- Joined
- May 24, 2020
Unfortunately the only times we can get him genuinely raging at games are with racing games and fighting games. With every other genre he just gets pissy at worst because he knows that he can just crane his neck to the side to see one of the wheelchairs giving him protips on how to do every single thing in the game.Agreed that chat ruined DSP; he was never more unintentionally funny than when he was genuinely raging at a video game. That said, I also think a key reason why his flailing attempts at humor never landed is that he has the charisma of a dead snail. A mediocre joke can be made funny with the right execution. Timing, inflection, verbiage; these things are important to making a joke land, and you can't teach them. You pick some of it up from observation and then for the rest you make it your own. Performing for an audience is an art that needs to be honed and Phil couldn't tell you what a grindstone looked like if you put a gun to his head.
As a side note I think this is what gives streaming a bad name to some people, including myself. It's not as though it doesn't require any talent as compared to other forms of live entertainment, it's just that the barrier of entry is so low that speds like DSP clear it easily and finding someone who's good at it is wading through chaff to find wheat.
His SF Throwbhek streams are the only thing I watch now (or restreams to be precise) especially now that he's getting rival detractors dunking on him he can't have a chill stream where he just dunks on scrubs all night. I mentioned this before but Lady Gambit is my favorite SF Detractor because she plays Super Turbo, which exposes what a sham his Top Ranked EVO North American Super Turbo legacy is in real time. The more she spitroasts the piggy the more you see him sweat and break down on stream.