- Joined
- Jun 5, 2015
It's weird that Jake never learned to drive, and I've never come across any explanation for it. I'm not surprised he never had a car of his own since his family's financial circumstances seem to have been genuinely tight in his high school years and he never worked. But wouldn't he want to at least be able to take his mom's car out and drive somewhere? Especially given how much he complains about being in the middle of nowhere?
i think jake has some fundamental motor (no pun intended) skill issues -- remember he couldn't tie his shoes for most of his life (can he now?) and despite basing his existence on video games, his twitch channel has proved he's extremely bad at them, which is why he wrote all these angry screeds explaining that games requiring skill aren't fun.
he supposedly had long-term lyme disease for most of his youth and teen years which he blames for a lot of stuff, but also i think he's just klutzy, easily frightened and someone whose hangups won't let him practice or get good at new things. i think the reason he can't drive is the same reason he's so into jrpgs and other games that don't require hand-eye coordination and fast reactions.

when jake dies he will be sent to a special hell where all he can do all day every day is play Warzone 2 with proximity chat turned on and the player name "Secret Gamer Girl"