- Joined
- May 5, 2020
There's a silver lining, though, and that's that his attempt to re-assert command over the paypigs isn't working. He played nice after failing to hit the goal in order to save face, it was either that or keep going with the "can't pay my mortgage" narrative, which was clearly too scary for him. That's the thing about guilt-tripping people so hard like that, once they call your bluff by not giving you all the money you asked for, you either maintain the guilt-tripping or retcon shit so you can back off. The former is risky, especially for Phil's situation, where the paypigs are probably already holding back because of said constant guilt-tripping, so holding another begathon and being all "this is because you didn't give me what I asked for before the deadlines I set" could burn even more bridges.Him trying to play the part of the calm, world-wise, long-term consequence considering, and mature 'adult' in order to try and deflect criticism over his attitude of 'no big deal' after not hitting his goal, especially when he lead up to it by going HARD trying to drum up pity with all his 'sleepless night' bullshit, is probably the most offensive thing I've seen him try to pull to date.
And Phil still being on his "Returnal sucks" kick is hilarious when he's the guy with YEARS of bad-mouthing developers because he couldn't figure out the simplest shit in the world.