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Honeybunny said:
What the hell is he doing that it takes that long to finish a single mission?
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I randomly watched Video #9

He's trying to reach a building across the street.

0:00-2:36 Stands on a green police box trying to use Displace to move on.
2:37-2:45 Displaces to the top of a spiked iron fence which impales and kills him. He complains that spiked fences kill you.
2:38-3:33 Re-spawns and makes his way to a small flat rooftop between two tall buildings (still across the street from the objective).
3:33-5:54 Examines a whale oil puddle, and wonders what it is (after two previous Dishonored games?). Tries getting up a tall building using pipes that obviously won't get him there. Tries using Displace to reach a balcony on another building. The arrow doesn't show up because it it too far. Complains that "reach is so terrible."
5:54-6:02 Jumps onto the parapet and looks around.
6:02-6:12 Falls off the parapet and dies "I didn't touch anything! I did not touch anything, she fell by herself"
6:13-8:02 Re-spawns and returns to the flat roof. Tries using Displace to reach the same balcony as before. It's still too far. Eventually jumps into a small sunken alley and takes about 2/3 damage.
8:02-8:12 Gathers loot and goes through a door to a contract board and a black market seller.
8:12-11:27 Takes contract from board and reads it, then checks out the black market and his inventory, buys supplies.
11:27-11:41 Walks out of black market and back into the small alley planning to head back to the small roof.
11:41-11:51 Saves
11:51 Video ends.
 
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Dewey Manlove said:
I randomly watched Video #9

He's trying to reach a building across the street.

0:00-2:36 Stands on a green police box trying to use Displace to move on.
2:37-2:45 Displaces to the top of a spiked iron fence which impales and kills him. He complains that spiked fences kill you.
2:38-3:33 Re-spawns and makes his way to a small flat rooftop between two tall buildings (still across the street from the objective).
3:33-5:54 Examines a whale oil puddle, and wonders what it is (after two previous Dishonored games?). Tries getting up a tall building using pipes that obviously won't get him there. Tries using Displace to reach a balcony on another building. The arrow doesn't show up because it it too far. Complains that "reach is so terrible."
5:54-6:02 Jumps onto the parapet and looks around.
6:02-6:12 Falls off the parapet and dies "I didn't touch anything! I did not touch anything, she fell by herself"
6:13-8:02 Re-spawns and returns to the flat roof. Tries using Displace to reach the same balcony as before. It's still too far. Eventually jumps into a small sunken alley and takes about 2/3 damage.
8:02-8:12 Gathers loot and goes through a door to a contract board and a black market seller.
8:12-11:27 Takes contract from board and reads it, then checks out the black market and his inventory, buys supplies.
11:27-11:41 Walks out of black market and back into the small alley planning to head back to the small roof.
11:41-11:51 Saves
11:51 Video ends.
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Checked out the stream for five minutes yesterday. There was a lot of aiming displace at spots it obviously could not reach which seems to be common. He also reloaded a save twice because he was spotted by a guard. Knowing Dsp and stealth if he reloaded every time a guard spotted him that must have happened tons of times. Between all his standing/looking around and all the time lost reloading saves that take him back a few minutes it is no wonder he barely got anywhere. He was under 300 viewers when I watched so the first day views are still a totally viable business model.
 
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Radical Goodspeed said:
I'm waiting for him to try and spin that pizza as the healthiest thing since kale.
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see, it has cheese, that's dairy.. and this crust is bread.. and these vegetables, it has everything you need.

honestly it wouldn't surprise me if DSP is the kind of guy who would argue a hamburger is healthy because it has a lettuce leaf.
 
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JamFlowMan said:
Checked out the stream for five minutes yesterday. There was a lot of aiming displace at spots it obviously could not reach which seems to be common. He also reloaded a save twice because he was spotted by a guard. Knowing Dsp and stealth if he reloaded every time a guard spotted him that must have happened tons of times. Between all his standing/looking around and all the time lost reloading saves that take him back a few minutes it is no wonder he barely got anywhere. He was under 300 viewers when I watched so the first day views are still a totally viable business model.
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To Phil reloading a save every time he gets spotted is an undetected play-through.
 
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Dewey Manlove said:
I randomly watched Video #9

He's trying to reach a building across the street.

0:00-2:36 Stands on a green police box trying to use Displace to move on.
2:37-2:45 Displaces to the top of a spiked iron fence which impales and kills him. He complains that spiked fences kill you.
2:38-3:33 Re-spawns and makes his way to a small flat rooftop between two tall buildings (still across the street from the objective).
3:33-5:54 Examines a whale oil puddle, and wonders what it is (after two previous Dishonored games?). Tries getting up a tall building using pipes that obviously won't get him there. Tries using Displace to reach a balcony on another building. The arrow doesn't show up because it it too far. Complains that "reach is so terrible."
5:54-6:02 Jumps onto the parapet and looks around.
6:02-6:12 Falls off the parapet and dies "I didn't touch anything! I did not touch anything, she fell by herself"
6:13-8:02 Re-spawns and returns to the flat roof. Tries using Displace to reach the same balcony as before. It's still too far. Eventually jumps into a small sunken alley and takes about 2/3 damage.
8:02-8:12 Gathers loot and goes through a door to a contract board and a black market seller.
8:12-11:27 Takes contract from board and reads it, then checks out the black market and his inventory, buys supplies.
11:27-11:41 Walks out of black market and back into the small alley planning to head back to the small roof.
11:41-11:51 Saves
11:51 Video ends.
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Goddamn. His stealth "skills" have atrophied even more since his original Dishonored playthrough.

On another note:

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His Patreon has seen a small increase recently. Surprising, given the recent Mario Sunshine scandal. Unless his fans are really that dumb and gave him more money because they thought DSP was being generous to them by playing 2 games.
 
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RIP_SANITY said:
Goddamn. His stealth "skills" have atrophied even more since his original Dishonored playthrough.

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His Patreon has seen a small increase recently. Surprising, given the recent Mario Sunshine scandal. Unless his fans are really that dumb and gave him more money because they thought DSP was being generous to them by playing 2 games.
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Its still bad we are halfway in the month so by the usual schedule his ultra bitching (not the normal bitching the ULTRA) is going to begin this Monday, i can see another meltdown when he fails to reach the goal again, he is already failing his promise with Super Mario Sunshine he is surely going to fail again in Halloween

And seriously could not he i dont know get a Gamecube in a Goodwill or something? i have see videos of people getting consoles for like 25 bucks

If he was not a complete moron he could just emulate Super Mario Sunshine, even a lemon could emulate it properly now
 
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Cubanodun said:
Its still bad we are halfway in the month so by the usual schedule his ultra bitching (not the normal bitching the ULTRA) is going to begin this Monday, i can see another meltdown when he fails to reach the goal again, he is already failing his promise with Super Mario Sunshine he is surely going to fail again in Halloween
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He's gonna end up lowering the goal amount again, his ego can't take failing to reach the goal twice in a row.
He'll probably lower it to 1000 dollars, maybe 900 if he's really desperate.
 
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JamFlowMan said:
He was under 300 viewers when I watched so the first day views are still a totally viable business model.
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Last year Dishonored 2 was a viewership trainwreck for DSP - I remember him complaining when he went on break for the premiere about viewers leaving, and then for the 2nd stream later that night he had a 10+ minute informal prestream while waiting for viewers to turn up... going from ~100 to eventually accepting 200 viewers, with a peak under 300 viewers.
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In the end he would complain that this was his weekend & he needed the views... and they didn't come.
My thoughts at the time were because he decided to do a high violence run with very little stealth with the new female protagonist, and the game was surprisingly easy. People expected stealth fails like Dishonored 1, DSP skipped stealth & so people left. Yet a year later & DSP is actually trying stealth, failing at it... and still people apparently leave. He just can't catch a break.
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Cubanodun said:
Super Mario Sunshine... And seriously could not he i dont know get a Gamecube in a Goodwill or something? i have see videos of people getting consoles for like 25 bucks

If he was not a complete moron he could just emulate Super Mario Sunshine, even a lemon could emulate it properly now
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DSP does have a Wii, but the problem there is the Wii can't do HDMI out - DSP's component capture devices broke or were sold. Yes, his $3K lemon is more than powerful enough to emulate Sunshine on the GameCube, but he'd need to accept he's configured Xsplit/OBS/OBS Studio poorly over the years and switch to NVENC GPU encoding. I get the impression he's adamant about NEVER doing that because he'd look foolish, the "lemon" wasn't a lemon after all, he could have been playing superior PC versions of new releases for years.
 
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RIP_SANITY said:
He's gonna end up lowering the goal amount again, his ego can't take failing to reach the goal twice in a row.
He'll probably lower it to 1000 dollars, maybe 900 if he's really desperate.
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Dont think so, that would mean that his work is less "valuable" now, also that option was on the table last month but he did not use it same as self pledging, he REALLY must be short on cash
 
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well, he is getting like 4000 dollars on twitch a month (might get 5000 this month) so it would make sense to lower the patreon goal, and not greedily double dip his audience.
But on second thought, that's a little too smart for someone like DSP, so he'll obviously not do that at all.
 
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RIP_SANITY said:
well, he is getting like 4000 dollars on twitch a month (might get 5000 this month) so it would make sense to lower the patreon goal, and not greedily double dip his audience.
But on second thought, that's a little too smart for someone like DSP, so he'll obviously not do that at all.
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What it would make sense to do is drop Patreon and just do a special event once a month on Twitch as a thank you for all of the "participation." If he has fans that don't watch Twitch he can point them to his Paypal link. He may lose a few people who don't want to donate for nothing in return, but donating on Patreon to watch Phil stream a game is already paying for nothing in return. This Halloween Phil will stream a game no matter what. Same with Thanksgiving and Christmas because he is all alone in his condo with nothing better to do.
 
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ThePlagueTND said:
I think it's time to change your goal Phil, or just not have one at all.
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He pinned himself in a corner there. We all know he needs to bandwagon on every AAA release, but there are only so many (and even less he can stomach). Even people on the TKOH forums mention his constant AAA playthroughs make him look like someone from IGN or Gamespot, doubly so when he buys all of them day one. Without Patron's choice, he'll be in more of a drought after every January or so, because even when he runs out of new releases he almost always hunts for very high profile games- Phil ain't playing a Tales game, or a Disgaea. He should have carved a niche by now, but by playing every big release he has no identity of his own next to other gaming streamers.
 
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I can agree. Phil playing new games are usually very boring.

When he plays something older, there is a certain magic too it. The rage, the not going where to go, the control slams, awesome.

I just don't understand the complaining. The audience is telling you what they want to see....just play the fucking game! It's not that hard.
 
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