He says drama is "not him" but has fun doing drama and was "good" at doing drama and keeps doing drama. Isn't a person a defined by what they like and what they do?
DSP has convinced himself that he's the King Pig because he got money without signing a contract with Keemstar or Raid Shadow Legends. Yet the crowdfunding has faltered so bad that he's appealing to individual sock accounts for bailouts. Working every angle from calling them "superheroes" to some soft findom asking why they didn't show up. Screaming "hey you're here!" like some 1950's TV housewife announcing that Father is home.
I'm convinced if DSP was taken "offline" for like 2-3 weeks and just housed at his parent's house with food/water and had his phone and internet access taken away his whole bullshit illusion of his life would rapidly shatter.
There have been times where I have maybe personally been almost as narcissistic as he has perhaps - but when failure happens and you actually get some time away to realize failure has happened it changes your brain and your perception of yourself.
It's amazing how much he still grasps onto "King Pig" kind of like Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite who can't shut up about his shitty high school football records from back in the day:
Incidentally while searching for a clip of Uncle Rico there was one called "Uncle Rico's time machine" and I never put 2 and 2 together in the plot (or maybe because I haven't seen the movie in like a decade). But I guess that besides being figuratively stuck in the past and nostalgia Uncle Rico literally spends his time trying on fantasia time machine bullshit - perhaps if DSP spent his time on building a time machine to go back to his evergreen golden days, where there was no input lag and less competitive chinks in the FGC it might be honorable.
But he still literally lives like he's back in the FGC days - instead of appreciating his new wife or settings goals for his money that comes in he still masturbates himself daily to what was considered cool 20 years ago. The FGC alone is already almost a loser hall of fame considering how fucking dumb it is (similar to how Billy Mitchell's fame is pretty ridiculous) but at least most participants don't seem to take it as seriously as DSP does.
Keemstar the little nigger gnome was pretty correct that DSP never advanced from being on level 1... but as spot on and as accurate as that may be about Phil I think another
penultimate way of putting it is that he seriously peaked at being 4th place in that shitty little tournament. Even if you remove the fact it was some neogeo conversion game that people thought was shit, or even if you remove the 4th place part and give him 1st place its the fucking saddest accomplishment to still be wanking yourself over like 20 fucking years later.
All the people saying Phil could've done this or that and been still involved in EVO are kind of correct - but at the end of the day its a niche community that doesn't seem to get tons of money towards it. I don't particularly like insulting people's hobbies and passions but its not really the kind of thing people enter to change the world. Everyone in it peaked decades ago it seems like. There's multiple lolcow-tier people involved besides DSP.
It's an isolation ward for suck - sure I might go to a club like that each weekend for a bit of fun and show up a tournament but if someone is dedicating their entire life towards it currently or comparing their current life today to it in hindsight (remember when I got 4th place 20 years ago!) it's unbelievable faggy and gay.