The last sentence shows just how wrong you were - you believed that having failed to list on MPEx it was doomed : when in fact it's risen well above the maximum price you thought it would achieve if it listed on MPEx.
That's actually not a form of success, believe it or not.
But that aside, sure, I was entirely wrong of the avenue through which it's doomed. If you think it being bid up irrationally is a success...well what can I say. You're fundamentally and by your own admission a leecher, what you try to do is trade in and out of positions for some sort of daily profit. My point of view is aligned with a much larger thing than that, with much longer term goals. The relative discrepancy of balances held perhaps excuses your holding your particular point of view, but it does not excuse trying to pass it for some sort of universal, which it is not.
I have no problem with you (or anyone else for that matter) making however much daytrading whatever they please, but please try and understand that finance != speculation. Finance = resource allocation.
Consider the material in the quote carefully, for it seeming like "comedy" to you describes a problem in your thought process rather than a problem in the quote. The what ifs espoused there are just as valid today as they were at the time, irrespective of how
you think they played out. The fact that S.DICE has actually paid out something like 80k BTC in dividends in its lifetime (as compared to roughly 15-20k or so paid by AM in its lifetime?) is still as much a fact today as it was then. Again: it's fine to feel like getting drunk now and again. It's not fine to present drunkenness as sobriety on those grounds.