I've probably told you already, FF VIII is my favourite Final Fantasy game and one of my favourite games of all time, altogether. While it's a shame the combat system wasn't to your taste (although I do understand and acknowledge the problems with it and how broken it can become), I'm glad you found yourself loving the story, characters and music as evidenced by your scores in them. 
I dunno about people, but for me FF VIII is pretty much a magical game. It has "something" that really captivated me when I first played it as a kid, and despite being a flawed game in itself, features an unrivaled charm that very few games have managed to display as well throughout these years, at least for me.
I've been really itching to replay this game since it's been a long time I last played it and my memory of Disc 2 and 3 is kind of fuzzy in a lot of aspects. Reading your review really really makes me wanna go back to it and give it a go, again (so thank you for posting it!). Wish Square-Enix ported it to modern consoles (as I've heard the Steam version trims down the Draw animation time) and would give it the FF7 treatment with a remake or HD remaster of some sort.
As I asked you in your wall, what's wrong with your income being calculated based on your SeeD rank?
Here's a random gif to show how happy I am.
