u/mrblonde55

I was taking a shower listening to the latest episode of That Being Said, as one does, and heard DSP discussing Mixtape, camera perspective, and the YouTube algorithm when it hit me:

DSP is essentially an LLM that has been trained in cesspools of lolcow live chats, the YouTube comment section, and Twitter. He knows all the words that are associated with certain topics. He knows the “hot takes related to them. But he lacks any ability to arrange the words into proper context with human emotional response or complex logical thought.

It also explains his approach to content creation. He titles a video. He makes a thumbnail. He (has someone else) edit it like other videos are edited. He makes it the “correct” length. There is “literally nothing else he can do” to improve it/the chances of being picked up by the algorithm.

There are a lot of good arguments both for and against the proliferation of AI, and LLMs in particular. The existence of the “human” known as DSP is the best one against it I’ve seen so far.

18 years as YouTube being literally the only thing he does with his life, and he still doesn’t understand how things work.

He’s been on this “I just need a video to hit the algorithm” kick for a while now, believing that it’s both a totally random occurrence and the only thing standing between him and viral popularity. He’s so invested in this strategy that he’s actually paying money for someone to edit videos for him.

Today’s big premier is the Steam Controller review. Eight days after the first video reviews went up.

Crimson Desert is his most viewed edited video to date. The game is probably the most viral topic in video games this year. DSP didn’t just release his review weeks after everyone else had (and still hadn’t actually finished the game), he held off on releasing it after it was ready to go. His editor had sent him the final cut but, in DSP’s words, “he didn’t want to flood his channel with content”. Rather than get that video out ASAP (which was already painfully late by any measure), he uploaded DailyMorningPodcastShow, his recorded streams, and Daily Wrap.

What does that mean?

The first 24 hours make or break a video’s success. When your chasing the algorithm like DSP claims he is, timing is everything. These aren’t mistakes. This is min-maxing failure.

Is it not possible to Shadow Strike some bosses? I have the Heath Thief Jade equipped for the Fuxi fight, and I’m not getting the slash animation on my third strike when I’m behind him/not getting any health regen.

Is there something I’m missing here, or does this just not work on bosses?

By far the most entertaining episode of the season so far where Phil reviewed the Steam controller. What does that mean?

To begin, he didn’t have an overhead shot setup for the unboxing, which I understand because some people’s time is far too valuable to prep for work.

Then the idiot couldn’t decipher the infographic instructions in the box. The ones that companies sink a ton of money into research and focus groups for so that any idiot can figure them out.

Returning to our theme of zero prep work, he didn’t set it up and/or charge it ahead of time, so the unboxing and review was literally just opening the box, describing the things inside it, and complaining about how it may work (buttons too close, hard plastic makes his fingers hurt and calloused).

But the absolute highlight, the connection and setup. Since the home “studio” was designed by a retarded retard, he is required to get up and walk around his desk to plug something into a USB port. Even better, Phil being Phil, he gave zero thought to what would be required after plugging it in, so had to keep getting up and down (cardio day!) no less than a half dozen times because he would return to his seat after each step of the process before realizing it wasn’t finished. The cherry on top was calling out Valve for cheaping out on a USB cord that “doesn’t reach all the way across the floor”. For a wireless controller.

The review concluded without a single second of actual use of the controller.

Tune in to tonight’s Daily Wrap, where Phil will recount the above in autistic detail.

“Gunner” is a prison term, used as both an adjective and a noun, for weirdos who beat off constantly, often in front of people (ie: “The new female guard caught Phil gunning while she was making her rounds”, or “Phil is a known gunner”). Suffice to say, the fact this idiot is compelled to repeatedly reference them as his “gunner” glasses is fucking hilarious.

Note: I am now aware, after a bit of Google work, that “Gunnar” glasses are a brand name for glasses specifically made for playing video games. The normal reaction to learning such a thing would be “who buys this ridiculous shit?”, but we have our answer to that question.