Originally Posted by
Mission146
The Boz,
Thank you very much for what you have said!
1.) Knowing Me Personally
I will say that not everyone who has met me in person has always had a positive experience. For one thing, going back to being reliable, while I pay off bets in a timely fashion I almost never pay back loans on time. For this reason, nobody should ever make a loan to me because I am completely unreliable for timely repayment. That being said, I recognize this about myself and always propose obscene interest rates right off the bat, anywhere from 30-100%, simple interest. And, more than that, any loan I have taken gets repaid eventually.
Fortunately, my credit seems to have improved a good deal, so I won't need to ask for any loans directly from people even in the worst of times. That's a good thing for me because credit card or other types of loans will have much cheaper interest rates. I've also discovered that I don't care about money at all, so I can live on very close to nothing. Usually when I do take a loan, it's to perpetuate the continued doing of nothing.
However, if you put more of a priority on timeliness than profit, I am not your guy for loans.
I will say this again: Nobody should make me a loan. It will be repaid, but almost certainly not on time. I fall into funks where I go long periods of time without doing anything.
It's especially ironic because, as Boz points out with the WoV Picks Game, I love giving money away. It's disgusting how much I tip at restaurants and what have you. I guess it gives me a misplaced sense of self-worth and esteem to be so outwardly nice.
In addition to the loans thing, people should just avoid knowing me in person, in general, because I'm irritating. Of all of the friends I've theoretically made in the gambling world, I think only two (and you're one) actually genuinely like me. There are five people who talk to me off of the forums with regularity (you're not one), but I'm pretty sure four of those people don't actually like me. I don't blame them.
I also don't understand why people worry so much about money. If I had every loan that I'll never get back, there'd be low five figures on the desk in front of me instantly. If I do loan money, I never ask about it again and just assume it's gone. Except my father, but that's because getting stiffed by your dad sucks. I don't talk to him anymore and he doesn't even have my number, so it doesn't matter.
2.) WoV Game/Politeness
-Thank you for pointing that out. While I may actually be unctuous, the lesson that I took from my Great-Grandma (R.I.P.) is that there is very rarely a good reason not to be polite. I'm actually every bit as polite to strangers, in person, as I come off on the forums. It's honestly pretty revolting. Putting grocery carts back for people, letting people walk in front of me, yielding the right of way when driving, holding doors...these all sound like nice things....but really they are revolting. I'm embarrassingly predictable and it all probably comes from a misguided need, instilled in my youth, to be perceived as a nice person.
3.) Drinking
-Probably not anymore, I'm afraid. It's officially been well over a year now, but I was quite a prolific alcoholic. The pace that you saw me drinking probably started to slow down about ten hours after we parted ways.
4.) AP Plays
-SSSSHHHHH sharing is bad, mmmkay? I'm glad you were able to put them to good use, though! For the record, I didn't share any plays that were taught to me directly by someone else.
5.) WoN Situation
-Did you? No worries. I must have forgotten. One person apologized to me for things done or not done during that time and I accepted. I don't have any grudges. There's one person who I could hold a grudge against, but finding a way to take me down completely would result in me not writing articles and potentially discussing AP anymore...so I understand his motivations.
In any event, I'm no longer an Administrator there and have no plans to work directly with anyone else anymore on anything in land casinos.
Thank you for all the rest of what you said!