are there benefits one gets from having their egos stroked? is it s gift of some kind?

So I initially read that as "having their eggs stroked", and was going to answer on that basis.

On balance I think squeezed is better.

This translates to:
"I think you are assholes and I don‘t want to say it directly so I‘m trying to look polite and ask why you are assholes"

Love it, but don't stroke mine, a bit more and I het really cockii. Also, it doesn't make me stroke you if that was the intention, at tops your ego.

@retoor Funnily enough, that's why I normally don't like getting complemented - especially not from bosses/strangers. If I don't trust you before, it will just get you on my sus people list

@jestdotty it shows an appreciation of your skill, especially if it is from someone who understands what they are talking about. However, if you're talking about "suck ups" I do not know because like I said - if I don't trust them when they compliment (multiple times) they are a write-off

@retoor but what if I like it when you're being cockii, hmmm ;P You awesome coder you ;P

It boosts your confidence which gives you motivation to do stuff

@BordedDev I don't want to show off, but i once compiled C code single pass using my bare hands including static and Ofast optimization. The result ran on every Operating System and even on a tamagotchi. It was even signed for use on Apple. It said "Hello World." but didn't show because I forgot the newline. Anyway, that doesn't make the rest of the story less true.

@retoor please, no shame in showing off ^^

@Lensflare did I tell you that I once mined a bitcoin with my brain? It was on a Tuesday after my gluhwein lunch. I donated the bitcoin to the Rust community being the most absurd / worthless / waste of money thing I could imagine.

@retoor hm if you wanted to spend it for the most useless case… why haven’t you donated it to some Woke society of DEI or something?

Sounds sus if you ask me.

@Lensflare no the post was made because I'm reading a book and it's saying a lot of positive things that I think apply to me and I have never had someone say positive things about me that were deep so I'm getting worried that I'm being conned

but it's a book

so I'm wondering if having one's ego stroked confers benefits I don't know about. since that's never happened to me before

geez you're such a cunt

@Lensflare that's what i did, I donated to the rust community. Here is their lead developer. She wanted to go out with me afterwards but I said that would've been the worst trade ever made and she understood. Of course she could understood, she understands Rust too. Something an LLM even can't. But noo, the human brain will solve it people! And they're calling C impossible while working on a os running stable for years :P Often, you just don't know what you hear. How did it come to this. Rationallity straight out of the door.

@jestdotty I apologize because I honestly thought that it was the intended meaning.
I’m a cunt.

I really love this site. My life wouldn't be the same without it. It's the people, its the quality of the site. It's the moderation. I couldn't have make something better myself. It's the gitea of community software. The pyCharm of IDE's. The VB6 of fun. The features of wren. The popularity and potential of umka. Content confusing as brainfuck. Cryptic as malborg.

Edit: and it's good for my health, i wanted to do some amphetamine and gluhwein hours ago. Was just too engaged to do it. But now i will try to do my best to do it. Doing alcohol / amphetamine too late is just not comfortable.

I would like my ego stroked please

You were offering right?

Ps what do you use rust for ?

Nm don't bother you answered this last time fuck you bot

@AvatarOfKaine stroked your ego like a pp. It got very big but is still a bit fragile / sensitive.

@retoor did you say pp ? Lol

@AvatarOfKaine no?