At the same time we stop believing everything we read on the internet. As told to us by the people who now happily believe every oh so absurd made up bullshit on the internet or TV.

I like to imagine that anyone who works at the FBI, and has the opportunity, would try lying at the polygraph for fun.

It’s also bullshit. My parents (both 50+) are both learning English right now. Of course they’ll never be close to native speakers. But they are absolutely able to communicate to get around, well beyond the basics too.

It doesn’t get easier. But it also doesn’t get impossible. Motivation is a big step towards it.

But I’m curious, why are Europeans so horrified by the idea of heating water in the microwave?

Not op. But I’m really curious about the whole “microwave water” thing.

For me it’s just a completely foreign idea. Maybe because electric kettles are so ubiquitous over here. Like everyone has one, including office kitchens and hotel rooms.

I’m also curious over the practicality. Doesn’t it spill over? What kind of container do you use to hold the water? For example if you want one cup of tea, do you just put a cup of water into the microwave? Depending on the container, do you watch it the whole time?

I understand why one may use the microwave to heat water, I also understand it works, but the idea of actually doing it is… mystifying.

With a gun to my head I’d struggle to say my date of birth correctly.

There is a science or food YouTuber out there who’d be really excited to try this, if only they read your idea.

My parents’ Switch has a multi-page settings menu, an online account and subscription, even games that come on cartridge often require downloads and updates before you start playing.

Two-fold problem: a) give the consumer freedom of choice b) make it difficult enough to successfully set it up once, and then stay locked in

That’s both by accident (provide freedom choice) and by design (lock them as long as possibile).

People who know programming already, yes. People who are getting into it / want to get into it, see it as an amazing shortcut.

I had two working students already, who thought and communicated that they don’t really need to learn programming, because they can do it with ChatGPT / Q. It was quite infuriating.

It wasn’t for a long time. That was also a very controversial decision (albeit I think it was necessary).

The developer is a cash hungry idiot, with no intention to ever listen to the community.

The community is great, battles intense, and the skill ceiling sky high. Sailing mechanisms second to none.

There’s a lot more ships than the DLC ships. But yes, it’s almost inevitable you will end up buying a couple of them, because the DLCs let you spawn a ship for free every day.

I stopped playing when the Dev decided to split the already low-populated PvP server into two separate instances, which is currently being reversed (to noones surprise).

Someone moving out of the way still doesn’t equal everyone moving out of the way. He’s way ahead of them at the end of the video. The point still stands.