I understand wishing for a return of the old days, before Phil's adoption of Stream Chat, Face Cam, and "Interaction". It was before he was burnt out and had given up all pretense of credibility, when he still had some youthful energy to devote to his displays of psychopathy. However, the inclusion of these desperate attempts at relevancy bring their own advantages to us voyeurs:
-Even with the presence of hand-holders offering live help, Phil continues to be stuck on problems, to "face-tank", "fail-cheese" and just thoughtlessly stumble his way through obstacles. For example: during
Eternal Darkness Aug. 2018, he forgot a basic game mechanic a mere 10 minutes after the game explained to him. He got stuck on a puzzle, and raged: "Never explained it 7 hours in".
-Even with the presence of hand-holders offering live help, Phil continues to rely on guides like GameFAQs. For example: during
Silent Hill 2 HD Jul. 2018, he paused the game to read a walkthrough on his phone. He doesn't just cut the recording as he used to with his camcorder. Incredibly, he now does this live, on camera (Face Cam), and includes it in his upload to Youtube.
-Any help offered to Phil is a lost cause. Even when given needed information, like in the Eternal Darkness playthrough, he forgets it. More, he attacks the sources of his help. Chat's inclusion here is a juicy bonus for us voyeurs that was unavailable during Phil's more youthful, live-help-free days. He attacks his fans, those in chat, for helping him. He did this as early as yesterday's
Dark Souls Remastered Jan. 2019. To quote
@Comma's summary:
"Get's advice from someone in chat.
Scorns the dood for being WRONG and blind.
Whole chat telling him it's DSP who's wrong and blind.
DSP discovers the advice was actually correct.
Blames chat, saying "no one" gives him correct information and that he wants to give up.
Realizes he's being a toxic cunt, tries to make it into a joke but fails miserably and only succeeds in making the moment even more awkward than it already was."
Stream Chat, Face Cam, and "Interaction" (and the more recent adoption of his "Whoreboard") all go hand-in-hand. They are Post-Filthy-Rich Phil. They were all adopted, despite Phil's previous derision, to more and more completely mimic the financially successful streamers. Each of these have brought their own juicy bonuses:
-It goes without saying that without Phil's adoption of the Face Cam, we wouldn't have had "The Incident". It's also given us his strange mannerisms, like the "T-Pose", strange rocking, finger-sniffing, etc.
-Phil's chat has created an opportunity for attention seeking, spasmatic weirdos, such as Swagginz, Sidella, etc., giving us these "side characters". More, Twitch's "Bits" offer the attention seekers a strange incentive. tutankhumannn's rise and fall would have been impossible without the attention whoring, Bit spammed "interaction" offered by the presence of Stream Chat.
(As always, apologies for the essay

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