Lurker > MasterVG782

Sure, he makes a lot of money, but he blows through it unbelievably fast. Making 100k a year doing practically nothing, not improving his quality of life at all, blowing through that 100k on absolutely stupid shit, declared bankruptcy, has to beg strangers online to help "pay his taxes," has no friends and barely any familial attachments, probably in a loveless marriage going by what he says...

Other than making as much money as he does, I wouldn't exactly call it winning.

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I do consider streaming as a job, as a lot of people do put in a lot of effort into it. However, you have those people, like DSP, who appear to do shit when it comes to their streams. He probably does nothing but wake up , start the stream, do his "pre-show" for an hour, then plays the game poorly. He can't even come up with ideas for anything anymore, then yells at people when they suggest that he think of something. Most of the streamers I watch have never ever begged for money from people, unless they are doing a charity event. In Phil's eyes, he probably considers himself the charity event.

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So, decided to tune in to DSP, load his stream and one of the first things I hear is, "30 minutes left in the stream." Of course, at that time, he was $75 from the goal, which is basically a huge fucking hint that he wants people to donate. And what do you know...in around 10-15 minutes time, he magically gets a huge $50 tip from someone and another $25 tip to hit the goal. And he looks so stupid with the vest on, like someone spraypainted a life jacket.

Someone also asked him why he didn't romance anyone in Fire Emblem and he gives the usual answer of "I'm 38, happily married and don't care about virtual waifus!"

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I'm aware a viewer's choice wouldn't work with Phil, as has been shown in the past, since he never finished Persona 3 and I believe it was Mario Sunshine that was voted on his Patreon, that he never played.

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While I am a little bias, there is one streamer in which I'm a mod in his channel (he only gets like 100-200 viewers per stream), who does something called Viewer's Choice two days of the week. He has a long list of games and people vote for the next game he plays on those nights via tips and bits. That gives people incentive to want to contribute to the stream, since some of the games he had played were not good (some of the games are good, too). He never actively asks for money at all and is extremely grateful for anything he receives, whether it's subs, tips or bits.

Of course, Phil cannot think of anything like this and continues to play the newest games, with some retro classics when there's a lull, while begging for his viewers' every nickel and dime they have. He could really improve his viewership, as mentioned before, if he concentrates on the games that do bring in the viewers. Why would I want to watch someone like Phil play Ghost of Tsushima, when I can watch the thousands of other streamers who are actually good at the game and not a complete asshole.

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Phil would need to change a lot more than just ridiculing his shortcomings, because at his core, Phil is boring as hell as a streamer. He'd need to engage with his audience more, actually enjoy their company outside of them giving him money, and put in effort. As we've seen, though, he is incredibly lazy and does nothing to really help his stream grow at all.

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And if the WWE gacha game thing is true, no one forced him to spend all of that money on that game. He is absolutely horrible with money, but I understand that because I can be bad with money, too. However, when I know I need to save my money for something important, I do that and don't go splurging it on something stupid, then beg people for money to eventually lie and splurge it on more stupid shit.

It's part of being a "mature adult."

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Well, even if Phil leaves Twitch, which we know he won't do since he will probably cry and beg to anyone higher up to fix this mistake of false DMCA claims, there's not really anywhere else to go other than Youtube or Facebook. He already said he hates streaming on Youtube because the chat is wild and I don't think I've ever seen an actual Facebook Gaming stream myself.

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jpenny2 posted...

As someone on KF pointed out, his complaints about potentially losing a couple days of income (which hasn't even happened) ring pretty hollow when you consider that many people have lost weeks or months of income due to Covid.

Yeah, I really feel sorry for those people who are legitimately out of work because of COVID, and have to worry about putting food on the table. Compare this to a giant manchild who cons $200 a day from his viewers, just so he can put on a stupid vest, then probably blows the money before he can even get it. He then wakes up the next day to con more money from those "poor" viewers of his.

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"I have a family to provide for. I'm married. I'm not like Disrespect and Ninja, where I can not go streaming for a couple weeks. I am barely making ends meet."

This is someone who has made $200 a day for the past 95+ days. That's about $20,000 in three months. How the hell do you spend $20,000 in three months? He's also spouting about having to pay taxes, but how could anyone believe him when he hasn't paid taxes in a good number of years now.

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While I don't endorse the false DMCA bullshit, since I've seen it happen to another streamer who is infinitely more popular than DSP, it is still entertaining because it brings out such seething anger from DSP.

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Haha, he seems so nervous that everything is going to shit and he won't be able to beg online anymore. You can see that he's shaking his leg constantly and his eyes are darting every single way.

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Bad_Mojo posted...

What is going on with the Internet? They keep saying half the Internet is down, but that can't be true, or least Gamefaqs would be down. This place goes down with a strong wind

I believe there was a Cloudflare problem or something, which is why a lot of sites were down. Everything seems to be fixed now.

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If the detractors just forget about him, I'm sure DSP would likely fade into obscurity. For as much shit as he gives the detractors, they are pretty much what's keeping him in the little limelight he is in now. Sure, he'd still have the whales giving him money, but people would most likely not tune into his streams, meaning he would get less viewers than he has now.

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If Phil picked his favorite moments, all of the clips would just be him receiving large donations.

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Phil doesn't care about anyone but himself, so why would he be smart enough to set money aside for any situation like this? I mean, he probably has one of the biggest troll bases out there in the streaming world, with people following his every move and people having done chargebacks on him in the past. The consoles aren't coming out until November, most likely, and he shouldn't need to buy both right away. You're telling me that someone who probably earns $6000 or so a month can't afford to set aside money, so he can afford something down the line that is going towards his business? This man is one of the worst pieces of scum I've seen on Twitch/Youtube.

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Yeah, his view on "waifus" and romantic scenes in gaming is definitely weird and considering the way he acts when they come up, that's why people/trolls keep bringing it up...they want to get that reaction from DSP and since he always gives it, they will keep doing it. He could largely ignore the trolls/detractors, which would probably help with his image a tiny bit, although it's probably a little too late to change the public eye of him.

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Yeah, if you're still watching DSP for "entertainment," you're either a delusional person or a troll, at this point. He has absolutely no passion for gaming anymore, nor for anything at all other than money. If you want to watch someone with a clear passion for gaming, there are thousands of other streamers out there.

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If someone wanted to donate a game out of kindness to a streamer, sure, they can and I've seen it before. However, most streamers who aren't struggling financially (and Phil certainly isn't) will have money set aside to better their stream, whether it's buying new games, better equipment or just putting doing something to make it better. Nope, not Phil. Any new game that comes up has to be donated by his fans and he will "guilt trip" them into getting it for him. We've seen the extent of his laziness, so it shouldn't be surprising at all. He is one of the worst people I've ever seen with money, as I can't fathom how a normal person could have $5k in expenses a month.

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Oh, he would milk it for all its worth, if that happened.

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I don't even know why he plays those horrid songs, considering it's just a random beat thrown over him saying stupid stuff. It's not catchy, not funny and just downright annoying to listen to. He doesn't put up the music portion on Youtube, so why doesn't he just play normal video game music or something? Is he afraid of there being silence at the beginning of his VODs, because there are thousands of other streamers who play music at the beginning of their streams and don't have a problem. I guess it's pure laziness and the fact that the remixes are about him that make him continue to do it.

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For a supposed King of Retro, Phil is absolutely horrible at Mario Maker 2. He's fighting a Bowser Jr. in a clown car, on a seesaw that is suspended over lava. It's not a particularly hard thing to do if you see it. Of course, Bowser Jr. throws out two shells, but those will most likely lead to your death. Well, you can jump on Bowser Jr's head to damage him, but Phil is so insistent on using the shells and dies like 6-7 times to the boss fight.

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This is someone who reported $5k in expenses (a month!) on his bankruptcy form. Even if part of that was the mortgage payment, that's still a lot of expenses for a normal person to be reporting, especially for a couple. I'm not exactly good with money, but I never saw someone so horrible with money that he spends so much a month, especially a streamer who does the bare minimum to support his actual job.

Does he have lights for his stream? I know his camera is a pretty poor one, from what I've heard, plus he doesn't seem to invest much in the way of money into any other aspect. When you look at other streamers, who actually care about their stream (some with a lot less viewers than Phil), it's sickening. His legacy is a shitshow and will always be one. He will never be known for anything positive.

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Spooking posted...

"Im 38 and nearly lost it last night when I thought Id lost my Minecraft world." - DSP

lol

Yeah, the one he didn't actually build because he had to have someone else tell him what to do.

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"Interacts with his audience" is a funny phrase coming from DSP, especially since the normal streamer will engage in conversation, while Phil ridicules his audience and berates them, even if they gave him money.

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He's actually using his brain?!

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It's Twitch chat. They are going to act stupid and fuck around no matter what. The fact that he thinks they are going to be well-behaved and all proper is delusional, especially with someone like DSP. A great streamer will interact with chat and groom a great community, but all of Phil's antics over the years and his horrible attitude have created a horrible community filled with trolls and detractors. They want to see him rage and revel off of that behavior, with Phil doing absolutely nothing to kick it to the curb. It's too little too late to change his behavior and community now.

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Most streamers will usually just play music (y'know, real music instead of that garbage shit he does) for 10 minutes or so before they begin gameplay. Instead, Phil will do the above, but with absolutely garbage music that centers around him making stupid ass noises, then drone on for an hour about who knows what, because I could never stomach more than a few minutes of his rambling.

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MI4 REAL posted...

How did he end up 500K in debt?

Presumably, credit cards and being a whale in a WWE gacha game. I don't know how one would get into that much of a debt on that alone, but he must be putting everything on credit cards or something.

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Yeah, I'd think a lot of people ask these stupid questions now to get a rise out of him, since that's Phil's nature now. If you ask him a stupid question, you're more likely going to hear him throw insults and rage.

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Nazanir posted...

One thing I am loving about the FF7R playthrough is that we can see his inputs. During fights you can see him mas Square like crazy. And he did the squat mini game, claiming he was doing the inputs correct, while all of can see he doesn't.

Phil has claimed to be 2 years behind on federal taxes. So the 4.000 dollars he got from momma Burnell last year to help him out with taxes have been pissed away.

Phil also refuses to use the Assess ability in FF7R to help him indentify enemy's weaknesses. This was especially apparant during the Hellhouse fight (which got him salty as fuck), this enemy changes colour and thus elemental weakness. But Phil claimed the Assess skill doesn't update so it is pointless. Here is a fun fact, it does update. It's obvious he read a guide before the fight, he equipped elemental attack spells (still got it wrong though). The bossfight was just a classic Phil moment.

Phil claimed he was scared of the scene where you go into a room with a bunch of oiled up muscular men in speedos... Which sounds oddly like a past time Phil seems to enjoy. He made a huge deal out of a scene that really isn't.

No one ever talking about FF7 makes a deal out of that scene other than Phil.

I would love to see Phil do Hard Mode or some of the other fights, like Bahamut, but we know Phil will just try to rush through the game and finish it, then put it on the shelf to never return.

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It even was bad that he didn't finish Persona 3, despite being on the final boss. Sure, I'd be pissed off too if what happened to him also happened to me, but if I had people give me $1k+ to play a game, I'd sure as hell finish it. Instead of adapting to things, he bashes his head against the wall until it works.

"Oh, the final boss has a form where he could charm one of my characters and that character can full heal him. Maybe I'll experiment with fusion or get an accessory that negates charm on that character and try again." Phil just rage quits instead, shitting on anyone that gave him money.

Also, I was extremely bored and decided to watch him play Warzone last night, which was his last match of the evening. Even before that began, something was obviously off with Phil, as his voice was raspy or something. He attributed it to heat and the day stream. Anyways, Phil's idea of playing Warzone is to literally run away from any possible encounter, then hide inside of a building until people found him. He did somehow manage to kill two people while I was watching, but ran out of bullets and got killed by the third person. Phil was happy to reach the top 50 for doing absolutely nothing at all.

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Phil standing still seems to be a staple of his in a FPS. Any battle royale game is him just hiding in a room and not actually going out there to confront other players. Although, that wouldn't end so well for him, since he has the reflexes of a sloth and the aim of a Stormtrooper.

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Yeah, he'd much rather have tips, because he gets that money right away and doesn't need to wait until Twitch pays him. Look at it this way, though. He got 75 gifted subs, which as pointed out already, cost the person who did it $375. Let's say Phil gets half of that (some partners get a little more than that), so that would be $187.50. Almost $200 for doing absolutely nothing worthwhile that is deserving of it. He ridicules his viewers, is horrible at games, and constantly begs for money.

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Nazanir posted...

Phil and improving? Perish the thought.

He literally said last stream that even though his viewers have gone up, he sees no reason to improve since he isn't making more money.

It is amazing how ass backwards his reasoning is here.

"People aren't giving me more money, even if there are more people watching me! Why should I do anything to improve my stream and make people feel like they want to watch me?! ACK ACK ACK!"

I'm pretty sure, and I'm just throwing a random number out there, that 80-90% of the people who watch DSP are just there to troll him. People who give him money, trolls or not, are idiots, though.

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Doom Eternal is one of those fast-paced shooters and well, Phil has horrible reaction times.

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Nazanir posted...

So Phil took Gran Blue online.

He got slaughtered. Don't be surprised of he completely drops it and just sticks to SF2.

Voting for the viewers "choice" is live. No souls-like games. No open-world RPGs (Fallout, Elder Scrolls, etc).

Must be available and reasonably priced.

It's gonna be great.

Yeah, I watched him play one online match for Granblue, and it was the usual excuses. Of course, he lost the match and was salty as hell, which is normal.

"I'm trying to do a dragon punch motion and it's not coming out!"
"All this person does is spam this same move over and over"
"This game really sucks ass"

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Nazanir posted...

Phil was upset that HE had to do something upon reaching the tips goal.

Also, the Tier 1 sub goal was unlocking a Tier 2 subs goal. Not even EA is that greedy: give us money so you can give us more money.

Well actually, they are. He would fit right in.

Phil was also upset at not making as much other streamers, but at the same time he refuses to improve his stream so he'd attract a bigger audience.

Apparantly there is a huge run on toilet paper (what?) and this causes Phil to complain he might had to shit in the shower.

He is also skipping the new CoD Warzone (Free BR game), because you play in squads. This could LITERALLY be free money, but he ducks and weaves because he has to play with others...

Wait, he had a sub goal that when reached, unlocked another sub goal, but for tier 2 ones? Man, talk about being even greedier than usual. Next, he will have a goal on his stream to stream the next day or something.

"Instead of playing this free BR game that people like to watch, I'll have my viewers buy me new games that won't drive up half of the traffic COD would. Ack ack ack!"

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jpenny2 posted...

I think the hand-holding might eventually reach a point where someone else is simply playing the game for him while he does commentary, and that might actually be more entertaining. He would be free to beg and ban and rant about detractors while a game just happens to be played in the background.

At least the person playing the game would do a much better job at it than Phil.

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Phil is pretty much the cockroach of Twitch.

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LightningAce11 posted...

This is why I say it takes no effort to be a streamer/youtuber/influencer. You get money thrown at you for doing the bare minimum. Only very few actually put in the effort to earn their money.

It may seem like it takes no effort, but the majority of streamers (at least) are talking/engaging with their chat for 6+ hours a day, which is not something that is super easy. Phil is anything but engaging with his chat, though, so it's pretty much Phil turning on the stream, talking about his finances for an hour, then "playing" the game for 2-3 hours. As someone who watches quite a bit of Twitch, Phil does the absolute fucking minimum for his streams.

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Spooking posted...

I remember people telling Phil to get a job (prior to his mom telling him) and he would call them stupid and trolls. Once his mom told him it's time, he said she was right and it was difficult to hear. Never apologized to the "trolls" for giving him this advice years earlier.

Now, with him about to have this meeting with the creditors, I bet you they're going to give him advice that "trolls" and "detractors" have been giving him for years already now.

Sure, getting a job would be ideal, but this is Phil we're talking about here. Even if he had a normal job, he'd probably still be in this mess, especially when you look at all the information we have in front of us today. He doesn't live within his means, spending way more than he has. As someone already said, you don't spend $150 if you only have $100. For someone with a business degree, Phil is insanely stupid with his money and he thinks he can sweep all of his problems under the rug with something like this bankruptcy thing.

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Is he lying about having any electronics at all, or just what he has? Because it would be pretty idiotic of him to lie about the electronics he has, considering his job is streaming/Youtube.

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As someone who watches a lot of streamers, you pretty much hit the nail on the head about what Phil can do to improve his situation, including all of the little things.

• Use fucking automated software to keep track of donations, bits and sub count. If people do troll donations, grow some thick skin and ignore them (but still thank them for the money). Of course, I'd imagine a good number of the money he earns is through these troll bits/donations. Also, he has to stop doing what he does to manually type in donations/sub counts/bits like every 5-10 minutes.
• Quit snorting and doing all of that shit into the mic. It's disgusting and no one wants to hear it. If you really have a problem, go see a fucking doctor already about it.
• He claims to have no time, but we know he is doing fuck all between the streams. If need to, start a little earlier and do a single stream per day, even if you go a few extra hours. This would give him more time at night to be with Kat, do other things and maybe even bring back some stuff like DSP Tries It.
• Clean up your stream. Get rid of the annoying as fuck music at the beginning and play some real music. Again, no one wants to hear your remixes that are downright terrible to even think about. He doesn't put the remixes of himself on Youtube, so why the hell doesn't he play real music instead? Cleaning up your stream also means getting rid of the hour-long pre-stream bullshit every single day, where he complains about his finances. He can still talk for a little bit before the streams, but no one wants to hear his constant begging on a daily basis.

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jpenny2 posted...

What kind of advice could he give on any aspect of life? Even when he was relatively big on YouTube, it was mainly because he was in the right place at the right time. He squandered the money he made, turned himself into an internet laughingstock, lost all his friends, and burned ever bridge he crossed. The best advice he could give is: Don't do what DSP does.

I don't think he would even need to say that, since it's common sense :P

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Giving advice on finances is gold, especially when he is being foreclosed on and filing for bankruptcy. I would never take financial advice from someone who supposedly spent as much money as he did on a mobile game, while begging from his chat on a daily basis.

Sure, I may not be the best with money, but I'm not begging for money every single day.

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Nazanir posted...

Is this surprising?

Ever noticed how he talks about Kat, and he slipped up a few times calling her mom, but always adresses her as "my wife"?

As in regard to how he talks about Kat. She is always making dinner, never Phil. She is always cleaning the house, never Phil. She is always doing laundry, never Phil. Anything involing chores or normal basic household stuff is Kat.

The only time Phil "helps", is when they are going "grocery shopping" once a werk when Phil gets to spend his allowance.

There never is any passion when he is talking about her. And whenever he talks about her, it's either things she is doing on her own (never as a couple) or regarding her chores.

He doesn't have a significant other, but a live in maid. I mean, his mom use to comb his hair into late high school.

Well, considering how he has no time to do anything, since he is soooo busy, who else is going to make him dinner or clean the house?

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The whole BlipTV and AdSense were relatively minor things, compared to the current predicament he's in. Whenever he has to answer for the whole thing with owing all of that money, declaring bankruptcy isn't going to save him.

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