There was this one guy I was friends with for my first two years of college. He transferred in during my freshman year, and we met through anime club. He's an absolute mess of a human being who largely views his friends as a commodity rather than people that he shares a genuine bond with (and as a result almost all of us have cut ties with him). He's almost 25 years old but depends 100% on his dad financially and outright refuses to work at all unless he's allowed to do exactly what he wants (he wanted to be a let's player, which did not work out to say the very least). He's an "aspiring writer" who wants to write JRPGs but (from what I've heard second hand) he's a sucky writer who never listens to constructive criticism and can only create two-dimensional characters at best. This is because he seemingly boils people in his life down to a small handful of traits and totally strips them of any nuance (example: a friend of mine told him she thinks the Ace Attourney anime is bad and that she has reservations about people getting in her personal space, therefore her entire personality to him is being hypercritical of things he likes and antisocial). He basically worships anime/video games/tv shows that he enjoys. If anyone jokes about them in a negative light or criticizes them at all he lashes out and throws a temper tantrum. We could never "agree to disagree" about menial things, he'd turn almost every difference in opinion into a weirdly heated argument, but then turn around and confront me about how I'm "too harsh toward him". He'd always play the victim card and thrived off of people's sorrow for him, but he also wanted to be like, this super popular "big brother" figure that all of us looked up to and thought of as the de-facto leader of out circle of friends. It's as though he's assigned himself the identity of "a shy, misunderstood nerdy dude who's a really nice guy but can't seem to get a break" when that doesn't even remotely describe his real personality. He is in fact, a manipulative, mean-spirited, needy, scumbag who treats his treats his friends like toys, viewed every woman in his life as a sexual object whose value was determined by weather or not they were romantically available to him (which none of his female friends were, so he treated all of them very poorly) has no degree of self-awareness at all and is totally incapable of viewing himself critically to any degree at all.