DarksydePhil / TheyCallMeDSP / Phil Burnell - General Discussion

[MoonRocker]

This is an interesting take on it. It does fit the "semantic truth" that Phil loves ("It's not a new cat, it's one I've had!") where he is paying fees for legal shit, but it's for fucking up with the IRS, not that bullshit "identity theft" story he was trying to push. If that is the case, that CPA's dumb as shit for not getting that money up front.

It’s actually the norm for CPAs to take payments due upon the completion of their services and not before. Some may charge by the hour or others as a package deal.

The vast majority of people pay their invoices when due upon receipt and you absolutely do not want to short change or fuck over the guy who’s filing your taxes to the federal government on your behalf unless you’re dumb enough to try and take on the IRS.

But since this is Phil we’re taking about, I wouldn’t be surprised if he once again mismanaged his finances and couldn’t come up with money to pay someone or some institution that he owes money to.

Hence why I agree with @gin_nose that this unexpected $1,500 muh bills amount is related to a CPA or a tax payment. It matches the amounts historically he often begs for to pay for administrative work but now that the bank leaks have happened, we knew that he was lying about the actual amount and was trying to skim more money off the top (correct me if I’m wrong but none of the payments paid to his CPA firm amounted to more than $600 when he was begging for $1,000+).

You know, one of my favorite quotes is from a real despicable human being, Rahm Emanuel. He was Obama’s Chief of Staff during his first term and was also the mayor of Chicago at one point. Just an all around piece of shit and opportunist but savvy fucking guy. When the 2008 crash happened he said: “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. It’s an opportunity to do things you could not do before.” And DSP takes it out right out of his book by conjuring up magical financial emergencies every time a minor inconvenience happens in his life. You can tell Phil does not like to create begathons out of the blue but always within the context of something mildly inconvenient that happens in his life; sometimes preempted by weeks of playing the world’s smallest violin regarding his situation or a 3AM “I’m worried about the future” tweet. He prepares a crisis for weeks in advance and uses any impromptu crises as a way to fleece more money from the dentheads — that’s the issue with being a hermit, crises can’t really happen when you’ve closed yourself off from the rest of the world and therefore have to manufacture them.

But yeah, Phil has become a master of using any minor anomaly to do something he cannot often do: beg for bigger amounts of money.

 

[PyroAlert]

Phil always seems so exited to get to the END GAME of every game he plays. This to me is more evidence that Phil hates video games.

 

[NursezillaX]

Do you know anything about the IRS payment plans? Are you kicked out of the plan and default and required to pay in full if you miss a payment over so many days? We know dark always waits until the last minute so if the IRS says your payment is due Oct 1st, with a late fee Oct 15th, and you are kicked out of the payment plan and you owe the entire thing on Oct 25th, Dark would pay Oct 24th.

The reason I ask is becauase if his bank being locked made him miss the last chance to pay date, that could explain why the $1500 to pay the CPA to redo his payment plans.

Go back and watch that robbed for $1500 clip, there are a lot of hints its related to his IRS payment plan.

I've had payment plans with the IRS and can only speak to my experience because I definitely don't want to try and parse what things Phil is being honest or lying about. At an old job I was classified as an independent contractor and didn't have taxes withheld so, like DSP, the normal thing would be to pay quarterly estimated taxes then settle up what you're over or under come April. It wasn't a very good paying job and I lived paycheck to paycheck so I never really had a chunk of money that I could pay quarterly.

I'm not saying this is a great idea and it's not at all how someone who files a 1099 should pay their taxes haha. What I ended up doing though was not making estimated quarterly payments, just filing in April and finding out exactly what I owed. Then, I'd arrange a payment plan with them and pay off the previous years taxes each month so that the financial bite was more like just having it regularly taken out of your paycheck. It was just more manageable for me that way. The overall interest and penalties over the course of the plan was pretty negligible. I usually ended owing around 3k, so I paid like $250 a month, and the interest for that whole time would end up coming out to be less than a couple hundred dollars so, again, it was just much more manageable overall, so taking that little extra hit was worth it to me.

I basically had a continuous payment plan for the entire time I worked that job, about 6 years. I was late on payments a few times and there was never any real issue as far as them threatening I'd default and have to pay in full. That said, I never made a payment over 30 days late, so I don't know if there would have been any kind of more serious penalties if I had, but I don't think there would be, at least not anything like defaulting. That would probably take something like 60 days late or more, because the bottom line with the IRS and payment plans and why it drives me nuts when he talks about it is, in my own personal situation, they were really accommodating. The IRS is (rightfully) thought of as a really aggressive entity because of what they can potentially do to people in terms of punishment, but the more common reality of it is that they just want 'their' money. If you talk to them and reasonably honor an agreement without a whole bunch of hassle and extra bullshit, they're pretty easy to work with. I honestly had an easier time working out arrangements with the IRS than almost any other entity that I ever had to deal with due to debt. So, for me, Phil's doomsday scenarios always ring hollow to me. It's just him trying to whip up the paypigs to start a tipping frenzy.

One thing I'm confused about though that he keeps saying recently about this $1500 'attorney fee' that was supposedly necessary due to his 'identity theft' is that he keeps saying, 'and if I can't pay it all off next month, then there's going to be interest and other fees and I'll NEVER be able to pay it back'. My only experience with an attorney has been covered by our insurance, so I don't know how they normally would bill a client, but I've never heard of interest being applied to a balance owed for a professional service like an attorney, CPA, doctor, etc. Maybe I've just never come across it though. I've had lots of medical bills, and they never accrued interest when I couldn't pay them off in one month lol. Idk, owing interest on attorney fees seems like bullshit to me, but he did say he was 'being very honest with you all', so what do I know. Maybe it's a slip because, like speculated, he IS actually talking about something like a tax payment where additional interest is actually going to be a penalty when you pay late?

 

[snort inquisition]

 

[King of Hateful Slurs]

Pathetic

 

[Guess i'm toxic now!]

Phil always seems so exited to get to the END GAME of every game he plays. This to me is more evidence that Phil hates video games.

Because it's just about making money from them and crossing them off the list.

Remember every game is just an investment that he is hoping brings in 10 times the initial amount.

If it doesn't he he says "allotta peepal said this game is boring" and usually phases it out to the night streams.

Again it's all just an avenue for making money, and it's been that way for many years.

 

[King of Hateful Slurs]

"Let's Go Brandon tipped $10 uhh I'm not putting that on the leaderboard."

 

[Radical Goodspeed]

"Let's Go Brandon tipped $10 uhh I'm not putting that on the leaderboard."

I'm genuinely shocked he got that reference, fucking dumb as it is.

 

[actually]

I'm genuinely shocked he got that reference, fucking dumb as it is.

When I stopped in, he was saying something about politics and not wanting to get involved with it, so I'm guessing it was explained to him or something.

 

[Iron Father]

Hilarious to hear this faggot say other streamers use fluorescent lighting to stop viewers from falling asleep because their streams are boring.

This boring dipshit falls asleep on his own streams.

 

[snort inquisition]

so he just went on about how people in chat are telling him something about the game and this character in the game

he said something and then "i'm being told" and so i scrolled up and down in his chat and saw nothing whatsoever relating to what he had just said, at all

wtf???

 

[N0thingICanDo]

Near end of stream status:

Total tip: $30

Top tip: LGBT ($10)

Members: 263/300 (-2 since day stream)

Viewer: 223

Chat is talking about Phil's prostate and how kat breastfeed him

Absolutely no one give a shit about his gameplay

"I've already posted on Twitter to ask for help, there's nothing I can do, seems like people just lost interest in this game or else I don't know why you are not supporting, nuhhuh"

*Nervous Snort*

 

[Agent Proper]

He has paused the stream so many times it is over his tip total.

 

[Anonymous Dimwit]

Phil just snapped at "gorilla pimp" for bringing up coomander derich's twitter. Funny how Derich is the one Asian Phil seems to give a shit about. I wonder what draws Phil to his arch nemeses (Asians) with Derich?

 

[UaineRunei]

Phil just snapped at "gorilla pimp" for bringing up coomander derich's twitter. Funny how Derich is the one Asian Phil seems to give a shit about. I wonder what draws Phil to his arch nemeses (Asians) with Derich?

 

[wicked_lnl]

Why does he have a stink face while he watches these cutscenes lol. Like he is about to fall asleep.

 

[Fragarach]

Raging hard because he missed a quicktime event and "the game tells him he didn't do it". Also it quicksaved so he can't savescum it.

 

[metis]

46 fucking pauses. I'm sure the overtime probably helped to add to that number. I'm also choosing to count the moments where he pauses to read the games recap of his actions. As it's not a traditional game pause, if you think it doesn't count or I shouldn't count it for some other reason let me know.

 

[Surly Muppet]

He keeps saying tonight that he doesn't know why contributions are low... but this is a natural fallout from the (wrong kind of) games he is playing with his audience right now.
In the last week he has content cucked them 3 significant times.

1. He refused Back4Blood Co-op after he said previously he would do it, insisting that the campaign took too long and he has too many other games to play
2. He dropped the fan-voted Silent Hill off of the marathon and basically refused to look into fixing the situation, or offering any kind of appealing replacement
3. He added a House of Ashes second playthrough, Visage, and apparently Condemned to his gaming rotation instead of the Metroid or Guardians that he explicitly promised his audience once other playthroughs were wrapping up - he added extra playthroughs instead of those games

Now, the denties are too stupid to do what they rightfully should be doing here right now - financially punishing him for this. But we're likely seeing the next best thing, which is that the lesser dents have lost interest because they're seeing nothing he hyped up. He's doing this because he got plenty of money last month, so he expects to be able to slack off and not pay for games or play anything that might be difficult. And his streams are suffering accordingly. This is the Phil Cycle, but I can't recall a time where he so obviously swerved three playthroughs in almost as many days.

Raging hard because he missed a quicktime event and "the game tells him he didn't do it". Also it quicksaved so he can't savescum it.

And to top it all off, he probably just fucked the perfect playthrough which is the whole reason he is doing the second run through House of Ashes.

 

[SPhobos]

On top of it all this shitty movie-game has an option to remove the time limit from QTEs so that you can just treat it like a CYOA book but I doubt that Phil even looked into any of that before trying to kick off this unwanted 2nd run. He's a professional gamer dood there's no way he's going to miss hitting a button prompt in time.