DarksydePhil / TheyCallMeDSP / Phil Burnell - General Discussion

[Honzou]

I don't know if it's ever been addressed so forgive my stupid question that probably comes down to DSP being a stupid lazy fuck, but I can't imagine his taxes being complicated considering his totally legit business isn't a separate entity so why the super expensive tax guy when all he needs is like, a cheap TurboTax program?

Because his laziness is the only thing that overshadows his greed.

 

[Satoi]

He quite frequently admits to making all these mistakes and knows full well that he only has himself to blame for his current position. The trolls, detractors etc. excuses is just a coping mechanism he uses to defend his ego, because it's all he's got left.

Personally I don't believe that Phil is ever sincere when he admits fault. I think he only ever does that to save face and so that he has ammo against the "I did nothing wrong" meme.
He constantly makes himself look like an even bigger ass when he admits to stuff, too. Remember when he finally stopped spamming people's inboxes with uploads and the way he announced it was something like "this is something you guys have been asking me for YEARS". That was supposed to communicate that his previous uploading style was bad and that he gladly listened to his fans. Except when you think about this for 5 seconds and you realise "wait, why did it take you years to listen to the wishes of your fans when you take their feedback so seriously?" It's all just smokes and mirrors in the end.

 

[100% VIRGIN M00TY]

I am curious where DSP stores his vest when it is not on his person. If he knows his pigs will likely hit the goal each stream then why not have the vest sitting closer to you?

His animal crossing stream may have been genuinely one of his best streams due to the fact he didn't say all that much, his sad sick voice is easier to listen to, and the game ambiance was relaxing. Perhaps he should go from CHILL to ASMR and say as little as possible while he potters around doing whatever he does and calm all of his fans right down.

I don't think Phil believes he has done anything wrong either. I think the reason he is a drunk shut in is because the high of sitting in his house playing games for a living has worn off and he is small fry with a very small reach even after 11 years on the internet. It takes bigger and bigger tips to get Phil to feel anything, all he really has left is WWE gacha. The world screwed him over even though he did everything correct, there is nothing more he could have done, that could be rather disheartening.

 

[Pargon]

If you're jealous of this guy because of his 130k gross income or whatever, and perma-neet lifestyle, who is really the cow?

Also bear in mind if you're thinking about all the things you could do with 130k a year (raise a child and send them to college, build a dream house, start a successful small business, indulge your favorite hobby, take care of a sick loved one, or hell, just fund the coked-out Thai sex romp from hell), Phil has not done any of those things, and never will. You'd need to be someone other than Phil Burnell to put that money to any kind of use. What you've seen of how Phil lives? That's how he'd live if he made 1.3 million a year. He has no imagination, no drive, no passion, and no empathy or concern for any living thing other than himself. This is precisely why people say that it doesn't matter how much money Phil makes; it would never be enough, and even if he was making less, we've seen, clearly, that he'll take out credit to raise himself to his petite bougie NEET standard of living and then whine and cajole other people to cover his debt.

This is no way to live. This is nothing to be angry or jealous over. And in Phil's case I don't even pity him. If he were somehow a kinder person it'd be easy to feel bad for him, but he's acerbic and borderline abusive, sometimes seemingly just for the sake of being so, and as such I wouldn't piss on him if he were on fire.

 

[James Smith]

What you've seen of how Phil lives? That's how he'd live if he made 1.3 million a year.

Wrong. He'd have a five bedroom, 3.5 bathroom condo with a three stall garage if he made 1.3 million a year. It'd still be in a gated community but the fence would be 5 feet tall instead of 3 feet.

 

[Beetus Knuckles]

The fact that Phil makes 130K annually for being a video game playing asshole is amazing to me. And I’m in no way implying Dave is poor, but his income is not that impressive for the area he lives, where tech and Boeing pump tons of money into the economy. He’s a moron for living in a high COL area. He could own a nice house in a warm southern state or the Midwest and hire out all the maintenance and still come out way ahead. Of course, rational decisions are like a can of Raid to a Pigroach, so WTH do I know.

 

[James Smith]

He could own a nice house in a warm southern state or the Midwest and hire out all the maintenance and still come out way ahead.

Hire out maintenance without living in a gated community? Impossible! He'd have to hire an entire property management company because the sun-browned redneck with the lawn mower would insist on talking to him in person instead of over email.

 

[JamFlowMan]

What you've seen of how Phil lives? That's how he'd live if he made 1.3 million a year.

After seeing his bankruptcy application it's safe to say if he made 1.3 million he'd spend 2.6 million a year. Definitely be #1 on those Champion leader boards though.

 

[Collections Agent]

After seeing his bankruptcy application it's safe to say if he made 1.3 million he'd spend 2.6 million a year. Definitely be #1 on those Champion leader boards though.

Tbf this whole situation has to have done some good, right?

Fellow addicts can't look at DSP, someone who had life handed to him on a silver platter and has had his addiction absolutely destroy his insanely lucky income and go "Yeah I wanna be like that"

If DSP does anything genuinely positive on his life it's his serving as an example to gambling addicts (like showing a smoker cancerous lungs) to try to get them to quit.

 

[WWE Champion]

This is no way to live. This is nothing to be angry or jealous over. And in Phil's case I don't even pity him. If he were somehow a kinder person it'd be easy to feel bad for him, but he's acerbic and borderline abusive, sometimes seemingly just for the sake of being so, and as such I wouldn't piss on him if he were on fire.

Correct. Phil earned a shitload of money over the last 11 years, but besides a condo which belongs 50% to the bank, he has nothing to show for. He should have multi-millions in assets by now, insted he has a networth of around 100k, lower than my countries average over all ages. As far as I know, he was never outside NA. If you visited 4 countries, you have seen more of the world than phil. If you have money invested in some form for your retirement, you are better prepared than phil. If you have an education and a job which benefits from it or was the reason you are able to do it, you are in a way more secured and brighter future than phil. If you have people you can visit whenever you have time, without being complicated and they are always happy when you show up, you have a better social life than phil. If you can openly talk to them about what bothers you, and they listen and give advice if needed, you experience true trust, something he doesn't anymore. Even if you have just one hand full of friends or family members you really trust, you have infinite more than phil. If you can go to bed in the evening most of the times tired, but also satisfied with what you did during the day, you will have a way better sleep than phil.

One can get angry over the stupid shit dsp says, how he turns around facts, spreads half truths at best and blames everybody else but him. But there is no reason to hate or envy him. He lives a miserable unfulfilling life, and you rather spend your life improving yours or others and just observe DSP and laugh from afar how he stumbles from bad to worse.

 

[Malcolm Tucker]

Dude is pulling in over 100k and he can't even afford to take a holiday. He ain't living that large. Even when he was making "way too much money" the best place he's been is what? Chicago?

He's had all this money and he has no experiences to show for it. Just stuff (and shit stuff at that).

Edit to add:

And when you factor in his monthly payments on his credit cards (probably around 2k?) plus what he's paying on the derelict condo and HOA fees (another 2kish) suddenly his take home isn't so hot. Sure it's still a decent amount of money, but is it worth the stress?

 

[Iron Father]

Tbf this whole situation has to have done some good, right?

Fellow addicts can't look at DSP, someone who had life handed to him on a silver platter and has had his addiction absolutely destroy his insanely lucky income and go "Yeah I wanna be like that"

If DSP does anything genuinely positive on his life it's his serving as an example to gambling addicts (like showing a smoker cancerous lungs) to try to get them to quit.

DSP is a wreck for sure, but there are definitely crazier and more eye-opening examples of what addiction can do to you lol. There are crackhead parents putting their babies in microwaves out there somewhere.

 

[Faded]

After seeing his bankruptcy application it's safe to say if he made 1.3 million he'd spend 2.6 million a year. Definitely be #1 on those Champion leader boards though.

This. No matter how much money you make. You should always be living within your means. And trying to save up a percentage. Even just putting away 25% of your income.

If you can't do that, then you need to re-think your expenses and down-grade.

People who over-spend. Will never have money. Even if they earn 100 million, or 10,000.
It's not circumstances or events. It's the attitude and mindset of the individual.

All Paul's complaining was just that.

Please don't be like Paul. Ever.

 

[Iron Hamster]

I hope he catches a brain eating amoeba.

If he did, that would be the smartest he's ever been

i'm surprised dsp didn't try to say he makes -$35 a year

lol. That could bite him in the ass.

I am curious where DSP stores his vest when it is not on his person.

I envision something like a glass case in the goutcave

 

[BallBuster]

Doesn’t matter what he makes. He’s a friendless loser with no life, prospects, skills or future.

 

[hundredthousand]

The fact that Phil makes 130K annually for being a video game playing asshole is amazing to me. And I’m in no way implying Dave is poor, but his income is not that impressive for the area he lives, where tech and Boeing pump tons of money into the economy. He’s a moron for living in a high COL area. He could own a nice house in a warm southern state or the Midwest and hire out all the maintenance and still come out way ahead. Of course, rational decisions are like a can of Raid to a Pigroach, so WTH do I know.

Considering that his location doesn't affect his income, Phil could move somewhere in the middle of nowhere where that 130k a year could get him a literal mansion.

WHERE Phil lives is irrelevant since he has no social life or activities and hardly leaves his house.

 

[strandedcastaway]

This. If you are getting mad as shit and start coping here, you should probably take a break from watching him.

If you're jealous of this guy because of his 130k gross income or whatever, and perma-neet lifestyle, who is really the cow?

It's still Phil.

 

[der rademacher]

I have never felt hatred or wished ill will on any of my fellow humans. I've been through some shit; divorces, 10 years in state penitentiary (wrangler not convict) and I've made a lot of enemies but I have never -hated- any of them or wished harm on them. In fact, I'm quick to forgive and protect them if it was necessary to do so.

Despite this, I have an intense and primal hatred for Phil which I can't explain. It is the same feeling one might experience when observing a large cockroach skittering across the floor toward your feet, coupled with the equally disturbing feeling that would come from witnessing some sort of horrible injustice taking place. I felt it from the moment I saw his face and heard him speaking and it only got worse after I saw the MGS2 video. I had to take a break from watching TIHYDP because his voice was beginning to make me legitimately angry, a thing which almost never happens. I hope he catches a brain eating amoeba. I hope his little microdick shrivels up, turns gray and falls off. I hope he catches that disease that turns your muscles into bones. In fact, the closest approximation I can make to DSP is that of a disease.

When I think about Phil, I feel an almost painful urgency to remove his literally toxic genes from the pool before it pollutes or harms my species any further. I feel like I am watching an invader, an interloper; something from elsewhere capable of causing an irreparable disruption in the non-euclidean folds of reality where things like balance, truth, justice and other concepts vital to humanity live.

While watching Phil can install such feelings in the person watching him, it is never a good idea to subcumb to them. Simply not worth it. Sooner or later, every bitch get's it's comeuppance. It happend to other unpleasent people thinking themselves untouchable (Shkreli comes to mind), it will sooner or later happen to Dave.

 

[DiabeticSP]

Phil hasn't been on a vacation since (arguably) Leanna left. And he only went on vacation because Leanna essentially forced him. Even then it was usually 'staycations' in seattle, the city they fucking live next to and could visit whenever they want.

I'm not counting the wedding trip because that was a shitshow and all they did was guilt mommy and daddy burnell into fronting Phil some cash (which he didnt use properly) and eating some greasy ass pizza.

Phil's currently mentioned if and when* the bankruptcy relieves him of his debts (spent on trinkets and gacha) he MIGHT go on a cruise with Kat as their 'honeymoon'.

This cunt might need to wait 3-10 years to get a single vacation out of the man. And it'd probably be some cheap fuck 3 day cruise not a nice one like you think a honeymoon cruise would be.

Phil has no concept of money but worse he has no concept of 'living'. He throws his money into $500 trash cans because he's too mentally deficient to either save or spend it well.

When Kat leaves (and its for sure a when, even if it takes a few years) he's going to go right back to drinking and hungry manning himself to death because there isnt someone with a less fucked head to hold his hand through living an adult life. The man doesnt even need a mother he needs a full time nanny.

Phil's funny because he's pathetic. If you forget that you need time off with other cows.

*literally fucking never. She'll be lucky to get a weekend staycation and second space needle trip.

 

[Croppered]

Dude is pulling in over 100k and he can't even afford to take a holiday.

Most full-time streamers can't if they haven't developed a full cult. In Phil's case, stopping would give people a chance to move onto other spectacles (good or bad), so he really can't give people a chance. Taking two weeks off and then trying to build up any kind of "streak" again with donations or encouraged behaviors would probably be incredibly difficult for him.

This is why I'm kind of mystified by him having forums — no one's really attached to Phil as a brand, and forums are extremely out of favor in terms of keeping people around (it's all subreddits and Discords now).