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You know, I like to compare the reaction of DSP to lag to another streamer, i think it was Maximilian Dood, when he played 3rd strike. I remember seeing this match where he hit the opponent and the "KO" message briefly flashed on screen, but it was somehow rolled back by the game due to it being out of sync or something, and the match continued. Maximilian just shaked his head and said "tch!", like he was used to the game's netcode being garbage.

Now, if that happened to Gout Boy, he would spend a month complaining about the stooopid ahnline lag, dood!
Back during his initial online streams, he had a slight skip during a match vs Akuma, he lost shortly after that and as you would very well guess, he spent a while bitching about the netcode. Which is funny given GGPO's good reputation, but also because most of the match ran well, it was during the last round where there seemed to be some issues but not enough to just completely spin the favor of the round to the Akuma player.
Match starts at 3:00.
My favorite part is when he gets hit by Akuma's F+MP and then complains he was blocking...he was, but he was crouch blocking an OVERHEAD attack. You need to be standing in order to block these types of attacks. Further proof Phil has no clue what's he talking about when it comes to fighting games. (at least, most of the time)
 
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Does it ever cross his mind that the reason EVERY match he has online is laggy is because his internet isn't very good? There's no way that every other player in the server has bad internet connection, it's just improbable.
Phil strikes me as one of those kinds of people who thinks because something was expensive it means it is good simply because of the price tag. I doubt he did much research into what would be the best internet plan for him and just chose the most expensive because he thinks it is the best and it gets priority when something goes wrong. Plus like the house and the car it is a thing he can flaunt to look like a big shot even though it is really another anchor he voluntarily ties around his waist.
 
This is one of those things he does that is so lazy it is a wonder he is even bothering. His reviews were easily the closest he ever came to making actual khantent. They were bland and shallow on information, but the one thing you could say is at least they were not Phil just sitting on his fucking couch talking into a camera like everything else he does. While he is at it he should chop them up into 5 minute clips for game play, sound, graphics, etc.
 
Yeah, but weren't those taken before she left?
Those were taken the day before he announced the engagement. So they were already engaged and not yet broken up, and she was out and about while not wearing a ring. This after religiously wearing the fake one for however long.

Looking at the fact that it lasted less than 2 months, I wonder if the engagement was, as some people speculated, to keep her from getting together with someone else.
 

His Hateful Truth videos were at least some kind of series and an addition (if not a good one) to his raw, unedited gameplay shit. At least you could see how much he fucks up sitting in front of a camera and talking about a video game he just played and in rare cases even finished. You see how bland his opinions are, how little he explains what the game is about and he is trying to compare it to games from former generations. It is basically to disguise that he rates a game by the number of views it gets, calling mainstream games niche when he can't hit 200 viewers per stream.

It would not have been a loss if he doesn't edit these videos if he was somewhat charismatic and entertaining, but his last Hateful Truth reviews were unbearable boring. Once again you can see what a job an uncreative and outright lazy person does compared to someone determined, creative and actually caring about his product.

What he sure does and would do is mentioning all his personal DSP business crap that turns off every casual viewer who just wants to see if a game is good or not, like he would tell us five minutes about what he ate today or that he needs money so bad before starting the actual review. He doesn't make notes, he is poor at comparing games of the same genre and thanks to him barely understanding game mechanics and controls he gives you a wrong view on a game. And finally, after him mocking other reviewers for giving crazy and unrealistic review scores, a shitty but popular game gets an 8.875 out of 10 where an indie masterpiece gets a 5.5 because it's just artsy-fartsy.
 
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"The other streamers are wrong, they are lag apologists and I am the only one telling the truth."
 
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His Hateful Truth videos were at least some kind of series and an addition (if not a good one) to his raw, unedited gameplay shit. At least you could see how much he fucks up sitting in front of a camera and talking about a video game he just played and in rare cases even finished. You see how bland his opinions are, how little he explains what the game is about and he is trying to compare it to games from former generations. It is basically to disguise that he rates a game by the number of views it gets, calling mainstream games niche when he can't hit 200 viewers per stream.

It would not have been a loss if he doesn't edit these videos if he was somewhat charismatic and entertaining, but his last Hateful Truth reviews were unbearable boring. Once again you can see what a job an uncreative and outright lazy person does compared to someone determined, creative and actually caring about his product.

What he sure does and would do is mentioning all his personal DSP business crap that turns off every casual viewer who just wants to see if a game is good or not, like he would tell us five minutes about what he ate today or that he needs money so bad before starting the actual review. He doesn't make notes, he is poor at comparing games of the same genre and thanks to him barely understanding game mechanics and controls he gives you a wrong view on a game. And finally, after him mocking other reviewers for giving crazy and unrealistic review scores, a shitty but popular game gets an 8.875 out of 10 where an indie masterpiece gets a 5.5 because it's just artsy-fartsy.
I believe that DSP's Hateful Truth review series, just taken on its own merits, is his most engaging content. The guy does have a talent for expressing an opinion, even though often what he says directly contradicts previous statements he has made and the final score he awards has no basis in reality. I first discovered Phil back in 2011 when he did the infamous Duke Nukem Forever media call-out video. Even if you don't agree with what he is saying or know for a fact that he is spitefully making claims against a game, developers, or other reviewers, Phil speaking without a filter is seldom a bore to me.
 
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Does it ever cross his mind that the reason EVERY match he has online is laggy is because his internet isn't very good? There's no way that every other player in the server has bad internet connection, it's just improbable.

KEEP IN MIND many online fighters let you select your region. Despite being told multiple times by multiple people, Phil flat out refuses to only connect to North America.

This is blatantly apparent when he's playing USF2. He's choosing for lag, not just suffering it. He'd rather losing to a 12 year old Kenyan kid, complaining about lag the entire time, rather than only play people from the US with minimal lag.
 
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The lag is his ultimate excuse, his back exit from getting called a scrub, a noob or simply not being good at the games he plays. As we see he goes miles and miles to come up with an explanation why he is the only one complaining that much, even when it has to include calling other streamers liars and apologists. Clinging to that excuse, which he uses in all online fighting games, is what he prefers rather than getting better at the game or behold admitting failure on his part.

He could say he is out from competitive fighting games for so long that he has lost his skills, which would be totally fine. But that would not be Phil.
 
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The way he came and went made him feel like one of DSP fans just here trying to create a uproar.
I doubt it, the old "i bet it wuz a DSP fan" is usually the shield people bring out whenever someone in the anti-DSP club says something pathetic on his comments or forums like kill yourself for example.
 
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"The other streamers are wrong, they are lag apologists and I am the only one telling the truth."

These are always my favorite Phil rants because he always chooses great words to express his grief. It's not that other streamers are "adapting to play with lag" but they're "LEARNING TO ABUSE LAG" because lag is his biggest enemy in life.

Good to know he still doesn't understand how streaming works, too. People won't stop watching a streamer just because they stopped playing their #1 game. Top streamers deviate from the games they're known for all the time and still pull in the big bucks because people are there for the person and not the game. It's literally the logic Phil uses for himself but he can't imagine it being applied to anybody else.

Also RIP #DSPositive
 
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I've been gone partying my ass off and taking the GMAT for business school. How is the Siren stream coming? Is he fucking up sight jacking? To be fair the sight jack system in Siren is a bit complicated at first. It is very fun and interesting.
 
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"The other streamers are wrong, they are lag apologists and I am the only one telling the truth."
Not entirely contradict the 35-year-old adult’s statement in the last paragraph, but Phil is notorious for claiming/stating “I don't have time to watch other Youtubers; I don’t watch other streamers…” and yet, with this staunch confirmed statements of how he’s unlike other Youtubers or “calls out the bullshit other Youtubers do not…” it screams hypocrite. Either he does or he doesn’t? Either he follows a set cadre of Youtubers or he just searches for topics to flail his arms against when the moment suits him.


I don’t care much for his reviews, his assertion of wisdom when it comes to game development or marketing—-any two-legged monkey can read someone else’s reaction to a game or opinion on a game’s reviews and echo those sentiments. Phil isn’t clearing any tables with his rhubarbs. Phil isn’t offering insight into areas that’ll have me walk away thoroughly pleased, but more the opposite: more dumb for having listened to them.

My only takeaway from both sets is that one person proves to be social, and is exhibiting such by hanging out with friends. Phil’s photo is like every fucking picture he’s every posted on Instagram or Twitter or where-the-fuck-ever: a goofy or stoic face picture, taken indoors(most likely his house). He never has anyone with him, any person or persons, other than Leanna, engaging him in his pictures. He comes off as insecure or trying to fit in; what is this high school? Phil appears on the mental health spectrum. He's either afraid of making friends, had to be coached on how to make friends or has an ego so sheltered he feels above pandering to everyday people because he knows he has 183K fans online to hang on his every word. He’s a case study in what happens when an only child leaves the home too soon.
 
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What the fuck is his 'business degree' in anyways.

It's gotta he some bullshit 2 year associate at a community college at most, right?

"Bugged college mechanics" I'm sure, probably some degree mill like ITT Tech.
 
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