Do you ever feel bad for Burnell?

When I originally stumbled on DSP I kind of did feel bad for him. Then I kept watching stuff about him and showing up to his streams and realized quickly how deranged and annoying he is. How he treats his "fans" is wild and disrespectful not only in the begging but how he talks to them and how self centered and pretentious he is.
 
I don't feel bad for him at all, honestly. I feel bad for the people he hurt along the way and treated like assets, but that's another story. I don't care about his dents, but it's how he treated John, Howard, and Respect the Pack towards the end.

Phil is someone that got everything he wanted in life and he always wants more. He always wants more money, more six star Hogans, more dents to hand over their SSI/SSDI checks, more money for taxes from his (NOT) dying parents, etc...Phil has had EVERY single hint of adversity removed from his life and has YET to experience any form of hardship.

If Phil was even a HINT of a likable person, which he's not, I would feel bad. There are people out there that have shit luck, but are at least likeable people and don't let the bad times get them down too bad, but not Philly Warbucks. His entitlement and negative attitude towards everything in life, that he thinks he's God's gift to the world, but when someone tries to disagree with what he has to say, he gets butt-hurt and holds a grudge against you...and he waits until you experience some hardship, that's when he comes back and laughs at your pain. He laughed at Machinima went under and everyone was fired from there, he laughed when his old boss was fired when the helicopter company was bought out by Sikorsky

This is the same dude that has held a 20+ year grudge against the Cannon brothers because they called him out on his bullshit, hell he still does to this very day. He rants about rollback netcode every change he gets. Like, dude. I'm sure the Cannon brothers don't lay awake at night cheering each other on for telling you to shut the hell up when they were in talks with Capcom, but I'm willing to bet a six star Hogan Phil does, as he sits on his phone wishing nothing but ill will towards them.

Point being, I don't feel sorry for him at all. Phil has gotten everything he wants: to be alone in his mid-unit condo that's falling apart, no friends, no immediate family, no nothing.
 
No because all his problems were self inflicted.

TIHYDP? He could have leaned into his own incompetence and offered to do gimmick/challenge runs for $$$. Even as a once a week thing it would have defused the troll community and had him laughing all the way to the bank. It would even have given him normies for fans.

Broke/frivolous spending (including the Seattle move)? He was a finance major, he should have known better from school/work even if his parents taught him poorly. Even Chapter 7 taught him nothing.

Drinking problem? He sat around the
condo except for errands, he had time for outpatient therapy. With his early 2010s income he could probably have paid for a therapist to come to him.

Bad rep in the FGC? Who cares, it's just a game and FGC people would have forgotten about him by now if he didn't keep picking Internet fights with them.

Closet case? He has alienated everyone in his life, he has nothing to lose from cheating on Kat with a guy.
 
I used to because I assume(d) he was dropped on his head too many times (The PC and lego disaster streams wouldn't be possible unless he was actually mentally impaired) and because the 'zempic might have paralysed his bowels.

But then I remember that he caused actual and quantifiable damage to videogame development because developers propped him up as some kind of vitruvian model of what the ideal gamer is supposed to look like, causing remakes to get neutered to remove jumping and Cadmium Yellow/#fff600 to be the most popular colour used in level design.

He also lead a charmed life with jailbait girlfriends, free gifts of real estate, and extremely favorable terms of his (unforced) bankruptcy bestowed upon him. He will never have to do a single day of work in his life, why feel bad for him?
 
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I feel bad for Phil only a little bit. His parents didn’t set him up for success as a man with autism.

HOWEVER, he’s a POS due to his narcissism.
I actually think his parents did a good job, up to a point. The problem was he clearly needed a handler his whole life and they misjudged him as being high functioning enough to be able to navigate the world.

And in their defence, he is high functioning enough to fool people into thinking he’s well adjusted enough to not need a handler (when only interacting with him for short periods of time), which would have made it difficult for them to convince those around them of his needs.

He had supervised he-man time for a reason. He had his hair combed by his mom into highschool for a reason. He still has scheduled weekly phone calls for a reason.
 
No because all his problems were self inflicted.

TIHYDP? He could have leaned into his own incompetence and offered to do gimmick/challenge runs for $$$. Even as a once a week thing it would have defused the troll community and had him laughing all the way to the bank. It would even have given him normies for fans.

Broke/frivolous spending (including the Seattle move)? He was a finance major, he should have known better from school/work even if his parents taught him poorly. Even Chapter 7 taught him nothing.

Drinking problem? He sat around the
condo except for errands, he had time for outpatient therapy. With his early 2010s income he could probably have paid for a therapist to come to him.

Bad rep in the FGC? Who cares, it's just a game and FGC people would have forgotten about him by now if he didn't keep picking Internet fights with them.

Closet case? He has alienated everyone in his life, he has nothing to lose from cheating on Kat with a guy.
He was a Business major, not Finance.

Business degree programs don't go that deep into the math side of things, which is why MBAs were universally derided as they dismantled the corporate world in the 1980s and 1990s.

Business programs are pretty much adult daycare that somehow puts idiots in position to hold more sway than the people who actually know how to make things work.
 
I'd like to think I'm a good-ish type person, not perfect, have my own behavioral problems, etc etc, normal people shit. So there are times I feel bad for Phil or other people, but it usually doesn't last long, because we have such insight into these people's lives, it's hard to not see them suffering as some sort of cosmic vengeance.

I don't want Phil to become destitute and homeless. But I have no problem with him having to downsize and possibly get a real job to stay afloat. He made a lot of money in the earlys years, if he was smart, he could be retired or just coasting. But instead he acts like a spoiled bitch and stamping his feet saying he's the biggest and baddest king, all while begging for donations. In a way he's already living an embarrassing life, but I think the king needs to give back to his kingdom, and bag groceries at Kroger for a real humiliation.
 
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