Thoughts about DSP's Psychology - Dr Fred Freud's Office

[Sup3r]

Just look at the whole Twitch departnering farce - his defense was not that he didn't use slurs or Twitch can't ban slurs, it was that Twitch couldn't enforce the rule anymore because they had initially let his behavior slide.

He did deny using any "hateful slurs". To quote him "There were no hateful slurs ever on my streams ever, since I've been on twitch, I don't use hateful slur language at all, ever, ever, ever, ever, never."

I don't think Phil has put enough thought into this to come to an intentional conclusion that he should take advantage of grey areas and be angered when they're used against him. I think he literally thinks like a child and only sees contracts in how they benefit him. That he thought he could go after Twitch legally when he undoubtedly signed away his right to do so in the partner contract and his constant insistence that Twitch was doing something illegal despite the contract having clauses for Twitch to unilaterally sever it shows, I think beyond reasonable doubt, that Phil only sees things that work for him and ignores everything else to hope for the best.

Of course he didn't think about what he was agreeing to, he thinks that not being punished immediately means that's okay. I think that a lot of what he says is purely to feed into his sense of victimhood, like he doesn't genuinely believe any of it. He was hoping to get clout from the real stories of twitch being sued by streamers (like DrDisrespect and PhantomL0rd) to try to shame Twitch to giving him his partnership back.

 

[Freshtodeath]

This was brought on the That Being Said podcast by Steven of The Dead and he brought up a good point about our favorite cow. We all know that Phil is a STRONG candidate for cluster b personality disorder of NPD, but he did bring up cluster C personality disorders - now, fancy college book learning speak - cluster C is anxious, fearful thinking, and behavior. Where does Philliam fall on? Avoidant Personality Disorder. What do these traits include?

• You avoid work activities that involve contact with others. This is due to fear of criticism, disapproval, or rejection.
• You’re unwilling to get involved with other people unless you’re sure they like you.
• You hold back in relationships because you’re afraid you’ll be ridiculed or humiliated.
• The fear of being criticized or rejected in social situations dominates your thoughts.
• You hold back or completely avoid social situations because you feel inadequate.
• You think you’re inferior to others, unappealing, and inept.
• You’re unlikely to take part in new activities or to take personal risks because you’re afraid of embarrassment.

Now, who do we know that's OVERLY sensitive of criticism and rejection? What about avoiding social activities or jobs that require working around other people? I mean, if it quacks like a duck and looks like a duck...It's been noted during Phil's early days of the FGC that while Phil talked a BIG game online, he was "quiet as a church mouse in person." from Jaha. Phil loves being on "level 1", because he can't take risks and has a fear of being embarrassed. Green screen? Can't do that, dood! Having a bunch of trash behind him? Sure!

I can write a thesis on proving point after point of how Philliam falls into each category, but let's be fair: he nails 3 of them perfectly. Especially taking personal risks for fear of embarrassment, along with fear of work activities and fear of criticism and rejection, along with only fucking with people that he only knows for CERTAIN that they like him a la John, Howard, and Leanna. Kat, well, I think she puts up with him for the free room and board, but that's a whole other story.

Hi, Phil!

Source: https://www.healthline.com/health/avoidant-personality-disorder#treatment
DSM-V: https://www.mentalhelp.net/personality-disorders/cluster-c/

starting a new job involves some of this being embarassed, challenges, communicating with others. He doesn't want to go through any of it. I wonder if he is capable if finding a coworker who excels and learning from them? when he talks about past jobs he refers to all his coworkers as idiots.

 

[UncleTusky]

starting a new job involves some of this being embarassed, challenges, communicating with others. He doesn't want to go through any of it.

Which is probably part of why he had his father arrange the job at the helicopter plant - his dad was his first boss there and from what we can tell he arranged for Phil to get extra training/certifications like ACE. The theory which came up somewhere on this board was that Phil was a fuckup and management wanted to get rid of him, so David arranged for Phil to get that extra training to help protect him - depending on the company culture he could have spun it as either a chance to retrain Phil and fix the issues he was causing, or use those certifications to make it look like replacing Phil would be too expensive/time intensive to justify.

I wonder if he is capable if finding a coworker who excels and learning from them? when he talks about past jobs he refers to all his coworkers as idiots.

I'd be shocked if he ever tried to do that for three reasons.

First, on top of calling all his ex-coworkers morons he claimed that in his last job at the helicopter plant, he created some amazing piece of software that made everyone's lives easier and after he was laid off, they all said management was retarded for getting rid of him. If he already thought he was the smartest guy in the room the idea of asking for help or trying to learn would have never crossed his mind.

Second, we know what Phil is like IRL from his FGC days - a neverending fountain of trash talk, horrible attitude, and excuses for losing. Again, that's the kind of behavior we'd expect from someone who thinks he knows it all, not someone who wants to learn.

Third, even if Phil did reach out asking for help it wouldn't be to learn basic principles or fundamentals, it'd be to get bailed out on the specific problem he was having. If the advice he got worked he'd be back asking for more in a day or two, if he didn't the other person would be written off as nudnik moron. Neither of those would have resulted in a strong relationship (or even people just tolerating him).

 

[Michael Janke]

7 hours of analyzing DSP

 

[Sup3r]

First, on top of calling all his ex-coworkers morons he claimed that in his last job at the helicopter plant, he created some amazing piece of software that made everyone's lives easier and after he was laid off, they all said management was retarded for getting rid of him. If he already thought he was the smartest guy in the room the idea of asking for help or trying to learn would have never crossed his mind.

I always find it odd that Phil's ego makes him come out with bs like this. If he was able to create some kind of software like he claims, he'd have had a much easier time getting a decent job than his business degree, especially with the ability to show what his program could do. It's just like his claim that he used to build PCs and how that could've helped, especially with him now begging for a new PC, to build a rig to use for gaming instead of buying a prebuilt server PC with a gaming gpu like the lemon. He loves to claim he did something that later actions always prove is a lie (for example if he was able to code software, he would've known that coding is never as simple as just changing a single line of code) or immediately contradicts what he's claimed in the past.

Second, we know what Phil is like IRL from his FGC days - a neverending fountain of trash talk, horrible attitude, and excuses for losing. Again, that's the kind of behavior we'd expect from someone who thinks he knows it all, not someone who wants to learn.

Until there's any risk of consequences, like with viscant and jaha. Then he immediately backs down.

 

[Anime Waifu NFT collector]

I found some gold dust the other day,I had to link to upload it to youtube since KF won't allow me to upload it here, I was watching Dark Dave and heard Phil say that he was during his whole life called a low IQ, boring , untalented beta male, this gives insight of his psychology because he was called stupid by his own family, most likely his dad, and it's most likely the reason why he overcompensates so much trying to be smart by misusing words, he also talked about how everyone always told him he was going to be a loser forever and almost cried when he said it lmao, it is clear by this rant that he also latches on to his 4th place at EVO as his only life achievement because he was always called a stupid, boring, untalented beta that will achieve nothing, so when he got his 4th place he proved all the haters wrong, I'm gonna transcribe what he said, if some stuff seems nonsensical,there are words missing or it's lacking in structure you can't blame me because I wrote down what he said word for word, he is just a retard that can't talk right:

*Lip smack* "Lucky 3 leafsin says: 'overall I think you are best known for your resilience! Any advice for us going through hard times or info on your process dealing with hardship?' Well, what I can tell is basically *autistically leans forward* and the reason why I used to use the moniker, I retired it this year, but I used to use the moniker The King of Hate, and it's not what you are thinking *loudly breaths in* it's not 'oh he hates a group of people, or he is a bigot or he is racist' nothing like that at all ,it's because so many people used to hate ON ME!... In my youth, they would tell me things such as: You are not good enough,you are talented enough, you are not entertaining enough, you are not strong enough, you are not smart enough , that was a big one, you are not smart enough (I'm underlining this because it's fundamental to this post, remember people used to call him dumb in his youth) , I was told that by a lot of people, my peers, my rivals, sometimes my family members, and it doesn't...it really doesn't feel good when you are told that by someone who...you know...you trust to basically be giving you life advice and they tell you something like that (it was 100% his dad let's be real) So, what I did is I used the hate against me, and I harnessed it, I used it as fuel for the fire for me to do well in life (how did that work out uh?).

"If people tell me I can't do something or I'm not good enough to do something, I'm gonna prove them wrong, I'm literally going to motivate *Autistically leans forward to the point his torso is horizontal and goes back to the original position* myself to be SUUUURE! to do what they say I can't do, so that way I can show them and prove them wrong, and for a very long time *throat clear plus lip smack combo* in the competitive street fighter community, no one thought I was ever gonna amount to anything, no one thought that I could EVER! fight and win against top players, no one ever thought that I could win tournaments, and...you know...I mean *gibberish* took a long time you know I was playing competitive fighting in arcades the whole 90s, then 1999 I went to my first major tournament, from 99 to all the way through 2005??? So we talking six years of me grinding away at this tournaments right? trying to find my place, trying to find a place to make it and win, but always it was all 'oh he is a scrub, he is a shit talker, he can never back up what he says and yadi yadi yada' (I mean he couldn't back up what he said, that's why he hid in the bathroom when he was gonna get beat up) ,and finally after all that time motivating myself saying 'No, one day I'm gonna really prove these people wrong???' and then I did! You know...just a matter of time, you know, if you dedicate yourself enough to something and you are gonna persevere in it, it's a matter of: do you have the fortitude to do it? Because...in life...very rarely at least in myyyyyyy case, alright? you guys could disagree, you guys might have different life situations than me (the term to use here is life experiences not life situations btw) , I almost *a fish is on screen* NEVER IN MY WOAAAAH HOLY SPLAMOLI that's a huge fish, I almost never in my life...had people backing me up , it was always me doing shit alone, I was a loner, I was the guy that had to like...DO IT ALL, by myself! (man that didn't knew how to wash his clothes in his mid 30s claims he was always by himself and had to do everything) When I went to EVO 2005, I went by myself, I didn't had any friends or teammates with me, I went out there on a whim, I put myself into debt to do it, but when I went out there, you know with absolutely no one sticking up for me , I I persevered and I ended up you know basically my best national placing ever, 4th place overall at EVO , 3 top players being Japanese top players, technically the best american that year in the game I was playing *throat clear plus lip smack after drinking water*

"That's what I mean like EVERY...oh yellow Perch and it's trophy size so apparently yellow perch are quite small, look he is talking look! 'mumumumumu' and he is like 'you showed them , you showed them, good job Phil, you showed them' ACK ACK ACK ACK , anyway *throat clear* yeah, that's what I do, you know , isn't it funny how in every portion of my life I had the same kind of hateful group of people after me? It's different people , but you always seem to have a hateful group after you (it's not strange, you are an insufferable dent with NPD, autism and an IQ of 80) you know, in school...bullies! oh you are a wimp, you are a nerd, you will never amount to anything you are a loser, right? (so apparently the Tyrones at his school called him a beta fag failure) Street figther! Oh he is a shit talker, he is a scrub, he is never gonna amount to anything , *gibberish* will ever be a top player or someone who ever has any kind of achievement or anything under his belt, he is just gonna be a loser for ever, right? (he said this at 4:02, go listen to that moment in the video because he legit sounded like he was about to cry lmao) and later on in life, you know *gibberish* on youtube and shit, the hate that I have been through over these years , and everyone just saying shit , making shit up about me constantly (it's all slander, nothing is true) it's like at one point it all just kinda becomes white noise (meaning that he was called an insufferable useless beta retard his whole life and now when confronted with reality his narcissistic mind just ignores it) and I know that every single day that I get on this stream and I have a good stream with you guys and we have a meaningful conversation, fun meaningful content that I'm putting out, I proved all of those scumbags wrong (he proved all the haters wrong because he streams himself playing bugsnax for tips that he spends immediately after the stream is over) .
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Holy shit this stuff was so incredibly telling when it comes to his psychology, Phil was always called a retarded, autistic, boring ,beta, fag loser that will never achieve anything in his life by all the Tyrones at school and even his family called him a dent, I can imagine his dad yelling at him in various situations over being such a lazy retarded(for example when he got fired from the helicopter company), he was said he was not smart enough as I underlined earlier, and that was a big one for Phil, no wonder he is so insecure about his intelligence and tries to appear smart by using complex words , adding words when unnecessary or using terms he doesn't understand, he is very clearly insecure about everything but specially about his intelligence, it's not strange that a guy that can't even play games made for children was called stupid by everyone including his family, and this also shows why he is so obsessed with his 4th place at EVO, Phil was always a complete failure and the 4th place at EVO is his only life success, he was always hated by everyone everywhere he went, I remember him saying in those old videos he did while sitting at the couch in the CT condo that his co-workers at the helicopter company hated him , people at school hated him, people in the Street Fighter community hated him, but Phil is such a narcissist that for him it's all white noise since he is a flawless omnipotent god and everyone is wrong about him, literally zero friends his entire life until Rambo and Howard, hated by everyone but he is not the problem, the world has a problem with him.

He also almost cried at 4:02 when he said that people thought "he is just gonna be a loser forever", he clearly knows that he is a fucking loser deep down which is why it affects him so much, his narcissist false self gets hurt when confronted with reality, I also want to mention that Phil said in this rant that he put himself in debt for EVO 2005, and that he was playing tournaments from 1999 to 2005, do you guys remember a few days back when Phil's parents told him not to waste all of his money from his first job in going to tournaments and Phil told them that it was his money and he could do what he wanted? lmao.

 

[Henry Wyatt]

Im sure its been said before but I think dsp is aware hes a lolcow and hes just milking everyone else ie onlypretending.jpg

 

[Mighty Pigmask]

Im sure its been said before but I think dsp is aware hes a lolcow and hes just milking everyone else ie onlypretending.jpg

If he's pretending he has to be an actual 1000 IQ genius. There's absolutely no way you can fake being this retarded and narcissistic. I understand your optimism but it's simply not possible

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

Im sure its been said before but I think dsp is aware hes a lolcow and hes just milking everyone else ie onlypretending.jpg

At best he sometimes leans into it to try and bait pitybux or to try to get gout clout. Like in the recent Sir Moist saga where he suddenly became aware that he's a shameless e-beggar and stopped begging as much in hopes that Critikal changes his tune about him and interviews him. As soon as that fell in the water (to quote Sir Moist: "I don't wanna interview you, it's not that deep bro") he went back to his usual begging self.

Additionally, the closer you go to the current day the more him knowing he's a lolcow and merely pretending becomes completely unlikely. I mean sure if you look at like 2008-2013 or so you could still make an argument that he's just a master comedian who's playing the character of the uncouth, dumb gamer stereotype. It'd be a flimsy argument but there'd still be a nugget of possibility. When you start arguing that he "merely pretended" to be retarded when you know that he declared bankruptcy and spent over 6 figures on a mobile game about sweaty men then you'd also have to argue that he's the most dedicated method actor in known history.

 

[UncleTusky]

At best he sometimes leans into it to try and bait pitybux or to try to get gout clout. Like in the recent Sir Moist saga where he suddenly became aware that he's a shameless e-beggar and stopped begging as much in hopes that Critikal changes his tune about him and interviews him. As soon as that fell in the water (to quote Sir Moist: "I don't wanna interview you, it's not that deep bro") he went back to his usual begging self.

Additionally, the closer you go to the current day the more him knowing he's a lolcow and merely pretending becomes completely unlikely. I mean sure if you look at like 2008-2013 or so you could still make an argument that he's just a master comedian who's playing the character of the uncouth, dumb gamer stereotype. It'd be a flimsy argument but there'd still be a nugget of possibility. When you start arguing that he "merely pretended" to be retarded when you know that he declared bankruptcy and spent over 6 figures on a mobile game about sweaty men then you'd also have to argue that he's the most dedicated method actor in known history.

Another reason to think it's all real: His old website, "Top Haters.com" which was created no later than 2003 and had the same level of grandiosity, conspiracy mongering, contempt for others, and general autism that we see in 2022. If this is an act he's been doing it for nearly twenty years and has kept it up even when nobody was giving him money or paying him attention.

Edit: We also have the Champions Discord posts. He was pretending to be some random nobody who was getting flack because he just happened to have the same username as a well-known streamer. Despite ostensibly being not DSP, he couldn't even be bothered to change his behavior - the attitude, derision, and even mannerisms/odd word choice were all there. The only time he shapes up and acts different from how he normally does on stream is when he knows that acting up will have consequences (like whenever Twitch staff showed up in his chat).

 

[Sup3r]

Im sure its been said before but I think dsp is aware hes a lolcow and hes just milking everyone else ie onlypretending.jpg

He is aware that he is a cow but he hates it. His ego wants it to change but his laziness won't let him make an effort. He wants to be respected, to be seen as an authority that people go to for his "sagely advice" and experience.

And if it had really been all an act, then why didn't he stop once it started having a detrimental effect on his livelihood? Why does he continue to pretend to be a dumbass and asshole after it lead to losing his original AdSense, being banned from blip, TIHYDP, losing Rambo and Howard (his only friends) his "swatting", the incident, losing machina, failure of KOGaming, several mods betraying him, losing Leanna, the escort saga, kaht hiding from his streams and his departnering from twitch. There comes a point where any remotely sane human being (one that had a shred of self respect) would be like "this has gone too far, maybe I should stop?" Not Phil though, he just keeps finding new lows to stoop to.

 

[Iron Father]

Whether he accepts it or not, he's certainly aware that he's viewed as a lolcow.

 

[Jeff_the_Thriller]

Damn I genuinely feel bad for Phil after watching that video where he's talking about how everyone thought he was a stupid loser. He's hanging onto a victory from a obscure Street Fighter 2 port from over 15 years ago. He's talking about how he proved all his haters wrong almost 2 decades ago.

It was like that stereotype of the former high school jock reliving his glory days while he's fat and drunk at the local watering hole. The best part was he talking about what would be a minor achievement for anyone else like it was his life's greatest moment while his in-game fisherman is holding this tiny fish with a big shit eating grin. It was a perfect dsp moment.

 

[Corpun]

Not retyping this shit if I can actually post now so here it is cunts


Something I thought of later but his turn on sexual stuff and women seems to be a massive overcompensation. The criticisms of his sexual jokes and awful humor that is actually offensive and not funny at all seems to have been a super autistic overcorrection. It's further proof of his own immaturity if he thinks "Japanese people oversexualize everything" and flinching, whenever tits are on screen, is any better than how he acted when Eva was on screen in MGS3. His own racism he can't contain is always something he struggles holding back so it's golden when woke Phil slips up.

 

[UncleTusky]

I think another part of it was minimal socialization growing up. Let's use your example of going to the zoo - if I asked a friend "hey do you wanna go to the zoo?" past the age of ~10 I'd probably get a weird look or a chuckle at the obvious joke - even if I really did want to go to the zoo, I'd quickly realize other people aren't interested and I should get different hobbies if I want to keep hanging out with them. Phil had few or no friends outside of the Internet or FGC, just his enabling parents, and that stunted his idea of normal behavior. If he'd hung out with other kids more he would at least have realized what normal was, even if he thought he had it better.

Personally I think that was a huge part of why he got fired from Best Buy and the helicopter plant - his own fucked up idea of normal was so ingrained in him by the time he finished university that he didn't realize he was the weirdo up until the moment he got a pink slip. Then like you said he refused to learn and went back into his NEET bubble instead.

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It's further proof of his own immaturity if he thinks "Japanese people oversexualize everything" and flinching, whenever tits are on screen, is any better than how he acted when Eva was on screen in MGS3. His own racism he can't contain is always something he struggles holding back so it's golden when woke Phil slips up.

This is going to be a weird claim given how much sex/boobies jokes he used to make but I'm pretty sure he is either a closet case or borderline asexual: Yes, he made inappropriate sex jokes about Eva from MGS3 but he also made them about one of the child characters in "Sonic Generations". My guess is that he makes sex jokes because he "knows" they are funny/men are horndogs from watching too much TV, but can't make them at appropriate times because his lack of a sex drive (at least, lack of one for women) means he's kinda flying blind on when to make them. Once again, hanging around with kids his own age would have given him a better sense for this stuff. He was like a 12-year-old who knows the older kids are dating girls and having sex and that makes them cool and mature but deep down doesn't understand the appeal because he's still too young.

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Living in a 1990s-era bubble would also explain why he'll never admit to being gay even if he is and he knows it - in the shows that raised him, homosexuality was very taboo and embarrassing and any gay character would be either a flamer or a bull dyke with minimal personality beyond "ridiculous stereotype". Yes society is more tolerant of LGB-whatever now, but Phil's not going to know that because he had gone back into his NEET bubble well before then.

 

[PenskeMaterial]

I always thought his use of 'boomer' slang is proof that even though he grew up in the 80s and 90s he was probably spending most of his time with people far older than him, like his parents and whoever they were hanging with and absorbing it from them.

For example, in his 'Ask The King' episode when he regaled his audience with high school tales, the words he put in his (alleged)friends' mouths, like 'toots', seemed out of place for a 90s teenager. 'Toots' is slang that dates back to the 1930's ffs. What 90's teenager refers to a girl his age as 'toots'?

 

[Corpun]

I always thought his use of 'boomer' slang is proof that even though he grew up in the 80s and 90s he was probably spending most of his time with people far older than him, like his parents and whoever they were hanging with and absorbing it from them.

For example, in his 'Ask The King' episode when he regaled his audience with high school tales, the words he put in his (alleged)friends' mouths, like 'toots', seemed out of place for a 90s teenager. 'Toots' is slang that dates back to the 1930's ffs. What 90's teenager refers to a girl his age as 'toots'?

This is a good point. Considering how Phil hypes up his high school and university life with all those stories he used to tell about hot Latinas and massive dorm parties, I bet he was a massive shut in and basically never interacted with people outside of FG tournaments. This is maybe confirmed when he broke down over T with those crocodile tears in the closet stream. If you remember, he cried about how he and T were best buds and he was finally able to open up to people. I wouldn't be surprised if he grafted onto the fledgling FGC because he believed he found a community to fit into. It would explain his hatred for it today because they never took him seriously and saw him as a pathetic joke and grifter. If you compare his attitudes to it and Howard, it's really apparent he feels they cast him off because they were envious but there is something deeper there, because they are the exact same level of vitriol.

 

[Iron Father]

Personally I think he co-opted a lot of his friends' lives into his own. I don't really doubt he went to dorm parties, but they weren't his parties and they weren't his stories.

Same with claiming he ran LAN parties, built PCs or lifted weights.

He probably knew people who did those things, and now he's absorbed them into his own lore. Nobody from that deep in his past will ever come out and expose him so there's no risk.

 

[Si vis pacem para bellum]

Personally I think he co-opted a lot of his friends' lives into his own. I don't really doubt he went to dorm parties, but they weren't his parties and they weren't his stories.

Same with claiming he ran LAN parties, built PCs or lifted weights.

He probably knew people who did those things, and now he's absorbed them into his own lore. Nobody from that deep in his past will ever come out and expose him so there's no risk.

Yeah I had a friend who used to call this behavior of DSP's, "Cloud Syndrome". He's lived a boring, sheltered life of a midwit so everyone else's stories and his own fantasies become his real life when he thinks no one can correct them. He just coopts someone else's identity, if for nothing else, to win an argument online or some sad shit like that.

 

[Corpun]

Personally I think he co-opted a lot of his friends' lives into his own. I don't really doubt he went to dorm parties, but they weren't his parties and they weren't his stories.

Same with claiming he ran LAN parties, built PCs or lifted weights.

He probably knew people who did those things, and now he's absorbed them into his own lore. Nobody from that deep in his past will ever come out and expose him so there's no risk.

100% what happened with a lot of his claims. It's hard to distinguish what is stuff he claimed from 'friends' of his and what he made up for his ego, but I'm leaning on former body builder and hot Latina being ego boosts he made to seem like hot shit.