DarksydePhil / TheyCallMeDSP / Phil Burnell - General Discussion

[Surly Muppet]

With regards to stalling on prestream, someone just asked Phil if he had any experience with Darkstalkers.

Phil proceeded to explain the premise of the series, the entire history of releases (vaguely), a little bit about Capcom rehashing ideas, and is now complaining that he always had the impression that the game was imbalanced. This implied Phil has had experience with the series, but has not really explained if he played it regularly, played it with his lover Rambo, tried it at tournaments... He does conclude by saying that he 'very much enjoyed the franchise back in the day'. We're now moving on. I now know that he played 'the series', but no idea which, when, or in what capacity.

10 minutes. Didn't answer what could have been a yes or no question.

 

[Pargon]

He's 'not doing that shit' and he doesn't want to hear (troll voice) 'oh, Phil didn't follow through on his promises!'

He could just avoid that by not dropping or ragequitting the games he agrees to play. It took him several years to beat Persona 3 and Scarface because he got right up to the end and those games bodied the fuck out of him and he was too much of an embarrassed babybitch to continue. It was double the laffs when he eventually went back to them, beat them and then acted like Alexander Triumphant for having done so instead of a fat thinskinned idiot who regularly gets his ego blasted to pieces by toys for children.

 

[Surly Muppet]

Someone asked Phil to fart into the mic.

After groaning and feigning an attempt to do so, he said he wasn't gassy and apologized. He then explained what Kat was making for dinner, some simple 'Italian' style dish that contains cheese, and concluded by saying that it might make him gassy and he can try again on the later stream to fart into the mic.

I love that I can't tell whether or not this is supposed to be a joke. I think Phil thinks it is, but not only does he obviously take it to far, he burps, snorts, and clears his throat into the mic, why not fart? If that's supposed to be too gross, why does he go on to inform us that he'll be gassy later from his wife's dinner? Jokes about boundaries only work if the boundaries actually exist.

Also the throat clears are insane today. Phil insists that this 'happens every year', but in all the time that I've detracted, it has never been like this. Is this just something new to his obnoxious repertoire that we're casually retconning in for some reason?

EDIT: Someone asked about a throat clear emote, and commented that these things (snorts, burps, throat clears and bottle crunches) are disgusting to some viewers. Phil described them as 'natural bodily functions', and then stopped himself and noted 'bottle crunches are in my contol'. Phil didn't address WHY he proceeds to do bottle crunches. His reason for everything else? He does them constantly, so the stream would be constantly muted if he had to mute every time he did them. STILL did not address the bottle crunch.

Unbelievable.

 

[Pargon]

Someone asked Phil to fart into the mic.

After groaning and feigning an attempt to do so, he said he wasn't gassy and apologized. He then explained what Kat was making for dinner, some simple 'Italian' style dish that contains cheese, and concluded by saying that it might make him gassy and he can try again on the later stream to fart into the mic.

I love that I can't tell whether or not this is supposed to be a joke. I think Phil thinks it is, but not only does he obviously take it to far, he burps, snorts, and clears his throat into the mic, why not fart? If that's supposed to be too gross, why does he go on to inform us that he'll be gassy later from his wife's dinner? Jokes about boundaries only work if the boundaries actually exist.

Also the throat clears are insane today. Phil insists that this 'happens every year', but in all the time that I've detracted, it has never been like this. Is this just something new to his obnoxious repertoire that we're casually retconning in for some reason?

EDIT: Someone asked about a throat clear emote, and commented that these things are disgusting to some viewers. Phil described them as 'natural bodily functions', and then stopped himself and noted 'bottle crunches are in my contol'. Phil didn't address WHY he proceeds to do bottle crunches. His reason for everything else? He does them constantly, so the mute would be constantly muted if he had to mute every time he did them. STILL did not address the bottle crunch.

Unbelievable.

He gets donations when he's not on cam and the sound is muted. He has no reason not to just mute himself 100% of the time.

 

[Draventren]

I remember someone posted a bird's eye view of the route from dave's house to their local mall, it's probably 20 seconds away in a car

You're not accounting for traffic, weather, accidents, and the potential for wild animals to wander onto the road. Just by doing a little mental math, I've figured it out that we're at at least 4 hours, each way. Sort your shit out.

 

[Shabobus]

Phil's line up of games is atrocious. Three RPGS about to be going through his cycle(KOTOR, FF6, Pokemon). Unbelievable. Is he trying to have the most boring content with games that require the least amount of effort to play? Let's not forgot about Minecraft and Roblox being put in the mix along with Myst, that should have been completed in one stream.

Despite his viewers choice having an option but not to pick open ended games, and they must be story driven, despite saying KOTOR was boring as shit and has Sandbox games in collection. Now he's dropping ST because his enjoyment of the game shifts depending on if he's bodying scrubs or getting fucked by AJ.

It's going to be a snoozefest for a few months.

KOTOR has a couple of difficult fights that require some preparation. He'll probably drop the game as soon as he reaches one.

 

[SkippyLongbottom]

KOTOR has a couple of difficult fights that require some preparation. He'll probably drop the game as soon as he reaches one.

There's definitely a bit of fights and encounters where if you slack off you're pretty much dead. Though I didn't get far in it before I dropped. Just remember getting the type of Jedi who can force jump to close the gaps and killing some Sith dude on that planet you learn the force/lightsaber shit.

I'd love to see how he works on a build. The game can fuck you if you mess up your stat allocation.

 

[LyteSydeByll]

Someone asked Phil to fart into the mic.

After groaning and feigning an attempt to do so, he said he wasn't gassy and apologized. He then explained what Kat was making for dinner, some simple 'Italian' style dish that contains cheese, and concluded by saying that it might make him gassy and he can try again on the later stream to fart into the mic.

...

Maybe he'll fucking shit himself on camera. Give Popsicolo what he really wants.

 

[MoonRocker]

I don't foresee DSP dropping KOTOR unless it's not generating contributions. Any game that can be relied upon chat to be cheesed or powerleveled through is usually finished.

It's games that require some modicum of skill, reflex, tenacity, and concentration that often get wagequitted. Especially games which he approaches with an ego are those that get dropped super fast (Street Fighter being the best example and CoD games, even though he loathes to admit he cares/ tries in various CoDs yet never fails to mention he's been playing them for the last decade). Piggy realizes that he isn't as good as he imagined, gets frustrated, promptly insults the game and its developers and quits the game. That's his MO.

That's why any RPGs often tend to be horribly boring playthroughts because he can count on chat to handhold him the entire way. Which in turn create the "interactive" streaming experience he constantly boasts about (lol).

 

[Martys_not_smarty]

That's why any RPGs often tend to be horribly boring playthroughts because he can chat to handhold him the entire way.

I can't think of any modern games that have enemies that scale in level in accordance with characters (examples Lunar 1+2 and Trials of Mana) so all piggy has to do is overlevel and boom there you go no challenge anymore.

 

[actually]

KOTOR has a couple of difficult fights that require some preparation. He'll probably drop the game as soon as he reaches one.

There's definitely a bit of fights and encounters where if you slack off you're pretty much dead. Though I didn't get far in it before I dropped. Just remember getting the type of Jedi who can force jump to close the gaps and killing some Sith dude on that planet you learn the force/lightsaber shit.

I'd love to see how he works on a build. The game can fuck you if you mess up your stat allocation.

You both forget that he has paytards ready and willing to tell him exactly what to do, where to do it, and how to min-max all his stats so that he faces as little challenge as possible.

 

[LyteSydeByll]

I can't think of any modern games that have enemies that scale in level in accordance with characters (examples Lunar 1+2 and Trials of Mana) so all piggy has to do is overlevel and boom there you go no challenge anymore.

FF8 (not sure if that counts as "modern" though) but he calls that one the worst one and will never play it!

 

[Forbidden Math]

You both forget that he has paytards ready and willing to tell him exactly what to do, where to do it, and how to min-max all his stats so that he faces as little challenge as possible.

The question is if he will fuck up his game before they can help him? If he has chat building his character and telling him what to do on every level up he should breeze through the game. We'll see how he does and if he learned the lesson that a scoundrel tank isn't going to work (mind you scoundrel has sneak attack which is arguably the best bonus to attack in the game, but you actually have to know how to use it).

Been playing through Kotor 2 lately and it's insane how easy everything is but I also am really familiar with the D20 system it's based on.

 

[James Smith]

DSP might have needed glasses in the past to see the screen but he doesn't now.

 

[Watamelon]

With regards to stalling on prestream, someone just asked Phil if he had any experience with Darkstalkers.

Phil proceeded to explain the premise of the series, the entire history of releases (vaguely), a little bit about Capcom rehashing ideas, and is now complaining that he always had the impression that the game was imbalanced. This implied Phil has had experience with the series, but has not really explained if he played it regularly, played it with his lover Rambo, tried it at tournaments... He does conclude by saying that he 'very much enjoyed the franchise back in the day'. We're now moving on. I now know that he played 'the series', but no idea which, when, or in what capacity.

10 minutes. Didn't answer what could have been a yes or no question.

He does have a bunch of Darkstalkers videos from 6y ago, playing online. Now, does being an online warrior on a nearly dead game and not playing it at tournament count towards "being experienced"? That's a question for someone else.

Related to your previous post about FGs, he's gonna duck USFIV 100%. Most people online on that game are at a level much higher than current DSP so he's not gonna even bother.
As soon as he eats some frametrap or gets fucked with vortex, he's calling it quits. At most we may get some matches with Ken's Cowboy alt because it's a King of Hate reference. Or maybe he's gonna do full screen Psycho Crushers to honor that LTG match lmao.

Now, I wish he tried to fightcade on 3S even once. God, the combination of Fightcade thuggery and DSPs thin skin may be the best combination that side of the ocean.

 

[The Penultimate Warrior]

This is stupid.

A server crash would somehow not prevent DSP from streaming on Twitch.

The earth could get hit by a solar flare which wipes out all electronic devices, and he' still find a way to stream online and get tips from his wheelchairs.

 

[Shick]

KOTOR has a couple of difficult fights that require some preparation. He'll probably drop the game as soon as he reaches one.

You're acting like he won't have a wheelchair tell him about the Force Speed + Flurry combo that lets you hit like 4 times per turn, and makes it almost impossible to die unless you mindlessly charge into a group of 3+ enemies.

What will wind up happening is that he'll play the Steam version and get his save corrupted by a crash a couple hours into his playthrough, say that the developers/Valve are stooopid idiots for making an unplayable game, and drop it.

 

[UncleTusky]

I'm going to be spending NYE with my folks, so my DSP- and autism-infused version of "Auld Lang Syne" is going up a few hours early:

Spoiler: FOR HORSE AND SWINE!

This is all 1st person from Phil's perspective.

I
Should "Pecs, not bitch tits!" be forgot,
With Panda on my mind?
Should "Bald 'cause headphones!" be forgot,
and horse and swine?

Chorus:
For horse and swine, my Khet,
for horse and swine,
we'll cure gout with cherry juice yet,
for horse and swine.

II
And surely I'll be Khet's paypig!
and surely Jeff is mine!
And we'll take a cup of gin-juice yet,
for horse and swine.

(Repeat Chorus)

III
We two have begged for cash from NEETs
That goose game money? Mine!
But we've whined much about my gouty foot
since horse and swine.

(Repeat Chorus)

IV
We two have not done a joint stream,
Because of Tevin's crime
And now I'm facing foreclosure
since horse and swine.

(Repeat Chorus)

V
And there's a hand my trusty friend! (This is verbatim from the original song, Robert Burns confirmed troll)
Dood, retailers make me whine!
And we'll take a ham, QVC bought
for horse and swine.

 

[Pargon]

I'm going to be spending NYE with my folks, so my DSP- and autism-infused version of "Auld Lang Syne" is going up a few hours early:

Spoiler: FOR HORSE AND SWINE!

This is all 1st person from Phil's perspective.

I
Should "Pecs, not bitch tits!" be forgot,
With Panda on my mind?
Should "Bald 'cause headphones!" be forgot,
and horse and swine?

Chorus:
For horse and swine, my Khet,
for horse and swine,
we'll cure gout with cherry juice yet,
for horse and swine.

II
And surely I'll be Khet's paypig!
and surely Jeff is mine!
And we'll take a cup of gin-juice yet,
for horse and swine.

(Repeat Chorus)

III
We two have begged for cash from NEETs
That goose game money? Mine!
But we've whined much about my gouty foot
since horse and swine.

(Repeat Chorus)

IV
We two have not done a joint stream,
Because of Tevin's crime
And now I'm facing foreclosure
since horse and swine.

(Repeat Chorus)

V
And there's a hand my trusty friend! (This is verbatim from the original song, Robert Burns confirmed troll)
Dood, retailers make me whine!
And we'll take a ham, QVC bought
for horse and swine.

The best gifts really do come at the end of the year.

 

[KingjadVCMP]

I'm going to be spending NYE with my folks, so my DSP- and autism-infused version of "Auld Lang Syne" is going up a few hours early:

Spoiler: FOR HORSE AND SWINE!

This is all 1st person from Phil's perspective.

I
Should "Pecs, not bitch tits!" be forgot,
With Panda on my mind?
Should "Bald 'cause headphones!" be forgot,
and horse and swine?

Chorus:
For horse and swine, my Khet,
for horse and swine,
we'll cure gout with cherry juice yet,
for horse and swine.

II
And surely I'll be Khet's paypig!
and surely Jeff is mine!
And we'll take a cup of gin-juice yet,
for horse and swine.

(Repeat Chorus)

III
We two have begged for cash from NEETs
That goose game money? Mine!
But we've whined much about my gouty foot
since horse and swine.

(Repeat Chorus)

IV
We two have not done a joint stream,
Because of Tevin's crime
And now I'm facing foreclosure
since horse and swine.

(Repeat Chorus)

V
And there's a hand my trusty friend! (This is verbatim from the original song, Robert Burns confirmed troll)
Dood, retailers make me whine!
And we'll take a ham, QVC bought
for horse and swine.

A braw wee ditty, ah'll be sticking to hogmanay tradition of first footing with a bottle and shortbread to bring good luck to the house for the year.

May we all enjoy our new year's celebrations, warmed by the knowledge that because we are not Phil Burnell, life ain't that bad.