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== Controverseries ==

In late 2013, when Boogie’s reputation on the internet was more positive, Dale uploaded a video that mocked Boogie’s weight for no better reason than to seek attention, and it was later privated or deleted. Four years later, he uploaded a similar video about a female cosplayer named “Momokun,” in which he made like insults and accused her of editing her images, and he encouraged her fans to stop supporting her, although he later admitted that he regretted the video and said that it made little sense to make.

The most popular incident in Dale's history and arguably his only claim to fame (read: infamy) in internet history. It began in 2014 with him and Viscant entering a Twitter beef which had Dale make other tweets making fun of Viscant's appearance as well and saying he's the worst example of gamers, with Viscant jokingly suggesting Dale change his nickname to, "Black DSP." Three days later on 10/21/14, Wednesday Night Fights would organize a grudge match between LTG and Viscant, with the first to 10 wins as the winner.  

 

 

Dale has long maintained that he does not feel emotions and that some unexplained experience of life left him less prone to impulse than other men. He is, in fact, a person of considerable impulsive anger. It is sadder still that the occasions which provoke this anger are, for the most part, exceedingly petty ones. These episodes occur most frequently in fighting games, but any competitive game will see him, at best, shout verbal insults or make dubious claims that the win was undeserved for some reason. At worst, he will fall into a fit of explosive rage in which he does what was mentioned, throwing his controller, demanding a rematch with the opponent, or banning the opponent from his chat or Discord server, or whatever other space he manages. His rage, alongside his ego, also stands among his barriers to winning in competitive games, since anything that makes him wait even a second leads him to focus more on excusing his impending loss than on trying to prevent it.

It hardly takes a world-renowned psychologist to see that Dale holds an opinion of himself so high as to border on delusion. Though he has admitted to bouts of depression, he considers everything and anything only insofar as it affects himself. Taking the easiest example first, he bans people often and for almost any perceived slight against him and even a comment made in good spirit will offend him when he is in a bad mood, or when he chooses to read it that way. His ego, which is rather fragile, often proves his own worst enemy where success is concerned, for he makes himself plenty of enemies among chat, fellow creators/streamers, and others who would rather not associate with him because of his explosive temper and lack of professionalism, and he does little to hide his contempt for people, who happen to make up most of those out there. Dale often mocks those who make such statements and argues that he should not have to become a “nice guy squeegee” streamer to gain fans, as though that were even remotely the point. Which is that he need only improve himself slightly in patience and continue being his antagonistic self in an entertaining rather than genuinely hateful manner to find the same success he enjoyed in his early days. Yet he has done nothing to improve himself and arguably has grown worse.  

Thanks in part to his $121,000 debt, Dale regards money as the ultimate goal toward which every man should strive, and this leads him to make decisions that, if anything, yield less money over time. He challenges detractors to hand him $50,000 up front if they wish to fight him (the winner does not receive that sum), he bans or times out supporters in his chat, and berates viewers who would become supporters were it not for his toxic attitude, on top of alienating nearly anyone who might toss a nickel at his feet. This overlaps somewhat with his ego, since he will boast about having more money than he actually has to save face with what remains of his audience, even though trolls mock his attempts to save only because he so readily pretends that he is secure and not living paycheck to paycheck on the charity of strangers.

== <big>Philosophy</big> ==

One of Dale’s arguments against evolution, again paraphrased as charitably as possible, holds that humans lack a “goldilocks zone” that would allow them to feel comfortable in the middle of any weather. If it is too hot, we turn on the air conditioner. If it is too cold, we turn on the radiator. Were evolution true, we would have no need for external items such as jackets to help us in one direction or the other. This theory is obviously wrong for a few reasons, first, we do have a goldilocks zone, and second, making items such as jackets is also exactly what our evolutionary strategy amounts to, since it rests on our ability to think laterally. Although this leads us into another facet of Dale's philosophy. He subscribes to the meme argument that humans use only a fraction of their brains, and that if we used all of it we would somehow be capable of the miracles found in the most popular superhero films. The obvious counter is that if we did not already use the whole of our brains, it only stands to reason that we would grow steadily dumber over time.

=== Pessimism ===

Among the many discussions Dale has had on the human species, praise of humanity is hard to find, and he frequently posits that we are inferior to whatever alien lifeform appears or even to other species of the animal kingdom. His main reasoning seems to be that humans lose 9 times out of 10 in a “pure test of strength,” which appears to be the extent of his evaluation of human value. This overlooks what we devise in order to win fights against other animals, or, put another way and to reiterate what was said earlier, our ability to think laterally, which remains our main advantage. Dale’s only praise of humanity - setting aside his metaphysical claim that we were "given" only the same level of intelligence so that we might build a good civilization - is that we are capable of learning and improving, two things he has never done himself.