I knew Pirate fairly well, was in a bunch of skype group calls with him, he was a little childish at times, and might have had a slight inferiority complex, as as soon as you held something over his head he instantly tried to best you and would get mad if he couldn't. I figure allot of people got to him this way, and I feel like the merger with Reality ate away at him for a while and eventually drove him to do what he did. But he never seemed like the guy to pocket donations, that's really kinda out of the question.