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* In his ''Ratchet & Clank'' playthrough, Phil eventually manages to amass roughly 34,000 bolts late on in the game.
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** '''As a result:''' Planet Veldin becomes a real struggle for him as he is stuck with unsuitable weapons, strong enemies, and Checkpoint Starvation. The final boss against Chairman Drek also becomes troublesome for him, since he was also running low on ammo for the weapons he did have...
** '''You'd then think:''' he'd just waltz over to a Gadgetron Vendor and restock there.
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** '''Even worse:''' he makes this boneheaded move '''''JUST A FEW FEET AWAY FROM A VENDOR!!!'''''
* In ''Metal Gear Solid 3'', Phil is running around like a headless chicken in a sniper battle against The End. During this, he gets an incoming
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* In 2011, Phil decided to do a playthrough of ''Catherine'' for the PS3. He is greeted with a difficulty select before the game begins.
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** '''As a result:''' he fumbles his way through the majority of the game, getting more and more pissed off until he finally lowers the difficulty to Easy. ''('''Note:''' the types of blocks, stage length, complexity, and combo duration are altered depending on difficulty, so Phil would've been wise to pick the one with the shortest stages, easiest layouts, and extra time).''
* When he played ''The Evil Within'' back in 2014, Phil was faced with a giant blade that circles the entire room in Chapter 10, and two or three enemies. One of whom
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** '''As a result:''' this lapse in judgement allows the blade to swing round and take ''his'' head off as well.
*''Far Cry 4'' is home to some of Phil's funniest misfortunes, but he still makes some questionable decisions. One such decision is to try and hunt a rhinoceros for its skin to upgrade his inventory capacity.
**'''You'd expect:''' he would try not to ruin the skin by using firearms, and simply try to kill it from a safe distance using the bow and arrow, knowing that rhinos are extremely dangerous animals.
**'''Instead:''' He decides to be a massive dick to it by shooting the large bovine with an Uzi, which would be enough to ruin the skin and make it unusable for crafting.
**'''And then:''' he throws a Molotov cocktail at the rhino, which '''''really''''' pissed it off.
**'''As a result:''' Phil gets completely gored by a flaming rhinoceros because of his recklessness and loses what rhino skins he already had, leading to him bitching at Ubisoft...which sounds funny with how he goes about it. [Paraphrasing Fred Fuchs of the SoK: ''"I got it on camera... yeah, send the video footage to Ubisoft, maybe they'll slip you a rhino skin."]''
*Also from his ''Far Cry 4'' playthrough, Phil is tasked with taking out a nearby wolf den, after dealing with the wolf pack occupying that cave. He sees an explosive barrel inside the den near some wooden support beams, and realises he can blow it up with a fire arrow.
**'''You'd expect:''' Phil would do the sensible thing and set it off from outside the cave, and out of harm's way, right?
**'''Instead:''' He goes '''''inside the cave''''' to ignite the barrel, causing the cave to collapse right on top of him, killing him in the process!
**Speaking of explosives, there's another part of the game where he has to destroy a some chemicals inside some small houses.
**'''You'd expect:''' Phil would take some precautions in dealing with these since trying to destroy some explosive chemicals in a small space could be dangerous.
**'''Instead:''' He shoots recklessly at the explosives, causing propane tanks to fly towards him and blow up in his face and take damage from. He does the same again seconds later!
* In July 2021, Phil got his hands on a Xbox Series X. How was able to get one despite claiming countless times on stream that he is always short on cash is a complete mystery, but that's not relevant here. Point is, he has one; and like any new device, setting it up requires a two-step verification process, which involves receiving sensitive codes.
** '''You'd expect:''' Phil to realise this, and set the machine up off camera before he started streaming that day. Sure, it'd take a while, but he would minimize the risks of people trying to hijack the console to mess with him.
** '''Instead:''' Phil decides to record himself setting the Xbox up, thus accidentally revealing the two 10 digit codes on screen. And Phil then has the balls to whinge about the codes appearing out of nowhere, and blaming Microsoft themselves for it! On top of that, his viewers have to watch him struggle to set up his new toy on stream, and practically walk him through the whole process.<br />
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