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Is it possible in 5 years that Phil will admit to his WWE addiction? I want to remain optimistic and think he will eventually confess. Perhaps Kat will leave and he can use his addiction for pity points. "Not my fault! Scopely tricked me. Now my wife is gone and I have to microwave my own dinner! Please tip!"
This is way too big in my opinion.
With Leanna there was some plausible deniability because breakups are tough and most people will try to save face during and after one. This fits with both Phil's version (they broke up in late 2016/early 2017 and she stayed for a few months for unclear reasons) and what we pieced together (she was probably unhappy but the hospital vlog is what drove her to leave). The other relevant feature both of these versions have is that they only involve events from about four to six months before he announced their breakup.
If he wanted to do that with Champions he'd somehow need to "come clean" without raising obvious and awkward questions about how long he's been playing - he'd essentially have to say "I played Champions and it became an addiction, but that doesn't make the Kiwi thread about me being addicted to WWE Champions right!". There are ways Phil could cover his tracks if he really wanted to come clean in a way that still made us look bad like using Kat's phone or a burner to create a new account, spending maybe $100 on it, then showing that off as "his" account (Phil I know you read this thread, don't steal my ideas!) but we'd outsmart him since we're just that good at autism
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I know you're speaking in generalities, for the most part, but I think that $300 figure came from him. Which means the actual number would have been waaaay higher
My mistake, I think you are right and his own claim was $300 in gift cards and none of his own money. I'm not sure we ever did the math to figure out what all the extra cards he had were worth but I maintain that the idea of him spending even $1,000 total would have been dismissed as too silly even for him whenever he was playing Hearthstone.
One other thing to note is that his gambling problem appears to be limited to off-stream: When Overwatch released back in 2016, he did multiple streams where he bought lootboxes with IRL money. Lootboxes are very close to gambling, but unlike WWE Champions he stopped after a few weeks-months and never went back. I don't know if it's because it made his streams "not profitable" or because he kept getting bodied in that game but there's some really weird compartmentalization going on in his head.
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