DarksydePhil / TheyCallMeDSP / Phil Burnell - General Discussion

[Pubic Enemy #1]

I hope someone's mentioned to Phil how hypocritical he's being by trying to call out ST for being "broken" (AKA not like the port he played), when said port was ridiculed and outright boycotted by some big-name FGC players for how poorly balanced and unlike the proper game it was.

Because that's absolutely incredible, how that can make sense in his mind. If only he applied the same level of effort into actual exercise instead of just the mental gymnastics on display here.

I've seen a few replies on Twitter to that effect, but he's doing his usual trick of only replying to the least reasoned/most aggressive comments. Anything that's actually reasoned and thoughtful, like your post was, he just ignores. Easier to spin his narrative of DA HATERZ being an amorphous blob of angry headcases, people who actually calmly explain stuff to him just get ignored and likely blocked. Phil doesn't deal with reason too well.

 

[LostMy1stAccount]

This is kind of something else Ive thought of. I mean he's not good at games but he's also nearly 40. At that age your reaction time is going to be a little worse, and he's talking about playing competitively where people are reacting to frames, you need to have good reaction time, the other good players certainly will. He's kind of aged out of that scene, nobody is "pro" forever, the "pro" career for anything is usually pretty short.

The thing with Phil is, that he never was the top player he claims to be in the first place.
He placed in some tournaments, I'll give him that, but the competition back then was way smaller.
And while the real top players adapted, evolved and got even better, DSP just didn't.

While age does factor in your results, people like Tokido or Infiltration (both in their 30s) still to this day win major tournaments while Dave gets destroyed by random online players.
I bet even James Chen could easily win against Phil, and James is like 100 years old. (I think he's in his 40s)

 

[Surly Muppet]

I hope someone's mentioned to Phil how hypocritical he's being by trying to call out ST for being "broken" (AKA not like the port he played), when said port was ridiculed and outright boycotted by some big-name FGC players for how poorly balanced and unlike the proper game it was.

Because that's absolutely incredible, how that can make sense in his mind. If only he applied the same level of effort into actual exercise instead of just the mental gymnastics on display here.

Someone just did on prestream. He, angrily (probably because he knows they're right) said that his past statement that you have to adapt is about *tournaments*, not about the retail game, which deserves criticism for doing being a broken version. It would be different if he were at a tournament, but he doesn't go to tournaments anymore, stupid. He also created a great hybrid of the 'black and white mentality' defense, AND the 'lack of context' defense.

It was incoherent and again showed that he is a terminally stupid hypocrite while insulting his accusers of being the same. I think when it comes to 'making sense in his mind' it's just repeating to himself "I'm right, they're wrong" and then he just talks until he thinks he has proven that. He never actually does.

UPDATE:
He also just said that criticizing a tournament for not using an arcade-accurate version is legitimate, but questioning the legitimacy of the people who won on that version is not legitimate. Which sounds suspiciously like ' you can criticize anything until it applies to me'.

"It would be like me bragging, you know, I'll beat your ass at PS1 Super Turbo... No, no matter what version I play of Super Turbo, I'll adapt and win. Today I don't necessarily want to adapt."
JESUS CHRIST PHIL. Listen to yourself you mongoloid...

 

[FallGout]

The thing with Phil is, that he never was the top player he claims to be in the first place.
He placed in some tournaments, I'll give him that, but the competition back then was way smaller.
And while the real top players adapted, evolved and got even better, DSP just didn't.

While age does factor in your results, people like Tokido or Infiltration (both in their 30s) still to this day win major tournaments while Dave gets destroyed by random online players.
I bet even James Chen could easily win against Phil, and James is like 100 years old. (I think he's in his 40s)

Even I beat DSP at SF4 and I'm a casual player. DSP was decent at Super Turbo but no where near the top players and his claim to victory (4th place) was on a broken port the top players refused to compete in. When he played on the arcade version after that he got his shit pushed in but came up with excuses as usual.

It's just sad that people believe he is some fighting game god when in reality he was just decent at one of them and a scrub in the rest.

 

[ANDS!]

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Holy shit the delusion is strong. Thousands of people like you? You get less than 500 viewers on stream on a good day, and at least 1/5th of those aren't watching on Twitch.

. . . I mean I bet Richard Spencer has/d thousands of Twitter followers. Such a silly metric to try and peg your success to. President Trump has an obscene number of Twitter followers. . . and a not small number of them are only doing so to rage at him.

 

[Zack the ripper]

i really would love to know how many accounts he has blocked throughout the years
i bet the number would be double his followers'

 

[OneDaySon]

I've seen a few replies on Twitter to that effect, but he's doing his usual trick of only replying to the least reasoned/most aggressive comments. Anything that's actually reasoned and thoughtful, like your post was, he just ignores. Easier to spin his narrative of DA HATERZ being an amorphous blob of angry headcases, people who actually calmly explain stuff to him just get ignored and likely blocked. Phil doesn't deal with reason too well.

Right, then he can use the excuse of "I've responded to that criticism on twitter" because technically he's responded to someone with that criticism but he just responds to the most abusive one, with abuse back, he doesn't really respond to the points made.

 

[FalsePositivity]

I’m sure some people knew this already, but doing a side by side viewing of older tournament matches to some of Phil’s matches shows the timer moving at the same speed and characters moving at the same speeds.

In other words, Phil is absolutely full of shit about his “speed differences” claims. If only a more prominent person would call Phil out on his shit, that would be great. Phil will continue to spin his narrative when nobody people on twitter keep trying to tell him he’s wrong.

 

[Brother Wind]

I mean his EVO win was always a sham. Adapting to a broken port is like taking all the players and flipping the list upside down. Whoever wins that was gonna have strong fundamentals, but no knowledge of the actual game. Because, that's always gonna taint you. You're reflexes have to be trained to respond to the right sounds/visuals. And if you fuck with frames, that's all gone. And Phil lucked out, he never had any of that. I think this is more proof that he's really just the kind of "Pattern Player" he's always railed against. Hell it might even explain his complete fucking inability to play defense.

Because people bring up his Win/Loss and the more I look at his ST play the more I'm convinced it's because he's just capable of mounting an offense pattern. And literally nothing else.

EDIT: I should finish that. An offensive pattern is like the first thing you need to know how to stop to "git gud" at Street Fighter. Because that's why Top Level play looks like it's two kids at a high school dance. Both of them know how to stop over-aggression, so now they have to make their hits count. Phil and all of his talks of footsies knows none of this. He knows how to measure distance of his attacks and that is it. Maaaaybe he knows enough to not get hit, but certainly not enough to stop getting hit when it starts.

 

[Quan_Chi]

i really would love to know how many accounts he has blocked throughout the years
i bet the number would be double his followers'

Probably right up there with Steve shives.

 

[Marsaudiac]

Here's a mirror of his vlahg about EVO 2005. It's actually worth watching for anyone who wasn't seen it for one big reason that most people don't know: he even admits he didn't play Super Turbo much. It was never his "primary" fighter. He even says his nearby arcades didn't have it and that he only started practicing the PS1 port at the Evo hotel. Combined with the fact that he got utterly destroyed in his main game (Marvel vs. Capcom 2), this cements the fact that his placement in ST was a total fluke, and that he has probably never been good at fighting games.

 

[actually]

Looks like a new :autism: challenger may have arisen:
# of 4.99 subs = 10 by ['darkviking159', 'bammbino', 'thespiccoli', 'insomniacmayhem', 'the_guardiann', 'asoms223', 'bobbi_ling***', 'theycallmejimbob4mod***', 'scootibutt***', 'sonichu1982***']

asoms223 gave 4 $4.99 subs.


...or maybe not: Total Subs (via decapi): 434

 

[neger psykolog]

Looks like a new :autism: challenger may have arisen:
# of 4.99 subs = 10 by ['darkviking159', 'bammbino', 'thespiccoli', 'insomniacmayhem', 'the_guardiann', 'asoms223', 'bobbi_ling***', 'theycallmejimbob4mod***', 'scootibutt***', 'sonichu1982***']

asoms223 gave 4 $4.99 subs.


...or maybe not: Total Subs (via decapi): 434

Wait did someone gift Chrischan a DSP sub?
That is Chrischan's official Twitch account: https://www.twitch.tv/sonichu1982

 

[actually]

Wait did someone gift Chrischan a DSP sub?
That is Chrischan's official Twitch account: https://www.twitch.tv/sonichu1982

Yup. Pretty sure Kulu_Ya_Ku did the same thing when they gifted 20 or so subs that time.

 

[Heckler1]

So I had a thought about how its often perceived that Phil talks at people. We know he has shit tier interpersonal skills, as anytime he receives even the slightest negative feedback he throws a crap attack, and for a long time I just assumed he monologue at people because he is a giant manbaby who wants attention.

But I think its actually something else now. I think the only person Phil is talking to is himself. The reality that he is a failure in every sense of the word is hanging over him like a person knowing that some kind of doom lurks in the darkness, and if they see it they will die.

To avoid facing that reality, Phil talks to himself, weaving a web of excuses and half truths that allow him to view himself as "a mature adult" with a "serious business". Its also why nothing can ever be his fault, as if he takes a moment to consider a shortcoming, then he might realize other flaws about himself leading to a domino effect. Notice that the only people he engages with either support his crazy narratives 100% 9and reinforce his delusions) or people he can label as "HaTeRz" to avoid having to take any of their points seriously.

Phil's going to die alone fellas. And on his deathbed he will STILL insist "Nothing I could do doods.......snort".

 

[Pubic Enemy #1]

Just remembered something. At the end of his ST playthrough he admitted he never managed to beat Akuma legit, and he only beat him once using savescumming. Now Dave wouldn't admit to being a tryhard loser who practiced on an emulator like that, now would he?

 

[LordAutismo]

People talking about 30-somethings not being able to play on reaction have a point, but it isn't the be all to remain competitive. Aside from putting time into the lab and getting your execution down, you also need to be able to read your opponent. If you are able to make good reads, playing on reaction isn't much of a factor anymore. That's why Valle, Daigo, and Tokido are still relevant today dispite their age. A blind man has the best hearing.

 

[Zack the ripper]

People talking about 30-somethings not being able to play on reaction have a point, but it isn't the be all to remain competitive. Aside from putting time into the lab and getting your execution down, you also need to be able to read your opponent. If you are able to make good reads, playing on reaction isn't much of a factor anymore. That's why Valle, Daigo, and Tokido are still relevant today dispite their age. A blind man has the best hearing.

true that
besides dave's playstyle is scummy af like vega is a trollish character to begin with i picked him up in a day and scored some wins against fightcade's ogs
not to mention his mike bison
like i watched his fighting games' vids and man are they painful to watch !
no meta games no nothing just muscle memory and highschool combos

 

[Meech]

This whole "not the REAL version" shit is so confusing to me. It doesnt seem to apply to any other game genre. Its not like Phil plays the most recent CoD and complains that in CoD 4 everything was different and these deaths arent legit because "THATS NOT HOW IT WORKS, THATS LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE!"

Is it so hard to just admit that you like the version of the game you are best at?

Edit: spelling

 

[FalsePositivity]

And Phil wonders why people won’t engage with him lol!