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[Corpun]

Sometimes slot machine gamblers do win the big prize and the machine goes nuts with lights and sounds, the management comes out with a big novelty check and so on... and they just find a hardcore addict surrounded by pissjugs who tells them to shut up and let him get back to pulling the lever. It's a sickness.

If Phil hadn;t lucked out with playing games while being a bum he would 100% be the depressed unkempt guy who looks 20 years older than he actually is wasting his money on lotto tickets. Fucking gamblers are depressing.

 

[Jasper2K]

DSP really pig talked himself into thinking this documentary will be a good thing for him eh? It will be the cure all and save the business, save the house, save the marriage. Going to be a long few months (Years) if this thing actually happens.

 

[King of Not Playing Games]

EDIT: This was all covered much earlier in the thread so consider this just another voice in the Greek chorus warning you.

Thanks everyone for responding and posting. I've been able to connect with a ton of people and get a lot of insight and feedback. Appreciate your replies and interest in the film. I've read all the replies and will continue to outreach to people as interesting things come up or I need any additional insight. Thanks again.

I'm sure you're inundated with information and responses, and I'm far from a scholar on DSP, but I wanted to throw in my two cents, as someone who has dealt with people like him in real life, and have a sense of what he's trying to get out of this documentary.

Phil is a liar. He is a pathological and consummate liar. He lies about everything. He lies about his gambling addiction, he lied to the bankruptcy court, he lies about how much money he has, and what he spends it on. He lies explicitly, and he lies by omission. He lies by carefully wording things, and he lies by spouting nonsense. He lies to his audience, and he lies to himself. He lies because he never wants to be seen as wrong about anything, and he lies to protect his ego. He lies at such a constant rate that you can randomly click on any Tevin re-stream, and Tevin will be pointing out DSP contradicting himself within two sentences. He lies so repeatedly that even things about his life that should be statements of fact are muddled in a half dozen stories he's told about them: how popular he was in the fighting game community, why he got fired from his helicopter job, why he got fired from Best Buy, why he lost his various partnerships with Machinima etc., why he lost his Twitch partnership, what kind of "bills" and "taxes" he's needed to pay for, when he got his fucking cat, how often he eats out, how much he drinks, whether his "king of hate" persona was genuine or an act.

He stays insulated inside his house, and exercises domineering control over his chat, because he wants only his version of events to be the prevailing one. Just like with the Side Scrollers interview, he'll engage with the outside world to get "the honest truth about himself" out, which means he wants to disseminate his lies to a wider audience.

If you want to do this right you need to keep one rule paramount which is that Phil cannot be trusted. You should consider everything he tells you suspect until you get confirmation from another source, preferably several.

This is also my own personal armchair diagnosis, but I also believe him to be an overt narcissist, someone who has to protect himself against narcissistic injury by any means necessary. That includes the lying, of course, but it also includes how he can never be wrong, how his lack of skill in games is always the fault of the games, how he reacts with outright hostility to mild criticism from his chat, his focus on 'masculinity', his weird "kiss-the-ring" behavior where he demands sniveling apologies from anyone who gets on his bad side, and his complete binary treatment of people where he either tolerates you, or excises you from his life the moment he finds any reason to dislike you (see how quickly, and with *how much invective*, he turned on Side Scrollers after the interview).

So that's my personal warning on how you should treat him as a documentary subject.

 

[We Are The Witches]

Point is moot for a simple reason: IRS considers business expenses legit for research and development, and the relevant part, no matter if you ever produce anything of value for the company or not by this activity.

Yeah, I don't think so.

There are research and experimental costs, which are the ones I believe you're talking about, however there's certain criteria for that.

They're generally to eliminate uncertainty about the development of a product (formula, invention, patent, pilot model, process, technique, or property similar to the previous), and they exclude some things, like quality control testing for example.

Sitting in your fatass playing Champions every day, when it's not even an O&NE expense, does not qualify as research I'm afraid.

 

[BPD Gunt Rider]

DSP really pig talked himself into thinking this documentary will be a good thing for him eh? It will be the cure all and save the business, save the house, save the marriage. Going to be a long few months (Years) if this thing actually happens.

Until the next opportunity for him to "debunk wrongs". And the next...

 

[Very Honest Content]

Yeah, I don't think so.

There are research and experimental costs, which are the ones I believe you're talking about, however there's certain criteria for that.

They're generally to eliminate uncertainty about the development of a product (formula, invention, patent, pilot model, process, technique, or property similar to the previous), and they exclude some things, like quality control testing for example.

Sitting in your fatass playing Champions every day, when it's not even an O&NE expense, does not qualify as research I'm afraid.

You're incorrect. You also do not want to live in the world that de-incentivizes real companies from trying to innovate to serve their customers better. If mouth drooling morons like pigroach ruin their lives gacha pulling off stream, they do not care if it doesn't improve his content for the wheelchairs, dents and ironic fans larping as anything but weens. Development of "process" of streaming vidya means WWE Champions time would be under this corporate umbrella. The "research" is covered when Phil is up on Christmas day 2023 plugging away at being #1 MASSIVE MEATY MAN. For all they assume, he'll figure out how to make money with it for his growing online on demand content creation empire with enough sunk costs to it, any day now . . .

 

[BlastMonk]

I'm surprised no ones bought this up till now. But will Phil demand a cut of the ad revenue that documentry makes or just a an upfront cost. He was weird about the superchats on the side scroller interview.

 

[Kheapathic]

If you want to do this right you need to keep one rule paramount which is that Phil cannot be trusted. You should consider everything he tells you suspect until you get confirmation from another source, preferably several.

Getting sources to debunk Phil doesn't require getting confirmation from other sources, as much as it'd involve finding an older video of Phil bitching about something; the closer to the date of the problem the better. The further you get away from the situation in question, the more time he has to embellish and make shit up, until what he claims is far removed from what was originally claimed; and it's best to take the original claim as closest to the truth, as he hasn't had time to craft new scenarios. No doubt you should always verify what he says, but the hard part is finding the video he made when the shit first happened, he'll clarify what really happened himself.

Like I know he wants to complain that Machinima or YouTube told him to go ahead and delete the videos that were copyright claimed from the Jacki Chin fan art. When you listen to the original rant, he'll tell his audience that he couldn't just private the videos, because if Jackie has a link, he can still file claims; sure he went ahead and contacted Machinima, but he didn't have the patience to wait and went ahead and deleted the videos and thus destroyed his standing in the algorithm. But if you were to ask him now, he was told to do so, and so Machinima fucked him over and ruined him. If that did happen, it would've been brought up in the original story, it only came out later, and imagine my shock, he did nothing wrong, he did everything correct.

 

[Japs_eye]

@mikeclum something I think both his fans and us would like to see would be an IRL street fighter match. Either street fighter 2-the game he's best at-or street fighter 6. Due to his constant bitching of lag during sf6 matches, it would be great to see him play locally with zero lag and zero excuses.

 

[ReentryPhantom]

Getting sources to debunk Phil doesn't require getting confirmation from other sources, as much as it'd involve finding an older video of Phil bitching about something; the closer to the date of the problem the better. The further you get away from the situation in question, the more time he has to embellish and make shit up, until what he claims is far removed from what was originally claimed; and it's best to take the original claim as closest to the truth, as he hasn't had time to craft new scenarios. No doubt you should always verify what he says, but the hard part is finding the video he made when the shit first happened, he'll clarify what really happened himself.

Like I know he wants to complain that Machinima or YouTube told him to go ahead and delete the videos that were copyright claimed from the Jacki Chin fan art. When you listen to the original rant, he'll tell his audience that he couldn't just private the videos, because if Jackie has a link, he can still file claims; sure he went ahead and contacted Machinima, but he didn't have the patience to wait and went ahead and deleted the videos and thus destroyed his standing in the algorithm. But if you were to ask him now, he was told to do so, and so Machinima fucked him over and ruined him. If that did happen, it would've been brought up in the original story, it only came out later, and imagine my shock, he did nothing wrong, he did everything correct.

Also his explanation of why Curse dropped him is a huge lie. They were dropping other creators at the time to save money. He used it as a way to make it seem as though it was because of trolls they dropped him.

 

[Iron Hamster]

@mikeclum something I think both his fans and us would like to see would be an IRL street fighter match. Either street fighter 2-the game he's best at-or street fighter 6. Due to his constant bitching of lag during sf6 matches, it would be great to see him play locally with zero lag and zero excuses.

I'd like to see him in a real street fighter fight with LTG and listen to him cry 'dropped input' when he punches LTG in the chest and he doesn't even flinch.

 

[The Pulverizer]

Mike Clum? More like Might Cum.

 

[Corpun]

Can't wait for Mike to get a free apartment in Phil's head right next door to Keem, LTG, Howard, Craig, Adam, Metokur, and Tevin.

 

[Fapcop]

@mikeclum something I think both his fans and us would like to see would be an IRL street fighter match. Either street fighter 2-the game he's best at-or street fighter 6. Due to his constant bitching of lag during sf6 matches, it would be great to see him play locally with zero lag and zero excuses.

Phil already seeded the ground with excuses for this though.

He has repeatedly said recently that he’s a “former” player who’s place in the middle in a tournament.

 

[Wasabi Panda]

there's no way in hell anyone with half a braincell watched that SF6 stream last night would think this, "person" was sane or easy to work with.

Which makes me wonder did Mike Clum not know what he was getting into or is the 1001 videos some on his own channel showing how much of a complete mental patient lunatic this narcissistic pathological liar is what drew him into making a "documentary"

 

[Kiwi Andy]

Hooves mashing.

 

[Wasabi Panda]

ya know as arrogant as he's acting more so when talking about the "documentary" no matter what it is a softball'ed nothing burger or some "phil says this but in reality" expose style look at a mental patient sort of thing.

This is not going to be anything that this mental patient's delusions have made it out to be and it's going to be SS pod cast all over again.

I can't see anyone wanting to paint this toxic piece of arrogant shit in a positive light, boogie is annoying and a pity/attention whore. Phil is that too but with some arrogant smug narcissistic pathological liar who's too stupid to keep his lies straight in the same thought let alone from thought to thought. painting this guy in a positive light would be career suicide.

 

[Fuckyoudad]

Which makes me wonder did Mike Clum not know what he was getting into or is the 1001 videos some on his own channel showing how much of a complete mental patient lunatic this narcissistic pathological liar is what drew him into making a "documentary"

He likened phil to Howard Stern which tells us he probably knows enough about phil' to know that you have to placate the pig by indulging in some of those deep rooted fantasies of his if you're not handing him money or are already some well established figure so he'll pretend he's interested in your opinion.

Mike could have picked any modern contrarian/comedian etc and significantly increased his chances of bombing out early by being met with phil's patented "I dunno who/what that is" response when anyone asks him what he thinks about anyone or anything not from 2006 or earlier.

Instead he seems to have done enough homework to know that it was phil himself who cited Stern as one of the guys he was a fan of and trying to emulate back when he first started making excuses for his behavior on youtube.

I'm sure this alone has earned Mike the title of Sir for the time being in Goutland.

 

[Pandalee’s Tits]

Put a hidden camera across from that pig’s condo to see how many trips he takes to the dump before your visit.

 

[JPG]

Remember the Tiger King netflix documentary? The producers of that only got big cat rescue and its founder Carole Baskin to engage, interview and be recorded was because they sold it to her as a documentary exposing the 'evil' tiger king's wrongdoings and animal safety. As reported here. If the producers were honest, and said it's around the personality and life of Joe Exotic they would have gotten no content from Carole/Big Cat Rescue.

My expectations are low but I can only hope Mike Clum is smart enough and doing the same thing here. It sure would be disappointing to get a 1hr edited prestream podcast without really scratching the surface.