They hate the heck out of me for some reason, though.
It's because you're a grill.
There's two things NeoFIG hate:
1) Grills
2) Black folks, if going by their sidebar pre-Reddit nuke.
Oh, and I guess a third one, but that's tangentially related: 3) Evilore/NeoGAF.
Begging the question is a logical fallacy. It doesn't mean you literally ask a question, dummy.
Way to dodge the quest--
Oh, you answered as "chatting among friends." Yeah, from what I see in this thread: You don't have any "friends" here, fuckboi.