@ Mojo_LA: I agree, criticism is a very good tool to improve from. I enter alot of CG challenges, and I will finnish a entry thinking I'm going to win or place high, only to find out I didn't place at all. The criticism use to hit me pretty hard, but I have learned to use it as a tool, and it has helped me get better and better. Now the criticism doesn't effect me nearly as much anymore. It still bothers me a little but it's nothing I cant handle. However, there does come a time where the criticism takes on the form of ass kissing and trying to play favorites. I have seen it happen on many forums when someone gets a little fame, and then all the sudden a bunch of people will suck up to him hoping to gain something above the others. That kind of stuff is a real turn-off and starts fights real fast. There also comes a point where the criticism goes too far.

Of course this is just my own opinion.

EDIT: Good to see your still around Ady, and get well man, you deserve it.