For example, if I were to make a thread about the awesome time I had with my girlfriend last weekend (we got almost halfway through Sin & Punishment 2, I got her hooked on Cave Story, we went hiking and got some really pretty pictures of mountains and leaves and a waterfall and also of us, I gave her a piggyback ride, she introduced my brothers to Missingno., and we totally kissed at least several times (I stopped counting after a while)), it would be rightly seen as overly excessive gloating, whereas mentioning it here is only somewhat excessive.