DarksydePhil / TheyCallMeDSP / Phil Burnell - General Discussion

[JackDavis]

On the topic of old phil vs new phil one difference I'm noticing is that phil apologizes a lot less if at all. I can't remember the last time he gave a straight out apology within the last couple of years. Before he'd apologize, selfservingly of course and admit fault and then go back to his usual self so often it became the first iteration of the DSP cycle everybody joked about. I also notice Dat Passive Aggressive Laugh a lot more. Must be some sort of defense mechanism.

Apologizing is a show of humility, and that is just not a trait DSP possesses. It hurts him physically to admit he is wrong.

 

[Fallgout Boy]

Apologizing is a show of humility, and that is just not a trait DSP possesses. It hurts him physically to admit he is wrong.

Or empathy, for that matter. I don't think I've ever seen or heard Phil express empathy for any person or group of people in a way that didn't benefit him.

 

[Jmboote]

I found this to be a pertinent perspective regarding Phil's boasting that people better "prepare to be bodied" when the Street Fighter Anniversary Collection comes out.
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Nice little bit of Deja Vu here, then. Phil did the exact same thing before he played Ultra Street Fighter 2 for the Switch - "So, I'm pretty much gonna dominate everyone, at the game.". And we all know how that turned out.

I think everyone who's played Phil (not only EvilAJ), can say that he's not exactly amazing, even at the game he's best at. But because of that 4th place "win", he's constantly stuck in a place of delusion where he can do no wrong at fighting games and is automatically fantastic. It's like expecting a movie franchise that had a great first entry to still be phenomenal after ten sequels, just because the first one was good. Completely nonsensical logic.

 

[DiabeticSP]

Phil is the ex- high school lineman of street fighter.

He never made states or got a scholarship to college, he wasn't really all that good, he wasn't even all that popular or had friends on the team.

But he was competent enough to feel like he was good at something and once that something was taken away he tries too hard at flag football because he feels like he can recapture a sense of the glory days.

Credit where it's due, Phil was above average at street fighter back in the day. But he was never great and saying he's no longer better than mediocre because he doesn't put the time in any more and he's not getting any younger.

 

[PoopMagnet]

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But he was competent enough to feel like he was good at something and once that something was taken away he tries too hard at flag football because he feels like he can recapture a sense of the glory days...

This is a good summation of Phil's attitude toward gaming in general and more specifically USF2; a single accomplishment transcends practical experience in his mind. He's already set the expectations for what should happen and that has become the reality. When his reality is challenged, he will reaffirm himself by looking at possible excuses: lag, online play, spam, input drops, butchered ports. After all, in his mind he was the Number 1 ranked USA player for USF2, and someone of that stature shouldn't be able to get bodied by random "nobodies" in online play.

 

[Confidential Baldwin]

Phil playing Street Fighter (or any fighting game, but Street Fighter especially) is strangely fascinating. It’s been like 12 years since he had his one “success” then he gets beat and throws out his excuses. The one that always gets me is “You don’t know how to play the game!” Phil, Street Fighter is over 25 years old and you haven’t played in over ten. Do you think that the strategies and gameplay hasn’t evolved in that time?

It’s like who is he to tell people that the way they are playing is wrong. I have to laugh every time he gets hit by a move that straight beats his and then complains about the other guy being a scrub with no fighting game fundamentals. Pretty sure it’s a fundamental fighting game strategy to REACT to an opponents move by using one that beats it, Phil.



I’m not even going to talk about “Random Supers!” that beat him.

 

[Dragoonism]

The one that always gets me is “You don’t know how to play the game!”

To me it is more the "I didn't do that" and how he then have to show what buttons he pressed as if it proves anything!

That sounds so important...

 

[Jmboote]

Phil playing Street Fighter (or any fighting game, but Street Fighter especially) is strangely fascinating. It’s been like 12 years since he had his one “success” then he gets beat and throws out his excuses. The one that always gets me is “You don’t know how to play the game!” Phil, Street Fighter is over 25 years old and you haven’t played in over ten. Do you think that the strategies and gameplay hasn’t evolved in that time?

It’s like who is he to tell people that the way they are playing is wrong. I have to laugh every time he gets hit by a move that straight beats his and then complains about the other guy being a scrub with no fighting game fundamentals. Pretty sure it’s a fundamental fighting game strategy to REACT to an opponents move by using one that beats it, Phil.



I’m not even going to talk about “Random Supers!” that beat him.

It's kind of ridiculous that someone who claims to be good at fighting games (and has actually participated in tournaments) doesn't know the concept of a read, either. Phil is so bare-bones and predicatable that the opponent catches on to his "strategy" and punishes him when he throws out unsafe moves. But no, it's because they're trash/were mashing buttons and got a "random" super or attack.

 

[PoopMagnet]

It's kind of ridiculous that someone who claims to be good at fighting games (and has actually participated in tournaments) doesn't know the concept of a read, either. Phil is so bare-bones and predicatable that the opponent catches on to his "strategy" and punishes him when he throws out unsafe moves. But no, it's because they're trash/were mashing buttons and got a "random" super or attack.

Because when your mantra is "I'm the best US USF2T player there is" you can't concede to being beaten by non-tourney players. It defeats his elitist narrative that he is a great player of games, and that things that beat him, challenge him, or expose his false belief comes around, he has to excuse it away like he does in every one of his 40k+ videos.

 

[xWorst_Pon]

*HINT* send me moa monay so I can see my girl, ohkay *snort*

 

[OneDaySon]

Its pretty funny that for all other games, they gotta be as modern as possible and get with the times and he shames any old school mechanics, but for fighting games he says they have to remain old school as possible and these new games aren't tournament worthy to him and they're always 'flops' because he doesn't like them specifically so they're apparently 'dead games' and shit.

He kind of reminds me of Jim Cornette for anyone who follows wrestling. That kind of "Back in my day" super rose tinted nostalgia goggles for how fighting games used to be and that's the only right way to make a fighting game. But he only thinks that because those old school style fighting games are the ones that he was good at. He never updated his skills with the times, so he wants the games to regress back to how he knows them.

 

[Fox]

*HINT* send me moa monay so I can see my girl, ohkay *snort*

"I hope to be with her again soon but don't know if that is possible bc of my current tax situation."
You're not gonna go to jail nor are you gonna die because of this, stop being so melodramatic. Also Phil you're not in high school, please for the love of everything that is holy stop tweeting like this.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Phil playing Street Fighter (or any fighting game, but Street Fighter especially) is strangely fascinating. It’s been like 12 years since he had his one “success” then he gets beat and throws out his excuses. The one that always gets me is “You don’t know how to play the game!” Phil, Street Fighter is over 25 years old and you haven’t played in over ten. Do you think that the strategies and gameplay hasn’t evolved in that time?

It’s like who is he to tell people that the way they are playing is wrong. I have to laugh every time he gets hit by a move that straight beats his and then complains about the other guy being a scrub with no fighting game fundamentals. Pretty sure it’s a fundamental fighting game strategy to REACT to an opponents move by using one that beats it, Phil.



I’m not even going to talk about “Random Supers!” that beat him.

The fighting game DON'T Plays are the ones I re-watch the most. It's just a shame that most of the creators of those videos don't have much familiarity with those fighters so they rarely ever call him out on his BS.

 

[Dragoonism]

*HINT* send me moa monay so I can see my girl, ohkay *snort*

I really don't care if he has a girlfriend or not, but it really bothers me how he uses her to trick his fans out of money, i wonder how it makes her feel being used like that?
I know that some like it or dont care/mind, but as far as i know most dont! But what if he has revealed to her that he dont need all the tip and Patreon support to make it and she just goes along with it because of, what does that make her?

 

[PieceofShet]

THIS GUY TOTALLY HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD!

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

He's going to get butt-fucked in every single game. I guarantee it.



Knowing Capcom this probably won't happen. They fucked up cross play pretty bad for Street Fighter V.

What messed up?

 

[pagepro]

*HINT* send me moa monay so I can see my girl, ohkay *snort*

What the hell do taxes have to do with being together with a girl? He is making it sound like if he doesn't pay his taxes he can't be with her. What kind of flimsy relationship is that?

 

[BrunoMattei]

What messed up?

fftopic:

This is offtopic as fuck but I'll try to keep it brief:

To have a game with crossplay the online infrastructure has to be created by the game developer as opposed to it being on Sony's servers or whatever. So Capcom literally hired one South Korean guy to develop their online infrastructure and there's literally one guy maintaining the one server in California (I think they tried upgrading to two servers and two guys). This is all true. Now, I think they're trying to borrow Bandai Namco's servers for V. No one knows what's going on.

The rollback for online can be one-sided randomly:

This is still a problem that Capcom has never acknowledged.

Capcom takes the servers down once a week or every other week for 8 hours a day.

They introduced a root kit last year when they launched Urien.

I'm not even going into the problems with the game it self as there's multiple issues that would easily take up several paragraphs. But TLDR: Capcom has been fucking up super fucking hard for the last 2-3 years. This isn't even mentioning the shit show that was Marvel VS Capcom: Infinite that sold less than half a million copies.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

fftopic:

This is offtopic as fuck but I'll try to keep it brief:

To have a game with crossplay the online infrastructure has to be created by the game developer as opposed to it being on Sony's servers or whatever. So Capcom literally hired one South Korean guy to develop their online infrastructure and there's literally one guy maintaining the one server in California (I think they tried upgrading to two servers and two guys). This is all true. Now, I think they're trying to borrow Bandai Namco's servers for V. No one knows what's going on.

The rollback for online can be one-sided randomly:

This is still a problem that Capcom has never acknowledged.

Capcom takes the servers down once a week or every other week for 8 hours a day.

They introduced a root kit last year when they launched Urien.

I'm not even going into the problems with the game it self as there's multiple issues that would easily take up several paragraphs. But TLDR: Capcom has been fucking up super fucking hard for the last 2-3 years. This isn't even mentioning the shit show that was Marvel VS Capcom: Infinite that sold less than half a million copies.

I knew about the rootkit, but didn't know about the server thing. It would be funny if they actually tried to get access to Namco's servers considering they're poised to release multiple fighting games next year that people have been clamouring for (DBZ even superficially looks like a MvC style game when their's is fucked), and Tekken 7 has sold more in 6 months than the entire time SF5 has since launch. Watching Phil fail miserably in Soulcalibur is going to be fun.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I knew about the rootkit, but didn't know about the server thing. It would be funny if they actually tried to get access to Namco's servers considering they're poised to release multiple fighting games next year that people have been clamouring for (DBZ even superficially looks like a MvC style game when their's is fucked), and Tekken 7 has sold more in 6 months than the entire time SF5 has since launch. Watching Phil fail miserably in Soulcalibur is going to be fun.

Bamco has been absolutely crushing Capcom at their own game. The turn out for the Cap Cup for MVC: I was abysmal too. Marvel is dead. Street Fighter V is on life support and Capcom is really banking that adding more popular characters from previous entries and a robust arcade mode will bring the casuals back.