Phil is at best average at his best fighting game. That's it.
Imagine, you are in an arcade, Street Fighter II is new, it is the hot game, you have never heard of the previous game much less paid to play it, but want to try this new game and put your money in, you begin to try out characters at the same arcade when you can. A month later, a person who looks like an adult is standing at player 2's station on the machine, they're pigsweating and cussing up a storm at the computer as they use Ryu or Ken and hit a wall. You figure, what the hell, let's try a real person instead of the computer, you've found a favorite character, or two, to use, so you pay the press start amount, join the game, and pick your character, the other player stays with either pallet swap karate character. The match starts, they're just ok, you barely know how to play, but you have your favorite two characters and outplay them. They curse and rage and mald and call you a scrub, but you just won the round. This is annoying but now the shitty player 2 making excuses for their loss amuses you, you decide to try harder with your favorite character, now the other player whines even more as you zone them to hell, they begin to cry how this is unsafe and would never work outside of you getting lucky with spam. They are forced to pay more to rematch you, which they cough up, blubbering some retarded mouth drooling moron shit about wheelchairs loving them and their content. They pick the same character, you switch it up for your other favorite character, so Guile switch to Dhalsim or vice versa, it's a thought experiment, just go with it still. Now your backup character struggles a little more with the karate pallet switch player's choice, but still, you've figured out a few tendencies in this person and exploit them for another win as they cry about your jab. In between the potential match clinching round you ask the other player, why don't you try a different character, which causes them to explode in barely contained rage about how they "have prerequisite knowledge from Street Fighter" so they are able to rely on that to beat losers like you. You perfect him the next round and laugh at his meltdown at the game and you, then go on with your day, leaving them in a pool of their own salty tears.
That's Phil. He's the type of idiot who considered playing a previous revision of the basic game enough to beat players who are attempting learn about the new one. Adding a third dimension to this game will not change the loser operating the controls on player 2 in the arcade. Letting them play more Street Fighter 1 will not change their ability to be better at the sequel, but to them, they can't fail because they got here before you, even if they got to a different game altogether and now insist that means they should beat you just on that basis alone. Count the white flag waving excuses of "what the fuck that was MY turn," in rounds, where he literally thinks because he's getting scrub bodied, the game should reverse the flow of the match his way, while he backs up into a corner trap due to autism kiling his object permanence in regards to ring boundaries. Everytime you hear it, his inner scrub is escaping, maybe it should play a turn based combat game like the one that everyone liked in 2023? He's about average at current 2d fighters on his best day, and he is a scrub in three dimensions in them. Stop buying the narc ego protectiion/protection bubble, call him what he is, a can't hang scrub that is begging for a train to be ran on him like his fat wife over at Jim's for an evening.
There will be more "ironic fan" ostracisms before this game is dropped I predict in order to protect his egg shell ego, unless chat just dies because no one wants to bother with a new sock to wheelchair chat lurk so they won't comment to burn their current ones.
