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 .
I'm honestly surprised the WWE Champions streams died so fast. Yes, I get that they're boring but so is every other thing Phil does.
Here's how other gacha streamers do streams:
The usual chink/korean/japanese gacha usually includes a main story or new content included with a new pull and they'll play through it like a normal game. There's also events where they'll spend the entire stream pulling trying to get the new PNG.

Unfortunately WWE Champions is literally only bejeweled with animations so playing the game for its own sake is out of the question. He could do just a pull stream but Phil also paywalled the actual content by only buying big packs when someone whales out for it. In true Phil fashion, because he can never let the tractors get a whiff of W, he weaseled his way out of just playing on his main account so he doesn't have to feel bad about playing on a smurf without all his shiny PNGs and buffed characters. The $1-2k sessions TJGameBox posts could easily be 2-4 hours of content.
 
I've got money on the mysterious appointment being Kat having medical issues. When he first mentioned the day he was going to miss, he almost sounded like he was repeating something somebody else said, which made me think Kat told him over and over that he *can't* tell his stream that she's going to the doctor for some embarrassing obesity related illness.

I like the "He's fixing up the house to try and cash out" theory, but I can't see him ever selling for two reasons. One, it's too much work. Even if he pays someone to fix and paint everything, he still needs to actually move and I think that disruption would break his brain. Two, it's one of his trophies to prove he's an awesome adult who owns the trolls. I think selling/leaving would be perceived as a kind of detractor victory considering how much people have criticized his poor living selection and after watching him fight to keep Derich, I'd be surprised if he gave any ground on something that might give the haters a win.
 
He might try to fix the snort fort for a refinance. He has been talking for ages to do a refinance of his condo. Considering what he has publicly claimed on stream his condo is on the verghe of falling apart (to puit it a bit extreme). A refinance does require a personal inspection right? So I guess he wants to somehow present a "functioning" condo. Or Khet has been complaing that all the money goes to bills (WWEC) and nothing for their life (except doordash I guess)

Also where would he move to? And considering his loot goblin mentality he would need a place that at the very least has some storage capacity.. Just think to the day he finally croacks: you could make a huge sale "Auctioning of DSP belongings. This is the coffee maker he used to make Cup Noodles" or something like that. If he still has the couch you could make a "This is the couch DSP sat on when the camera was on"
 
I've got money on the mysterious appointment being Kat having medical issues. When he first mentioned the day he was going to miss, he almost sounded like he was repeating something somebody else said, which made me think Kat told him over and over that he *can't* tell his stream that she's going to the doctor for some embarrassing obesity related illness.

I like the "He's fixing up the house to try and cash out" theory, but I can't see him ever selling for two reasons. One, it's too much work. Even if he pays someone to fix and paint everything, he still needs to actually move and I think that disruption would break his brain. Two, it's one of his trophies to prove he's an awesome adult who owns the trolls. I think selling/leaving would be perceived as a kind of detractor victory considering how much people have criticized his poor living selection and after watching him fight to keep Derich, I'd be surprised if he gave any ground on something that might give the haters a win.
I imagine most of the "mystery appointments" are health appointments for Kat and are psychiatric in nature. It's possible that much of her weight gain was caused by taking new antipsychotics that she probably would've started taking 2+ years ago, but I'm sure their midnight McDonalds snack runs contributed to that as well.
 
If he was playing DFTR on stream, I think the game would have lasted longer.

Unsurprisingly for Phil, he also had the dumbest take on streaming a gacha game. He prioritized the boring gameplay and held the most interesting part of the game hostage (gacha pulls). No matter what game he streams, he turns it into garbage. Since WWEC started out as gacha garbage, it's not that shocking his audience got sick of it. Not to mention the constant haranguing and guilt-tripping for support.
Those are pretty good points, not focusing on gacha pulls especially seems like a solid way to doom the stream to boredom for the audience, but I think Phil himself is also bored because he's not using his main account. We know how much Phil loves "progress" and his new account will always be massively behind his main, especially since we're assuming he's still pumping the usual amount into his main offstream.
He might try to fix the snort fort for a refinance. He has been talking for ages to do a refinance of his condo. Considering what he has publicly claimed on stream his condo is on the verghe of falling apart (to puit it a bit extreme). A refinance does require a personal inspection right? So I guess he wants to somehow present a "functioning" condo.
This seems likely, before bankruptcy, he always talked about refinancing as being the hit new release that would save his stream finances.

While it's also possible Phil is trying to fix things up to move, I have a lot of doubts about it. Similar to refusing to admit he's actually DFTR or banning Derich, Phil selling the Snort Fort would, in his mind, be a "win" for detractors because we've been saying for years how dumb it is for him to live in such an expensive area when he's a massive hermit. But it really depends on the narrative, as long as Phil could justify it in his mind as being a step up, he could spin it as a win. But Phil is also stupid and bases the value of things based on how expensive it is, so even if he moved to an actual house in a less expensive state, he might not see it as a win if the house isn't as expensive as the condo.

It's also possible the repairs are just because more people have been making fun of him for the state of his condo, so he's trying to put on his adult pajamas to LARP as a responsible home condo owner. We also don't know if the time off has anything to do with the condo at all. Again, it's not impossible by any stretch of the imagination, but usually when Phil is playing coy about something, it ends up being the smallest of nothingburgers, so for all we know it's just Phil's haircut appointment got moved so he used it as an excuse to take two days off instead of one. Or maybe he's actually leaving the snort fort to do something Halloween related? I can't imagine him or Khet would have like, a party or anything to go to, but there could be a restaurant special or something else Phil-specific that's enough justification for him to step outside.
 
Phillip says nobody, not even his detractors, care he’s a gatcha addict anymore.
In the next sentence he says games he plays in his private life are his business and you better not look into it! … I thought nobody cared Phillip?

Also I lol’d hard when he said “all my detractors have gone away! All of them! …… now, that being said….”

Those guys are front and centre of his head. Right next to Craig.
 
Or gone or separated so much he only sees her when she returns the car. My money is on divorce coin and the super secret meetings are with lawyers :)
Most lawyers will allow you to go in for an initial consultation for free but that's basically looking over what your giving them and telling you if you have a case or not. Once you agree to hire them any mildly decent lawyer is going to be charging fees that would make Phil's head spontaneously combust and force him to cut back on doordash and Hogan's.
 
All detractors have gone away huh? Certainly seems that way looking at his Kick clips

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But keep pigwhistling Phil that will keep them away. And you have to admit some of his whales definetly know how to make the piggie dance some silly moves: withhold cash or subs and he will squeal. Do it more! Make him "work" for his money. After all he needs that money, he really does. Though now thast he has basically 2 paydays each month: you think he will finally learn some money handling? Save money up for "rainy days" ( not not those rainy days Phil!)?
 
lmao there's no way he's selling the Snort Fort. It's way too tied to his ego plus it would take ages for him to move. He'd have to find a house in a gated community and it'd have to be big enough so he can move all the trash him and the Big Bitch have been hoarding for the past half a decade. Not to mention all the "lost income" he'd have from not streaming due to the process of moving itself, having his internet set up, setting up his PCs, setting up the trash hoard behind him, setting up all the electronics he has (not to mention he'd have to untangle that fire hazard mess of wires he has in the snort fort first too).

I personally am #TeamRefinance. He's been talking about cash refinancing for a long while now which is the dumbest thing he could do but if there's anything this bachelor in business finance has taught us throughout the years is that he has the same grasp of how to deal with your finances as a 12 year old girl armed with her rich daddy's black card. I think he is legitimately too fucking stupid to realize that cash refinancing is gonna put him even deeper in the hole and that his mortgage is gonna increase. All he read was "you get cash" and that was enough to hook him in, he probably thinks it's free money he can use for his typical impulse purchases. Keep in mind he used to always perk up when credit cards offered cashbacks and shit and thought he discovered some infinite money glitch, so much so that he talked about it in one of his ancient videos where he just yaps, could even be an old Ack da Kang.

To quote the fat Canadian lesbians "King DSP never pays his debts."
 
I'm piecing together different fuzzy memories, but a few years ago he said his shower wouldn't turn off, so instead of closing a valve or calling a plumber, he took a pliers and bent the pipe in on itself. He since has spore-radically mentioned that some moisture is seeping into the wall and there's mold. The "selling the sort fort" theory is fun but I don't think he has close to the money to fix the house up, nor would he even want his Condo Association to catch wind of the extent of the damage (nor the food-waste and cat litter waste piled up in garage).

He'll likely bunker down there to the bitter end, like the failed Austrian water-color artist in Berlin, complete with angry outbursts externalizing blame and body tremors/ticks while his inner circle implodes. Jayde Rasmussen is the Albert Speer analogue; the "good denthead" who tried to warn the Fuhrer against the scorched-earth drama policy. And like the failed Austrian water-color artist who believed in Fate and "Providence," DSP's gamba-brain thinks the Youtube Algorithm MachineGod might flip a switch one day and catapult him back to his glory days of "virality." That's the hopium that keeps him going, and what he thinks will help him refortify the Snort Fort.
 
but usually when Phil is playing coy about something, it ends up being the smallest of nothingburgers, so for all we know it's just Phil's haircut appointment got moved so he used it as an excuse to take two days off instead of one
Forgot to quote this in my earlier post. Reminder that a week or two ago Phail counted getting gas for the car as an appointment.
 
Warning against sunken costs, eh? Let's see:
  • FGC (money matches and tournaments)
  • 13 credit cards
  • keeping the CT condo until he bankrupted
  • engagement to Panda
  • streaming on Twitch post-departnering
  • Like A Dragon (and other failed streams)
  • Fatal Attraction DMs
  • Riding PPP despite openly mocking him
I'm sure there's more but I've acquired Mad Pig Disease [spongiform gin-cephalitis].
 
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I'm piecing together different fuzzy memories, but a few years ago he said his shower wouldn't turn off, so instead of closing a valve or calling a plumber, he took a pliers and bent the pipe in on itself. He since has spore-radically mentioned that some moisture is seeping into the wall and there's mold. The "selling the sort fort" theory is fun but I don't think he has close to the money to fix the house up, nor would he even want his Condo Association to catch wind of the extent of the damage (nor the food-waste and cat litter waste piled up in garage).
You are pretty spot on however it is probably much worse than he is letting on...and he has let on a lot.


He has also let slip that the flooring in his bathroom is warping too.

All in all, he is probably looking at gutting his bathroom for somewhere between 5-10k or probably even more because he needs to replace the walling, get someone in to do the mold remediation, get the plumbing seen too, probably replace the shower unit and toilet, needs to tear up the flooring, and finally pray that there isn't any damage to the joists (which would probably add a couple thousand+)

In summation, he could be turbo fucked and all because he ignored a problem that would have cost...probably a couple hundred bucks to have a plumber/handyman come out and fix the leak years ago.

Water damage is probably the number one silent killer of modern housing so you always want to be hyper aware of it.
You know you become a responsible adult when you hone your senses to hear a single drip across the house.

EDIT: I just had a Brainblast. Anyone have his floorplans? I wonder where his bathroom is in relation to his dining room. Remember how his light fixture just randomly fell down recently? lulz would be supah funny if the water damage took it down.
 
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Here's how other gacha streamers do streams:
The usual chink/korean/japanese gacha usually includes a main story or new content included with a new pull and they'll play through it like a normal game. There's also events where they'll spend the entire stream pulling trying to get the new PNG.

Unfortunately WWE Champions is literally only bejeweled with animations so playing the game for its own sake is out of the question. He could do just a pull stream but Phil also paywalled the actual content by only buying big packs when someone whales out for it. In true Phil fashion, because he can never let the tractors get a whiff of W, he weaseled his way out of just playing on his main account so he doesn't have to feel bad about playing on a smurf without all his shiny PNGs and buffed characters. The $1-2k sessions TJGameBox posts could easily be 2-4 hours of content.
Funnily enough, this was exactly how he wage quit Genshin Impact a few years back, complete with CoD whale. 180'd so hard he ended up doing a 360
 
lmao there's no way he's selling the Snort Fort. It's way too tied to his ego plus it would take ages for him to move. He'd have to find a house in a gated community and it'd have to be big enough so he can move all the trash him and the Big Bitch have been hoarding for the past half a decade. Not to mention all the "lost income" he'd have from not streaming due to the process of moving itself, having his internet set up, setting up his PCs, setting up the trash hoard behind him, setting up all the electronics he has (not to mention he'd have to untangle that fire hazard mess of wires he has in the snort fort first too).

Stop, my penis can only get so erect!
 
To the mold theory: he had something back in 2017 or 2016. He had a leak in the kitchen (something Panda noticed) and he had a giant mold patch under his sink and how he had to scratch it out of there (he even made pictures of it. Maybe some old SOK podcast still has it) and he made big rant about it what this will cost him and that he doesn't have the money to do it (because WWEC needs his money)
 
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