This post might not have been what he said, verbatim, but it brought back a lot of memories. About the only thing you missed was specifically mentioning the kid who committed suicide when their character died.
Which is incidently a true story. The bit that amuses me however is that MADD (mothers against dungeons and dragons) collected statistics about suicide rates among those who played D&D that showed that roleplayers were actually less likely to commit suicide than their peer group!