Welcome to the Farms,
@Phil's Favorite Footlong. Thank you for taking the time to do this AMA. I've learned a lot, but I wanted to gain more insight as to why ADF loves to adopt these bizarre fringe views and changes them at a tip of a hat. I know he used to be much more into Marxism but I can barely even tell what's going on in his head right now or why he decided that he's even this Latinx character. It never made much sense to me.
A lot of it seems to be seeking approval from someone online. He likes validation, and will do what's needed to get it from whoever's dealing at the moment.
What's your favorite thing about me?
Well, Entropy, my favorite thing would probably be that a starting level character with two dots in you and enough successes can accomplish almost anything in a very coincidental fashion (and if anyone gets this reference, I suspect we will be very good friends!)
Are you still in touch with Kory/Kourine?
Sadly, no. There was some wholly un-Phil-related drama where another guy made inappropriate advances toward her shortly before we graduated. In retrospect, I should have done more to help her, but he had confided in me that he was being raped by his landlord before he took it out on Kory, and I was dealing with Phil becoming less stable, and I was, y'know, graduating and prepping for a 4 year school and trying to deal with my own life, and I just didn't have room on my plate for another crisis at that point. I think she viewed it as a betrayal, and I felt really bad. (And if she reads this, I still have her Gen 3 pokemon games somewhere, and I've kept her named swampert, Kipper, in my collection through the generations; he's in my gen 6 bank now. If she shows up, I'm happy to return all of the above)
Hi
@Phil's Favorite Footlong and welcome! As time passes, Phil's health is clearly degrading beyond just gaining weight. The years have not been kind to him at all. Based on your historical knowledge of Phil, what do you think is the leading factor behind the increasing rapidity of his deteriorating condition?
Stress. Some of it self inflicted, some of it very real. It does terrible things to the human body.
Was he starting to go bald back then? How was the body hair situation?
He had a full head of hair (I'd attribute his hair loss to stress before male pattern baldness, but that's just a guess). He was lightly fuzzy all over at the time.
Hey man, welcome!
Did Phil ever have any aspirations beyond cosplaying and identity politics?
And did he leave you any funny memories, you know, ones that don't involve inappropriate sexual advances?
Hi, Dusty! Welcome!
Kind of a rider on
@Lysistrata 's second question, but, are there any times that you actually had genuine
fun with Phil? Like, enjoyed rather
I don't recall Phil discussing his long-term plans, but it was a considerable amount of time ago.
I realize this is not going to be easy to believe, but when Phil wasn't making unreasonable sexual demands he was really fun to be around. I'm not pretending for a minute that sitting around watching the Muppet Show and cracking jokes makes up for sexual assault, but there was the potential to be enjoyable company.
Seconding this. Also, do you remember what, exactly, Phil was studying in school. The consensus seems to be that it was somehow related to computers, but the specifics either aren't known or have been lost.
@Weeping With Pity and I have talked about this, and that's as much as we can remember.
What would you prefer? Dusty Daddy or Daddy Dusty?
Ugh, none of the above. I'm not that authoritarian of a dom. And before anyone asks, yes, that was an obstacle to Phil having his way with me. Far from the only one, but I just don't enjoy having to micromanage a relationship.
Did Phil ever express an interest in bicycles while you knew him?
Nope.
On that note, was Phil always this terrible at managing his finances? If so, do any particularly noteworthy examples stick out in you mind? And, given his current mental state (batshit insanity) do you agree that someone should be managing Phil's finances for him?
When Phil gets tardbux revoked, will you offer to be his payee?
Phil didn't really have an income when I knew him, so there weren't really finances to manage. If he wanted something, he either got money from his mother, or he didn't. I think someone to help him manage his money responsibly at this point would help him considerably. Given his purported desire to be a sub, I'm surprised he hasn't at least tried having someone with that level of control over him. Whether I want to be his payee is a moot point, as I am on public assistance myself (see below) and thus don't believe I'm eligible.
Where do you think Phil got his weird sexual ideas from? Did he show any interest in pornography?
Bishonen yaoi, and beyond that, no.
Welcome to the Farms, Dusty! May you learn peace in the teachings of Mousehammad.
While everyone else pumps you for Phil info, I'm more interested in you. How are you doing? In the 8 years you've been avoiding Phil, what have you been doing? Are you in a good place in your life, are you happy?
What about the time before Phil? Did you have a happy childhood? I know a lot of gay children have difficult youths, and you've hinted that you had some rough times. Do you get along with your Family?
Warning: extreme powerleveling, and a lot of sounding like I'm lying my ass off. Only bringing this up because someone asked, and I'm being honest. So, some "highlights" of why my time was Phil was a blip on my radar:
My life has not been particularly happy for most of it. At 14, I was beaten against a wall until I lost consciousness. At 16, I was thrown out, had a breakdown, and was institutionalized for an extended period. At 18, another resident of the halfway house I was in while I finished high school held me prisoner for a week, repeatedly violated me, and then shot me before I beat him unconscious in my escape attempt. At 19, my freshman college roommate tried to sacrifice me to Satan. At 20, my mother refused to take me to my grandfather's funeral so the family wouldn't find out I was homeless. [For almost a decade, I had a relatively peaceful patch before returning to school and ultimately getting two degrees, both with accolades] Hit college, met Phil. Four years ago, left an abusive relationship where my partner was diagnosed with DID, and one of his parts was his internalized homophobia, which had figured out how to trigger my seizure disorder, and used it to win arguments and otherwise punish me. Two years ago, a man broke into my apartment at 2 AM to attack me, mistakenly thinking I had changed his locks at the request of our mutual landlord. (He was so drunk, he'd forgotten how keys worked). I had to fight him off with a knife. The cops found him bleeding and refused to listen to me about how he'd smashed in two doors to get at me; I was arrested for assault as the "aggressor."
Currently, I'm on SSI myself for PTSD (wonder why!) and my own recent autism diagnosis, but I supplement it by serving as a life coach, security, personal chef, and general housekeeper for a pair of (straight) friends I made while pursuing my second degree. I periodically attend conventions serving as a demo guy for various gaming companies, I'm working on a novel (60,000 words, nearing the point where I'm ready to submit it), and I've just gotten a financial investor interested in helping me put together a kickstarter for a card game I've been developing, so things are looking up! (So please, no sympathy, no pity, and no accusations. I'm sharing all this because someone asked, not because I'm trying to elicit asspats. I'm a survivor.)
Do you know about any other lolcows? Do you follow anyone like Chris Chan?
Honestly, the whole "lolcow" situation feels very unpleasant to me. I finally came because Phil's not just embarrassing himself, but threatening people. I didn't stand by while people did it to him, I'm not standing by while he does it to others.
Dusty, what's going on in Australatina right now? Phil seems very distracted by your presence. Is his country still being managed properly?
I am uncertain of conditions within Australatina, but can assure you that Pyrosia, setting of my aforementioned novel in process, is prepared to accept any and all fictional refugees displaced by adverse conditions.
How did being Phil's protector impact your reputation and social life?
Was there any loss of social capital for trying to do what you thought was the right thing, or did most see it as an incredibly charitable and thoughtful act?
Phil really wasn't that bad back then, so it was mostly seen as "charitable and thoughtful," and when conditions worsened, it's not like I was a lone holdout telling people they just needed to be more patient with him; I was bailing out of that ship myself.
(Thank you for answering all this nonsense btw)
A lot of users here think of Phil as an obvious attention whore. What you said kind of backs that up, him not getting attention seemed to spiral into crazier and crazier behavior and more and more blatant lies. Did he seem to be desperate for attention even back then? Or did he come across like more of an introvert getting his first taste of being heard? I suspect that time of his life completely ruined any chance he had in the world, and not because of his companions, but because of the environment he was dropped in.
In "meatspace" (hey, it's that word!) it was more the "introvert getting his first taste of acceptance." Online, it was like a junkie scrambling for an ever-stronger fix.
I have two questions:
1) Did Phil ever mention Jack Thaddeus or anything related to Christian Chandler when you knew him?
2) What was some of the goofiest autistic weeabo shit Phil did around you?
From what I know of them, CWC and Jack Thaddeus came well after me. The goofiest was probably insisting on being called Sasuke, and calling me "his Orochimaru."
Hrmm, what to say to a...hmm.
There needs to be an ADF version of 'Christoric figure'.
Anyhoo, speaking of footlongs
1) What's your favourite choice of filling for a sub +bread type? I mean, unless you're one of those people who can't tolerate gluten.
2) Autism often makes people dislike certain flavours and textures of food. Now, it's widely known on the farms that cheese is his favourite substance other than himself (and cheese was addressed in your last answer) - whilst you knew him were there any foods or flavours he really wanted to avoid?
Cold subs, I'll settle for a ham and cheese, but if I can get a corned beef with swiss, cole slaw, and russian dressing, I'm on cloud nine. Hot sub, nothing beats a classic Philly cheesesteak.
As touched on previously, I never really saw him particularly gravitate toward or away from any specific food except cheesecake- and that might have been him keying off my love of cheesecake, or it might have been the fact that cheesecake is awesome.
How did phil encounter bullying in college? Was this a 2000s thing or was he just extremely socially inept
you mentioned phil getting death threats - what pissed folks off so bad?
what the hell do you do to get anime club out to kill you?
He came out as bisexual, and we had someone who was... well, think of the sleaziest lounge lizard from a comedy that you can come up with, then make him a black anime nerd. This was a guy who would proposition all the women in the club, then next week, forget who they were and do it all over again like it was the first time they met. He kept talking about his vampire lesbian porn novel to anyone who'd hold still. Yes, we actually had someone people wanted to be around less than Phil, and that was the guy who sent the death threats.
I've read the whole thread but I'm still not 100 percent in the know about you or Phil. I remember hearing about you. Are you gay? Bi?
Also, are you serious about being well endowed or am I just being autistic?
I'm a gay man. The handle refers to Phil trying to "shame" me by claiming my penis bears an "embarrassing" resemblance to a "Subway five dollar foot long." I am being intentionally vague as to the veracity of that claim.
First off, It's good to see you here
@Phil's Favorite Footlong . It's always interesting to talk with someone that was/is in Ground Zero with a Lolcow such as Phil. I have 2 (mostly non-serious) questions.
1. Looking back over the years, was there anything at your time with Phil that you either ignore or regret today? If you don't want to answer this question i can understand.
2. Any game of the electronic visual type that you enjoy? Such as RPGs, Platformers, or are you into any other game such as Magic: The Gathering?
That's all the questions i have. Please enjoy your stay at Kiwi Farms.
I regret not being able to help the downward spiral, but I have to accept that I'm not responsible for Phil, and no one can help him unless he wants to be helped. As for gaming... I play everything. Everything.
When Phil shit himself was it like a log or diarrhea?
You are a bad person and you should feel bad.
What's the best/most positive side of Phil you have seen?
Do you have any stories of him being generous, kind, or gentle to someone like you were with him?
For Phil to be generous, kind, or gentle, he would have to be in a position where he could have been selfish, cruel, or harsh, and... really, Phil was always the Omega of the pack while I was around. Other people were generous to him, and he was usually respectful and grateful for it, but he was never really in a position to bestow largess himself.
First of all, welcome.
Following up on the question about what he was studying at college, how did Phil see his future back when you knew him? What were his goals? Where was he hoping college would lead, or was he just there to kill time?
I don't think we ever talked about it. We sort of went from not being close enough to discuss it, to me just hoping his ideal future didn't involve being married to me.
