Would DSP cheat? Even just as an online thing? I mean, she Kirby'd the fuck out and he seems to be the breadwinner. I find it weird that Phil "but what have you done for me lately?" Burnell, would put up with that.
Sometimes I wonder what his "outlet" is or how he decompresses, he seems to be miserable on stream and offline too given the DMs.
Sort of. I mean this unironically and I'm not just making a Phil is gay joke, but he was arguably emotionally closer to PPP than he was to Khet. Like, saying you're in bed with your wife but talking with/watching someone else feels like the type of thing a cheater would tell to their "real" partner. And while it was really more about Phil's hermit side, him mentioning that he can't go down to Florida to hang out with PPP is also something a cheater would say when their other partner was trying to make the relationship more "real." To me, it seems pretty telling that instead of having a late night conversation with his wife, Phil was texting PPP at midnight-2 or 3 in the morning, with the majority of those texts basically being some variation of "you made my life so much better, because of you I've never been happier" etc. Phil also put in more effort to do stream stuff with PPP than with Khet. To be fair, PPP is an active streamer so that does make sense....but Khet used to be a streamer herself. And to be fairer, I get not wanting to stream with fat Khet, but he also didn't make much of an effort before she ballooned up and was less of a punch line.
As for him being the breadwinner, absolutely, no doubt about that. Phil is a weird type of greedy, he craves money, but he's also willing to throw it away on overpriced garbage if he thinks it'll bring him some form of status. Gaming statues/props, a car he drives once a week to places that are all more or less in walking distance, multiple cameras, consoles from companies he hates that he barely ends up using, deluxe editions of games he ends up wagequitting etc. Khet is basically just another purchase to him, to show that he's an adult.
His outlet is Champions/mobile games and booze. But as for how he decompresses...I don't think he does, hence how he's become the piglet he is today. Those things are how he spends his time off stream, but I genuinely don't even know if he enjoys them anymore. Maybe he gets a fleeting dopamine hit from Champions still, but I don't think it's actually enough for him to decompress. That's part of why he holds grudges and is constantly wound up so tightly and lashing out at people. We've seen in the DMs and gin tweets that detractors are really on his mind. He even mentioned his old grudges at one point with people like ProJared which was years ago at this point. And I'm not even talking ProJared's drama, which is already dated, but ProJared "insulting" DSP, it's basically ancient history in internet time and as far as I know, it was a pretty basic "DSP is bad at games" slight and not anything particularly severe, especially considering this is DSP we're talking about.