I agree with not gifting animals, but it sounds like your turtles had a good life. 27 years is a long time and way longer than the life expectancy of a wild one
Cooking is not so much of a generational thing and more of a time/convenience thing. Some people just don't have time to cook. They could be working double jobs, working late hours, etc. And some people just don't want to cook or like the convenience of take out food. Nothing wrong with that
Nothing wrong with tap, it's the best choice if your city has proper mechanisms to ensure tap water quality. Unfortunately not all cities invested in good infrastructure. Theres still a couple of US cities with either bad pipes or local water pollution
Yea lots of the secondhand tech market exists purely in the US. The market outside of there and a couple other countries (uk, ca, de) dont really exist afaik
Ah yes speeecore, the pinnacle of osu mapping
Im going to guess you started with camellia so you should check out kobaryo, t pazolite, yooh
And on that note, you should check out breakcore (tangentially related) and j hardcore (most speedcore artists probably started with hardcore)