I don't see how even he could manage that, given 1) how religiously he reads this place, and 2) the fact that he has been spending his tips on gacha for over a year, minimum. It was $200 a day for a reason, which I doubt was arbitrary given that gacha is something Phil actually gives a shit about. He has a pretty clear idea of what can be accomplished in the game with $200 or less. His mood wouldn't be so fucking mopey at $50 in tips otherwise.
You can't beg poverty and then stream yourself spending $300 a day on a mobile game.
That and the stream would be a massive snoozefest.
I believe you can reapply 7 years after one is granted. So doubtless his grand plan is to do it all again in 2027.
Lots of streamers for champs (including me) do this! People want to see characters and builds they don’t have
Who do we know is short about $400 in tips over the last 4 streams?
Well yeah. I, and I believe others, have always assumed that his Twitch/YT/Patreon money was what he used for his mortgage and bills. His tips are what he uses for his gacha.
Addicts have remarkable capacities for denial. They could have just lost their last friend over their behavior, or alienated their entire family, be living in a single room, waking up and vomiting blood every day, and still tell themselves it's completely peachy. So long as they get their next fix. I'm sure on some level he knows what a fuck up he is, but if he really grasped it, he'd stop, or at least try to.
I swear to God, this is the ugliest fucking game ever made. Every single facet, every single iota of it screams 'i was hobbled together by a pajeet in the middle of a shitting street on a vacuum tube potato.'
Man Heavy Rain is almost retro now.
He'd unplug the matrix to charge his phone so that he could roll for some more jpigs
I must have an even lower opinion of him than you do, then, because I don't think he would at all. Every facet of his life is fucked, in ways that clearly bother him, yet he lifts not a finger to rectify any of it. I don't think there's a rock bottom for Phil to hit where he wakes the fuck up and does something about it. His internet career may get him a six figure income, but it's otherwise ruined beyond comprehension. No growth is possible, only stagnation or decay. Same with his relationships. The only people he has a semblance of one with are his parents, and he moved to the other side of the country in order to put the max distance between them that he could tolerate (leaving the U.S. is not an option for Phil, that's too drastic of a change). The only escape he once had from the way his caustic nature destroys everything he touches was Champions, which detractors took away from him, yet he persists with it. He knows exactly why he does, as well, and trudges forward anyway.
I agree with you in the fact that WWE Champions is a fucking ugly game. Along with what you said, the game is absolutely predatory to its userbase on a scale that I haven't seen before.
