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comment by lil
lil  ·  4125 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: All My Life I've Been Told I Was Special. It Was A Lie.

In the comment below work says

    He chose instead the most trivial of all praise, game recognition.
Shares and likes are the second most trivial of all praise. For some people (remember Violentacrez), likes can be as addictive as game recognition. New question, potentially, for another thread, another day: How dependent are we on the feedback of others (even if the others are computer games) for our self-worth?