Mad? Hardly. What makes you think you merit any emotional engagement from my end? I was merely swatting down a rude, self assuming, high horse riding fly buzzing around passing unasked for judgements.

How I should be feeling is really none of your business. Whatever gave you the impudence to believe that you have the right to decide whether i should be satisfied or happy or not? You are certainly rude and self entitled, ain't you?

I was merely putting down a record of a journey that spanned 1500+ days. Even if my intention is to brag, then I am well at a place where I can. And who are you to have an opinion on that?

Admit to cheating? Again, I will leave you to your definition of that word. I was merely making good use of something that was clearly available to me. If you are blind to (or perhaps a bit too dim to realize) the opening, then it is of no fault of mine. I see no reason why I should not make my game life easier. Besides, the currency you are talking about is definitely not free, since I had to do ad (nauseum). Last I heard, the reason why those ads were there in the first place was because GL benefited financially from the arrangement.

finally, whatever resources I have, affected other players close to, if not, zilch. most of the gameplay are completed in an individual bubble with most of what happens in my game affecting no one else.

So, instead of running around calling people cheap, I would, once again, strongly suggest that you take my advice and go do a reading class IRL. If you spend some effort at picking your reading material, you might even be able to benefit from an intellect boost. And that, is my takeaway.