Current Events > DSPGaming General 10 (Year Legacy): Thousand Dollar Cat Edition

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jpenny2 posted...

I've never understood his need to be thought of as mature.

I do, it's what he does to justify himself.

Because no matter how look at it, he is just playing games. This is also why he has his schedule, uses the words adult/mature, says stupid shit like "working his ass off", "busting his ass" and stuff like that.

He has an obsessive need to constantly justify what he does. And when he does, he produces wonderful gems like he NEEDS to lie to protect his family. He says that people shouldn't believe anyone online, because no one can verify anything.
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"Working my ass off" always gets to me. His "job" is more difficult than it needs to be due to his obsessive adherence to the schedule he sets (again, creating his own problems), but it's still a very easy job. He's not editing or collaborating with others or promoting his business (beyond some basic tweeting). Most days he does nothing to prepare for the stream--you can see that when he has to grind things to a halt to download an update or go find a controller. He rolls out of bed, shows up to stream (often late), begs and complains for an hour or more, and then plays a game for a few hours while reading shout outs and doing "reactionary" commentary. Try telling someone who works an actual job how that qualifies as working your ass off.
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jpenny2 posted...

"Working my ass off" always gets to me. His "job" is more difficult than it needs to be due to his obsessive adherence to the schedule he sets (again, creating his own problems), but it's still a very easy job. He's not editing or collaborating with others or promoting his business (beyond some basic tweeting). Most days he does nothing to prepare for the stream--you can see that when he has to grind things to a halt to download an update or go find a controller. He rolls out of bed, shows up to stream (often late), begs and complains for an hour or more, and then plays a game for a few hours while reading shout outs and doing "reactionary" commentary. Try telling someone who works an actual job how that qualifies as working your ass off.

Streaming can be hard work, but we all know that Phil does the bare minimum to scrape on by without putting in any effort on his part. Doing the comparison to someone like MaximilianDood again, Phil doesn't edit his videos on Youtube and even puts out like 4-6 hours of videos a day. On the other side, Max puts in the work to edit his footage to cut out anything mundane and doesn't just slap his streams on Youtube. Whenever you see Phil stream on Twitch, you can tell that he has no energy and doesn't really like playing the majority of the games he plays. Meanwhile, Max shows a lot of energy while playing games and generally enjoys them.

That is why Phil only gets a measly 400 or so viewers a stream (which is still good, but we all know a good portion of those are trolls) and Max gets 8-10k per stream. There are lesser streamers on Twitch who would kill for the numbers that Phil pulls in, but he always needs more, more and more to fulfill his horrible lifestyle. He doesn't care about anyone but himself, which shows as he is constantly "in the worst financial crises" of his life, despite making more money than a lot of people annually.
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His throat clearing is just out of control now. He will say a couple sentences and then clear his throat for an extended period. The guy really needs to see a doctor.
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Devs are pieces of shit because he can't ban trolls from his lobby.

Also even though he got 200, he won't be able to afford borderlands 3.
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LightningAce11 posted...

Devs are pieces of shit because he can't ban trolls from his lobby.

Also even though he got 200, he won't be able to afford borderlands 3.

That stream was great. It was the classic DSP excuses. Laggy connection. Random moves. Inputs dropped. Couldn't block. Rage quit.
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Every game should be developed specifically for the tiny percentage of customers who are lives streamers, with an even more specific focus on the small percentage of those live streamers who are heavily trolled. That's a mature adult opinion, that a company looking to make a profit is going to tailor their games towards a miniscule portion of their customer base instead of catering to regular gamers who purchase the majority of their product.
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i didn't know that RugalBernsten guy that was destroying him in SF is evilaj
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Lol he played a detractor song while on break and got angry.

Wish it was a liquid richard one.
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LightningAce11 posted...

Lol he played a detractor song while on break and got angry.

Wish it was a liquid richard one.

That was obviously YouTube's fault. It's not as if Phil should be expected to do any more than turn on a YouTube playlist full of songs other people created for him. He's working his was off here, people!
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LightningAce11 posted...

Lol he played a detractor song while on break and got angry.

Wish it was a liquid richard one.

He could easily take the "detractors" power away by simply ignoring it. People love getting a rise out of Phil, if he just brushed it off, they'd move on.
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Also, I came across this on the farms:

http://www.issendai.com/psychology/sick-systems.html

It's a really good read and offers insight why people would keep giving Phil money.
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Phil had yet another oppertunity to help his channels grow, and did he take it?

Tolo and Cry invited Phil to coop Monster Hunter World. This expansion is huge and MHW is still going really strong. Naturally Phil pussied ouy with the excuse that he is swamped with games and has no time to fit MHW in. This is what he told Tolo.

What Phil told his audience however... According to Phil, Tolo was dissapointed in the game and thus would not being cooping/playing it.

Phil's fans then messaged Tolo on Twitter, using Phil's story and Tolo got pissed off, because that is not what he said at all, causing Phil to stop hosting Phil's Twitch.

So not only did Phil pussy out of a growth oppertunity, he actually harmed himself by creating this dumpster fire.

If Phil actually had started MHW he'd have a game for his "chill streams" since there isn't a story to get invested too, and you can play it in small bursts, and he could have caputalized majorly on the Iceborne expansion now.

This happened a while ago, but it illustrates once again what a piece of trash Phil is. People should just assume that every time Phil opens his mouth, lies follow.
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It's these dumbass whales and detractors donating that keep him afloat. Stop giving this pig money.
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Phil doesn't want to grow. He would love to have an audience of ten or twelve people who said nice things about him in chat, told him how to play the game, and--most importantly--tipped big. I don't think he really cares about being internet famous anymore, mainly because the experience has been largely negative for him. All he wants is the most money possible for the least amount of effort.
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Everyone who has fallen out with Phil have that same story, that he would tell them one thing then tell his community something else. Same thing happened constantly with John Rambo and Howard, then they exposed him for all the horrible things he did to them and others around him.

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Chev427BB posted...

Everyone who has fallen out with Phil have that same story, that he would tell them one thing then tell his community something else. Same thing happened constantly with John Rambo and Howard, then they exposed him for all the horrible things he did to them and others around him.

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I can't wait for Phil to butcher Borderlands 3.

I got about 5-6 hours in this morning, before I had to leave for work. The gunplay is amazing, a huge improvement over the previous titles, it's tight, responsive and satisfying.

This, of course, means that Phil will complain that he is hitting people (and it can be debunked, because thank fuck for floating damage numbers) but does no damage. He'll likely also complain that the game is unrealistic (lol) and will make no use of the new mantle/slide features.

He'll fuck up skill build and will rely on chat to help him.

It's going to be a shitfest.
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I was watching a detractor video the other day that would ocasionally replay his shootouts after he died (I forget which game he was playing).

Phil: "Come on, dood, I shot him fifteen times and I'm the one that died?"

Slow motion replay: Miss, miss, miss, miss, hit to the leg, miss, miss, miss...
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I'll never forget his playthrough of Borderlands 1, where he spent the majority of the game not picking up any guns because he thought you automatically bought them if you picked them up.
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Spooking posted...

Jagermeister513 posted...

I'll never forget his playthrough of Borderlands 1, where he spent the majority of the game not picking up any guns because he thought you automatically bought them if you picked them up.

Are you serious? Lmao - w0w d00d!

Yeah, he thought the value of the gun was how much money you spent when you picked it up.
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The BL3 stream is pretty much a dud.

For the record, Phil made 93 dollars during that stream, give or take. So playing the game for 2.5 hours (he started late, the pre-stream lasts about 70 minutes, and he too a long break pretty shortly after that, meaning that of the 4 hour stream, at most he played for 2.5 hours) he already made the money back that it cost.

He is such a greedy little fuck, because as you can see, if he invested in his "business", he'd make that money back and more. Yet he doesn't want to just make money, he wants people to pay for ALL his expenses, including business expenses (which is weird, since he already does, but he just wants EVERYTHING handed to him).

But the stream itself was just awful. And if this was the big "premier" stream, then I guess subsequent streams will be worst in terms of "contributions".

Phil is really weird in this way. He has this need to play every major release, but doesn't want to get invested in it. Sure, he might get a couple of extra "day 1 views" but the quality of his stream will immediately deter new viewers. And because he will drop the game as soon as he is done with it. Even though the endgame is pretty extensive, and people are interested in this. Things like coop, experimenting with gear/builds, there absolutely is an audience for this. And not just for BL3, for lots of games there is still much to do after completing the game.

By sticking with just a couple of games, Phil would retain a much better "core" audience. Because the people who come to watch game A, aren't the same as the people who watch game B. And it would also cut his costs.

In my humble opinion, and even though Phil would deny it (possibly), he should stick with fighting games. He is generally best at this, draws in the most consequent views, and the rage/salt it generates causes more money for him. Games like Dark Souls/Blood Borne also draw in many viewers.

Phil should probably drop shooters all together. he is just utter shit at them. If you look at "detractor" videos that do slo-mo clips, you can see how awful his aim is for example. His gameplay is also boring as fuck. The best he does in Blackout is hide like a bitch in the bathroom.

And, (and he really should just fucking do it), fighting games would be great to play against his viewers, that is the kind of interaction his chat needs. And games like Dark Souls he could coop, which again, would be good for both his channel (in terms of viewership) and exposure. Corroborating with others (there is still a huge audience for, again, Dark Souls) would also be good for his channel. Get rid of the fucking schedule. Don't clock out at xx:xx sharp, don't do that goddamn pre-stream (seriously, it's "detractor" fodder, this is how you get caught out in lies every single time), and don't split your streaming time in 2 segments. Just play what you feel like, or what is being asked by chat.

Who am I kidding, Phil has no desire to make more money, or at least make an effort to earn more money. He already clears 6 figures per year so why bother.
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Nazanir posted...

He already clears 6 figures per year so why bother.

This is an important point that doesn't get discussed as often as it probably should. If he can make the kind of money he does by putting out increasingly poor and lazy content, while at the same time focusing more on begging than actual gameplay, why would he ever feel the need to change? Anyone else with such a terrible personality, awful commentary, and horrible gaming skills would be laughed off the platform, yet Phil makes 100 grand a year. He won't change because he's succeeding.
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Spooking posted...

But he's only making enough to make ends meet, don't you see!?

He's lying about everything so he can save and save until he can get out of the Streaming business with a good chunk of money saved up

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Someone else pointed this out, but the strongest evidence that he's actually in real financial trouble is the fact that he streams as much as he does. Yeah, I know he shows up late and doesn't actually play games for large parts of the stream, but most weeks he still streams twice a day, six days a week. Considering how much he hates interacting with people, getting constantly trolled, and playing games in general, I think it's safe to say that he'd only be streaming five days a week (or less) if he was in a comfortable financial position.
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jpenny2 posted...

Nazanir posted...

He already clears 6 figures per year so why bother.

This is an important point that doesn't get discussed as often as it probably should. If he can make the kind of money he does by putting out increasingly poor and lazy content, while at the same time focusing more on begging than actual gameplay, why would he ever feel the need to change? Anyone else with such a terrible personality, awful commentary, and horrible gaming skills would be laughed off the platform, yet Phil makes 100 grand a year. He won't change because he's succeeding.

To delve a little deeper in it, because then you really start to see the madness: Lets say that on average Phil clears 100.000 dollars per year. He has an average of 400 viewers. If you take 100.000/400 that equals 250 dollars per viewer per year.

On average that ends up being about 20 dollars per viewer per month. Given the fact for example, that Twitch keeps half of the money per tier 1 sub, the average goes up from 20 to maybe 25 per month.

But to make it worse, Phil has whales, if you take into consideration that someone like PlanetJeff gave 1k during the Jasper reveal, he got over 15k from Tut and over 15k from Emerald.

So some people will maybe spend 1 dollar per month on Phil on average while others are closer to 100 dollars on average per month.

And the question to end all questions: what on earth causes someone to consider donating over 5 dollars to Phil, given the quality of his content, much less drop up to 17k on someone like him.
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so does he pay like $1 million a year in taxes or something? I cant believe people believe his horseshit

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AlmightyCheeks posted...

so does he pay like $1 million a year in taxes or something? I cant believe people believe his horseshit

His taxes are whatever he says they are. He's never provided any proof; he always falls back on the excuse that any personal information will be used against him, so you just have to trust him when he says he needs your money. Yeah, it's hard to understand why people keep giving him money.
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jpenny2 posted...

AlmightyCheeks posted...

so does he pay like $1 million a year in taxes or something? I cant believe people believe his horseshit

His taxes are whatever he says they are. He's never provided any proof; he always falls back on the excuse that any personal information will be used against him, so you just have to trust him when he says he needs your money. Yeah, it's hard to understand why people keep giving him money.

But that's the point. Keep people guessing, adjust the lies, throw around crisis after crisis while stile acknowledging small victories and keep everything vague.

We all know that Phil had atleast 8.000 dollars in his pocket during september (Twitch payment + Jasper reveal) but somehow it wasn't enough, and he is overdrafted again and he is about to receive a Twitch payment again.

Phil will never show any proof of his dire situation. Not because he is afraid people will go and seek him out (because his adress in WA has been know for years, and people easily could have gone to his house when he visited his parents), but because it will show his situation isn't as dire as he makes it out to be.

But we all know it isn't:

-He couldn't get married because he didn't have the money, then got married anyway.
-He would love to have a cat, didn't have the money, then it turned out he had a cat since last December.
-Had to make final preparations to sell his WAcondo after visiting his parents, but still lives there.
-Has been in the worst financial situation of life for a year or more now.
-Barely been able to make ends meet for years now.
-Never has money to do anything, even buy games, but goes to dine out atleast once a week.
-Never has any money, but makes no effort to cut his costs, like sell the CTcondo.
-Never has any money, but makes no effort to increase his income.
-Never has time to do anything, even though there is a break between streams up to 5 hours.
-Before Kat he was strung for money, and he still acts like that, even though their combined incomes should be more than enough to live comfortably.
-Needed money to pay taxes, then used that money to move Kat to him across the country.
-Got 17.000 dollars from Emerald, bit it "barely" made a dent in his taxes, even though he "admitted" needing 17.000 dollars for said taxes.

He will always be overdrafted, he will always have taxes, he will always be in the worst financial.shape of his life. He lies as he breathes. He loves saying that he is "mature" and an "adult" (and that people don't undertand what those responsabilities are), but none of his actions back it up:

-He sees taxes as a "bill" he has to pay yearly, rathet than setting aside a percentage of his income.
-He could generate a passive income through the CTcondo.
-If you are living paycheck to paycheck, cut costs.
-If you are living paycheck to paycheck, look for ways to increase your income.
-If your streams aren't working out, change things up.
-If your job isn't working out, look for another.
-Work more/over time if money is tight.

As always, and I can't stress this enough: there is a HUGE disconnect between what Phil says and what he does. It just baffles me that people keep forking over money to someone like this.

Also, people were trying to get Phil to use the Echocast extension in BL3 for Twitch, and he was being a complete asshole about it. This extension actually allows people to intertact with Phil in game. Later during the stream he was bitching no one was interacting with him...
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https://mobile.twitter.com/KingOfGout/status/1173002332184940545

Lmfao
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Am I the only one here that unironically loves Phil?

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LightningAce11 posted...

https://mobile.twitter.com/KingOfGout/status/1173002332184940545

Lmfao

Jasper Jowls lmao
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Phil also go baited again into talking about the AdSense story.

Not surprising, the story changed again. What was surprising that he admitted that he DID ask people to click on his ads (which is blatantly against the ToS), but that is not what cause his account to be suspended, oh no.

No, what caused his account to be suspended was the fact that people massively started to click ads in his videos.

And according to his reasoning, because his account didn't get suspended in 2009, back when he posted that video, but by 2010, it must be the fault of his fans clicking the ads, not his. Even though he admitted to breaking the ToS.

I swear, this man would earn the platinum medal in the Mental Gymnastics Olympics. It is never his goddamn fault and his reasoning is so asinine it's impressive.
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Not doing anything with the other condo is probably the worst way in which he refuses to cut costs. Numerous people have pointed out to him that he could pay some sort of property management company to rent the condo for him, and even if he didn't make much money off of it, it's still better than him having to pay for a property he hasn't used in years. Even if he ends up making nothing each month, that's still better than losing money. But no, anyone who suggests that is a fucking kid who doesn't understand how the adult human world works. Better for Phil to just pay for the condo and then beg extra to make up for it.
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So phil is allergic to jasper, which is why he gets itchy and uncomfortable whenever he's around.

Also, jasper has been chewing on his console wires leading him to buy new ones.
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Jasper is just another troll detractor dood..

If he's chewing on wires and shit chances are Phil was too cheap to get him actual toys or too lazy to play with him now and then to let him work out energy.
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Welp, we hit a new low:

Phil has been complaining yesterday, every chance he got (multiple times in a row) that contributions were low. Someone donated a dollar? Contributions were low. Someone did a cheer? Contributions were low.

And get this, during the "gratuitous" plugs, Phil complained that barely anyone contributed overnight. So Phil is actually complaining that people aren't giving him money while he is asleep.

I think we can't get any lower anymore, he has managed to smash any and all expectations. It's never really been a secret though, we all know that Phil just wants money and not do shit for it. But now he just openly admitted it.

Phil was also bitching during the BL3 stream that no one was "interacting" with him. To paint you a picture.

Phil: "No one is interacting with me, I am all alone here."
Also Phil: "I didn't read your comment, I was tweeting lol."

It was an absolute shitshow.

Also, take note. Today Phil gets paid by Twitch again, just look and see how long it takes for him to start bitching again that he is over-drafted, how badly he needs tips since they help the most and go to bills immediately.
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Phil can't get any lower than this.

Phil: "Hold my gin."
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And it wasn't even a.day. Phil said he gets paid by Twitch today, but because he is massively overdrawn, he is stuck in a cycle. He'll be fine for a few weeks and then it'll start all over.

He says that it is horrible to be in a situation like that, but again makes zero effort to change anything about it.
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That clip of him sipping water through a straw and swishing it around in his mouth like an old man is hilarious. That's what old ass alcoholics do.

Oh, and imagine that. A new mystery financial situation that he won't talk about, but he needs that money, he really does. And that whole rant about how he inherited Gout from his aunt is the most pathetic thing he's done since getting "married" to khet.
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He tends to stick to a limited selection of games yet he buys every single AAA new release that comes out, plays most for a stream or two then drops them forever.

Not even variety game streamers are as bad as Phil is with being responsible in their purchases and they make sure to get the most out of any game they do play.
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He doesn't have to be responsible with his purchases because he doesn't respect the people who give him money. If he buys a sixty dollar game and drops it after three streams, who cares? Some gullible person will just toss him another sixty bucks. It's the same reason he doesn't cut costs in his life. Sure, he could make some changes to save a couple thousand dollars a month, but it's easier to just ask his whales to make up that money.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/KingOfGout/status/1173291778864234498

Phil sprays Jasper with water when he chews the cables, which will only confuse him.
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