DarksydePhil / TheyCallMeDSP / Phil Burnell - General Discussion

[wahkando]

I didn't watch the stream yesterday but apparently JakeCats was banned during a huge rant about sneak dissers? Anyone know what happened? Is the roach finally gonna clamp down on long time viewers who don't agree with his delusions?

 

[Iron Hamster]

DSP's recent emphasis on "supporting local businesses" is a sub-plot I find mildly amusing.

This is the same guy who obsessively opposes public charity and says you shouldn't advertise charitable deeds because that means you're benefiting from it and that cancels out the good deed (or some weird shit like that) but now during the COVID-19 timeline suddenly he can't seem to stop mentioning how he and his wife have been ordering out to support local businesses.

Ahbviously I know it's a meaningless gesture regardless of his stance on charity because he eats out all the time anyway, this is just a way for him to maintain his spoiled routine while also trying to look like a do-gooder.

But personally I just find it amusing. I'm probably being petty af but the gated community hermit himself that hates society and says public charity *goes against his beliefs* all of a sudden wants to support his local businesses. It's eyeroll-inducing as hell.

*translation: don't have to spend money on charity to get cred if you can just say you do and that you believe it should be private.

It's a moot point anyway because to my knowledge Phil has never, ever, not once, talked about patronizing a truly local business in Washington. He does his grocery shopping at Fred Meyer, which I am led to believe is a major regional chain. He buys clothes at Kohl's. He buys furniture at IKEA. He gets fast food at Taco Bell and Wendy's and restaurants at the mall. None of these are local businesses. They are, at best, local franchises supported by national, centralized management and supply. That is not the same thing as going to a local, one-location restaurant every week.

The Renton, Washington Taco Bell is not going to live or die by Phil Burnell's patronage and everyone knows it, including him. This is just another way for him to inflate his ego by positioning himself as a Man of the People, which is a common thing for him. That he's using the backdrop of a global crisis to do it is just the newest low.

ETA that Phil lives within spitting distance of a large collection of truly local businesses he may frequent at his leisure. The Pike Place Market is Seattle's most visited tourist attraction, more so than even Phil's go-to romantic destination the Space Needle, and as far as I know in the six years he has lived in Washington he has never once gone there.

No doubt this dope is angling that he's a local biz. I mean..........he's right in your living room..........how much more local can you get?

 

[Comma]

DSP in a couple of months, during his weekly 'Save the House' fundraiser, where he puts on a clothing item for every $25 in tips:

 

[Iron Father]

DSP posing so his whales can make vest emotes.

Dirty whore, he's been practicing his Belle Delphine poses. Little bit more tongue and some cross-eyes and he'll be peak e-thot in no time.

 

[dsflfdsl23012]

So I'm reading Dark Psychology 101 right now because I'm an edgelord and I'm a sociopath, though I do also like to learn things on occasion. A couple of paragraphs caught my attention so I figured I'd post them here.

Chapter 5, page 27: "One of the most common dark psychology deceptions involving money is carried out by the professional beggar. These are individuals that aim to extort money from the public, despite having plenty of it."

Chapter 5, page 29: "Implying is a more subtle form of deception than out and out lying. Implying involves suggesting something false is true than boldly stating it...if someone wanted to deceive a victim about the amount of money they have then they could either lie or imply. A lie would sound something like "Oh I'm a successful guy. I made a lot of money," while the manipulator is well aware this is not the case. An implication may take the form of "it's so stressful trying to handle things with my accountant. Trying to get my tax bill down takes a lot of my time." The manipulator has acted and spoken in a way that implies they are wealthy without flat out stating it.

 

[Watamelon]

Is this something that adds up? Can he keep adding more clothes for meeting tips goals until he makes thousands per stream? He truly cant be stopped.

The 500$ tip goal will be the thong cam.

 

[DiabeticSP]

As someone who's not very good at games, re3 on normal is beating my ass. Nemesis is fuckin tough and the first boss fight is doozy.

A lot of the difficulty can be avoided by learning to dodge. Which I haven't done yet.

But theres certain parts in the first fourth where I am that are gonna be a hell of a time for Phil on hardcore. Especially because even on Normal the game doesn't give you a lot of escape options. Even less if you burn ammo like I did to get upgrades.

Maybe he'll turn into a game savant for once, but Remake2 pissed him off so I bet he drops the difficulty when the game offers it (after 2/3 deaths).

 

[Salubrious]

This weekend is Wrestlemania.

Now, Wrestlemania is looking kinda shitty this year, but this applies to previous years as well.

You would think this would be a good time to do some WWE2K20. Hell, he's streaming DURING the show. DSP could easily have some "chill" WWE streams and play the game and do some live reactions to the show.

But again, the one hobby that we know DSP has, and he refuses to talk about it on stream.

Something that might actually bring interest to his stream.

Instead, he's playing Morrowind tomorrow like anyone could possibly care.

 

[FamicomGorby]

I bet he is playing on Hardcore just because someone told him/he read from "social media" about Ink Ribbons in remake. There are no Ink Ribbons on any difficulty, you can save Infinite times. RIP "No Ink Ribbons" meme.

He's gonna save every five feet like he did in Doom, best we can hope for is him screwing himself over with his autistic saving at some point.

 

[King Daddy Telomerase]

It baffles me why Phil refuses to play WWE games as at least a regular weekly stream. It's one of the very few games he genuinely looks happy and enjoys playing, even with the recent games being broken shit. And it would be a good "chill" game like you say. It doesn't have to be 2k20 either, there's tons of older wrestling games that would draw an audience and be silly fun. But, Phil has that weird elitist attitude about playing older titles like that.

 

[wahkando]

It baffles me why Phil refuses to play WWE games as at least a regular weekly stream. It's one of the very few games he genuinely looks happy and enjoys playing, even with the recent games being broken shit. And it would be a good "chill" game like you say. It doesn't have to be 2k20 either, there's tons of older wrestling games that would draw an audience and be silly fun. But, Phil has that weird elitist attitude about playing older titles like that.

He is just insecure and scared people will mock him for it, which is why he is never ever honest or genuine about anything

 

[Hatoful Dandy]

It baffles me why Phil refuses to play WWE games as at least a regular weekly stream. It's one of the very few games he genuinely looks happy and enjoys playing, even with the recent games being broken shit. And it would be a good "chill" game like you say. It doesn't have to be 2k20 either, there's tons of older wrestling games that would draw an audience and be silly fun. But, Phil has that weird elitist attitude about playing older titles like that.

I think he got copyright striked for theme music, but for some reason never turns entrances off

 

[dsflfdsl23012]

This weekend is Wrestlemania.

Now, Wrestlemania is looking kinda shitty this year, but this applies to previous years as well.

You would think this would be a good time to do some WWE2K20. Hell, he's streaming DURING the show. DSP could easily have some "chill" WWE streams and play the game and do some live reactions to the show.

But again, the one hobby that we know DSP has, and he refuses to talk about it on stream.

Something that might actually bring interest to his stream.

Instead, he's playing Morrowind tomorrow like anyone could possibly care.

You would think Phil being Mr. King of Positivity, Mr. Silver Lining would absolutely be milking the Wrestlemania weekend. Biggest wrestling show of the year, lot of people at home doing nothing along with some fear and uncertainty. Why not have a positive wrestling themed weekend? Put up a few posters in the background of various wrestlers, get a couple toy titles from Walmart, then do a "chill marathon stream" where Phil plays various wrestling games from each console generation. Do some online matches with fans in 2k19/2k20 then go back and play some HCTP or No Mercy. Most of those games could be bought cheap or played on emulator. And I'm sure even Phil would have a lot of fun talking with fans about pro wrestling or speculating on how everything's going to play out this weekend. Could setup a discord chat or a private party of sorts while Wrestlemania is going on and just have a good time with everyone.

huffysan said:
I bet he is playing on Hardcore just because someone told him/he read from "social media" about Ink Ribbons in remake. There are no Ink Ribbons on any difficulty, you can save Infinite times. RIP "No Ink Ribbons" meme.

Wtf? Why'd they get rid of ink ribbons? They're a staple of Resident Evil.

 

[BallBuster]

He's gonna save every five feet like he did in Doom, best we can hope for is him screwing himself over with his autistic saving at some point.

You get limited saves and I’m banking on him running out of healing items and ammo very early on. RE2 on hardcore is very forgiving and relatively tame. This one is not. Nemesis is no joke. He’s fast and he’s brutal. Phil is slow and frail.

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

Phil can't play any wrestling games on stream, it's against his company policy. He can only play one RPG at a time, one Japanese game, one shooter game, etc.

He is already invested in playing WWE Champions and couldn't possibly play another wrestling themed game at the same time. He would get too burned out.

 

[Salubrious]

Phil can't play any wrestling games on stream, it's against his company policy. He can only play one RPG at a time, one Japanese game, one shooter game, etc.

He is already invested in playing WWE Champions and couldn't possibly play another wrestling themed game at the same time. He would get too burned out.

There might actually be something to this (or maybe I'm just being pinwheel):

I think DSP uses his schedule, among other reasons, to make certain decisions and when questioned can pretend that certain things are outside his control.

What I mean by this is: if someone tipped him tonight (please don't do this) and asked him to change to WWE tomorrow, DSP will say that he can't because "it's not on the schedule." The "schedule" is some sort of higher authority that DSP can't change and is completely outside his control.

 

[Vic Viper T301]

As someone who's not very good at games, re3 on normal is beating my ass. Nemesis is fuckin tough and the first boss fight is doozy.

A lot of the difficulty can be avoided by learning to dodge. Which I haven't done yet.

But theres certain parts in the first fourth where I am that are gonna be a hell of a time for Phil on hardcore. Especially because even on Normal the game doesn't give you a lot of escape options. Even less if you burn ammo like I did to get upgrades.

Maybe he'll turn into a game savant for once, but Remake2 pissed him off so I bet he drops the difficulty when the game offers it (after 2/3 deaths).

Yeah I played it a bit last night and it's pretty tough, I died a bunch trying to work out a strategy for the first segment where Nemesis is chasing you (not the intro, the part after you get the bolt cutters I think is what triggers it IIRC). Beat the boss first try though :flex:

I predict a lot of complaining.

 

[SleepyNibba]

RE3 remake is really short as well, my hardcore playthru clocked in at 6 and a half hours, Nemesis can fucking two shot you at times, and you get way less ammo over all through out the run.

I predict hes gonna miss time damn near every perfect dodge and eat shit because of it.
Hes gonna beat the game, but hes gonna hate every second of it.

 

[dsflfdsl23012]

There might actually be something to this (or maybe I'm just being pinwheel):

I think DSP uses his schedule, among other reasons, to make certain decisions and when questioned can pretend that certain things are outside his control.

What I mean by this is: if someone tipped him tonight (please don't do this) and asked him to change to WWE tomorrow, DSP will say that he can't because "it's not on the schedule." The "schedule" is some sort of higher authority that DSP can't change and is completely outside his control.

He's got a 'Board of Directors' just like Vince.

 

[actually]

Phil is currently snortsplaining why only the vest is ok for his begging goals. TL;DR: low effort and doesn't bother him. Everything else is too much effort and/or is mildly uncomfortable, so he doesn't wanna.