DarksydePhil / TheyCallMeDSP / Phil Burnell - General Discussion

[WeeblesWobble]

I think if Sea of Thieves doesn't bring in the views or "interaction" he wants, that could be his breaking point.

I highly doubt that is going to happen. SoT requires the streamer to create the entertainment. It's a fun game to play, but if the person you're watching is boring or not fully engaged in the game it is a snoozefest. I'm willing to bet Phil drops it either after boring his fans to death or getting trolled into oblivion in game. He'll say it's over rated. Not only that but it's not a game you play by yourself. You NEED friends to make it more fun and to survive in general. Who from his group is tolerable enough to listen to during the stream and also won't piss Phil off by being better than him?

 

[Faded]

Phil definitely wants a break. He's begging so much lately because he's trying to scrounge enough money together to go on an actual vacation (not one of his infamous staycations in Seattle) for a few weeks, though obviously he can't flat out say this; his taxes are just a cover. I think if Sea of Thieves doesn't bring in the views or "interaction" he wants, that could be his breaking point.


More revisionist history about his back? Wouldn't surprise me.

I've heard it before.
Apparently he kept mentioning his back injury because he was getting an insurance payout that was quite large. And he had to keep the story straight on youtube etc.

 

[BlockedByDaylight]

It's like paying to go to the theater but the management tells you, before the film starts, that you have to set up the reels

And then they make you tip them $5 everytime you ask a question on how to do it.

 

[ZehnBoat]

Phil definitely wants a break.

he can just geta job, i hear those are EASY to do. some light work instead of the strenuous back-breaking labor of vidya

 

[neger psykolog]

Holy shit, having a searchable collection of Phil's prestreams is amazing. Who could believe Phil can't buy a fucking fish tank because of his bad back.

Back related mentions on prestreams since 2015/6:

• whenever there was snow it was a big issue for me because number one if I fall I'm screwed i could hurt my back badly number two shoveling snow is a terrible thing for someone with a bad back and frequently i would get snowed in at my former place in Connecticut because there was no kind of uh covered a covered area for my car in the parking lot every time it would snow my car would be an amount of fucking snow and I'd have to go out there by myself because I live by myself and dig the car out and it was a nightmare in fact it was so bad that some year there two years in fact when I did this YouTube thing from Connecticut that for like a week a fucking week I didn't leave my place because it was so much snow outside I was like fuck it I'll just wait for the snow to start melting before I go out there because there's no reason for me to leave and I would order out food I would eat meals that I cooked for myself at home that's how bad it was I was basically snowed in for weeks at a time
• there was to two different years where I was completely buried by snow to the point where I couldn't even get out of my house cuz you know I had a bat bad back or whatever um and I can't shovel snow or anything that's heavy and there were days when I couldn't even get my car out my car was completely encased in ice and snow and I would just be like well I guess I'm staying home and either making making food for myself from what i have here i'm ordering out and hopefully someone can deliver here safely uh it's bad and you know it's it's you know I joke about what moving to the west coast and there's no snow here
• because they wouldn't plow properly and then I would have to dig my fucking frozen car out of this snow even though I have a bad back you know would hurt my back and what a horrible situation that I had that you know that I would be missing out on is the gift of snow on the East Coast right
• there's heavy ass snow and ice in the winter meaning number one I have to shovel which I can't do because I've a bad back and I would constantly keep reheating my back because I had to do that to clear it out and also there's danger of slipping and falling and all kinds of during the winter it's terrible
• if you guys aren't aware last night I started watching uhm death no yes death note to anime um and I really just watched it all night until I fell asleep actually fell asleep on my couch last night which is bad obviously when you have a bad back or a history of back injury you should not be sleeping on the couch like that but I fell asleep on the couch watching it so I honestly don't even know what episode I ended at but it's a pretty good show man
• oh that's maybe a mainstream game because the thing was this was when I unfortunately was diagnosed with my back injury my serious back injury a herniated disc in my lower back and I couldn't do the physical stuff that I used to do I couldn't play sports I couldn't drive long distances so that was it for the competitive street fighter community for me because there was no way for me to get to and from the events and so I wanted to get back into console gaming which is why I bought the ps3 I wanted to immerse myself in this this this culture
• that's just what you want in real life hiking stream where I hike and hurt my back I'm not supposed to be doing things like that the doctor specifically explained to me when my back injury was diagnosed ten years ago I could no longer be doing that kind of activity they visited like Cal aesthetics light you know things exercise is good but extended walking is not good so I would never go out of walk on a hike because I'd probably hurt my back there you go um let's see what else oh so I just meant your patreon there you go teespring obviously
• the weather is worse out there I can't shovel snow I still have my back injury you know I can't shovel snow and all that it's gonna be worse gonna go right back to being shitty again this is the last three and a half years of my life living in Washington have been great
• like if you started watching me in the past year and a half you may not even know this but I have a back injury it hasn't really affected me since I moved in fact since I moved to the west coast the injury really is not giving me much problems many problems at all it's a severely I had a severely herniated disc in my lower back but I'd have to think that in the past year and a half is the it's gone down and or is almost better because I really don't have any issues with my back the only issues I have every once in a while is this I'm out all day at sometimes I come home my back really hurts like really sore but if I just lay down for like 15 minutes it's fine so in all effectiveness you know my back issues are probably much better now but when I lived on the east coast whenever there was snow it was a big issue for me because number one if I fall I'm screwed i could hurt my back badly number two shoveling snow is a terrible thing for someone with a bad back and frequently i would get snowed in at my former place in Connecticut because there was no kind of uh covered a covered area for my car in the parking lot every time it would snow my car would be an amount of fucking snow and I'd have to go out there by myself
• [someone did a 25 bit cheer] and said I can hear you rocking back and forth Phil chill out we always support you rave comic the reason I do that is because I am uncomfortable sitting still because of my back injury and also because I have restless leg syndrome okay um if I sit still and don't move I feel uncomfortable
• I guess what he means is have I ever camped out the answer is no I actually did other outdoorsy stuff I fished before going on nature trail hikes and stuff like that but I never actually camped out before mmm I don't know I don't know how that would go I mean obviously at one point in my life I thought I never would cuz my back injury but now my back is kind of better so maybe it's something I would do eventually huh mm-hmm alright

• I mean really honestly the one thing that I would like to change my health you know my fucking stupid allergies and my back injury and a fucking foot problem from two years ago all that shit keeps creeping up to bother me
• I mean all day I'm sitting here playing games with you guys you need to take breaks to get up and move if you don't there's a lot of health hazards number one you know I have a back injury and just sitting around not moving can actually make it worse number two there's risk if you can believe it blood clots heart issues if you're just sitting sitting sitting all day long and not getting up that's a problem um so I need to start taking breaks again
• I've been looking at are you know maybe hamsters again or maybe some fish and so we were talking about possibly you know a fish fish tank you know what that would entail the problem for me is I want fish I've always wanted fish it's actually not really confession but a true statement I've always wanted fish I like fish I like if you get a nice fish tank with a light you can actually watch it's very relaxing just to watch them swim around and to hear the little water bubbling sound if you get one of those bubble systems or whatever I've always wanted fish the problem is I live alone and I used to have back problems so imagine me getting a big fish tank right with a bunch of cool fish but now I have to drain this thing myself and clean it my Shell's probably a daunting - here's the thing I had a friend when I in the mid 2000 I had lived in a three-bedroom apartment I shared it with two roommates and the girl who lived there my friend had a big fish tank and I always had to help her clean it there was no way she could do it by herself not that she was a small girl either she wasn't but the fucking thing's heavy shit and it's dangerous to try to lift this fucking thing yourself and empty it so for me to get a big fit you know fish another thing I would want a giant fish tank I'd probably get like a mid-sized one arm but it would probably be too much of a pain in the ass for myself if I was living with someone and they wanted to help me with it sure but you know mr. Papa very here is saying well you can get a fish tank with animals that'll clean it yeah I'm actually aware if you get these little guys they're called cleaner shrimp and they're cool they actually look I'm not even kidding they look like mini lobsters um only they don't a giant claw they're little little any mini claws but what they do is they go around they clean all OH basically the fecal matter that fish create that's what they do and they'll keep your tank clean if you I think them and there's like one other kind of creature you need and they'll actually keep it fairly clean for the most part yeah every once in a while you have to do some kind of stuff to it but for the most part it actually is like self-sufficient well then I would be interested in looking into not to say I'm in any rush to get pets or anything like that but hey if anyone has any information on that maybe you have that kind of tank yourself and you'd like to let me know about it I'd actually be very interested because that is something I've always been interested in and honestly right now I have two spots down in my downstairs area where I could put a nice fish tank so I'm that's definitely something I would consider okay
• I've already explained number one I have DDP yoga I already bought it explained this uh many times he would keep asking me this I can answer again saying I have it and I just haven't done it because I don't need it because my back is fine I don't have that pain anymore when I do have it it's only on a day when I like massively strained my back walking around all day or lifting stuff so no worries about my back
• says if I move back to Connecticut well first of all I don't want to move back to Connecticut and I hate people who asked me these fucking hypothetical questions about moving back to Connecticut guys you need to understand something it's the worst case scenario if I move back to Connecticut I'm back in the horrendous weather that's gonna be terrible for my back I'm back to the shitty internet that constantly went out and could not be fixed or improved by my cable company
• I have to lift anything he's just placing them on the cart and taking them off the cart the cart I'm going to be pulling everywhere so it's not like I have to be tons of dead lifting or whatever ah so it shouldn't be the too big of a deal don't worry trust me I'm not gonna put my back at risk if worse comes to worst I'll just get the shit in the garage I'll just leave it there and then when my girlfriend moves in we'll bring it together that way I don't hurt my back but we'll see we'll see how it goes um all right um so that's tomorrow
• as I told you guys my loveseat which I bought in 2014 when I moved here has become incredibly sunken in the cushions that you'll no longer have any kind of fucking support which sucks um what I've been trying to do is find a position here where if I sit I can actually have some support so what I've been doing is I have these pillows you know let's the throw pillows from it and I've been sitting on them to try to get some kind of fucking ass we're out of this fucking thing what I'm gonna do now when I get rid of my back the backrest thing that I've had I'm gonna try to sit like this shit still sucked in it still all sucked in oh my god yeah it sucks cuz you know this is what happens with furniture the more you know most I'm pretty sure most furniture is not designed to expect that you're gonna be sitting on it at least eight hours a day after that for for three straight years and this loveseat it was so good when I bought it and now it's just like mush I sit on this fucking thing it's like Zook it sucked in um yeah blows the situation sucks because I'm trying to get like support here for my back and there is none so I've been messing with this thing trying to get it and here we go well I guess I'm gonna go with this see how it goes

 

[Long time lurker]

Sea of Thieves

If I'm not mistaken, he back pedaled from playing it with other people. I could be wrong, since I didn't catch the beginning of the pre-stream, but when I logged in he was saying something about playing some game by himself because he couldn't find anyone to play with him (while the chat was full of messages saying "I'll play with you").

He's begging so much lately because he's trying to scrounge enough money together to go on an actual vacation (not one of his infamous staycations in Seattle) for a few weeks

He could use some time to research other streamers and figure out what works and what doesn't, but that would require controlling his ego enough to admit that other people do stuff right.

 

[johnny5150]

If I'm not mistaken, he back pedaled from playing it with other people. I could be wrong, since I didn't catch the beginning of the pre-stream, but when I logged in he was saying something about playing some game by himself because he couldn't find anyone to play with him (while the chat was full of messages saying "I'll play with you").

that could kinda hard since sea of thieves is a multiplayer game.

 

[clownpiss]

DSP just revealed on stream that he got in a horrible car wreck in high school. IDK if I've ever heard him mention that before.

Didn't he wreck because he drove without glasses and his mom gave him shit for doing that while in hospital rather than shower Phil with sympathy? I remember him bitching about that once upon a time

ABSOLUTELY EXORBITANTLY BAD, meanwhile it probably wasn't shit but his overreacting ass probably went to the hospital just because he thinks in such dramatic terms. meanwhile im sure it was his fault, his mom was probably pissed at his stubbornness and knowing he was fine told him "you should really use your glasses phil" and somehow that turned into "MY ASSHOLE MOM DOESNT CARE ABOUT ME AND SHE JUST YELLED AT ME WHEN I COULDVE DIED"

 

[johnny5150]

chris chan stream was probably better.

 

[andr0id psycho sho(ker]

chris chan stream was probably better.

And Chris just started streaming while Phil has been doing it for years. Really makes you think doesn't it?

 

[Jotaro]

DSP just revealed on stream that he got in a horrible car wreck in high school. IDK if I've ever heard him mention that before.

I think that's the one where someone supposedly ran him off the road but he didn't get the plates and his mom said it was his fault because she had warned him previously not to drive on that specific road and he disobeyed her rather than ask if he were okay, this was apparently the incident that led to DSP basically, as he tells it, putting his foot down and telling his parents that he will do whatever he wanted, stay out as late as he wanted, go where he wanted and if they didn't like it he would move out, or something. I guess it was what led to him becoming the bodybuilding, party king chad at college that he claims he became.

 

[neger psykolog]

Goutsydephil just posted a link to this interview with DSP which is from this month apparently:

https://cultureofgaming.com/the-culture-of-gaming-interview-phil-dsp-burnell/
http://archive.fo/iqAPj

 

[Noob-Noob]

Goutsydephil just posted a link to this interview with DSP which is from this month apparently:
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https://cultureofgaming.com/the-culture-of-gaming-interview-phil-dsp-burnell/
http://archive.fo/iqAPj

I wonder where Phil found the time to do this interview, in between "working his ass off" and watching television. We all know his time is precious. I'm glad he wen't out of his way though to interview for this cock gobbling article about himself. Must have just been fan service like DSP: Tries It. An article for the fans to enjoy. What a selfless human being.

 

[Waveysauce]

He just officially deleted burn out paradise. was bored..... like WTF did he think it was going to be? Just another racing game like the others he didnt like

 

[clownpiss]

He just officially deleted burn out paradise. was bored..... like WTF did he think it was going to be? Just another racing game like the others he didnt like

i guess you could say hes burned out

 

[DarkSoulsPhil]

Phil 'there is nothing more I can milk from this game' Burnell rage quit a game? Why I never

EDIT: Fuck your word filter Null.

 

[andr0id psycho sho(ker]

i guess you could say hes burned out

Do you have awesome shades to go with that CSI level pun?

 

[Sparkletor]

I feel really bad that the winters in Connecticut were so harsh that he was forced to cook his own meals or get delivery in order to survive.

He had to go out by himself and shovel snow all alone because he lived all by himself. How terrible that must have been. Most people I know don't own multiple snow shovels. It's generally a one person job. I imagine he would complain about having to mow the lawn all alone too if he was the type of person who did that type of work.

His place didn't have a covered parking space so he had to shovel snow. His apartments probably have a snow plow service that plows the parking lot unless they are different than every other apartment complex I have seen. He paid $100k for the place, I would think they mow the lawn and ice the sidewalk for you so you don't fall on their property and sue them.

Assuming Phil is being honest what difference would having a covered carport make? The parking lot would still be covered in snow. The only difference is a covered car would obviously not have snow on it. How does your car having snow and ice on it equal shoveling heavy snow? You don't use a shovel on your car. Brush the snow off with your glove. Scrape the ice off with a scraper or the lazy way use a can of ice melter.

 

[WeeblesWobble]

Goutsydephil just posted a link to this interview with DSP which is from this month apparently:
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https://cultureofgaming.com/the-culture-of-gaming-interview-phil-dsp-burnell/
http://archive.fo/iqAPj

Jesus christ. An interview about him and he still spends most the time talking about detractors. Fucking A.

That website looks like absolute shit. Did Phil really do an interview with these guys?? lmao

 

[Faded]

Do you have awesome shades to go with that CSI level pun?

I guess you could say the future's looking so bright....... I gotta wear shades.

WAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh