Phil stated he had a hard time/struggled/had difficulty using his drive impact/combos when facing the other direction. That right there is a sign there's either something wrong with him mentally since adults shouldn't struggle flipping directions
So, to give him the slightest credit that he really doesn't deserve. Fighting game motions/combos aren't really done in pieces. Like its all stored in your brain as one or two big chunks. You have fractions of seconds to do them. So its a lot like knowing a parlor trick. Your muscle memory just does the whole thing.
My theory is that there is a little bit of DSP in all of us. We follow his antics with sort of a morbid fascination, seeing what we would be like if that little demon took over. I think that's also why he attracts the absolute bottom of humanity's collective barrel in terms of fans and a-logs. Gazing into the abyss and all that. It's good to take breaks from it every now and then. That applies to all lolcows, not just Phil.
Phil is pure Ego. But somehow as a real person. Like he is that bit in the Simpsons where Homer asks how his life would be if he robbed the Kwik E Mart. And his vision is him as like the mayor living in a mansion. That is Phil. For every decision he has made. And weirdly it has kind of worked out for him surprisingly well. Like somehow every thing the natural order has ingrained in every living being just fucking skipped Phil. He has never quite internalized that actions have consequences. And the world has somehow never really punished him for that.
What outsiders think is that it means we are jealous, or that we spend every single day waiting for that other shoe to drop. And thats not right either. Because lol no, no one is actually jealous of him. And B. I wait for that on every lolcow. We all do. The daily thing is Phil's secret spice
Daily his worldview is getting fucked rocked. Not even. It is goddamn near constantly. The best way to explain it is if I challenged all of you to a game of Magic. And then beat you. 98% of you would be like well no shit you won asshole. I don't know how to play this game. But not Phil. Phil would scream and cry and throw a fucking fit. Never fucking mind that he also doesn't know how to play. Its because Phil Burnell doesn't fucking lose.
But then he spends his life acting like the smartest person ever, and then having retards correct him. Tell him he is wrong. Every video game he plays, as the worlds greatest gamer, and he loses some of those. Its those moments. Those endless little slaps on his ego. How it *fucking still, after 15 goddamn years*, makes him seethe. When someone tells him he is wrong, when he doesn't immediately succeed. That is why you watch Phil. Because even weirder is how you also never know when one little slap becomes an actual moment. The fucking fur fur fur moment was him getting completely tilted at what a person in chat said. Fucking stream chat. Literally the internets greatest collection of nobodies. And the amount of gold dust, that alone provides.
And even this stick, and him butchering $500 worth of electronics, was not because he lost a tournament. Or got no wins one night. Or even lost to anyone special. Its because he didn't have a 100% win rate.