DarksydePhil / TheyCallMeDSP / Phil Burnell - General Discussion

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Well at least if everything else in your world is completely falling apart, you can always take solace in the embrace of your loyal and loving partner in life. DSP will still always have his girlfr-

...oohhh.

He always has bad-dragon to look forward to, but stupid bugged online transaction mechanics keep him from admitting he wants a toy from there.

 

[PL 879]

TKOH forums right now:
http://archive.fo/B5s1L
https://archive.fo/rl7Qt
http://archive.fo/3N7sv
https://thekingofhate.com/forums/to...s-to-step-away-from-youtubetwitch-now/?page=3

Thread title: "As a fan since 09', DSP needs to step away from YouTube/Twitch NOW."

FloydMayweather:
"How can he keep on living like this? Staying up until 6 am watching movies full of stress is not healthy physically or mentally, these are the words of somebody who is broken. The guy needs a break from the internet, period for his own sanity before who knows what can happen."

KGhaleon:
"Yeah, people have been telling him that for a while. He's not going to give up on his current lifestyle until he loses his house or something."

Veera:
"We've all been giving him advice. What else do you expect us to do? Go to his house and stage an intervention? If he chooses not to listen to our advice, it's completely on him. He's had a lot of different potential options shown to him by us, but he has to be the one to make a change if that's what he thinks is best."

Woof:
"Since I have been on this forum, I have seen with a few exceptions the majority of the users give dsp good advice on saving money or boosting his patreon/channels viewership etc, it's not like we are actively encouraging him to rack up more debt."

DSP has crossed a threshold considering a few of those making comments regarding intervention on his tumbleweed hugbox forums are his biggest ass kissers.
Once that piece of shit Amityville chimes in that Phil has got to make a change, it's essentially one second before doomsday in the Patreon Palace.

 

[Dewey Manlove]

Remember, they're not Rage Quits! They're frustration quits! That's not a rage quit!

Or "boredom" quits or "no fun" quits. Phil wants to talk about how hard his "job" is, then quits whenever he encounters something he doesn't enjoy. Though there are people who do love what they do for a living, I can't think of a job where things don't sometimes (or often or always) get boring, tedious, difficult, etc...that's one of the reasons you get paid to do it.

I would say that Phil was out of touch with anything outside the GoutSphere, but it turns out not to be a sphere at all:

Edit: I wonder if Phil ever considers rage-quitting life because there are no fast travel points?
Edit 2: Changed Kroger to Safeway for geographical accuracy. Cartography is serious business.

 

[Um Oh Ah Yeah]

He always has bad-dragon to look forward to, but stupid bugged online transaction mechanics keep him from admitting he wants a toy from there.

Thanks for that mental image, friend. I'm going to be struggling to forget that for at least an hour.

 

[ChickenSkinBeanbag]

Or "boredom" quits or "no fun" quits. Phil wants to talk about how hard his "job" is, then quits whenever he encounters something he doesn't enjoy.

But it's stressful having to play video games that aren't making you money, especially when nothing but begging for shekels is making you money.

Speaking of, don't forget the elusive "It's just not profitable dood" quit.

 

[neger psykolog]

But it's stressful having to play video games that aren't making you money, especially when nothing but begging for shekels is making you money.

Speaking of, don't forget the elusive "It's just not profitable dood" quit.

Phil is a good example of what happens if you actually think playing video games 365 days a year would be fun.

Spoiler: It won't be.

 

[JamFlowMan]

TKOH forums right now:
http://archive.fo/B5s1L
https://archive.fo/rl7Qt
http://archive.fo/3N7sv
https://thekingofhate.com/forums/to...s-to-step-away-from-youtubetwitch-now/?page=3

Thread title: "As a fan since 09', DSP needs to step away from YouTube/Twitch NOW."

FloydMayweather:
"How can he keep on living like this? Staying up until 6 am watching movies full of stress is not healthy physically or mentally, these are the words of somebody who is broken. The guy needs a break from the internet, period for his own sanity before who knows what can happen."

KGhaleon:
"Yeah, people have been telling him that for a while. He's not going to give up on his current lifestyle until he loses his house or something."

Veera:
"We've all been giving him advice. What else do you expect us to do? Go to his house and stage an intervention? If he chooses not to listen to our advice, it's completely on him. He's had a lot of different potential options shown to him by us, but he has to be the one to make a change if that's what he thinks is best."

Woof:
"Since I have been on this forum, I have seen with a few exceptions the majority of the users give dsp good advice on saving money or boosting his patreon/channels viewership etc, it's not like we are actively encouraging him to rack up more debt."

This is actually pretty telling. Threads like these after emergency vlogs either quickly get shut down or never gain traction. Phil currently has two threads about this situation, one mostly for speculation, nd this one full of people telling him to get his shit together. The telling thing is most of these people are the ones who would try to shutdown a thread like this one and instead they started one. Phil's big supporters are sick of hearing he needs to be bailed out again. The sad thing is these people are actually worried and care, and Phil won't give a shit.

 

[DarkSydePundit]

Also who in their right mind still has a Webmaster for managing a forum?

Wordpress with a easy and simple Plugin and he should be good to go.
He pays that guy 100-200 dollars monthly if I recall correctly?

 

[neger psykolog]

Also who in their right mind still has a Webmaster for managing a forum?

Wordpress with a easy and simple Plugin and he should be good to go.
He pays that guy 100-200 dollars monthly if I recall correctly?

From what I can tell he also has a dedicated server or VPS. I vaguely remember reading/watching something when he went on about how expensive it was.

Seeing his comcast situation, wouldn't surprise me in the least if Phil is paying somewhere in the region of $1-200 USD a month just for hosting when with the amount of traffic he has he could get away with something like $20-30 USD

 

[Le Redditeur Part Deux]

Also who in their right mind still has a Webmaster for managing a forum?

Wordpress with a easy and simple Plugin and he should be good to go.
He pays that guy 100-200 dollars monthly if I recall correctly?

To be fair, Wordpress is full of security holes (specially if you install insecure plugins), and we all know people would hack the shit out of him if that was the case.

 

[Georges St. Pierre]

From what I can tell he also has a dedicated server or VPS. I vaguely remember reading/watching something when he went on about how expensive it was.

Seeing his comcast situation, wouldn't surprise me in the least if Phil is paying somewhere in the region of $1-200 USD a month just for hosting when with the amount of traffic he has he could get away with something like $20-30 USD

Internet is pretty expensive if you want it to be good Khwahlity d00d. I'm moving in about three weeks and for the blast internet that I need for my job its 80 bucks a month without any cable or anything. There are options for less but they are pretty pitiful in comparison.

 

[neger psykolog]

Internet is pretty expensive if you want it to be good Khwahlity d00d. I'm moving in about three weeks and for the blast internet that I need for my job its 80 bucks a month without any cable or anything. There are options for less but they are pretty pitiful in comparison.

No we're not talking about home/business internet, we're talking about servers.
http://ramnode.com/vps.php

Servers cost a lot less than any kind of connection to a business/home as they're in a data center.

Phil could easily run his entire website/mail/everything on a $30 VPS.

Also keep in mind with servers (unless you're going for top-tier dedicated servers) there are usually no contracts. You pick what you want, you pay for the month, if its too insufficient you get a better server and pay a bit more.

With home/business internet you at least have the excuse of 12/24 month contracts, installation costs, only having one provider in your area (like Phil only has Comcast). You can get a VPS in like 10 minutes.

 

[Georges St. Pierre]

No we're not talking about home/business internet, we're talking about servers.
http://ramnode.com/vps.php

Servers cost a lot less than any kind of connection to a business/home as they're in a data center.

Phil could easily run his entire website/mail/everything on a $30 VPS.

Also keep in mind with servers (unless you're going for top-tier dedicated servers) there are usually no contracts. You pick what you want, you pay for the month, if its too insufficient you get a better server and pay a bit more.

With home/business internet you at least have the excuse of 12/24 month contracts, installation costs, only having one provider in your area (like Phil only has Comcast). You can get a VPS in like 10 minutes.

I have no idea how any of that stuff works, but I guess that is kind of the point. Phil should.

 

[Brian Butterfield]

In my opinion Phil should stick to fighting games. It's the only time he plays a game when he's not solely obsessed with views/$$$. His pride is on the line every time because he cares so much.

Of course, some of his "best" non-fighting game playthroughs were back in peak-Phil circa 2011, like Madden '12 and Supremacy MMA. You know, back when he would use words like gay and retarded liberally when reacting to game mechanics, which is almost unheard of now. Before he started cleaning up his language and falling back to dumb singing and droning "uuuuuuhhh." Before he started streaming and relying on chat to tell him what to do.

Look at this:

This is prime Phil without stream chat, it's pure gold and insanely entertaining how completely befuddled and enraged he is by a simple puzzle mechanic in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. This is what people want to see from him, not some fake dancing to Sonic music or reading Danganronpa dialogue.

 

[BatChatillon]

The TKOH thread has some sick taste. Now some of these yes-men, not even all of them, but some, come out and try to give Phil the advice people have been trying to give him for years now, they actively fought off everyone who tried to and denounced them as detractors, haters and whatever. They enabled Phil having this lazy lifestyle he refuses to give up because they gave him money for so many years, and now they think they can be his savior. I think some of them know the ride is over soon, and they can look back and say "well I told him so but he didn't listen". Especially KG who doxed people and did a lot of dirty work for Phil.

Seems like the rats leave the sinking ship and paint themselves as the good samaritans and voices of reason when in fact those people weren't for years.

 

[Detractress]

His website is also sitting behind cloudflare. His nameservers are cloudflare.
https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=mx:thekingofhate.com&run=toolpage
(yes I know I'm looking at the MX records but it lists the nameservers there)
Also the website is on a german server. Also a german server who happens to be a fan of warcraft dragons.

So he's paying for cloudflare protection of his website that gets hardly any traffic.
https://www.similarweb.com/website/thekingofhate.com
For a website that has had MAYBE 40k visitors in its lifetime you dont need cloudflare to be managing your traffic.

So about the website. He's paying for a private webserver. I know my company charges close to 150 a month for a dedicated web server. Granted we're not the cheapest (and arent hosting websites anymore, we moved them all to another host) He could get on Bluehost, or Hostway, or even use Godaddy's hosting and save himself a bunch of money.
Also he doesnt need his own private webmaster to manage freakin forums. The website has no other purpose than to be forums. Did he need a webmaster to build the forums? Maybe. I dont blame people for wanting things done right the first time rather than installing PHP full of holes on their site, or have a bunch of wordpress addons that have more security holes than swiss cheese. But he should be managing his own website. Manage your own forums. Giving people access to the "secret patreon only tumbleweed farm" and managing that access once a month takes maybe 20 minutes. He already bans people, locks threads and deletes threads himself. Maximum amount of time spent running the website might be about 20-30 minutes a day

All of this money he spends because he believes everyone's out to DDOS him. Business internet and attempting to protect his static IP because he's "so popular", cloudflare to manage his website traffic so that his website doesnt go down. Its crazy how he protects himself as if he were some giant personality, when in fact he's not even D list.

 

[DiabeticSP]

In my opinion Phil should stick to fighting games. It's the only time he plays a game when he's not solely obsessed with views/$$$. His pride is on the line every time because he cares so much.

Of course, some of his "best" non-fighting game playthroughs were back in peak-Phil circa 2011, like Madden '12 and Supremacy MMA. You know, back when he would use words like gay and exceptional liberally when reacting to game mechanics, which is almost unheard of now. Before he started cleaning up his language and falling back to dumb singing and droning "uuuuuuhhh." Before he started streaming and relying on chat to tell him what to do.

Look at this:

This is prime Phil without stream chat, it's pure gold and insanely entertaining how completely befuddled and enraged he is by a simple puzzle mechanic in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. This is what people want to see from him, not some fake dancing to Sonic music or reading Danganronpa dialogue.

Phil playing sports games is absolutely the most fun he's ever been. Classic games like Crash that require skill are good too, but my god is him trying sports games hilarious.

Not only is he incapable of understanding the menu, like when he couldn't find quick match in Fifa, he doesn't understand the rules, doesn't care, and gets frustrated when he doesn't immediately succeed.

Even with Arcade mode in the current Madden I imagine he'd get blown up trying to play against the AI on anything but Rookie.

I'd love to see more racing games too Phil's pathetic driving abilities like in Horizon 3 are so satisfying.

 

[Adamska]

Jesus, I finally caught back up and learn that Phil's degraded to pure save scumming. I haven't seen that in a long time in LP format. And I do agree him being balls at children's games are probably my favorite thing. That and games I've played back in the day.

 

[RIP_SANITY]

In my opinion Phil should stick to fighting games. It's the only time he plays a game when he's not solely obsessed with views/$$$. His pride is on the line every time because he cares so much.

Of course, some of his "best" non-fighting game playthroughs were back in peak-Phil circa 2011, like Madden '12 and Supremacy MMA. You know, back when he would use words like gay and exceptional liberally when reacting to game mechanics, which is almost unheard of now. Before he started cleaning up his language and falling back to dumb singing and droning "uuuuuuhhh." Before he started streaming and relying on chat to tell him what to do.

Look at this:

This is prime Phil without stream chat, it's pure gold and insanely entertaining how completely befuddled and enraged he is by a simple puzzle mechanic in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. This is what people want to see from him, not some fake dancing to Sonic music or reading Danganronpa dialogue.

Nah, if there is one major problem with his FG playthroughs, is that it eventually becomes repetitive with him being salty over losing. What he needs is to play harder games, or, go back to older games. (90s or 2000s)
I think a user already posted it's special when Phil does that kind of old game playthrough. This is because he encounters games that are much harder than games nowadays without being brutally sadistic games. Thing is, this slight challenge of those games for Phil is much greater than it seems: for Phil whats a somewhat challenging game he sees as climbing Mt. Everest without gear.
Hell, let's take a look at the most infamous DSP playthroughs ever: MGS3 came out in 2004 (if we take Subsistence, it's 2006), MGS2 in 2001, MGS1 in 1998, Spider-man PSX in 2000, the GTA 3D trilogy: 2001-2004, while Black Mesa is a a remake, it's still a remake of a 1998 game, and so on.
Scarface and P3 both came out in 2006 (albeit FES came out in 07 but it still counts)
Crash Bandicoot trilogy: 1996 to 1998
Jak 1 and 2: 2001, 2003 respectively.
RE3, CV: 1999, 2000 respectively.

See a pattern here? there are obviously older games that didn't yield for notorious playthroughs (classic Megaman, surprisingly. He struggled a lot more with the X series) as well as newer games that did yield for far more infamous playthroughs but still. (Dark Souls trilogy immediately comes to mind as an example of this)
I think while fighting games definitely supply a good stream of hilarity, it's harder games what ultimately cause him to rage and make up bullshit excuses far more than
your standard fighting games. You don't listen to Phil blaming the fucking physics (CB1 HD) for example.
Older games seem to cause more trouble for Phil, most likely because they were designed for a different audience (and sorry if I come across as an old man bitching about them newer games) an audience that didn't need to have their hand held every 2 seconds, no microtransactions or pay to win BS. The games did offer help every now and then, but it ultimately was up to the player to figure shit out.

 

[Adamska]

My problem with him playing fighting games are that you could take his audio and replace another FG video's audio with it and you would barely be able to tell the difference. He Johns exactly the same in every game. Hell, the only difference now compared to earlier FG vids is he's getting madder more often since his ego's stinging from Street Fighter beating his ass down and for getting dumped.