Someone has to tell the donkey that bad games can still be enjoyable for their badness. Actually many people are highly interested in complete trash, something to laugh at. The same reason people watch Dave.
Like myself you sound a little skeptical when it comes to the particulars here. Do you think there's a chance Phil simply quit his job back in the day, giving up gainful employment in search of internet fame and fortune? Because to me this sounds exactly like something DSP would do and I've thought so for years. It's equally stupid and egotistical.. a little brave too maybe but there's a fine line between bravery and stupidity. I'd say it errs more on the side of pure ego in his particular case, believing he was all set to become Mr Gaming Number 1 on youtube and up to a point he claimed if things weren't working out he'd look to bail out and get a real job - 10 years later he's "living hand to mouth" and yet the very idea of ever doing anything else is a million miles away from the kind of reality he'd ever consider.
It's hard to say if Phil quit the helicopter job or if he was laid off. It seems likely that they got a new vice president who restructured the company in order to try and fix things and Phil was just a casualty. The company eventually either got bought out or merged with Boeing I think, so can imagine they were cutting costs to try and stay afloat.
Interesting how Phil says his dad was laid off too. His Linkedin profile shows he worked for Sikorsky until 2005 and for Helicopter Support Inc. until 2012. So the timelines don't exactly line up with DSP leaving Sikorsky.
Also one of Mr. Dave Burnell's achievements was implementing the Achieving Competitive Excellence program. The same program that DSP brags about completing and hung the certificate on his wall. I haven't found out much about this program, but it seems like it was for mechanics or shop workers, focusing on keeping the workspace clean and routine inspection of machines and tool maintenance.
I theorize that Dave had high hopes for his son following in his footsteps in working his way up from the bottom in the aeronautics industry. However Phil was content answering phones and spending his free time drinking and playing video games instead of learning the trade.
Phil has a negative view of colleges and "book smart" individuals. Odd since his father has a couple of master's degrees and was an adjunct professor.
Phil's father also ran dor the local school board a few years ago as a Republican. He didn't win.
Fucking idiot doesnt even turn down "sound effects" or "master volume" for an in-game over-the-radio segment. He goes straight for "Music" and gives up right away. His laziness knows no bounds....
I'm pretty sure he was laid off. He was visibly puffy, red eyed and admitted he was crying in the video where he tells us he was laid off.
Also, Phil's ego is much too big to lie about being laid off.
Good thing Dave the business expert made his executive decision to ignore the poll results. There are about 80K-100K people watching Fallout 76 on Twitch today. Some are playing with friends, some solo, most laughing and having fun, joking about all the glitches and other problems the game has, it's making for great "interaction" and "participation" for most of the streamers playing it.
From a long-term perspective, he did. But in Phil's eyes, he decided not to play it and has been rewarded with upwards of ~$600 yesterday and today between cheers, subs, and tips. Granted, the bulk of that was from large cheers, a single $100 tip, and 34 or 35 gifted subs. But Phil don't care--he sees the money and that's it.
I keep saying it but I think his plea last night was easily his most blatant. He stated that he was so nervous because Twitch should have paid him by now, and he might get it in the next day or two. Despite the fact that there is literally nothing he has to pay for or he will lose it in two days time, he was literally just bragging about how much more money he made than Tevin with a smaller fanbase. And on top of that he had a few INCREDIBLY lucrative months thanks to tut, and there was a point where he may have made well over $5k extra from tut’s efforts. And yet he’s still in the hole after making all that extra money.
Save for an addiction to drugs or gambling (and he doesn’t leave the house enough for a problem gambler), I genuinely don’t know what else one could spend that much extra money on.
He definitely got the $5k from Tut--at a bare minimum, if Tut had managed to chargeback the tips (he didn't), Phil still got a guaranteed $3900 or so. Regardless, you've seen why Phil does it. As I just put above, he's gotten $600+, not including tonight's stream. That includes at least $150 in tips that he can get right away. So why wouldn't he just keep crying poor? His chat 'tards eat it up and fling their money at him every time.
Good thing Dave the business expert made his executive decision to ignore the poll results. There are about 80K-100K people watching Fallout 76 on Twitch today. Some are playing with friends, some solo, most laughing and having fun, joking about all the glitches and other problems the game has, it's making for great "interaction" and "participation" for most of the streamers playing it.
This is because, for Phillip, 'interaction' and 'participation' are not concepts of a sense of community or an overall atmosphere of fun. They are simply alternate ways of referring to the amount of money changing hands from viewer to streamer.
I had an interesting dream last night. I was walking down a street in my old hometown and I saw a house that I recognized to be Phil's (I have never actually lived anywhere near Phil at any point in my life). It looked like he wasn't home so I and a friend of mine decided to have some fun. We grabbed a video camera and started filming in his house and around his property, even playing his games and pretending to be him. Then suddenly my friend says "Okay, cut" and runs away. I look up and there's Phil wearing a hoodie and sunglasses. He says "Hey, what're you doing?" and pulls a gun on me. I panic and run towards him, and next thing I know I'm Phil's hostage being forced to stream with him.
Interesting how Phil says his dad was laid off too. His Linkedin profile shows he worked for Sikorsky until 2005 and for Helicopter Support Inc. until 2012. So the timelines don't exactly line up with DSP leaving Sikorsky.
Also one of Mr. Dave Burnell's achievements was implementing the Achieving Competitive Excellence program. The same program that DSP brags about completing and hung the certificate on his wall. I haven't found out much about this program, but it seems like it was for mechanics or shop workers, focusing on keeping the workspace clean and routine inspection of machines and tool maintenance.
Sikorsky bought Helicopter Support inc. some time in the late 90s. I guarantee they reorganized their supply chains under that 'brand' at some point, and Phil's direct reports ended up under the "Helicopter Support" brand, since he seems to have done no more than front line mechanic/supply chain support for the whole time he was there.
As for the ACE thing, once you get into a company big enough (And Sikorsky, which at the time was owned by $60 billion UTC, was definitely big enough) you start to find those weird "Acronym certifications" that basically just exist to make a company or employee look better. Six Sigma, Kaizen, ISO 9001, CPI, it's all the same "We got an outside company to say we weren't idiots" certification. They're dead simple to get and people/companies worth their weight don't even bother listing them.
Just as an FYI, Phil pulled in at least $765 in cheers, subs, and tips yesterday and today, with at least $240 of that being in the form of tips. So when he's still begging, remember that he feels comfortable enough to take a day off tomorrow too.
Just as an FYI, Phil pulled in at least $765 in cheers, subs, and tips yesterday and today, with at least $240 of that being in the form of tips. So when he's still begging, remember that he feels comfortable enough to take a day off tomorrow too.
Just as an FYI, Phil pulled in at least $765 in cheers, subs, and tips yesterday and today, with at least $240 of that being in the form of tips. So when he's still begging, remember that he feels comfortable enough to take a day off tomorrow too.
I just cannot comprehend that he has some ~400 people that subscribe to his twitch...
and some approx 50 (?) people who give a narcissistic hermit money on a weekly basis to TALK about his boring life for 1-2hrs a day and BADLY play games he hates
All the while literally BEGGING for $
...saying he lives bill to bill - in between confident bragging about how much he makes (estimated $100k) as part of his 'work' compared to others; with his new TV and fan and PlayStation and t shirts and games etc
Don't understand all this anger directed at his begging. It only works because other people make it work. Kind of like bullying where the victims enable the bully to do anything they want.
He definitely got the $5k from Tut--at a bare minimum, if Tut had managed to chargeback the tips (he didn't), Phil still got a guaranteed $3900 or so. Regardless, you've seen why Phil does it. As I just put above, he's gotten $600+, not including tonight's stream. That includes at least $150 in tips that he can get right away. So why wouldn't he just keep crying poor? His chat 'tards eat it up and fling their money at him every time.
To put this in perspective, tut gifted OVER 700 SUBS during September. OverRustle can confirm this as tut didn't disable the gifted sub count in his own preferences.
[2018-09-05 02:34:18 UTC] twitchnotify: tutankhamunnn gifted a Tier 1 sub to JewBacca2o3! This is their first Gift Sub in the channel!
[2018-09-23 18:57:46 UTC] twitchnotify: tutankhamunnn gifted a Tier 1 sub to engorgedburrito! They have given 713 Gift Subs in the channel!
710 are tier 1 ($4.99, $2.50 to the streamer), none are tier 2, 3 are tier 3 ($24.99, $17.50 to the streamer) so I might as well show those. Plus 2 of the 3 were continued as part of the Subtember promotion in under an hour.
[2018-09-14 19:55:56 UTC] twitchnotify: tutankhamunnn gifted a Tier 3 sub to MizoreLover! They have given 661 Gift Subs in the channel!
[2018-09-14 20:11:12 UTC] twitchnotify: MizoreLover is continuing the Gift Sub they got from tutankhamunnn!
[2018-09-18 18:34:25 UTC] twitchnotify: tutankhamunnn gifted a Tier 3 sub to donkeystroker215! They have given 686 Gift Subs in the channel!
[2018-09-18 18:36:53 UTC] twitchnotify: tutankhamunnn gifted a Tier 3 sub to DJRuno1! They have given 687 Gift Subs in the channel!
[2018-09-18 18:41:05 UTC] twitchnotify: DJRuno1 is continuing the Gift Sub they got from tutankhamunnn!
So as we know that's 710x$2.50+3x$17.50 in gifted subs during September from tut alone, that's ~$1827.50 in DSP's imminent Twitch payment. Even if you assume some of these subs would have been gifted regardless, it's reasonable to assume at least 600x$2.50 so ~$1500 is 'free money' DSP would not have gotten in November without tut's spending spree. And don't forget the just over 220K bits or ~$2200 in cheers in one stream in late August, netting Dave an extra $2K+ in his mid October Twitch payment. Where has that money gone?
[2018-10-16 18:00:02 UTC] twitchnotify: tutankhamunnn gifted a Tier 3 sub to Samantha_Birmingham! They have given 714 Gift Subs in the channel!
[2018-10-16 19:29:04 UTC] twitchnotify: tutankhamunnn gifted a Tier 3 sub to Derichloveslemur! They have given 715 Gift Subs in the channel!
[2018-10-16 19:32:02 UTC] twitchnotify: tutankhamunnn gifted a Tier 3 sub to katexo234! They have given 716 Gift Subs in the channel!
[2018-10-28 18:37:06 UTC] twitchnotify: grazydream gifted a Tier 1 sub to tutankhamunnn!
[2018-10-28 21:28:09 UTC] tutankhamunnn: yes hundred and fifty Dollars from an anonymous a****** that you don't recognise well stop the bull shit phil
One other subs related thing - just looking at packs of gifted subs via OverRustle there were 69 (the only set of 20 gifted by DerpyHooves54 actually only lists 19 on OR, perhaps a dropped message?) gifted to hit that 550 goal. Laike_Bogard's 10 got DSP to 530, and DerpyHooves54 got DSP to 550 all on the Spyro 2 'premiere' late stream on November 13th. Without mass gifted subs DSP would still be stuck around 480 for now.
EDIT: Site back up, screenshot showing the Spyro 2 'premiere' stream and more. Timestamp is for the point closest to 05:00 GMT (21:00 PST), so it's 519 at 20:12, up to 529, 530, then 550 at 21:25 with repeated single drops & quickly regained subs over the next half hour.
A final fun thing... I swear this prestream merch 'fanart' must be trolling. If I were DSP, I'd accept my well founded paranoia after many bits of fanart with random hidden Tevin references and just refuse any new fanart, making any needed prestream promo images in Premiere Pro (yes seriously, when he cut back on his Adobe subscription he dropped Photoshop and has done image editing in Premiere Pro) or learning a new free image editing application.
All I could see in this was a 'Hottest Merch in the Game' Logan Paul etc. reference, and the heavy blurring of DSP's face reminded me of the guy in the PGS Kickstarter video (StopDrop&Retro mocking the campaign here). Gonna use my non-existent image editing skills here to illustrate.
The "toxic" part of this Hitman 2 fanart was pointed out much earlier... but there's also Tevin references to my eye. There's being called a cartel boss when he used to call his Twitch subs the "Almighty Cartel", and DSP has whined that his viewers are 'dumbfuck kids'... "he employs many children". Also there's the unrelated mockery of the throat clear...
The "toxic" part of this Hitman 2 fanart was pointed out much earlier... but there's also Tevin references to my eye. There's being called a cartel boss when he used to call his Twitch subs the "Almighty Cartel", and DSP has whined that his viewers are dumbfuck kids... "he employs many children". Also there's the unrelated mockey of the throat clear... View attachment 593421
Yeah, you might be onto something here. You could read it like this:
Agent DSP, a new contract just came in.
You are to take outa cartel Boss. (the black dood) He's visiting histoxic waste facility. (Youtube) Careful agent, he employsmany children (his viewers/followers), casualties of anyone but the target will result in mission failure.
No wonder that nickname brings out the salt.
