DarksydePhil / TheyCallMeDSP / Phil Burnell - General Discussion

[Dread Pirate Retard]

I wonder if kat...the girl who grew up with the insane abusive mother...gets tired of Phil bitching about his life so much...Phil the spoiled child who went to a private university and had every toy he wanted.

Uh wrong, you fucking mentally ill troll. His parents didn't get him the Wolverine figure when he told politely asked them to. DEBUNKED!

 

[TheGreatWhiteNorth]

I found a cool website: Face Swap Online

"Wenn wir das Tips Goal erreichen, werden wir in Frankreich einmarschieren!"
("When we reach the tips goal, we will invade France!")
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"Hitler Gamer Face"

Whoa, I can barely tell the difference!

Seriously, I know some people have a "serious" face when gaming, but Phil has this constant bitter/miserable look to him while gaming. I thought that he enjoyed playing video games!

 

[ManakaLala]

Phil seems to really be in love with this Life is Strange 'game'. For a glorified visual novel he's really chipper and clownish when he's playing it.

Just compare that to when he has to play an actual game like Judgement for example where he's literally falling asleep.

 

[Brother Wind]

You know what, gonna power level. Just spent 5 hours in a car to get chewed out by a bunch of authority figures and get my school career back on track. And then I gotta be up at 7AM like nothing happened.

I don't ever like to compare myself to Phil directly, but reading that, I had to laugh. Because I had to own up that I fucked up. I couldn't say that I did everything right. I had to piss away my whole day in a car and waiting rooms. And now I just have to suck it all up and move on with my life. Especially because I could have taken the easy route. Put it on hold try again in the spring and act like I did nothing wrong and save my whole day. I could even call and tell them I will be late because I have stuff to do dood. Im even gonna get less sleep over this. But alas. I am an actual mature adult. Reaped what I sowed. And tomorrow is gonna suck ass. This week is gonna suck. But my life will move on.

Well it has been 15 minutes since I started guys. And I have seen 0 contributions. I guess you guys just dont like this game. I am really liking it, but I gotta pay bills snrrrt

 

[Draventren]

I just remember back in the 90's and 00's where you were lucky if the game had a story in between the gameplay and consumers didn't expect it, now you're lucky if there's gameplay between the story and if there's no story consumers whine. I pity zoomers that don't even realize how good video games used to be, they think minecraft was some crazy unique idea of just fucking around in a video game but really that's how a lot of games used to be (not to say all games are bad now, just commenting on how more games focused on story with trash gameplay are more common).

Anyway that's my aging millennial rant for the day.

I could go for hours about this but I'll distill the rant down to the core pieces:

Video games are being written by people who wanted to write movies. They don't understand the medium because they either don't care about it, or think that they can seamlessly marry the two. Because of that we wind up with tailing missions, or long drives between mission objectives so that the game can dump all the story it needs to through really boring interactions with the player that don't tend to be worth it. Thing is, in a film you can do things like have a character tail another character and get information off of them and it's tense for the audience because we don't know if the character is going to get caught, it's out of our control. In games it's entirely in our control and it's boring because those missions are rarely difficult and more often just a way to fill out to 40 hours. These same people who want to write movies but settle for games also seem to think people care about what they have to say, so they pack it with political statements that will be lauded by people like games journalists as being "important" because those game journos wanted to be real journos just like these game writers wanted to actual writers.

Games are art, but they're going to get killed if they keep trying to tell their stories like movies and ignore the possibilities that the medium has.

I have to stop now or else the dam will break and I will write a whole essay.

 

[Wasabi Panda]

Maybe I'm pretentious or don't understand video games but why are games like this popular? I'd rather go read some book or maybe watch a movie. It seems games like these are becoming more common and I'm just not understanding the appeal.

My "so hot take phil might steal it" take... (not serious btw)

This kind of narrative based game is probably some design by committee fueled by a marketing team to attempt to get the demographic of those people on twitter. You know them, they actually thought the new heman was well written, that rose trico was a deep character, that blizzard's constant virtue signaling is so brave so bold.

They bitch about games they don't play cause twitter clout but it's an untapped demographic. Cross that over with still rich vein of the female gamer and tada!

Not saying all games like this just ones written like this, where they check every box in the anita swasomeshit guide to making a veedya game. Others call back to games like King's Quest and the old Sierra games.

 

[Full Race Replay]

Why is a game reviewer reporting the length of a game so important to be exactly precise for Phil? It's like he's talking about the metal weight that's the definition of 1 kilogram in weight. Not to mention how phil stalls every game he plays and frequently pauses to beg for donations, but it's natural that the duration of the game will vary from player to player. By now phil should know that he tends to play games slower, and keep that in mind when he considers game length instead of acting like the game reviewer is proven wrong every time.

 

[Sup3r]

Why is a game reviewer reporting the length of a game so important to be exactly precise for Phil? It's like he's talking about the metal weight that's the definition of 1 kilogram in weight. Not to mention how phil stalls every game he plays and frequently pauses to beg for donations, but it's natural that the duration of the game will vary from player to player. By now phil should know that he tends to play games slower, and keep that in mind when he considers game length instead of acting like the game reviewer is proven wrong every time.

Phil likely uses the lengths to build his schedule around. This means that if a reviewer's reported time is wrong to Phil, it messes with his precious schedule and we all know he is powerless against it.

I don't think he knows that he plays so much slower than anyone else, and since he knows "journos" aren't skilled at games (remember how he was better than Dean Takahashi at cuphead, even though that is saying so little) he sees himself playing at their speed or maybe faster. Just remember his "reviews" were based on his playthroughs so his understanding of the process of making them is likely more fucked up than his understanding of a rainy day fund.

 

[Need Help With Tips]

I've seen accounts with 500 followers that consistently get more likes and RTs than DSP. Maybe by the end of this year he'll get as much "interaction" on twitter as a 500 follower account, such a massive improvement from going full lockdown. Nice going Dave.

 

[Zappin’ And Spazzin’]

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I've seen accounts with 500 followers that consistently get more likes and RTs than DSP. Maybe by the end of this year he'll get as much "interaction" on twitter as a 500 follower account, such a massive improvement from going full lockdown. Nice going Dave.

So here we can see what the real benefit to disabling replies is. Now Phil can give his Expert Gamer Reviews without anyone seeing a chain of replies refuting him, memeing, or calling him a lazy scammer. This literally doesn't benefit his fans in any way outside of making it easier to take in the Gout Lord's words on a pedestal, which is all he cares about.
Of course, we all know this will only lead to people giving even less of a shit about his Twitter than they already do. That blue checkmark is deluding him into ignoring the absolutely dismal amount of likes and retweets.

 

[DarkScrubPhil]

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I've seen accounts with 500 followers that consistently get more likes and RTs than DSP. Maybe by the end of this year he'll get as much "interaction" on twitter as a 500 follower account, such a massive improvement from going full lockdown. Nice going Dave.

I get more likes and I'm just a no nothing guy with 30 followers.

 

[Sup3r]

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I've seen accounts with 500 followers that consistently get more likes and RTs than DSP. Maybe by the end of this year he'll get as much "interaction" on twitter as a 500 follower account, such a massive improvement from going full lockdown. Nice going Dave.

It's images like this and seeing just how low his view counts on his videos show just how irrelevant he has become, especially over the past few years. All the locking down will do is hit his stats on twitter as the people who respond to him won't bother to look at him anymore

 

[JamFlowMan]

It's written by people who think empathy is a mystical superpower-- i.e. narcissists pushing a social agenda.

That solves the mystery why Phil's eating it up. @Space Cooter just brought up Kat's past and there is no way in hell Phil doesn't know about it and probably sees those traumatizing events as quirky stories from her childhood.

 

[Zappin’ And Spazzin’]

It's images like this and seeing just how low his view counts on his videos show just how irrelevant he has become, especially over the past few years. All the locking down will do is hit his stats on twitter as the people who respond to him won't bother to look at him anymore

Yeesh. I just took a look at his Youtube channel and his videos are struggling to break even 1k.
Even videos that are a month old can't break that threshold. No wonder Phil's been so miserable despite all the dough he's collecting.

 

[Sup3r]

Yeesh. I just took a look at his Youtube channel and his videos are struggling to break even 1k.
Even videos that are a month old can't break that threshold. No wonder Phil's been so miserable despite all the dough he's collecting.

It's not even 1% of his subscribers. At this point any other person would be trying to do anything to save it. Then again anyone else would have salvaged it much earlier.

The mindset of "it's everyone else's fault" has also made him think he can't do anything to fix it, even though he hasn't tried to do anything "meaningful". He has become the poster child for learned helplessness, only he keeps fighting to stay in the bad place that hurts.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

Phil likely uses the lengths to build his schedule around. This means that if a reviewer's reported time is wrong to Phil, it messes with his precious schedule and we all know he is powerless against it.

I don't think he knows that he plays so much slower than anyone else, and since he knows "journos" aren't skilled at games (remember how he was better than Dean Takahashi at cuphead, even though that is saying so little) he sees himself playing at their speed or maybe faster. Just remember his "reviews" were based on his playthroughs so his understanding of the process of making them is likely more fucked up than his understanding of a rainy day fund.

The issue is that Phil takes twice as long as an average person to beat a game.

 

[Sup3r]

The issue is that Phil takes twice as long as an average person to beat a game.

I agree, my point was more around trying to understand his reaction. I believe he assumes his playtime is the real average playtime, instead of the padded mess of shout outs and rants it actually is

Something else I noticed was how he seems desperate to throw shade at reviews for a game he has zero stakes in. What does he stand to gain from doing this, especially when he has trashed games for lesser crimes against him.

 

[snort inquisition]

it actually seems like most people are saying the game takes around 10-14 hours to beat, so i'm really not sure where phil got the 6 hours shit from, lmao

 

[JimiHendrix]

"T-Pose! T-Pose! Ack ack ack!"
What a fucking child...
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that's also an A-pose, not a T-pose.

 

[ProvenWrong]

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The game.. Is very good ??

LMAO!!!!

Nigga please.

Time manipulation ? Meh

Telekinesis ? Nope.

Absorbing emotion from other people? Two thumbs up and my wife agrees with me! *thumbs toward Frey Meyers*

Phil the MC is Asian.

What do they say in China again ?