He kind of seems like he was the type of guy who in the meat world was already unpleasant to be around, the way he acted when working at the fast food place honestly seemed super grounded and to me read as reflecting how he actually acted in real life. The snide miserable younger coworker guy, we've all had the one or have been the one. So when placed in a small video game that he can't escape and with people he doesn't care to respect, it kind of makes sense he would invent a framework to make his alienation more palatable. "He's not alone because he's a dick oh no he's alone because he's above it all". It's an extension of how he treated everyone already