Why can't he make shartbound a story about getting better then?
Why should he get better when he is already perfect and we are all a bunch of faggots who are wrong and have never worked for Blizzard?
You guys are really onto it. Lore is a self insert, I think so is Baron (after seeing a line of dialogue where Baron says "I always wished I was a Viking, they are so cool!").
Writing is hard, especially for Jason and especially when it comes to redemption. He can't write Lore's redemption arc because he can't see anything really wrong with Lore because he can't see anything wrong with himself. He is, in every sense possible, his own undoing. He is the ultimate blocker.
Who knows, maybe one day he'll have an emotional breakthrough. He'll learn the power of apology and the ability to accept and love yourself flaws and all, and he'll finally finish animus.
The downside is he'll likely articulate it like a hormonal middle schooler that's terrified of real emotional vulnerability. At least that's what I've always read stuff like his as. Being vague about emotionally deep/vulnerable stuff is usually a way to try and make it the readers responsibility to be vulnerable rather than the author. The author gets to hide from their own feelings while taking credit for whatever the reader projected onto it. Which completely fits his MO.
he also wants to be well above average in health and fitness.
I am too lazy to find it, but that clip of him condescending to a true fan asking for real life advice on balancing desk work and physical health is apt.
"How do I stay healthy while doing a desk job... I go outside... yeah!

touch grass... every single day!"
The gall to read that as a criticism instead of someone just looking for advice from someone they look up to. When it comes to dodging narcissism accusations, he's like Neo in The Matrix if he used his super powers to get hit by every single bullet. Red pill? Nah, lead pill.
And now the story has flipped, he's a hermit, he doesn't do anything but work work work! No grass for Jason
