I think he's beyond any help at this point. Imagine being so addicted to a bejeweled clone with semi naked men that you have the urge to check your phone as soon as a oportunity shows up. Not only that, but blatantly playing this garbage on stream when he could be interacting with he's
"Soooo... uuuuuum... I visited my psychiatrist yesterday *snort into throat clear* and they told me that they are a massive fan of mine ever since the Need for Speed Payback playthrough, okay? Then get this, after my psych check up they told me that I was the most mentally healthy person they ever talked to! *snake laugh* And you know how all those mentally ill shitheads keep claiming that I'm a narcissist and how I'm addicted to gacha. Guess what idiots? WRONG! ACK ACK ACK! In fact you won't believe what my psychiatrist told me after the check up! *snort* He told me that I should give him the names and addresses of all of my detra- um I mean haters since they're all obviously sociopaths who are a danger to themselves and others! *snort into throat clear* Sound good?"
I one time calculated what I'd have if I'd been being paid for my Internet retardation and figured out I'd be a multimillionaire. After contemplating eating the business end of a Glock I decided to swear off such calculations in the future.
There we go, finally caught live. Phil still won't fess up to it. At this point it's meaningless. It's another smoking gun to add to the neatly arranged and sorted pile of smoking guns we already had. I think most people were true believers ever since Phil was found playing Champions with his usual handle.
I don't know if I'm gonna give him an idea here, but I'll go ahead anyway. If Phil ever gets caught sufficiently red-handed with the hand in the cookie jar, and decides to drop the flat denial approach, the bankruptcy court COULD come to make some delicious pigroach bacon.
. Phil's just gonna keep putting his gouty fingers in his ears and going LALALALALALA CAN'T HEAR YOU LALALALALALA CHAMPIONS, WHAT *IS* CHAMPIONS? -Goat laugh- RETARD TROLLS TRYING TO RUIN EVERYTHING.
I mean, I wouldn't do it, but Phil already included Microtransactions as part of his day to day business expenses... He didn't do microtransactions for any other game, and he claimed to not use any of his gear outside of business hours. Likewise, if you've bought one or two let's say League of Legends skins over a ten year career that has ended with you bankrupt you probably wouldn't really tally it down. These microtransactions he refers to are an ongoing expense. Rarely has he even made progress out of stream, and I don't think I've ever seen him buy a single microtransaction in any game that has them. They must be for gacha. Only problem is, if he's not streaming it, it's strictly for his own entertainment, not business related. The only thing saving him was the bankruptcy court doing a terrible job and not combing through his 10 year archive of begging, and not having a clue about where the money could have gone. They decided to rubber stamp it rather than look into it deeper.
There we go, finally caught live. Phil still won't fess up to it. At this point it's meaningless. It's another smoking gun to add to the neatly arranged and sorted pile of smoking guns we already had. I think most people were true believers ever since Phil was found playing Champions with his usual handle.
On paper it comes at a good time: 5 no-vest streak, Phil's on edge, and the monkey on his back is howling for some pixel beefcake. In practice I assume some paypig will just step up to answer his master's squeals. It's what tends to happen.
I don't know if I'm gonna give him an idea here, but I'll go ahead anyway. If Phil ever gets caught sufficiently red-handed with the hand in the cookie jar, and decides to drop the flat denial approach, the bankruptcy court COULD come to make some delicious pigroach bacon.
Phil could deflect this by streaming WWE Champions, and making it business related. Who would be to say he didn't plan to stream it all along? And in that case only, Phil would absolutely wring the fuck out of the paypigs' wallets. I'm not sure if he could manage to do it in a pahsitive way: "I like pixel beefcake so give me munnies so I can show you more pixel beefcake, I'm not a gacha fiend I'm a wrasslin' conoisseur."
I don't know how he'd ultimately sell it. To begin with, I don't think he'd ever have the balls and composure to just be an out and proud gacha fiend who streams. And the addiction arc would be a pretty tough sale to make. "I am addicted, I need your help and support, please tip, please pledge, please sub and cheer." would only really work if he was at least trying to make a change in his lifestyle. That said, begging without making any real changes and proceeding to squander every last cent on lame consoomer bullshit has worked out great for him so far, so he might try.
Long story short, this is highly
Not impossible that he'd use addiction as another begging arc, but highly unlikely unless the stars align.
One thing I don't know about how taxes work in freedom land: if Phil used his gacha expenses as business expenses in his bankruptcy proceedings, does this mean that he has been lying to the IRS too? Wouldn't he need to have declared business expenses to the IRS that align with his bankruptcy documents?
Well, I mean, the day he has that fatal heart attack begging and crying on stream and the game mysteriously lays dormant after would be as good.
Yes, bullshitting the most dangerous collections agency is astoundingly stupid. HOWEVER! As stupid as Phil is with being a human in general (lemme eat cup o' noodles with a spoon), he could easily explain his gacha habit as a business expense since it's something that could be related to the "business." As dumb as it sounds, Phil really isn't in too much IRS danger for pixel heroin. If he carries on the way that he has, it's more likely they he'll be audited and he'll have to provide some detailed info on stuff which can/will fuck him.
So what I'm getting from that is that if the IRS ever suspects Phil's business expenses, he will be utterly fucked? Since you know, he won't be able to provide evidence that he used WWE Champions in his business. Because he never did.