Exactly what @The_Penultimate_Warrior said. Like what he's doing with his Halloween bullshit, he's selectively picking shit that makes it easier on him. In this case, shit that doesn't make him rage. Only game that made Phil get annoyed with, was SF5, a game he said that wouldn't happen.
His events are total bullshit to begin with anyway. Everything he chooses to do has some agenda tied to how much money he can rake in by clickbaiting his viewers with his fake twitter nonsense.
Today, Phil said he got $100 in chargebacks, so he was $100 in the hole. He has repeated this for almost every tip today, emphasizing that he is 'almost out of the hole', and then when he hit $100, commented that it was nice to be out of the hole and to finally be back to $0. After receiving $100. So he's basically using the chargebacks as a way to secretly double the onscreen tip goal.
I'm wondering if, before the Halloween event, there will be some 'massive chargeback' that has compromised Phil's ability to pay for the upcoming systems, necessitating that the event have an $800 goal or something.
I wonder if he believes deep down that SF5 doesn't make him rage? Why else would he put it in there? He clearly didn't do it to give the fans the actual rage they want or he would have done so with the rest of the games in the marathon (and made more, HINT HINT DSP). Maybe he really convinced himself that he doesn't get mad at the game?
I think with SFV (and any contemporary fighting game), Phil rages not because 'the games are bad' as he likes to claim, but predominantly because he is bad at them, and his go-to excuses like lag and dropped inputs have become so overused, they're memes associated with him playing fighting games. SFV in particular rubs him the wrong way because that's 'his' franchise, but he is too slow and dumb now to learn the new mechanics, so he loses.
I think the tell that he is aware of his SFV rage is that he won't touch SFIV. SFIV is the elephant in the room that exposes this because it is the missing link between the old SFs he likes to beat scrubs in weekly, and SFV where he is the scrub. Phil should be 'good' at SFIV because it was the last SF game he was actively attempting to learn, and it isn't as dubiously regarded for quality as SFV. He got it with the Anniversary collection, but he won't even try it. Because even though Phil knows the game, he knows his reflexes are bad, his skills have declined, and he was already losing his capacity to learn outside of his pattern play when he got to SFIV, so he would probably lose consistently and lose his mind. This is also why he avoided Samurai Showdown - a game that was focused on everything Phil says a good fighting game should have and was extremely well received. He didn't play it because he knew he was going to get destroyed and exposed.
I maintain that if his fans wanted to see the real rage, they'd nominate SFIV, not V. He probably wouldn't do it, but it'd be great to hear the bullshit reasons he spews to avoid it.
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