LowTierGod
Personality
Rage
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.
Lust
Although Dale insists that he is “not weak to the flesh,” there are numerous stretches of his livestreams in which he lusts, fantasizes, or openly discusses his sexual appetites without an ounce of shame. One such example occurs when he listens to a song from Ice Spice’s album and drifts into a daydream over a certain lyric. His frequent and often memed jokes about having sex with people’s mothers are another example of this tendency (though they stem from a different kind of lust) in which he goes into considerable detail about the specific acts that the person in question supposedly performed that night. Dale has admitted to being one who will do nearly anything for “love” which goes against the tough-guy, “seen it all” attitude that he so often adopts in his recent streams.
Ego
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.
His ego is also the greatest inhibitor to his success in games as well as in life, for like DSP, he will find any reason why his loss was not genuine, and nearly any problem, regardless of his opponent’s culpability, will be laid at someone else’s feet. He will blame lag, an opponent’s choice of character on the grounds that it shows neither taste nor skill, comeback mechanics, taunting, faulty controllers, an unwillingness to defend himself, DDoS attacks, his own choice of character, or your supposed lack of skill despite having beaten him, and the list goes on.
Philosophy
Metaphysics, Science, and Epistemology
During a SFV stream, Dale spoke of founding a religion called “Philosophy Christianized Science,” which he defined, in the most charitable paraphrase, as “Philosophiz(ing) on the beliefs of Christianity in relation to what is explained in the Bible.” The rationale, according to Dale, was that the Bible, once narrowed down to its truest meaning, is a book of science. Dale held that Christianity was simply the nearest approximation of the "truest form of religion", and he did not regard it as the “true” or “correct” form in itself, despite its name in the title. Despite this apparent approval of the Bible, Dale will sometimes correct himself when speaking in biblical or religious contexts, declining to refer to God as a “He” or even, "God," preferring “The Creator,” presumably for its consistency with other monotheistic religions. Dale also does not believe in an afterlife, holding the view common to many atheistic positions that death means nothingness, though he believes in the existence of a soul.
One of Dale’s primary arguments for the existence of a God was the perfection of the human body. This argument can be read as directed against atheism in general rather than for any specific religion. Dale maintains that the internal body of humans, and the synergy among everything within it, is so immaculate that the only rational explanation is that a Creator made it. He admits, however, that we have a lifespan, (which he does not recognize as a contradiction of his perfection theory, though for the sake of charity we can assume the word was used as an exaggeration). He also believes that these imperfections explain why humans did not originate on Earth, since we have not adapted to its difficulties as other animals have. If this sounds anti-evolutionary, that's because it is.
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.
Glossary
- Stream-sniper: A person who tries to match up against him, whether with a counter-pick character or with enough knowledge of his playstyle to hold an advantage This is seldom the case and Dale is often quite loose with whom he calls a stream-sniper. See Ego.
- Balrog: A ghetto black man
- Cell-saga: Incel
- Extraterrestrial: Anything not of Earth origin.