"-My first pathetic attempt at a flame in a LONG time,"
Wait that was a flame? Now I'm really confused. I was probably the last new guy they flamed and now look. You're right, first impressions are everything and I figured out they were joking, and that is a good first impression. And it shows that people care, because if we didn't, we wouldn't talk about you at all. Look, if you don't have a sense of humor and can't take a joke, then leave because you won't like it here. But you did come here and then started talking about people just because of a flame thread. If it was a serious thread, then I could understand your reason for judging, but it was a fucking flame thread. And you knew that you would upset people and get flamed for your thread, or you wouldn't have been so blantantly obvious with it. And you wouldn't have said anything like "oh, don't flame me". I didn't care for that, but it's been done and I've chatted with you a little in the flame thread (what!, a chat in that thread, confuses me too). You seem like a cool guy, so I propose that (if you even read this) you post a, ah, post about you after this one. Say whatever, but be serious about it. Don't mention anybody on this board, just you. Then, let everyone else judge you for who you are, like you want.