making the Fextralife Dark Knight build. Granted he did it completely wrong. Which is amazing as he was reading it as he was doing it.
He also said he "read about" how the parry build is op for her, which made it obvious he would suddenly miraculously know how to beat her as he was playing off that he wasn't going to use THE op build and beat her legitimately. Cause you know there's no BB build, BB+Finger Print Shield build, 101 bleed builds, a bunch of posture breaking stun locking builds.
I'm not sure who he's playing this off to, the people who don't know anything about this tiny game elden ring and the little known boss Malenia? People living in a cave for the past 3 months? Time travelers from the past? Newborns?
The funniest part or at least most telling that he's guiding it up, he was using the Blasphemous Blade before. He kept Jump attacking with it. Said it sucked cause, again kept jump attacking with it. Had no idea it did fire damage or that taker's flame was a thing. He STILL doesn't understand ashes or war or weapon skills.
He used it randomly on Mal, he see's it knocked her down. It didn't register that perhaps. I dunno. maybe. hit her more with it? He probably read a guide like he reads twitter news and didn't know what to do so his tism kicked in and he jump attack spammed. Took a break, actually read the guide and beat her.
It's really hard to believe the guy who didn't know what taker's flame was, who complained that he had no ranged attacks while MHing the Moonlight Greatsword, a Sword that has a ranged attack in it's move set, suddenly knew what to do with the blasphemous blade.
On top of it all...who the fuck cares? He's a 40 years old looking for internet clout being nearly 3 month behind in the game beating a boss after over 100 attempts that people are beating nude and untouched.
I'm not going to say he is or isn't using viewbots because that kind of thing is out of my realm of knowledge but I will say this: people using his ego for why he wouldn't viewbot is laughable to me. His whole shtick is that he's a total fucking loser that is trying to craft the image of being successful. Viewbotting makes perfect sense for him. I mean, the guy has a fake wife so he can look like a mature adult so I'm not sure why viewbotting is out of the question.
Exactly, people tend to forget that he's mentally unstable, a narcissist and an extreme pathological liar, he's like the joker. Not the edge lord facebook meme "it's about sending a message that we live in a society look I have damaged tattooed on me" version but the comic book so delusional and mentally unstable that he doesn't even know when he's lying or not.
Mostly it applies to people thinking he's telling the truth about his trips down memory lane, his day out stories, house/cat emergencies and what khet did off camera.
In this situation it's DPS, he actually thought that he had a legitimate 800-1000 separate subs on twitch who are all going to follow him to youtube. He knows damn well they were mostly gifted to people who didn't care, he even commented that they wouldn't care like Max, doc, Amaoranth, ninja, wings etc.
There's so many examples of him being aware of his lie or delusion then going do far with it he actually believes this lie.
It wouldn't shock me that he botted or at the very least someone set it up for him (nugget of truth, HE didn't bot) to stick it to the trolls showing people support him more than those dirty restreamers then over time convinced himself he didn't actually bot it was a fan or like the subs situtation just completely ignores the reality for his own deluded version. Hell I wouldn't even be surprised if it's something that just autoruns making it easier for him to craft his "I don't bot" story.
So i was just curious how Phil's Malenia vid did. Well the ratio sure doesn't look nice
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And is he not policing his comments? Some of them aren't exactly "nice" though maybe he figured that letting comments like "You cheesed" go on would make him look magnanimous
while still filtering out the real bad ones. Maybe we get some true TIHYDP out of this (if someone wants to sift through over 100 parts of Er videos which sounds to me like "holy shit I am going nuts"
I have a theory he reads comments like he reads guides, news stories and twitter. Like a dent headed facebook commenter, if your name isn't someone who frequents any detractor content, isn't banned or doesn't ring a bell he'll skim the comment for asspat words but not read the entire thing.
So you could probably get away with "Phil, you are amazing at this game! Way to go killing mal, I mean it only too 102 tries for you to finally understand what a weapon art was after over 150 levels and a guide told you. Amazing gameplay."
Probably more subtle depending on the gin level.
Or get lucky and have your comment in a flood of comments he's just approving in a gin fueled spaz