Those are all fair points, lockpull. I wasn't trying to be a douchebag and make it sound like I played perfectly, but I get why defending myself at all can make it come across like that. So my fault.

EDIT: Let me add by asking a question: Let's assume for a second that I knew for a fact that he had QQ, but I wasn't 100% sure what he'd do on the flop or turn, but I had the feeling that to those two scare cards he may have folded. Should I still have bet out, or raised his piddly two-cent bet just to stick to the "aggressive, aggressive, aggressive" strategy purely on principle?