@NekoMizuI feel like I've gotten the good I needed to from this site -- I've had a useful break from all of the bullshit I was going through after I had to move house, and I've met some new people who're worth keeping in touch with and are interested in knowing about my project as it develops.
Spending further time here will probably just get in the way of my work, especially since I have to keep dealing with ignorant fools that I frankly could do better without. When all is said and done, I have more valuable things in my life. It's passed midnight now, so for all intents and purposes I guess it's my birthday. I'm thirty-three, but I've got the body of someone much older due to a lot of physical and mental encumbrances, and I'm overworked and constantly stressed. Despite that, I've got an amazing fiancΓ© (even if she's on the other side of the planet) and an amazing project (even if it's a severe work in progress).
I don't regret my life at all -- the only thing I regret is wasting my time on idiots.