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 .
Why. The. Ffffffffuck. is he so obssessed with keeping empty boxes around? Ps5 box. Xbox Series X box. SIDE SOCKET box.

I usually keep boxes to expensive purchases for a few weeks, just in case something goes wrong. But he's a fucking hoarder. Never forget the thousand dollar statues just littering his living room and kitchen in CT.
 
I usually keep boxes to expensive purchases for a few weeks, just in case something goes wrong. But he's a fucking hoarder. Never forget the thousand dollar statues just littering his living room and kitchen in CT.
Keeping packages for warrenty purposes is fair enough. But that side socket is apparently less than $20 and its a peripheral. I can only hope the real reason to keep that trash is so he can sell it at a yard sale.
 
Why. The. Ffffffffuck. is he so obssessed with keeping empty boxes around? Ps5 box. Xbox Series X box. SIDE SOCKET box. Out of principle I don't want to watch the closet ckeaning stream. But its hilarious how much useless shit he just has lying about.
I can see how a collector would want to keep their old game console boxes. Keeping boxes for some power outlet extender you got for $10 though? That's hoarder stuff.
 
Also even with fighting games I think phil is basically just playing by himself independent of what the opponent is doing instead of actually reacting to them, if that makes any sense. Like phil knows how to push the buttons in the right order and timing to do moves and combos so he just spams them out regardless of what the other player is doing. You can tell how angry he gets when the other guy does something phil wasn't expecting because phil just expects every other player to use the same patterns he knows how to play against and gets thrown off when someone does something he has to respond differently to. Its why he never gets anywhere with new fighting games, he doesn't actually really know how to play them that well.

It's honestly more than that.

Phil is what we used to call an "O-Eighter", which is an fighting game player who started playing seriously in 2008, and they usually carried some weird ass philosophies about learning fighting games. One of which is that Street Fighter 2 Turbo was the ideal fighting game, and if you learned Super Turbo, you could learn any fighting game. This, of course, is not true; the game had several faults, like combos that automatically dizzied you, tons of fireball spam, some loops that were just hard to get out of, several balancing issues, and the use of "Old" versions of characters (basically, Old characters couldn't use Supers, but they compensated by dealing more damage than the normal version of the character). The game was imperfect, and yet 2008 players thought otherwise.

Guilty Gear, Blazblue, Soul Calibur, Tekken, hell any fighting game plays wildly different from ST. O-Eighters will argue that ST taught you the basics of some fighting games, but you don't deal with fireballs in Soul Calibur, and you don't get stunned from combos in Tekken. They're different games with very different mechanics. But a lot of the 2008 evolved from this mindset and have been putting in their time and adapting to the plethora of fighting games that have come out since then, and have even shifted their original views on ST.

Phil did not.

I bring this up because Phil has picked up some bad fucking habits from Super Turbo that he applies to other games, and it shows: always starting combos with jump-in attacks, panic mashing, punishing jump-in attacks with sweep, haphazardly throwing out normal attacks on neutral. These are things I notice when he plays EVERY fighting game if the mechanic calls for it, and this is because Phil is still in that O-Eighter mindset. Phil is not only adopting outdated strategies when he plays fighting games, but he's also adopting strategies in fighting games that have been proven false for over a decade. It's no wonder he never gets better.

Nowadays, it takes more shit to learn a fighting game. You have to hit up training mode, you have to read frame data, find how to punish attacks, and the combos you get from successfully punishing. You have to also be willing to lose and suck it up. All this is hard to do for someone who values instant gratification above all else, has no patience in learning anything that isn't told to him, refuses to use in-game mechanics that aren't outright told to him, and never holds an L and doesn't default to blaming lag.

Phil expects patterns because he barely players real players and likely beats on unmoving computer punching bags in training mode. He think players operate on the same outdated mindset he does because for whatever reason, Phil sees himself as the prime example of a fighting game player. If they aren't doing what he's doing , then they're scrubs, and he's never going to think otherwise.

TL; DR: Phil plays fighting games like a boomer and will never get better unless he puts the time to learn shit.
 
It's honestly more than that.

Phil is what we used to call an "O-Eighter", which is an fighting game player who started playing seriously in 2008, and they usually carried some weird ass philosophies about learning fighting games. One of which is that Street Fighter 2 Turbo was the ideal fighting game, and if you learned Super Turbo, you could learn any fighting game. This, of course, is not true; the game had several faults, like combos that automatically dizzied you, tons of fireball spam, some loops that were just hard to get out of, several balancing issues, and the use of "Old" versions of characters (basically, Old characters couldn't use Supers, but they compensated by dealing more damage than the normal version of the character). The game was imperfect, and yet 2008 players thought otherwise.

Guilty Gear, Blazblue, Soul Calibur, Tekken, hell any fighting game plays wildly different from ST. O-Eighters will argue that ST taught you the basics of some fighting games, but you don't deal with fireballs in Soul Calibur, and you don't get stunned from combos in Tekken. They're different games with very different mechanics. But a lot of the 2008 evolved from this mindset and have been putting in their time and adapting to the plethora of fighting games that have come out since then, and have even shifted their original views on ST.

Phil did not.

I bring this up because Phil has picked up some bad fucking habits from Super Turbo that he applies to other games, and it shows: always starting combos with jump-in attacks, panic mashing, punishing jump-in attacks with sweep, haphazardly throwing out normal attacks on neutral. These are things I notice when he plays EVERY fighting game if the mechanic calls for it, and this is because Phil is still in that O-Eighter mindset. Phil is not only adopting outdated strategies when he plays fighting games, but he's also adopting strategies in fighting games that have been proven false for over a decade. It's no wonder he never gets better.

Nowadays, it takes more shit to learn a fighting game. You have to hit up training mode, you have to read frame data, find how to punish attacks, and the combos you get from successfully punishing. You have to also be willing to lose and suck it up. All this is hard to do for someone who values instant gratification above all else, has no patience in learning anything that isn't told to him, refuses to use in-game mechanics that aren't outright told to him, and never holds an L and doesn't default to blaming lag.

Phil expects patterns because he barely players real players and likely beats on unmoving computer punching bags in training mode. He think players operate on the same outdated mindset he does because for whatever reason, Phil sees himself as the prime example of a fighting game player. If they aren't doing what he's doing , then they're scrubs, and he's never going to think otherwise.

TL; DR: Phil plays fighting games like a boomer and will never get better unless he puts the time to learn shit.


phil is like a guy claiming to be the world chess champion. But on further questioning you find he was only champion of the US.... in one tournament....And that was because all the good US players boycotted the tournament....and the tournament was very poorly attended and known....and he still got beaten by three other players but they were nonUS. ...And the board they played on was a starshape board with pieces made of jello and a very weird ruleset no one else had time to learn. The slightest deviation from this specific chess setup, like the pieces being made of watermelon rather than cherry jello and his game falls apart....deviations include the exact same setup taking place on any day aside from that one specific day because by then people will have had time to learn it and thrash him....and now he loses all the time on every variant of chess he plays to randoms and plays at the level of above average....which might impress some people until you realize this is something he dedicated an entire era of his life to.....but he's technically the US world chess champion d00d.
 
I hired a PI to follow Phil on his errands. This was his favorite stop each week.

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No matter how bad you're doing in life you will never have to be this pathetic
I will never get over how just absolutely retarded it is to describe a video game stream as "slow". If you knew nothing about darksydephil and all the weasel words he uses to feel better about himself while asking/begging for money, it would be so confusing what he's talking about. How exactly can playing a video game be "slow"? Maybe if like your console keeps freezing or maybe you are doing something really repetitive like grinding in an RPG you could say its slow but its just a really odd word to describe a video game stream.
 
Phil has extravagant tastes, he always has to humblebrag about how the restaurant him and Khet went to was "high end" and whatnot.
He talks about taking fat Khat to "high end" like it's a Michelin star restaurant. No, dude. A sit down Chinese buffet that doesn't require you to a wear a jacket and tie isn't "high end.", Philliam. It's something that any mouth drooling idiot detractor can walk in to off the street in their street clothes.
 
I will never get over how just absolutely retarded it is to describe a video game stream as "slow". If you knew nothing about darksydephil and all the weasel words he uses to feel better about himself while asking/begging for money, it would be so confusing what he's talking about. How exactly can playing a video game be "slow"? Maybe if like your console keeps freezing or maybe you are doing something really repetitive like grinding in an RPG you could say its slow but its just a really odd word to describe a video game stream.
It's a mature business term. Business is slow today, but hopefully OIC will PayPal him $100 and business will pick up. That's business.
 
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