Hey @mealsnake welcome to Steemit! make sure to check out https://steemit.chat/ if youre wanting to go chat to other fellow steemians and try making some new friends can directly message people or find a room to join, another useful link would be https://steemd.com/@metalsnake this will let you see your own voting power which indicates how many votes you can make, each hour you get 1 voting power back which from memory = 1 upvote on the steemit platform for now.
if you have any questions hit me up on steemit.chat my names Juicy_Shark on it

also noticing you seem to like gaming i have to do a shameless plug and ask you to check my blog out as i will be posting gaming related articles.