Part of getting his passion back for gaming is learning to laugh at himself. If a game glitches, dont get mad or depressed, laugh.
Example: "Hahaha look at the glitch, always happens to me haha" and then move on without anger or indignation
To give another perspective on this point here, I do agree with you but have to clarify something for Dave, I hope some can agree.
His little outbursts of rage, indignation, depression and mocking (to his chat) aren't by definition problematic as people do know how to take a joke and can laugh over normal human emotions. It's the
way and especially
amount which gets annoying. So we go from a harmless "Haha yeah" to "Holy shit this guy
is a piece of shit". The longer someone repeats anything, the more it paints a picture of the person who says it, so even if I would give him a slack and say "He's just joking", due to his way of speaking and general history I have big problems detecting the joke.
You hear it in his voice which shows no glimpse of irony, you can hear his wording which is often enough literally "I'm not joking here, I'm serious". Is this supposed to be fun for anyone?
He enabled the 2 standards people hold him too all by himself just by taking him and his "work" waaay too serious and by not knowing when to stop (shitty jokes).
I'll give an example. In this subforum in at least 3 threads we quoted his "I did a skedaddle-or-whatever and uploaded RDR2 to YouTube" tweet. The immediate reaction to this, as everyone knows he takes pride in his language and takes himself too serious, was amusement on your behalf as you don't know what skedaddle means and tried to sound cool (or so). We think you're an idiot.
In any other case, if it was the tweet of someone else who we think is a fun person who does not take himself too serious, we would think the wrong use was also a joke.
Now it's time to defend Phil, guys and girls. Prove to me: Has he used "skedaddle" on his stream, on multiple occasions? I could see using this word wrong
on purpose (the joke could be, he finds the right use by trying and he adamants nobody tells him what it means).
Hey Barkeeper, skedaddle me a drink.
I hope this chest contains a skedaddle.
He skedaddled my hat away.
Wooow, you see me skedaddled.
Oh oh, the sky looks skedaddled today.
My favorite color is skedaddle-blue.
Holy fucking skedaddle!
This is a skedaddled situation.
Wait what, don't get me started on YOUR skedaddle.
It's called "joking" and being light hearted. And it works best when you
don't laugh at your own jokes (it sounds super insecure, kills the joke, and I'm not even taking your ear bleeding annoying laugh into consideration). If you
have to give a hint of it being a joke cuz you seem to think your audience is stupid, wink to the camera or some shit. The cam isn't just there to watch you masturbating, it's for interaction with the audience.
