DarksydePhil / TheyCallMeDSP / Phil Burnell - General Discussion

[Sparkletor 2.0]

I wonder what would be Phil's reaction if you went back in time, when he was still dating Leanna and was raking in 300k dollars a year, and told him: this will be you in some years, dressing ridiculously as a reward for your viewers. And by the way, here's a photo of your future wife.

Phil's reaction? Goddamn! She has a smoking hot body and could be a swimsuit model!

 

[Schrödinger's Kat]

Don't worry paypigs, he'll be back later tonight to beg for another 100$. What? You mean 311$ dollars isn't enough? Well of course it isn't! This is Darksyde fucking Phil. Mr. Views himself. He needs that money, he really does. He needs that money to pay his bills.

And if he gets less than $50, it'll be a 'slow night'. Step up paypigs! He needs your support on EVERY stream, not just this morning.

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but it is really bizarre how there are no restrictions for this kind of thing imposed by Twitch.

Phil can (and does) simply lie about whatever he wants regarding his finances, refusing to show any evidence to back up any of his claims, feigning distress as much as he wants, and it doesn't even result in a warning from Twitch. You can use it as a platform to scam people and, as long as you're not a big fish, Twitch will ignore any reports.

Its not just Twitch, its the entire legal system, which is quick to punish a company for false advertising, or selling a defective product. Yet Phil can demand money for said "bills" and "taxes", give absolutely nothing in return, and never provide any evidence that such money is going to such things.

Although, I'm no attorney and it is possible that this type of activity is actually breaking some obscure consumer protection law. His protection from lawsuits likely comes from PayPal, which is responsible for handling disputes. He challenges these to his own demise, because winning a chargeback could make him legally liable (no longer PayPal's problem) if a paypig decided to sue him for the money. I'm not sure what someone's chances are of winning such a legal dispute, but it would potentially cost Phil thousands of dollars in legal fees to fight it.

 

[Dread Pirate Retard]

And if he gets less than $50, it'll be a 'slow night'. Step up paypigs! He needs your support on EVERY stream, not just this morning.


Its not just Twitch, its the entire legal system, which is quick to punish a company for false advertising, or selling a defective product. Yet Phil can demand money for said "bills" and "taxes", give absolutely nothing in return, and never provide any evidence that such money is going to such things.

Although, I'm no attorney and it is possible that this type of activity is actually breaking some obscure consumer protection law. His protection from lawsuits likely comes from PayPal, which is responsible for handling disputes. He challenges these to his own demise, because winning a chargeback could make him legally liable (no longer PayPal's problem) if a paypig decided to sue him for the money. I'm not sure what someone's chances are of winning such a legal dispute, but it would potentially cost Phil thousands of dollars in legal fees to fight it.

Doubt it. Tips/gratuity are payments made to someone who provides a service, but are NOT considered payments in exchange for that service. Meaning there is no expectation placed on the person receiving the tip to provide some good or service, just like there is no expectation (legally speaking) for the consumer to tip after they have received some good or service.

EDIT: There are service charges (like having a party of 8+ people at a restaurant) that are sometimes and confusingly called gratuities but they are actually treated as non-tip wages and ARE part of the payment for a good/service.

EDIT2: Phil is absolutely a liar, but there is unlikely anything illegal about his activity on Twitch (copyright grey areas aside) given that contributions are tips and not payments. He may or may not be violating Twitch ToS depending on what they mean by 'misinformation'. But Twitch enforces their ToS arbitrarily and I wouldn't count on them coming for the pig.

 

[Nurse Ratchet]

I have always had mixed feelings about this KF trophy.

 

[Dread Pirate Retard]

Wow. Holy shit he is really crying about not getting any tips so far on the night stream and how badly he needs them to pay his tax guy. He just got three hundred fucking dollarydoos on the day stream which is 50% more than his 'totally not expected' income for an entire day. Memory-holed.

Someone here suggested that if Dave won the lottery the very next day he would start up his stream with $0/$100 on the leaderboard (assuming he even bothered to stream anymore) and that is absolutely true. The greed is massively strong.

 

[SojiroSakura]

Phil says that he saves up months worth of Jasper Kitty's used litter from his litter box to take to the dump. Months. And he blamed it on how he only has one trash can. You could, you know, do more than one dump visit per few months, dude. You make plenty of money to afford it.

He also just said (in context of him sucking at CoD) that he hates Rollback netcode. Once again, he has no clue what he's talking about. And that might be the reason he skips Guilty Gear Strive, since it has really good netcode he can't blame it for him sucking.

 

[Dread Pirate Retard]

Phil says that he saves up months worth of Jasper Kitty's used litter from his litter box to take to the dump. Months. And he blamed it on how he only has one trash can. You could, you know, do more than one dump visit per few months, dude. You make plenty of money to afford it.

He also just said (in context of him sucking at CoD) that he hates Rollback netcode. Once again, he has no clue what he's talking about. And that might be the reason he skips Guilty Gear Strive, since it has really good netcode he can't blame it for him sucking.

Regarding GG Strive: he said that he might not play it (more fence sitting) because it takes a lot of time and investment to learn to play a new fighting game properly and he was not sure he was interested enough to play it for the long haul (it's an anime fighter so of course he won't). This excuse is completely nonsensical because there's no reason he couldn't just play it as a casual. But PP Burnell's fragile ego might get bruised if he loses too many matches so he's gonna skip the game all together. This same fragile ego prevented him from queuing in Gran Blue until he beat the story mode and autistically grinded out all the training mode challenges on his chosen character and he REFUSED to play as anyone else because he would have to spend another hour plus in the training room before he could queue again.

EDIT: The variety streamer and former pro fighting game player dropped Gran Blue without even trying out all the characters in online multiplayer (not sure if he even tried them all in story/training).

 

[Paladin Derich]

Phil says that he saves up months worth of Jasper Kitty's used litter from his litter box to take to the dump. Months. And he blamed it on how he only has one trash can. You could, you know, do more than one dump visit per few months, dude. You make plenty of money to afford it.

He also just said (in context of him sucking at CoD) that he hates Rollback netcode. Once again, he has no clue what he's talking about. And that might be the reason he skips Guilty Gear Strive, since it has really good netcode he can't blame it for him sucking.

Does he not know that they sell little shovels to scoop out the cat shit and leave the sand?

 

[SojiroSakura]

Regarding GG Strive: he said that he might not play it (more fence sitting) because it takes a lot of time and investment to learn to play a new fighting game properly and he was not sure he was interested enough to play it for the long haul (it's an anime fighter so of course he won't). This excuse is completely nonsensical because there's no reason he couldn't just play it as a casual. But PP Burnell's fragile ego might get bruised if he loses too many matches so he's gonna skip the game all together. This same fragile ego prevented him from queuing in Gran Blue until he beat the story mode and autistically grinded out all the training mode challenges on his chosen character and he REFUSED to play as anyone else because he would have to spend another hour plus in the training room before he could queue again.

Gran Blue was pretty funny too, he tried to hype up his chat for views claiming "it's just like Super Turbo, dood!" Which made absolutely no sense. Then after going online and losing he blamed his chat. "Idk why you guys were telling me it was just like oldschool street fighter because it's NAGHT"

 

[tzgnilki]

Does he not know that they sell little shovels to scoop out the cat shit and leave the sand?

some litter lore

there are multiple litter boxes around the house, I think atleast 3, and dsp lets the shit pile up for about a week, then changes the entire box

 

[SPhobos]

Damn Phil must not have gotten any good pulls with that $300 considering how much of a little bitch he's being tonight.

 

[Sugar Puppet]

Phil says that he saves up months worth of Jasper Kitty's used litter from his litter box to take to the dump. Months. And he blamed it on how he only has one trash can. You could, you know, do more than one dump visit per few months, dude. You make plenty of money to afford it.

He also just said (in context of him sucking at CoD) that he hates Rollback netcode. Once again, he has no clue what he's talking about. And that might be the reason he skips Guilty Gear Strive, since it has really good netcode he can't blame it for him sucking.

I agree with you. It's always funny hearing Phil talk about netcode as if he's a software engineer who knows the ins and outs of game networking when the reality is he's not only a complete laymen but frankly a complete luddite when it comes it technology in general.

Delay based netcode is archaic, it was primarily used in fighting games when online matchmaking was in the early days, when fighting games were first able to be played online. When connections are bad there's stutter and literal slowdown, it's not a fun experience.

However, rollback netcode is the newest, most modern implementation for fighting games. When implemented correctly like in games like the new Killer Instinct, Skull Girls, and Guilty Gear Strive it is phenomenal. There are clips on twitter of Guilty Gear players in California playing against players in Japan completely in sync, even players on the east coast were playing against players in Japan and they said the connection was smooth. Check out the clip below to see a demonstration.

https://twitter.com/thaGaGaGuy/status/1361674520734564352

So naturally, when Phil is given a chance to play people in an online setting in the most optimal setting where he'd really have no one else to blame but himself he'd turn down playing a game like Guilty Gear Strive even though it seemed like a lot of people in his streamchat were asking for it for a while. Compared to the rest of his boring content his fighting game streams bring out the true salt and can actually be pretty interesting if he commits to them, his Marvel vs Capcom Infinite streams were hilarious and at times actually fun when he got around to playing online. Besides getting insanely salty over fighting games, he seems to get personally invested in them but hates learning them and can't snooze while he plays so maybe that's part of the reason he avoids playing the newer ones too.

 

[SojiroSakura]

"It'd be nice if we could get some more tips going"
311$ already memoryhole'd.

 

[Dread Pirate Retard]

Phil is such a giga-brained genius that he can count frames during gameplay.

"This is like playing a game with high-end graphics on a low-end PC"

Uhhh Phil? Just what exactly do you think a console is? I'm not some PC master race elitist but let's just be honest with ourselves here.

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

Phil says that he saves up months worth of Jasper Kitty's used litter from his litter box to take to the dump. Months. And he blamed it on how he only has one trash can. You could, you know, do more than one dump visit per few months, dude. You make plenty of money to afford it.

Yo, watch his condo tour videos. He shows the garage. He has like 4 of those trash cans that you wheel out to the road. I don't know how much they charge you to "rent" them. $30 a month? I don't know but multiply that by 4.

Also, is this why they take so many trips to the dump? Must be a great time. Two showers a week Phil and a trash bag filled with two months of cat shit and piss in a Toyota Corolla.

 

[Paladin Derich]

some litter lore

there are multiple litter boxes around the house, I think atleast 3, and dsp lets the shit pile up for about a week, then changes the entire box

So I guess we're due for a toxoplasmosis arc.

 

[ProvenWrong]

As much as I want Phil to continue Divinity 2 for more fuck ups I feel this gonna happen.
1. Moved to night stream cause its "Slow" or other games coming up.

2. Phil will say even though the game was getting some attention aka tips, but had to be put on the back burner cause of new releases and his audience was getting bored. He'll then mention how he listens to his audience.

That will be the final curtain call on Divinity 2.

 

[Forbidden Math]

Yo, watch his condo tour videos. He shows the garage. He has like 4 of those trash cans that you wheel out to the road. I don't know how much they charge you to "rent" them. $30 a month? I don't know but multiply that by 4.

Also, is this why they take so many trips to the dump? Must be a great time. Two showers a week Phil and a trash bag filled with two months of cat shit and piss in a Toyota Corolla.

Also any time I've taken a trip to the dump it is not cheap. I wonder what the fuck he had to throw away that he needed to go to the dump? And it sounds like he does this regularly. Are they just ordering so much shit their house is filled with boxes or something?

 

[Lilly Philly Burnelli]

some litter lore

there are multiple litter boxes around the house, I think atleast 3, and dsp lets the shit pile up for about a week, then changes the entire box

It's not his fault, dude. He learned it from his mommy.

 

[Salubrious]

Dave moves near one of the cities with one of the highest numbers of homeless population in the US, complains about the city being filled with drug addicted homeless shoplifters.
Brilliant, just brilliant. What's the next step in your master plan? Moving to Sao Paolo? Going to Roppongi when you visit the capital of Woodwind Instrument Players with Khet?

I think it just goes along with my theory that DSP has spent five years in his current home, and aside from shopping trips and the like has NO IDEA what actually happens in his own city.

That's what happens when you don't leave your home six days per week PRE-COVID.

Which is funny. One of the benefits of the last year is that DSP's life has not changed AT ALL. Maybe his Tuesday errands take a bit longer, but that's it.