This reminds me of the SNL skit of Shy Ronnie
Because *he* doesn't care about or believe there's a threat with COVID but everyone else *should* because he doesn't want them there. He's an autistic narc special boy. He's better than you, he needs to work on schedules, and the world also revolves around him.
I think he also feels "safe" with RPGs. I've never played DQ7 so I don't know if this is the case, but Phil tends to "enjoy" RPGs because he can never engage with the system, just spam basic attacks and grind when that strategy inevitably fails until he's at the point where his basic attack spam wins. In his mind, there's also less of a chance of being shown as bad at gaming, like when he sprays bullets at someone's feet in COD or doesn't try to parry an attack until 10 seconds after it hit him in a Soulslike, or his panicked button mashing when his pattern play fails in SF. He can just claim the game is poorly made because a boss is OP and imply that you're expected to grind to level 99 to defeat a level 10 boss because it's an RPG.
Hit the nail on the head there, which is why it's even funnier when his grinding can't work, like in Clair Obscur, yeah sure he grinded up to ridiculous levels by going to that optional endgame area early on but when the game required him to have an actual build (namely, when he fought the optional superboss Simon) he just got prison raped and ended up wage/ragequitting the game. Another example is Yakuza 7. There are two optional super dungeons (it's literally just the same dungeon but the second one has every enemy's level maxed) and when the second one required him to use even the most basest, barebones tactics beyond just "spam biggest number attack" he got his ass one-shot by the SECOND enemy encounter and ragequit it.
this nigger needs the shit beat out of him. he hasn't worked a single day in his faggot life and he has the audacity to say something like this?
Lol that's a special kind of alog. Phil really knows how to unlock the love of people around the world.
Being around the tremendous Khetimanjaro is abusive enough as it is. Thankfully her massive stature at least blocks out the full sun of Renton, which could conservatively make Phil's office as warm as 90°.
This is why he avoided Persona 5 Royal, all of the Shin Megami Tensei games and all of the Digimon RPGs. Those are games where you straight-up cannot win without engaging in the game mechanics. And no I won't count his Metaphor or Digimon Story Time Stranger demos as having been "played it" since he's just rushing through them.
Stut J and Phil should team up
the only reason he doesn't play atlus games is because some atlus account made fun of him when he ragequit nix a decade ago
I COULD cure cancer, but I'm not going to! Because you guys are being meanies to me. Ackackack cdat? You're mean to me so I refuse to cure cancer.
Even back when he did play them he did not play any of the Shin Megami Tensei RPGs because unlike Persona 3 and 4 they cannot be bruteforced. And Persona 5 Royal will destroy him way harder than the Vanilla Persona 5 because almost every single boss in that game is some sort of gimmick boss that demands you to take the gimmicks seriously.
One of the reasons I find him so interesting is because I can't decipher the lies he believes, the lies he's trying to believe, and the lies he just wants us to believe. There are so many layers of cope and mental gymnastics.
I’m glad he’s never touching P5R because I couldn’t sit and watch an irredeemable man deal with a well-intentioned extremist antagonist who needs to redeemed in the end
He won't even get past Madarame or Okumura and would had been rage quitted by then, so he can't see evil Maruki. Those are 100% bona fide gimmick bosses and if you're not playing by the rules (especially on Okumura) it doesn't matter if you're double the boss' level you're just getting hardwalled.
Either of these would be personal poetic justice for Phil if they filtered him.