Refuses to change stages until he gets all the stars. Currently on the lava stage with the volcano and beating his head against the wall for the coins. Refuses to ever use the wingcap because he sucks at flying. So he's making his viewers suffer while he fails every time instead of just maybe going back later.
His playthroughs are getting weirder. It used to be he just sucked at the game and raged, or he coasted and it was boring. Now he's letting his contrarian personality infect his games.
He's a completionist when it is boring to do so, but he'll skip things people want to see for weird contrived reasons (no dating missions, I'm married).
He will insist on doing simple things the hardest way, but then when he's up against a challenge people want to see, will demand a guide from the chat or cheese it.
He'll fumble blind though a section for an hour ignoring all help, and then blaze though sections people like by looking up a guide on his break.
He'll pause gameplay to practice a mechanic (like the side-flip in M64) that is of no use, but he will outright refuse to learn mechanics that are useful (flying with the wing cap).
He'll become fixated on some side quests or side content and interrupt the story (Judgement), but will outright refuse to explore areas of a game people ask for (The Nether).
I can't think of another streamer that is this antagonistic towards his audience's interests.
He has also been berating people on stream for asking for unbans again today.
This is fine, save for the fact that this time last week, he was looking up chat logs and holding public ban court on stream. I'm not sure what causes him to flip this switch, but it, oddly does not seem to be directly connected to money.
His music also "errored" out during the break, leaving the stream in total silence on his break. The tightest of ships.
He's down to 566 of the 625 sub goal. Phil said he "knew they were on a high and would drop eventually". There'll be a 'drop', Phil. But that wasn't it.