Out of context, Khaj. I'll miss the idea of chatting with people like you and others that I said weren't assholes. It was aimed at the people who are rating me down and leaving hateful comments for no apparent reason. Not aimed at people that I somehow apparently think I'm better than. Sorry for the confusion.
The good times thread was somewhere to share my story and get a last word and hopefully some form of outside contact from the people I wanted to thank. If you took it offensively, as if it was a lecture aimed at any one person in particular, come down from your damn high cloud already, sheesh.
Thank you to all the people that actually have common sense and understood what I was saying. I made mistakes and I'm on a long, bumpy road to fixing them. I disliked the real world and FFXI was an easy substitute at the time. I'm not happy about it.
Lastly, the gilbuying thing was a light-hearted relief to an unpleasant post. Nothing more.