- Joined
- Nov 6, 2018
This is the kind of shit that that you see happening to people who are lumping around a ton of emotional baggage or have like a delayed emotional response to a bereavment or some other trauma. When something like stubbing their toe or dropping and breaking a cup in their kitchen will trigger the waterworks.How abnormal is it it go from blank expression, to tearing up and shaking voice to laughing, In like the span of 30 seconds. Thats not normal right
Except in the case of phil you'd sooner believe the damage he's felt being inflicted upon him stems from the fact that his half-assed attenpts to rebrand and find a new pool of generous idliers has yet again ran into a ditch. If you had someone you knew at work breaking down like this the amount of times he has people would rightly become disturbed and concerned by the behavior.
The way he switches it off is even more bizarre. I see it less as him just faking and more supressed emotional distress bubbling to the surface that he has to squash to maintain the facade that he's happier than ever dood - to himself more than anyone else. It often seems to be things in the past or the future that get him worked up. Perhaps because he's mostly incapable of thinking of/planning for the future and when the subject comes up it terrifies him. He doesn't want to think beyond next bag of fast food or pull. I don't know about other people but if I get emotional it's usually a result of something in the here and now not triggered by the prospect of my own death or some shit.
The past was the golden age arc for DSP except that he was denied the primrose path in his youth, was on a cocktail of medications and wanted to kill himself while nursing a teenage alcoholic streak then fell into a "job" that put him on easy street that he ruined just by being himself. The future looks brighter than ever because despite chaining himself to his townhouse and having precisely no contact with the world outside his front door he has a cat and.. a kat to sustain him until the wheels fall off this gacha lahlcowmotive. He loves his job but he can't see himself playing games forever and no matter how hard he tries to become white hot popular again his efforts are forever undone by mentally ill nudniks who are jealous of his happiness.
His past present and future are the best of times and worst of times experienced all at once. He sucks at vidya but he's a level 10 expert at avoiding reality. The tears are like a real person trying to claw their way to the surface before Darksydephil stomps on their fingers with his gouty foot.