It goes to show just how much of Phil's apparent lack of effort is fueled not entirely by overall laziness but by a lack of interest in the task. Inherent laziness exacerbates things, yes, but when it comes to stuff like remembering details, spending proper time on a task, seeing things through, Phil has thoroughly demonstrated that what matters most is whether he gives a shit.
Wrestling trivia? Genuine passion, can recall just about anything and probably get it right. Stuff he did last stream? Irrelevant, forgot it the second after he did it.
Overlay sucks? Doesn't care, won't ever try to make a better one. Takes awhile to chop up the stream into videos? All over it, because he actually wants to do it.
Wouldn't be so bad if he could at least be based enough to NOT simultaneously insist on pretending that he's a legit gamer and get pissy about losing at fighting games. "All right, time to get bodied online! ACK ACK ACK! It's all good, I still love fighting, even if I can't do it anymore! ACK ACK ACK!"
I could almost respect that. But no, he can't do that because so much of what makes him DSP is that he's a toddler in the body of an old man, not a lovable clownish jerk.
Phil spending the entire stream kicking his own ass would be the most entertaining he's ever been.
At least until he started actually crying over what he has done to his life. I mean if he physically can't lie, just like Jim Carrey's character in that movie, then at some point he's bound to have that "I'm a bad father" moment, and just fall apart at the seams. His denials of the blatant truth are so numerous and so profound at this point that it would be
impossible for such a confession to do anything other than put real tears in his eyes.
I mean think about it, think about all the ways in which the real perpetrator of his problems has been HIM. Think back on last year, the "life has been rough, these past few years, it really has", the fake crying, the projecting of all responsibility onto something else. Now take away that projecting and have him absorb the truth. ALL OF IT AT ONCE. Imagine him talking about Machinima, and saying "Phil is the one who fucked that up". And then he realizes what he said, just like Jim Carrey saying "I'm a bad father", and soaking it in because he knows it has to be true.
Niagara Falls. Guaranteed.
Maybe because he thinks that if he changes then "the trolls win".
He does think that, which is funny, because his life would've improved dramatically years ago if he had taken criticism from detractors to heart. But if he had, he also wouldn't be a lolcow.
