I’ve kinda rolled my eyes in the past when people have said he’s escalating because it all felt like a cycle, almost mundane, just a frustrated child trying different tacks to get his singular goal. But since his options have become so limited, he’s had to lean more on desperate attempts which were kind of last straws before the routine reset (hospital, suicide threats).
There’s something different this time, he came out of the hospital and rapidly blurred through the bland material (shit board game designs, horribly misunderstood science leading toward PhD, making an income through paid videos) in a matter of days when it was usually months before getting to the disturbing shit like filming unsuspecting women and lurking outside bars. I feel like he might have found his new baseline and it seems somewhat dangerous now.