DarksydePhil / TheyCallMeDSP / Phil Burnell - General Discussion

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Freshtodeath dijo:
totally forgot about his back. So that eliminated all retail jobs. Getting an office job with that huge of a resume gap might be challenging. The job market in seattle for office jobs will be competitive in 10 years. I guess he could do uber.
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With those driving skills and bad eye sights? Forget it.
 
Proper Pangolin dijo:
It was I have the clip of it of from an old Hate Live video in which he does live Q&A in during which he has to wear his glasses (most people forget about them) so could read who was calling.
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Well, I know for other reasons, but I'd put money down on it having been a Circuit City, not that it really matters. That's what used to be in the parking lot of that mall; it's like a gym now or something.

Edit: Guess he worked at both
 
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SoapQueen1 dijo:
The employee discount story was from Best Buy. He got unemployment insurance benefits for the discharge. Record (archive.)
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He must've worked at Circuit City after that, then, because I know he worked at the place that was in the Trumbull Mall parking lot. Or maybe it was before Best Buy since his "5 years" at whatever helicopter joint he worked at would've been starting around then in his timeline.

I dunno, I just know he worked at Circuit City.
 
Ratko_Falco dijo:
With those driving skills and bad eye sights? Forget it.
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I don't think he could realistically even drive an Uber without blaming the GPS in some way for his poor choice of routes.

Sparkletor dijo:
Phil worked at Best Buy. This is 100% a fact because people found the paperwork where he was fired for using his employee discount to buy video game consoles to run a tournament for his own profit.
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Is there some sort of legality attached to the tournament he ran? Buying even a large number of goods with an employee discount alone shouldn't have gotten him fired.
 
chicken wings dijo:
I don't think he could realistically even drive an Uber without blaming the GPS in some way for his poor choice of routes.



Is there some sort of legality attached to the tournament he ran? Buying even a large number of goods with an employee discount alone shouldn't have gotten him fired.
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Driving for Uber/Lyft/whatever means you have to literally follow the directions on your phone turn for turn. And we all know how poor Phil is at following directions. I'm not certain on the way things work, but I'd imagine that even deviating slightly means he'd have a hard time disputing chargebacks if the person requesting a ride found it unsatisfactory (ie showing up late, the ride took too long, etc).
 
chicken wings dijo:
Is there some sort of legality attached to the tournament he ran? Buying even a large number of goods with an employee discount alone shouldn't have gotten him fired.
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The employment agreements said using your employee discount for profit was grounds for discharge and they argued he was going to make a profit on the tournament.

Realistically they just wanted him gone but not bad enough to pay unemployment so they waited until they had some degree of an excuse and hoped the unemployment office would believe they had a good excuse.
 
chicken wings dijo:
Is there some sort of legality attached to the tournament he ran? Buying even a large number of goods with an employee discount alone shouldn't have gotten him fired.
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Their argument was that he profited from it. He saved something like 3 bucks with the discount, and I guarantee you he didn't profit off the tournament. The FGC, even in the mid-late 2000s, was not profitable for tournament organizers and survived solely off of entry fees: there was typically a "venue fee" and a fee for each game you wanted to enter. Venue fee went to cover the cost of renting the space, equipment, probably throwing 20 bucks to people who helped run brackets the whole day/weekend, shit like that. Tourney fees would just go right into the prize pool and get divided 70/20/10 for 1st, 2nd, 3rd.

Nobody made money off of the FGC until Capcom started investing (which was like Evo 2008 or some shit) and when it blew up on Twitch. That's largely why the scene is the way that it is, because it was people who played for the sake of playing and there wasn't really any money to be made off of it compared to other games at the time. The FGC still laughs at the concept of "e-sports", even with as big as it is. That whole mentality is also why it never really accepted Smash as a game (alongside banning basically everything that makes the game unique, when basically nothing ever gets banned from fighting games in tournies). It's very much a grass roots community, and that still holds over to this day with people preferring to play in person vs. online (yes, latency is an issue in fighters more than any other genre -- not trying to justify Dave's excuses, but even 2-3 frames can make a game feel impossible to play).

That's just me ranting about the FGC, though.
 
harbinger dijo:
Just need to make a small addition:
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Heh

I think Evo has always paid out for top 8 finishes, though, even when it was B3/4/5. Even so, back then it was, as our Dear Dark would put it, a pittance if you finished anything outside of top 3. Unless you were consistently winning shit, you were taking a financial hit just going to tournaments unless you were betting on/winning money matches in hotel rooms.
 
Pargon dijo:
If it was a scheme then at the very least DSP knows how to play an audience. He absolutely had every one of us believing he was enough of a dumbfuck not to properly research his tax liability.
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People can disagree on how bad his current situation is, but he absolutely got busted by WA state for not paying his state B&O tax. There's a reason his sole proprietorship showed up suddenly at the end of 2017, with an old version and a new version.
 
Sparkletor dijo:
Phil couldn't get a business job after school because they wanted someone with experience. He refused to take an entry level job to get experience because he had a degree and was above it.
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Genuine question here: Is Phil's business degree even worth anything anymore? I have to imagine that no real employer is gonna count "e-begging on the internet" as legitimate experience, and assuming Phil actually tries to get a real job 10 years from now, is anyone even gonna bother looking at a resume for something that out of date?
 
Sparkletor dijo:
Phil couldn't get a business job after school because they wanted someone with experience. He refused to take an entry level job to get experience because he had a degree and was above it.
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Nothing he could do.

Wing Zero dijo:
Genuine question here: Is Phil's business degree even worth anything anymore? I have to imagine that no real employer is gonna count "e-begging on the internet" as legitimate experience, and assuming Phil actually tries to get a real job 10 years from now, is anyone even gonna bother looking at a resume for something that out of date?
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It would have been worthless within a year of not being used.

Edit: There is a chance his old university has an alumni program that might take pity on him and find someone to throw him a white collar job. It would be because he is an embarrassment to their school, if that mattered to them.
 
Wing Zero dijo:
Genuine question here: Is Phil's business degree even worth anything anymore? I have to imagine that no real employer is gonna count "e-begging on the internet" as legitimate experience, and assuming Phil actually tries to get a real job 10 years from now, is anyone even gonna bother looking at a resume for something that out of date?
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Most degrees now today are just seen as piece of paper to most employers. They are looking at your resume and other forms of qualifications (internship at hostipal, computer skills, languages,etc.). If you don't have that and haven't done much of anything outside of college then you're gonna have a rough time getting a job. For Phil's case, he's been fired or let go from all jobs he's been employed in , no social skills, no meaningful qualifications, can't follow rules, untrustworthy,and has gain a horrible reputation on the internet for the past 10 years. In other words, he's fucked.
 
Phil's current top tipper is "George_Wallace_Alabama". Informal poll question--

Is Phil:

  • Too stupid to know who George Wallace is?
  • Just racist enough to not care about putting that name up?
  • 5 G&Ts in and doesn't know what letters mean anymore?
 
Pargon dijo:
DSP is petrified of any form of direct confrontation. He'd never take a position where he's within a hundred miles of a risk of so much as being yelled at.
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Ever heard Big Man With A Gun by Nine Inch Nails? That is Phil. He would go for mall cop if it means he can fuck with people and they can't fuck with him. If YouTube hit big for Phil, I could see him as the guy that would have attempted to become a cop, get denied, and end up working at the local county jail. He would drive his little Ford Focus with a bumper sticker that says "Blue Lives Matter" to the local bar and attempt to pick up women by claiming he is in "law enforcement." He would strike out the vast majority of times, go home, cry, attempt to masturbate, fail, stick his Taurus 9mm in his mouth, puss out of the pulling the trigger, and then drink himself to sleep.
 
PieceofShet dijo:
You guys who discuss what kinda job dsp will get, probably doesnt follow him for too long. HE WILL NEVER GET A JOB. He will use whatever platform to beg online until he dies.
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Maybe. I guess it comes down to the same question I ask all the time: what's stronger, Phil's laziness or Phil's pride? Will he finally bite the bullet when the chips are down to save his big-boy house, or is it more important to him that he gets to spend every day picking unwashed pajama pants out the crack of his ass?

If nothing else it's a fun thought experiment along the same lines of that reality show, The Simple Life: person accustomed to life of unusual comfort is thrown into more everyday circumstances and gawkers get to watch them flounder and feel better about their lives because they're not so clueless as to not be able to do laundry or something.
 
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