DarksydePhil / TheyCallMeDSP / Phil Burnell: General Discussion #2

[Snortack623]

Jesus that rant was unhinged as fuck, phil needs to be thrown in a padded room.

 

[DerichLovesSSI]

Friendly reminder for anyone who buys lottery tickets: buying more than one for one specific lottery per play period is a waste of your money.

A single ticket increases your odds from zero to infinitesimally small. A second ticket increases your odds from infinitesimally small to slightly less infinitesimally small.

 

[Philipp Amthor]

Friendly reminder for anyone who buys lottery tickets: buying more than one for one specific lottery per play period is a waste of your money.

A single ticket increases your odds from zero to infinitesimally small. A second ticket increases your odds from infinitesimally small to slightly less infinitesimally small.

A lottery ticket is a tax on stupidity and I fully support it. Spending money on it is dumb, UNLESS you are somebody who enjoys the experience even knowing very well that you are only losing money. Then more power to you, we all enjoy things others consider a waste of money.

 

[LilypaCastsUpper]

Looks like the King Arc was a filler arc and we are back into the main Mental Illness arc, big ups. I just hope Kat doesn't eat Jasper.

Friendly reminder for anyone who buys lottery tickets: buying more than one for one specific lottery per play period is a waste of your money.

A single ticket increases your odds from zero to infinitesimally small. A second ticket increases your odds from infinitesimally small to slightly less infinitesimally small.

I remember him saying there's no point to fantasize about what he'd do if he won the lottery because the chances are so small "I'm a realist" blah blah. Burnell is like the world's worst Wrasslin' booker, he can't keep angle continuity if he life depended on it. I mean he doesn't have to have the lore complexity and interwoven multi layered storylines of Tolkien's middle-earth, but give me some thread of continuity for goodness sake.

 

[PieceofShet]

I might be remembering wrong but im almost sure that in the past he said he doesnt play lottery.

 

[Pargon]

I remember him saying there's no point to fantasize about what he'd do if he won the lottery because the chances are so small "I'm a realist" blah blah. Burnell is like the world's worst Wrasslin' booker, he can't keep angle continuity if he life depended on it. I mean he doesn't have to have the lore complexity and interwoven multi layered storylines of Tolkien's middle-earth, but give me some thread of continuity for goodness sake.

He’s such an alien. Every adult has had the More Money Than God fantasy, because we all live in the same A Society where money is needed to do fucking anything and everyone’s got something they can’t have or do because it’s too expensive. This is not some kind of aberrant pattern of thought but he treats it like it is and I can’t help but theorize that it’s because he doesn’t want to get mocked, or possibly he’s afraid of saying something retarded that he wants only for it to come out later that he’s had that thing for months, because DarksydePhil has made a consistent six figures for years and he does his lazyboned-damnedest to keep that fact out of the public discussion.

Never mind that by his own admission he’s spent thousands and thousands of dollars on mobile games, which is so embarrassing that he could admit that all that money went into importing Filipino babies so he could rape and eat them and I’d be forced to carefully consider which one is worse. And after all the recent Gamer Lifestyle shit he’s bought and flaunted I genuinely can’t work out where the line is for him, it’s not as though having amassed some ridiculous pile of blu-rays he’ll never watch is somehow worse than turning his office into Kabuki-cho.

 

[Vic's Japanese Stepfather]

"So, in truth ... I'm about to drop a little holiday truth bomb on everyone, all right? Are you ready for this one? If I never existed, if I'd never made a youtube video, if I'd never had any prominence on the internet, if I'd never bothered turning on a camera, pointing it at a tv and doing really stupid commentary, if I'd never made tens of thousands of videos, all right? Here's the truth. Tons of people never would've been youtubers, tons of content never would've been made, people wouldn't have been inspired to do what they did, and the world would be a very different place."

And the coup de grâce:

"If I never existed, a lot of positive things would've never happened on this planet, whether indirectly or directly as a result of my actions, my existence has actually prominently impacted the internet and life, quite frankly."

Philip Paul "I am not a lolcow" Burnell, 12/20/24


This alone was worth letting the Kino arc play out.

 

[myone]

"If I never existed, a lot of positive things would've never happened on this planet, whether indirectly or directly as a result of my actions, my existence has actually prominently impacted the internet and life, quite frankly."

Philip Paul "I am not a lolcow" Burnell, 12/20/24


This alone was worth letting the Kino arc play out.

He really should keep the King moniker. Just the King of Cope now.

 

[Kane lives in death]

The guy manages to not get scammed once by one of those automated bots that sends links to everyones emails in hopes that ten suckers in a million fall for it, and he already thinks himself as a sage genius that could change the world with his words if the detractors didnt ruin it.
Thats how little it takes for that dumbass ego to flare up seriously, beyond pathethic.

He really gets stupider by the day, the mental collapse arc is in full swing and im here for it, and the best part is that this arc will progress no matter how much money he gets whaled, not even the dents giving him all their disability money will stop this.

 

[XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG]

Isn't there a term for this logical fallacy? This line of thinking that, "if famous person X did not do Y, then nobody would have ever done Y"?
In spite of the fact that, historically, many inventions and discoveries were made in multiple places and independently from each other?
An example at the top of my head is Bayes and Laplace for some statistical math

 

[PieceofShet]

I might be remembering wrong but im almost sure that in the past he said he doesnt play lottery.

So found a clip on pigpiggo him saying HE DOES NOT PLAY THE LOTTERY! He said it this year, 7 months ago. He said he did not play the lottery for a "very long time".
Here is a clip, sry the weird angle.

SO I AM IN FACT NOT CRAZY! SOUNDS GOOD? OKAY THEN.

 

[Vecr]

An example at the top of my head is Bayes and Laplace for some statistical math

Similar but a bit different, if Einstein never existed Special Relativity would have been created pretty quickly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_ether_theory

For General Relativity it's a bit harder to say, but the thoughts required were not magic and multiple teams would have probably been able to complete the theory.

 

[XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG]

Similar but a bit different, if Einstein never existed Special Relativity would have been created pretty quickly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_ether_theory

For General Relativity it's a bit harder to say, but the thoughts required were not magic and multiple teams would have probably been able to complete the theory.

Yeah, like I said, it's not exactly rare or uncommon
I was just wondering if there's a neat and- actually, let me go ask all-knowing ChatGPT

The fallacy you're describing is closely related to the Great Man Theory Fallacy or, more formally, a type of counterfactual fallacy. While there's no single, universally agreed-upon name specifically for the scenario you describe, the concept can be broken down into several related logical missteps:

1. Counterfactual Fallacy: This occurs when someone assumes that because a specific individual did something, the event or outcome would not have occurred without them, failing to account for other potential causes or contributors. For example, asserting that "without Newton, the theory of gravity would never have been developed" ignores the broader context of the scientific community and the ideas of contemporaries like Leibniz or Hooke.
2. Great Man Fallacy: This is a broader historical fallacy that overemphasizes the role of specific individuals ("great men") in shaping history, while downplaying the social, cultural, or systemic forces that make discoveries or changes possible. It assumes that progress hinges entirely on the presence of particular individuals.
3. Post Hoc Counterfactual: A subtype of the post hoc fallacy ("after this, therefore because of this"), it assumes a false causation or inevitability, such as believing a discovery would not have happened without a particular person simply because they were the one to make it first.
4. Neglect of Historical Contingency: This is more of a conceptual bias than a named fallacy. It involves ignoring the fact that discoveries and inventions often emerge as a result of broader societal, technological, or intellectual trends. The independent discoveries of calculus by Newton and Leibniz or the theory of evolution by Darwin and Wallace exemplify this.

Why This Happens​

The fallacy stems from an overly simplistic view of history as being driven solely by individual genius, rather than recognizing the collective and iterative nature of knowledge and discovery.
If you were to coin a term for it, "Sole Inventor Fallacy" might capture the essence of the error. However, referencing it as a counterfactual fallacy or a specific instance of the Great Man Fallacy should suffice in most contexts.

 

[LilypaCastsUpper]

He really gets stupider by the day, the mental collapse arc is in full swing and im here for it, and the best part is that this arc will progress no matter how much money he gets whaled, not even the whales giving him all their disability money will stop this.

I know people less retarded than the Burnells that do a poor job at managing their diabetes (if kat has diabetes, I know that's speculation and he's been hinting at a health arc). You can't just throw money at that problem.

Post Hoc Counterfactual: A subtype of the post hoc fallacy ("after this, therefore because of this"), it assumes a false causation or inevitability, such as believing a discovery would not have happened without a particular person simply because they were the one to make it first.

He didn't really do anything first, though. I would just say what DSP said is an "un-quantifiable hypothetical," often engaged in by big fat losers.

 

[LifeAlert]

Nigga has completely lost his mind LMAO, we're in the mad king arc

 

[00R-Gundam]

Dsp you aint special, your impact in the lives of others is nothing more than a grain of sand in a beach. Your impact on the internet is a legacy of failures that you are rewarded by because you have literal retards giving you goverment money. Nothing you do matters, because you yourself dont. Anyone else has more impact and contributes more than you. Youre a failure and your brain caught up with it but the coping mechanism kicked in and sent you in this magical fantasy land where you think youre important and your legacy is actually respected, it isnt. If you dissappeared today i would just jump to another lolcow. You are not as important as you think you are.

 

[Professional Noticer]

The cool thing about DSP is that he has phases - He was genuinely in a cool phase, shitting on Destiny, laughing at his own mistakes, trying to talk to Metokur knowing that he is going to be at least half a dick to him.

But you know that deep down, he is still the low IQ goblin roach grifter. No matter how long these "based" DSP phases last, we will eventually see the goblin come out saying that hes a great entertainer and deserves a lot of money, despite providing nothing to the world.

But as the Roach he is, he has survived for years and years and he will continue to do so, so you know what? I still think he deserves some respect on that front.

 

[neger psykolog]

"So, in truth ... I'm about to drop a little holiday truth bomb on everyone, all right? Are you ready for this one? If I never existed, if I'd never made a youtube video, if I'd never had any prominence on the internet, if I'd never bothered turning on a camera, pointing it at a tv and doing really stupid commentary, if I'd never made tens of thousands of videos, all right? Here's the truth. Tons of people never would've been youtubers, tons of content never would've been made, people wouldn't have been inspired to do what they did, and the world would be a very different place."

And the coup de grâce:

"If I never existed, a lot of positive things would've never happened on this planet, whether indirectly or directly as a result of my actions, my existence has actually prominently impacted the internet and life, quite frankly."

Philip Paul "I am not a lolcow" Burnell, 12/20/24


This alone was worth letting the Kino arc play out.

Is there a clip of this? It seems like it was first mentioned like 5 pages ago and there's been significant commentary on it but no clip here and didn't see one on tweeter

 

[LilypaCastsUpper]

But as the Roach he is, he has survived for years and years and he will continue to do so, so you know what? I still think he deserves some respect on that front.

IMO It depends on what you mean by "survive." If you mean as a businessman, then no, that's wrong. Once you try and solicit money by pity begging for personal things like groceries, you are no longer a business, you are a charity. DSP claims to be a businessman so that is the standard I hold him at. If he admits he's a charity case and fake businessman, then I'll reassess my position. You can call that a cope or a bias, but that is a standard I would hold to everyone and everything, including myself.

 

[Coke Zero]

Isn't there a term for this logical fallacy? This line of thinking that, "if famous person X did not do Y, then nobody would have ever done Y"?
In spite of the fact that, historically, many inventions and discoveries were made in multiple places and independently from each other?
An example at the top of my head is Bayes and Laplace for some statistical math

Phil wasn't even the first let's player. A lot of people were already recording theirselves playing video games and uploading it to youtube, some with commentary, some without, by 2008. Phil wasn't the first one to direct capture gameplay. He wasn't the first to livestream video games. He didn't actually do anything first or innovate anything once he got going. He started out by copying avgn, then he copied people who used direct capture, etc. and has always continued being a follower today- just look at the RGB stuff today that other streamers were using like 8 years ago. He's constantly chasing trends and ideas other people came up with first.

To think no one would have ever thought to upload video game footage if it wasn't for him, when people were already doing before him, is just completely retarded and actually insane. He's mentally unhinged at this point. He's convinced himself he actually invented let's plays/playing video games on the internet.