Odd question: Does Phil’s brain dead gameplay of your favourite game ruin your enjoyment of the game?
I just wanna see the struggle. Phil plays games nowadays in a way that seeks to completely avoid it. Street fighter with Smurf accounts, Tekken character hopping to keep his rank low, Yakuza on normal with a million heals, and even shit I didn’t think possible like Disco Elysium with his brain off relying on chat.
He’s entertaining only when he sucks. If there’s no struggle, there’s no fun. He just doesn’t finish games any more, and he officially rage quit disco elysium because it was unironically too much to handle for the ol’ pickled smooth brain.
It’s not like I’m frothing at the mouth, but I legit just don’t understand why he even keeps it up. His let’s plays are the most boring, conveyor belt style slop on YouTube. They are completely devoid of passion, pride, skill, knowledge or any reason to exist at all. There’s also no reason to watch them. They’re just a vehicle for the feigning distress scam at this point. He might as well ack and do his see that look style khammentary over wrasslin, or Rupaul’s drag race, or kitchen nightmares.
An AI would outperform him, even if you tasked the AI to intentionally suck. He cherry picks kid shit and easy games to appear less incompetent. His only entertainment value ever was wildly sucking at games. He was unironically gifted at being terrible. Leave it to the pigroach to squander even that.
Let’s plays are already a weird thing to choose for entertainment, though they can be occasionally good for background noise, but I just find endgame Phil to be dreadfully boring. His streams are just so uneventful with his dead dent chat and 120 bots and 20 legit viewers.
Realistically, unless he rocks the boat with some actual khantent, I see him streaming to his 7 whales and 100 bots by this time next year. Even his permanently sinking ship seems to be on the way out for good, even if the whales efforts at keeping it afloat are nothing short of heroic.
In a way OIC enabling him to completely lose his edge with endless kiddy shit and fast food rewards are the worst thing to ever happen to him. His entertainment muscles are completely atrophied, and I don’t think he could get back on the saddle even if he wanted to.