Hey there! If you're reading this you've stumbled across my latest blog, which is dedicated to expressing my thanks to the people of the forums whom I call my friends. What better way to start this blog out than with the first friend I had here on the site?

That's right. None other than our forum's great and benevolent bald Administrator, Zoop. When I first joined this place there are a few things you just might not believe about this man. First off, this guy would not make his avatar a pony. It wasn't until I found a rather interesting picture of Berry Punch that he caved in and swapped out his animu for pony goodness. That's right, folks; he may love Fluttershy, but it was Berry Punch that brought him to his glorious bald knees.

But I digress. Another thing is that this man was (DRUM ROLL)... NOT AN ADMIN when I joined! Okay, so I'm sure a lot of you might already know that. But yes, this guy used to be an average every-man like the rest of us. Now he's an administrative every-man, so yeah. That changed relatively quickly, actually, but his bald, beating heart remained as lukewarm as ever.

Oh, and also, his name makes me think of an old Super NES game. Just sayin'.

"What's the point of all this babbling, Nico?" you're asking, I'm sure. Be patient! I'm getting to it! I just wanted to lay down a bare-bones and bald history on things for this wonderfully bald man before I jumped into why knowing him is such a big deal to me. It's not really hard to understand, though. Hell, anyone who knows the guy can attest to the fact that he's awesome.

But it's more than just knowing an awesome guy who happens to lack fur on his scalp. If it wasn't for Zoop, I literally wouldn't have stuck around with the forums, and then I would have never ended up meeting anyone else here, either, or have been changed so much by this place in general. Even though I've kind of had my moments with this forum where I just felt like the place was dead to me, and I haven't talked to a lot of my friends from here afterwards, Zoop is still around to call me 'brah' all the time. Because that's a baldass term.

Seriously, though, I've shared a lot with this guy, and he's shared a good bit with me, too. We've had our serial conversations now and again, and he's been around to listen when I've had an issue, which is great considering I haven't been the best friend in always being there to return the favor. Despite that, however, I feel that my friendship with him is still good, even if we don't have quite as much to talk about in 2013 as we did back in 2011. This bald man has cozied himself up in my heart and made tracks all over it with his fuzzy pink bear slippers.

Oh, did I mention the years 2011 and 2013 earlier? Hot damn, it's hard to believe that I've known this bald being of benevolent bear-footed ban-hammering so long! "It's only a year, Nico, chill out!" you might say. Shut the hell up, you, and quit interrupting my entry! A year of knowing a guy whom I befriended on a forum is pretty damn good, and the fact that he still loves me even though his likeness in my copy of Worms: Revolution dies constantly is great, too. That's right, this man is in my video games, too, kickin' shit up and accidentally leaping to his doom by way of drowning in a lake. But that's beside the point.

This guy has been a great help for me, as he not only kept me here and listened to my woes, but his companionship is something entirely awesome on its own. Hell, without him in my life I'd feel bald. Here's to knowing you for many more years, you (arguably) beautiful bald man! Keep rocking those pink bear slippers, @@Zoop!

(Images were totally not stolen straight from Kyronea's blog entry.)