I think a Minecraft youtuber called Ph1lza used it, idk it just sounded like somethings I've heard before and he was the first thing that came to my mind.
@@DanielMendez18103 Yes he used Formed by Glaciers in his 5 year montage, and this is from the same album and has the same motives as Formed by Glaciers. Very well thought out that the first song of the album (Pathfinder) and the last song of the album (Formed by Glaciers) have the same motives, ties the whole album together nicely :)
Dunno if Wirtual is reading comments on TH-cam but just in case: you don’t wash rice for sanitary reasons but to remove excess starch and what not and it makes it less sticky. Whether you should depends on the type of rice as well as the dish.
You also wash for sanitary reasons. I remember my parents, whenever they bought a bag of rice, checking it to remove any pebbles or bugs that might've got in, and then washing it to clean any residual dirt before cooking. Granted, depending on the storage procedure of the farm/market, you might not need to wash it, but better safe than sorry.
It's kind of not a big deal either way. You can wash it or not wash it, people act like it's disgusting not to but it's still perfectly edible, just changes the texture a little. I prefer washing it but it does take some time to do.
@@philcoast1031in most first world countries, this is not a problem unless you are buying from a farmers market or something. In the US, I have never once seen anything in rice that wasn't supposed to be in there. Growing up, my parents never washed their rice, so I prefer the starchy texture, so I don't wash mine either.
As a French I can assure you that most French do not "pretend" not to speak English. They generally either genuinely don't speak it, or are capable or reading and writing it but are absolutely awful at understanding spoken English or speaking it themselves. And there is a simple reason for that: there isn't really any incentive at all for French people to learn English... The movies and series are always dubbed, pretty much everywhere we go on vacation there will be at least one person who will know French, and even some neighbouring countries (Belgium, Switzerland) have French as an official language (and 36 countries in the world do). So if the person doesn't make an explicit effort to learn proper English communication skills, they never get a chance to practice it... And even when they do, the lack of proper exposure to regular conversations causes their accent to be atrocious (I've been in business calls involving fellow Frenchmen speaking English, and I sincerely felt the pain of their interlocutors who had to endure and try to understand their accent...). So yeah, the French generally are awful at English. That being said, Paris is a whole topic in itself, and a lot a French people dislike Paris for their rudeness and arrogance (even towards other French), so I'd not be surprised if some parisians just wanted to piss you off just for the sake of it...
Add to that that French people judge each other's accent a lot, even if it's "too" good, whereas in many other countries people are much more supportive of the effort.
So much of that bad press could be avoided by just 3 snippets of French : Never forget to start conversation with "bonjour", and when people aren't paying you attention already (ex. a grocery store employee stocking up shelves), add "excusez moi de vous déranger". If you don't talk any french, then continue with "parlez-vous anglais ?".
Yeah when I've been to the French countryside the people have been nice but they genuinely can't speak any English whatsoever. Also another reason is that Frenchmen don't need to learn English for vacations is because they already have everything inside their country. Small and huge mountains in the Alps, beaches on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, beautiful cities and towns with massive regional variety. Hard to justify leaving the country for a vacation.
Nah, French people have done it before when going into a shop or something because they hate the English. They will definitely pretend to not know and not help at all
Around 3 years ago I saw a PF by doodlechaos and thought trackmania looked cool so I looked it up and found your main channel. I got hooked on the documentary style videos on a racing game and starting watching all the time. I did everything I could to try and get trackmania on my computer but failed because I didn’t know what I was doing. Now present day I forgot about the console release but saw it on the Xbox store. And now I have a game that I enjoy after playing it once. Thank you!❤
Wirtual needs a Keyhole bobsleigh map. Where you have to use those walls of turns for both speed and for height to get through obstacles. Bonus points for looping tracks. Build it and he will play. And we can see him drive in circles for speed then launch himself seeking the next step in the map. RPG but everything is bobsleigh
@@XenonArcher I would suggest make it a little less Kaky by offering speed signs above landing platforms. So once you launch yourself over there once you get a hint as to what launch speed you will need to get back there again. Bonus points for launch speeds being on the BACK side of those signs. Triple points for making it possible to run the track with smooth landings into short wraparound loops to rebuild speed for the next launch.
(7:27 for context) I am losing it to the thought of an angry french guy after Wirtual tried speaking spanish instead of english when that didn't work out 🤣
i have recently been to france and i was pleasantly suprised by how polite the french were in traffic and in general communication and conversation. 7 & 4 years ago when me and my dad went together it was quite the opposite so we had a bad view of french people aswell
It is getting better, but it is true that not only is english difficult for french people, I can tell from experience that learning languages isn't really valued and in High school most didn't care about language courses (that was like 2y ago, so recent). Now I can't really understand that but that is what I gathered. My group of friend was a mixed bag however, half of us were C1 level and half couldn't tell the difference between english and german, and for those of us who spoke english, I can tell you it wasn't because of classes
Completely true, that's how it goes for most french people. That said, when you go to a country, learning basic words and at least startingt a conversation with a greeting in their language is basic courtesy.
Just a quick comment. The first time I ever heard of Wirtual or Trackmania was the blindfold project you did. Been totally hooked and have watched most vids ever since. Even if I dont have time to watch the whole video, I always have it going in the background!
I just want to clarify the point about french refusing to speak english, as a french man. 1) Not so many peoples speak english in france, maybe 1 on 10 or less (at least where I live), or very poorly (like me). And the french enducation system is made for making you feel dumb if you don't speak perfectly french. So if a french person don't speak perfectly english, he will (most of the time) be so afraid to look stupid that he will prefer to don't speak english at all. 2) Politeness. In france, we have the feeling that, if smbdy try to speak french, answer him in english is like telling him he is so bad at french that he should'nt try to speak it at all, and that's rude, so we answer him in french (possibly correct him so he can progress) to encourage him. If someone speaks to me in english I don't speak french at all.
watched this being built on stream, absolutely wicked map (and to anyone wondering the name was picked by someone in emlans twitch chat/discord (at least thats what i remember))
About the French not wanting to speak English, either to tourists in France or to people in English-speaking countries, it's quite complicated. My understanding of it, as a French who loves to speak English and who try to improve anytime I can, is that, for a lot (like 75 to 80%) of French people, when they are confronted to english speaking people and to the fact that they have to understand and speak english, they are taken back to their lessons in English, when they were in school, where you are being judged and mocked by at least 50% of your classmates for even trying to speak correctly. This everyday, every year pressure induce a really low average level in English, and a really nasty brain mechanism where you panic for trying to understand. And when you panic, you go to something you understand and master. In this case, French. It's probably not the entire reason, but for someone who seen and experienced scholarship in France, I can say it's something that is extremely present, no matter your age ^^ Anyway, great video Wirtual, as always, so thanks ^^
from what i noticed (and i'm french) most people don't pretend to not know english, most just don't use it enough to understand and talk to one another. Most stop practicing when they finish school. All that doesn't count depending on their work
it was funny reading chat during the "you guys wash your rice" part considering A LOT of recipes specifically need unwashed rice and in first world countries there is absolutely no need to wash it unless you don't like it to stick together lol
Or if you get it from local farms, or farmers markets. The stuff in stores sure, but if you grow your own, get it from local farmers, etc then washing can be beneficial, but yes, for sanitary reasons the rice you buy in stores in most first world countries is comparatively very clean and doesn't need to be washed for safety. I do like my rice a bit less sticky than I'd get right out of the box, but I don't rinse it very thoroughly so it still clumps a little bit.
I lived in south of France for half a year as a Dutch person. Mostly spoke English. My colleagues all spoke English very well but it was hard in normal public🤣 at the end of it I was able to get through a supermarket conversation just fine but that was about it
Wow I had a flashback there when you mentioned the blindfolded challenge. I think that was actually the first video that got me hooked... Never watched any trackmania before and thought it sounded really cool.
To respond to the french not talking English, we have a "thing" that when you are good at English, others are rude to you because you seem to be above of them and when you are bad at English, others tease you with your bad accent. That created a lot of people not talking in English even if they can...
To have an "english" sounding accent when you're french requires a high profiency and occasions to use it very regularly. The pronouciation is just too different
Just a quick addition to the discussion in this video. Rinsing rice is not bad, it doesn't really lose many nutrients (but it doesn't also lose any bad things, like arsenic present in rice). Rinsing rice is mainly done to change the ending texture of rice, making it more separated and less "sticky", losing some of the excess starch. So rinsing rice is good if you need to make plain rice, that needs to be more grainy and separated. On the other hand, if you need to make a risotto, which benefits from it being more creamy, washing the rice will end up in a worse risotto.
5:20 yes, in france people act that way (I say it as a french), and i sometime heard the reason: 1-lot of french really do not understand, it's really not something rare in France to not talk english well 2-Just, they don't want to talk to anyone, and even if someone that don't speak English talk to them, they will try to escape, so that's not against the foreigner but against stranger in general. I have some other reason to why people will not respond you but none of them explain the profound reason, we are really a country where grumpy people and there is not a way to discern the one that will talk to you in English and want to know you and the one who will not. 8:26 There are more similarities between English and French than between Spanish and French, the only thing that would make them closer is the fact that Spanish is almost only a Latin Language like French while English have some part that are not, but the relathionship between france and england have make their language more alike, there are a lot of English word that come from france and a lot of French word that come from UK. so, even if the person might know spanish, if you find out he don't understand a word, just go back to english and try to use the most basic word.
6:30 as a french person myself, what i like to do is letting people talk french and answering in french to let them try or learn a bit, but if someone speaks English, i'll talk in English to make them feel more comfortable
I think what many are "annoyed" by (not just for french) is when someone refuse to use english out of principle even thoigh they speak it. For example if I spoke german to a french (or any other) tourist instead of english cause "he was in germany" it would must be me being a dick. If someone just doesn't know english, well fair enough. Can't really get mad at that
The hotel I stayed at in Paris with my gf, the manager literally forced me to speak French. I swear to fucking God this old hotel manager in Bercy Village said I either speak French in his hotel or leave lmao. What a delightful stress free holiday lol.
@@Vaasref I swear to God, this is the very first thing he said to me. When I spoke to him in English he was disgusted and reacted this way to me. I'm not annoyed by it, I just found it funny, and still do. But please don't ask me what I did to him, I can honestly say it was the first time I ever spoke to him.
@@Vaasref When I went to Brazil and met my gf's family they were so confused about how polite and "English" I was. I was very polite to the hotel manager, he just seemed to care very much about his language, and thats ok.
@@LambClone Fair enough. Usually it boils down to tourist forgetting to say "bonjour" and "excusez moi de vous déranger" when the other person is not already paying attention to them. Someone working in a hotel being rude point blank is weird indeed, unless he was part of the far-right.
@@Vaasref thank you for understanding, I actually really enjoyed my time there, he would laugh with me and made the breakfasts himself, and seemed very happy when I spoke French (albeit poorly) even when he was telling me that I would have to leave if I don’t speak French he was smiling and seemed to find it funny, so I thought maybe he just did it to joke with tourists lol
Maybe we were lucky but my gf and I were in Paris for about a week recently and people were nothing but nice and very accommodating with the language difference. Even when we met one or two people who didn’t speak English and we spoke in our very basic French they were happy at us doing our best. Really went against our expectations based on what everyone says!
From what I’ve heard from friends and teachers who’ve been to France, people there hate it when tourists come and just speak English, but love it when they come and try their best at speaking their language, even if it isn’t that good
@@shadowflamelightburst4503This is essentially it, as long as you're polite (saying "Bonjour", "Merci", etc...) and we see that you're trying your best, most people will be glad to help you if they can. If you're not bothered enough to know a few words of politeness when visiting our country though, we won't be bothered enough to help you in any way.
The French have gotten significantly better in speaking languages that aren't French in the past 20 years. Nowadays the teens that learned to speak English and went online more are starting to take over French society. So in big cities, you should get away with speaking English every time.
The reason french people don't talk english is very simple : 70% of us if not more are absolutely TRASH in english, making their french more understandable than their english. The people that we want to speak french are the people who live in france, we're fine with tourists. And also we're happy when people try to learn french because it's not that easy for foreigners
Honestly it's kinda moronic to speak in absolute about a whole ass country, it lead people to having false expectations and simplistic views about a culture, people are complex and diverse.
@WirtualTV my life changed when I got myself a rice washer (basically a small plastic colander with fine enough holes so the rice does not pass through) - it makes a big difference in texture and flavor, especially with softer rice varieties. Give it a try!
you doing okay out there in oslo? I went there recently to see a relative and there was lots of flooding and a dam burst. By the way I did experience Norwegins who after I tried to respond to their first question, immediately switched to very well spoken English. Even the children I met did the same, they seemed to have a better grasp of the english language than americans at their age.
You don't NEED to wash rice (but if you wash rice after you cooked it, you can't cook at all tho, it's rice, not pasta), but you can. General rule of thumb, if you're making a dish where the rice obsorbes juices, generally not washing the rice is fine because it add to the sauce. If not, wash it before hand. The easiest way is to pour it into a bowl or cup, pour water in, mix it around with your hand so the water gets white, and then pour out the water. Repeat until the water is clearer, but it doesn't need to be a perfectly clear. But it depends on every dish, as well as what type of rice you are using.
RE: the wash/don't wash rice conversation: Wash your rice if you want it loose and for things like dirty rice, don't wash it for things like risotto or if you want it to be sticky.
As a French guy teaching English in middle schools and highschools, there is a huge issue concerning confidence while speaking English due to our accent. Memes are proving it too… and since the french language is based on syllable emphasis while English isn’t (we call it prosody), it is also very difficult for french people to speak the language. Finally, and that’s a french problem still, we tend to put pressure on people who try their best like « oh he’s flexing on us ». So most of my students will just do their best french accent while speaking in English just to avoid this pressure… trust me, it’s a constant battle to make them realise that phonetic is more important than the accent in itself. Though, depending on where you’re going and if you try your best first, I’m pretty sure French people, even with the worst English comprehension, will try to help ! But not in Paris, those guys are different
W: "French people have to realize English is the universal language" French people: "On sait. C'est juste qu'on s'en fout." (We know. Just don't care.) You guys have to realize you don't HAVE TO be slaves of America. I don't want Norwegian to speak to me in english if I try to speak their language, I want to learn and get better by listening to you.
Don't think it's 'being a slave to America' necessarily. If you have no long time plan to learn a different language then the incentive to put in that effort is almost non-existent. If you approach someone speaking their language though then of course, you after all didn't engage the conversation in English so it should not be defaulted to English Whatever way of communication works, works. People don't mean any ill-intent
Hey, french here. I was listening to the discussion about how french avoid speaking English. Well, some says this is only in Paris but I never truly visited Paris although i've been in many places in Europe. I have to say the problem is more complicated, let me explain: A lot a people do actually learn English in France but those who can speak English are mostly students or people that have an important function in their company. On the other hand, you have those who stop following the "standard" studying cursus like university and who prefer following a more professional way, and most of the time they don't learn English as accurately and sometimes not even at all. What I mean is that when you visit a bar or when you buy something in a store, it's 90% of the time people who stopped following "standard" studies to go work earlier so most of the time, people which who foreigners interact are not good at English. The EXACT same thing can be say of Italy and Spain except in the north of Spain like Barcelona where a LOT of sellers speaks french (but french and Spanish are very similar unlike English and french) I don't even know if my English is good or not. Like many young french, I had to learn it all by myself because France sucks at learning English.
bruh the way you write english is pretty much perfect. there are a few words slightly "wrong" but everything you wrote was easy to understand which i think is the most important thing. personally i think english speakers need to go easier on those learning it as a second language. often times we pick apart tiny mistakes which don't really matter and which english people oursleves often make too. but yeah, really i just wanted to say that if you speak it even half as good as you write it then you're english is really good
@@jaywilliams720 Haha thanks mate! I can speak it well but of course not as much as I write it. The hardest part is trying to get ride of my strong french accent..
i was in the ER in france at night for an asthma attack and they didnt have a single nurse or doctor with even the most basic english skills and they just sent me home with some allergy pills, which later the doctor said were entirely wrong and didnt help at all. spent a few days breathing through a straw until i could get to a doctor
I think wirtual underestimates just how bad French people are at speaking English. It's not that we're pricks (I mean yeah sometimes lol), I've had classmates who used the wrong basic verb (like "be" instead of "have") in high school, which is realistically the best their English will be in their lives.
The comment above is true, but also an illustration of the main problem : we make fun of each other for our accent, even when it's good, so most people just avoid practising English. We need to be more supportive.
@@ghislainbugnicourt3709 It's usually what people think is the problem because it's easy to see, but if you look at our neighbours it's obvious what the real cause is: we got no exposure to English media, and they do. Every movie or TV show we see on tv is dubbed. It's common in other countries to only have the subbed original version. Sure, I learnt a lot from English lessons, but it's nothing compared to what I learnt by going on the internet and actually needing to speak English.
For the record, rinsing rice before cooking changes the finished properties of your rice making it stickier, gummier, etc. depending on what kind of rice. I'm not a riceologist so idk what it does to which rice, but that's why some people rinse it. Edit: the riceologists have informed me that the opposite of what I have said was true. Please regard my message in the reverse
Also if your rice is from a traditional rice mill not from a highly industrialized one. There would literally be small pebbles and insects in the rice. Traditionally, rice being washed and rinsed is probably because of that.
I want to point out that appart from the terrible people that do definitely exist and insist on foreigners speaking french, there's also a lot of french people that won't speak english just because they are absolutely terrible at english. French people that can speak english fluently are an exception (and some of them still make zero effort in the pronounciation department) which often gives a bad image of our country. But we're not assholes, well at least most of us aren't, it's just that the average french person is terribly incompetent with foreign languages, english included, and sometimes especially english. And on a side note, Paris might call itself the most beautiful city in the world or whatever, people living there are most definitely not the nicest in the country, which surely doesn't help...
The thing with Romance languages (Latin-derived, such as French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, etc) is that you need to know at least TWO of those in order to understand them all. And, as a french person: we know full well that English is the international language, de facto. We just love to antagonize American tourists who expect everyone in Europe to know English right away.
23:09 do you not wash rice? you know how the water goes opaque/white? yeah, you wash rice so it doesnt do that. thats the starch from the rice. washing the rice removes that so its less sticky once its finished cooking
23:05 so apparently it's another very american thing. In US you are supposed to wash the rice, while eggs get washed beforehand to the point that they have very low shelf life In EU it's quite the opposite. Rice is safe to just boil, while eggs are "dirty" with longer shelf life.
5:05 no, it's just that we used to suck at learning English... Now it gets better but people over 25-30 usually had bad teaching. For instance, I got my first oral lesson at the University.... Ps: washing rice remove dust and extra starch.
Rice has excess starch which will make the rice goopy and disgusting to eat. So if you put it in a cold water bath and stir it around for like 5 min. then you'll see and taste the difference. Look it up if you want it's so much better.
I mean, French is a romance language, but there's a reason we leave it out of the triangle when talking about mutual intelligibility and just talk about spa-ita-por
6:09 Just here to add that the complaint isn't some french dude not knowing english. It's when frenchies deliberately refuse to speak english even though they could. In Japan few people know how to speak english so it was rough when I visited. But not because of dickery on the Japanese side. Similarly, if I don't use english with a tourist in Germany and insist on german, I am just being a dick.
Definitely wash my rice. You put the rice in a bowl, fill it with water then rinse. Repeat until the water in the bowl is clear and not murky. Doesn’t have to do with bacteria. It cooks better when washed.
I got the perfect setup to make french ppl speak english to you I just went: "(in french) Sorry, I don't speak french, but I speak italian, portuguese and english" they all just had that "melting face" effect realising they'd be pretty assholey not to pick one of my options, and just stuck with english LOL (the fact that I was generally very well dressed it might have helped too)
@@Elensar almost didn't, just noticed it mid run, it was very nicely camouflaged It's just that the song is iconic and you'd be able to make it out by any half a second of playback 😂 Any other song and it'd be fine
As a garman who lived right at the german/french boarder: Even going to a boulangerie was a pain in the ass. Ive always tried to order in german or english, i got anry look and proceeded to order in broken french. They not even try, just dead silance. But this behavior leans more towards the older folks, i dont know any french dude under 25 who cant speak english.
I've had French people unironcally claim that French is the most beautiful language in the world, despite not knowing any other languages outside of a little English they picked up in school.
Can we get Wirtual to cast an irl bobsledding event?
And cast it like it was tm
It would be so funnny
That would be awesome!!!
They have a great track in Lillehammer - right in his backyard!
Cast? Surely we want him *in* the bobsled?
What if they used internal bobsleigh ramps with boosters
it was easier back then before they patched ice boosters
Would they have had space to wiggle for speed?
No way, that's obviously impossible. Where would you put the countersteer?
Music that plays during the run at 23:08 is Pathfinder by Kubbi
It's very good, just so you, person, reading the comment, is aware :)
I think a Minecraft youtuber called Ph1lza used it, idk it just sounded like somethings I've heard before and he was the first thing that came to my mind.
@@DanielMendez18103 Yes he used Formed by Glaciers in his 5 year montage, and this is from the same album and has the same motives as Formed by Glaciers. Very well thought out that the first song of the album (Pathfinder) and the last song of the album (Formed by Glaciers) have the same motives, ties the whole album together nicely :)
Yes Kubbi is amazing! Personally I love the Ember album the most, but I jam (heh "Up In My Jam") to a lot of his other songs as well
Dunno if Wirtual is reading comments on TH-cam but just in case: you don’t wash rice for sanitary reasons but to remove excess starch and what not and it makes it less sticky. Whether you should depends on the type of rice as well as the dish.
Why would you want it to be less sticky?
You also wash for sanitary reasons. I remember my parents, whenever they bought a bag of rice, checking it to remove any pebbles or bugs that might've got in, and then washing it to clean any residual dirt before cooking. Granted, depending on the storage procedure of the farm/market, you might not need to wash it, but better safe than sorry.
@@alexanderf8451 personally i dont like it when my rice is super sticky and mushy
It's kind of not a big deal either way. You can wash it or not wash it, people act like it's disgusting not to but it's still perfectly edible, just changes the texture a little. I prefer washing it but it does take some time to do.
@@philcoast1031in most first world countries, this is not a problem unless you are buying from a farmers market or something. In the US, I have never once seen anything in rice that wasn't supposed to be in there. Growing up, my parents never washed their rice, so I prefer the starchy texture, so I don't wash mine either.
As a French I can assure you that most French do not "pretend" not to speak English. They generally either genuinely don't speak it, or are capable or reading and writing it but are absolutely awful at understanding spoken English or speaking it themselves. And there is a simple reason for that: there isn't really any incentive at all for French people to learn English... The movies and series are always dubbed, pretty much everywhere we go on vacation there will be at least one person who will know French, and even some neighbouring countries (Belgium, Switzerland) have French as an official language (and 36 countries in the world do). So if the person doesn't make an explicit effort to learn proper English communication skills, they never get a chance to practice it... And even when they do, the lack of proper exposure to regular conversations causes their accent to be atrocious (I've been in business calls involving fellow Frenchmen speaking English, and I sincerely felt the pain of their interlocutors who had to endure and try to understand their accent...).
So yeah, the French generally are awful at English.
That being said, Paris is a whole topic in itself, and a lot a French people dislike Paris for their rudeness and arrogance (even towards other French), so I'd not be surprised if some parisians just wanted to piss you off just for the sake of it...
Add to that that French people judge each other's accent a lot, even if it's "too" good, whereas in many other countries people are much more supportive of the effort.
So much of that bad press could be avoided by just 3 snippets of French :
Never forget to start conversation with "bonjour", and when people aren't paying you attention already (ex. a grocery store employee stocking up shelves), add "excusez moi de vous déranger".
If you don't talk any french, then continue with "parlez-vous anglais ?".
Yeah when I've been to the French countryside the people have been nice but they genuinely can't speak any English whatsoever.
Also another reason is that Frenchmen don't need to learn English for vacations is because they already have everything inside their country. Small and huge mountains in the Alps, beaches on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, beautiful cities and towns with massive regional variety. Hard to justify leaving the country for a vacation.
Nah, French people have done it before when going into a shop or something because they hate the English. They will definitely pretend to not know and not help at all
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Around 3 years ago I saw a PF by doodlechaos and thought trackmania looked cool so I looked it up and found your main channel. I got hooked on the documentary style videos on a racing game and starting watching all the time. I did everything I could to try and get trackmania on my computer but failed because I didn’t know what I was doing. Now present day I forgot about the console release but saw it on the Xbox store. And now I have a game that I enjoy after playing it once. Thank you!❤
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TMNF is free on steam, what problems did you have with getting on your computer?
@@NareasPLit wasn't always on steam I think. You used to have to go through ubisoft, but still free and easy
@NareasPL I use a Mac lol
@@PersonOnYoutub. fair enough. Glad you're enjoying the game either way!
Wirtual needs a Keyhole bobsleigh map.
Where you have to use those walls of turns for both speed and for height to get through obstacles. Bonus points for looping tracks.
Build it and he will play. And we can see him drive in circles for speed then launch himself seeking the next step in the map.
RPG but everything is bobsleigh
Sounds like a fun challenge if done well
@@XenonArcher I would suggest make it a little less Kaky by offering speed signs above landing platforms. So once you launch yourself over there once you get a hint as to what launch speed you will need to get back there again.
Bonus points for launch speeds being on the BACK side of those signs.
Triple points for making it possible to run the track with smooth landings into short wraparound loops to rebuild speed for the next launch.
15 mins into the vid and I was feeling hypnotized by the map already. I can imagine how Wirtual's eyes might feel after 3 hours playing it...
This map is sooooo fun! I Grind it everyday since this Video, amazing map!!!
(7:27 for context)
I am losing it to the thought of an angry french guy after Wirtual tried speaking spanish instead of english when that didn't work out 🤣
i have recently been to france and i was pleasantly suprised by how polite the french were in traffic and in general communication and conversation. 7 & 4 years ago when me and my dad went together it was quite the opposite so we had a bad view of french people aswell
7:42 "He doesn't speak French and I don't speak English." XD
It is getting better, but it is true that not only is english difficult for french people, I can tell from experience that learning languages isn't really valued and in High school most didn't care about language courses (that was like 2y ago, so recent). Now I can't really understand that but that is what I gathered.
My group of friend was a mixed bag however, half of us were C1 level and half couldn't tell the difference between english and german, and for those of us who spoke english, I can tell you it wasn't because of classes
Completely true, that's how it goes for most french people.
That said, when you go to a country, learning basic words and at least startingt a conversation with a greeting in their language is basic courtesy.
Just a quick comment. The first time I ever heard of Wirtual or Trackmania was the blindfold project you did. Been totally hooked and have watched most vids ever since. Even if I dont have time to watch the whole video, I always have it going in the background!
same bro
23:25 haiiyaaaa nephew W is doing Wirtuals with his rice
I just want to clarify the point about french refusing to speak english, as a french man.
1) Not so many peoples speak english in france, maybe 1 on 10 or less (at least where I live), or very poorly (like me). And the french enducation system is made for making you feel dumb if you don't speak perfectly french. So if a french person don't speak perfectly english, he will (most of the time) be so afraid to look stupid that he will prefer to don't speak english at all.
2) Politeness. In france, we have the feeling that, if smbdy try to speak french, answer him in english is like telling him he is so bad at french that he should'nt try to speak it at all, and that's rude, so we answer him in french (possibly correct him so he can progress) to encourage him. If someone speaks to me in english I don't speak french at all.
"He doesnt speak french and i dont speak english" Wirtual 2023 7:43 😂😂
Anyone notice Atrick casually set a new WR in the mean time at 27:52?
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@@Atrick333the goat himself
Thanks for pointing it out, did not notice on my own 😄
watched this being built on stream, absolutely wicked map (and to anyone wondering the name was picked by someone in emlans twitch chat/discord (at least thats what i remember))
About the French not wanting to speak English, either to tourists in France or to people in English-speaking countries, it's quite complicated. My understanding of it, as a French who loves to speak English and who try to improve anytime I can, is that, for a lot (like 75 to 80%) of French people, when they are confronted to english speaking people and to the fact that they have to understand and speak english, they are taken back to their lessons in English, when they were in school, where you are being judged and mocked by at least 50% of your classmates for even trying to speak correctly. This everyday, every year pressure induce a really low average level in English, and a really nasty brain mechanism where you panic for trying to understand. And when you panic, you go to something you understand and master. In this case, French. It's probably not the entire reason, but for someone who seen and experienced scholarship in France, I can say it's something that is extremely present, no matter your age ^^ Anyway, great video Wirtual, as always, so thanks ^^
from what i noticed (and i'm french) most people don't pretend to not know english, most just don't use it enough to understand and talk to one another. Most stop practicing when they finish school. All that doesn't count depending on their work
there is something so mesmerizing watching wirt play bobsleigh
it was funny reading chat during the "you guys wash your rice" part considering A LOT of recipes specifically need unwashed rice and in first world countries there is absolutely no need to wash it unless you don't like it to stick together lol
Or if you get it from local farms, or farmers markets. The stuff in stores sure, but if you grow your own, get it from local farmers, etc then washing can be beneficial, but yes, for sanitary reasons the rice you buy in stores in most first world countries is comparatively very clean and doesn't need to be washed for safety. I do like my rice a bit less sticky than I'd get right out of the box, but I don't rinse it very thoroughly so it still clumps a little bit.
great video glad to see it 3 months after it got recorded :)
better late than never 🤷
I lived in south of France for half a year as a Dutch person. Mostly spoke English. My colleagues all spoke English very well but it was hard in normal public🤣 at the end of it I was able to get through a supermarket conversation just fine but that was about it
Wirtual be like: _uploading a video at 4AM his local time_
Elensar edited the video, but I'm pretty sure video uploads are managed by Buckley who's from Texas.
@@jamesmccomb9525 reality hits hard :(
You know you can program that ?..
@@TsuKuSs I know
Wow I had a flashback there when you mentioned the blindfolded challenge. I think that was actually the first video that got me hooked... Never watched any trackmania before and thought it sounded really cool.
once upon a time, I built triangular stone structures with an internal ramp
To respond to the french not talking English, we have a "thing" that when you are good at English, others are rude to you because you seem to be above of them and when you are bad at English, others tease you with your bad accent. That created a lot of people not talking in English even if they can...
To have an "english" sounding accent when you're french requires a high profiency and occasions to use it very regularly. The pronouciation is just too different
Yeah the fact that we judge people for their accent when speaking English is a bad cultural habit we need to rid of. Well, not just English actually.
I started watching around the start of this new campaign because my friend told me about you and the game and now I love it
the head movement in the last run is so good xdd. great vid as always!
Just a quick addition to the discussion in this video. Rinsing rice is not bad, it doesn't really lose many nutrients (but it doesn't also lose any bad things, like arsenic present in rice). Rinsing rice is mainly done to change the ending texture of rice, making it more separated and less "sticky", losing some of the excess starch. So rinsing rice is good if you need to make plain rice, that needs to be more grainy and separated. On the other hand, if you need to make a risotto, which benefits from it being more creamy, washing the rice will end up in a worse risotto.
5:20 yes, in france people act that way (I say it as a french), and i sometime heard the reason:
1-lot of french really do not understand, it's really not something rare in France to not talk english well
2-Just, they don't want to talk to anyone, and even if someone that don't speak English talk to them, they will try to escape, so that's not against the foreigner but against stranger in general.
I have some other reason to why people will not respond you but none of them explain the profound reason, we are really a country where grumpy people and there is not a way to discern the one that will talk to you in English and want to know you and the one who will not.
8:26 There are more similarities between English and French than between Spanish and French, the only thing that would make them closer is the fact that Spanish is almost only a Latin Language like French while English have some part that are not, but the relathionship between france and england have make their language more alike, there are a lot of English word that come from france and a lot of French word that come from UK. so, even if the person might know spanish, if you find out he don't understand a word, just go back to english and try to use the most basic word.
I went to Paris as a French speaking Canadian and they kept talking to us in English while I was speaking French. It was frankly insulting.
Same!
6:30 as a french person myself, what i like to do is letting people talk french and answering in french to let them try or learn a bit, but if someone speaks English, i'll talk in English to make them feel more comfortable
I think what many are "annoyed" by (not just for french) is when someone refuse to use english out of principle even thoigh they speak it.
For example if I spoke german to a french (or any other) tourist instead of english cause "he was in germany" it would must be me being a dick.
If someone just doesn't know english, well fair enough. Can't really get mad at that
The hotel I stayed at in Paris with my gf, the manager literally forced me to speak French. I swear to fucking God this old hotel manager in Bercy Village said I either speak French in his hotel or leave lmao. What a delightful stress free holiday lol.
Too bad you don't say anything about what you did or didn't do to angry him.
@@Vaasref I swear to God, this is the very first thing he said to me. When I spoke to him in English he was disgusted and reacted this way to me. I'm not annoyed by it, I just found it funny, and still do. But please don't ask me what I did to him, I can honestly say it was the first time I ever spoke to him.
@@Vaasref When I went to Brazil and met my gf's family they were so confused about how polite and "English" I was. I was very polite to the hotel manager, he just seemed to care very much about his language, and thats ok.
@@LambClone Fair enough.
Usually it boils down to tourist forgetting to say "bonjour" and "excusez moi de vous déranger" when the other person is not already paying attention to them.
Someone working in a hotel being rude point blank is weird indeed, unless he was part of the far-right.
@@Vaasref thank you for understanding, I actually really enjoyed my time there, he would laugh with me and made the breakfasts himself, and seemed very happy when I spoke French (albeit poorly) even when he was telling me that I would have to leave if I don’t speak French he was smiling and seemed to find it funny, so I thought maybe he just did it to joke with tourists lol
Wirtual not washing his rice almost made me quit the video.
Made me put my leg down from chair, haiyaah.
You guys cook rice? I just eat it straight from the bag
You don't eat the bag?
kung fu panda method: eat rice and drink boiling water ez
the guy at 8:38 was talking about trackmania DS where I am fairly sure that some ATs are impossible
Fun fact: Spanisha nd French are about 80% similar as languages, some of the closest in the world, so wirtual isnt too far off
Only 75% similar but French and Italian are 89% similar
This new main channel now or what?
Maybe we were lucky but my gf and I were in Paris for about a week recently and people were nothing but nice and very accommodating with the language difference. Even when we met one or two people who didn’t speak English and we spoke in our very basic French they were happy at us doing our best. Really went against our expectations based on what everyone says!
From what I’ve heard from friends and teachers who’ve been to France, people there hate it when tourists come and just speak English, but love it when they come and try their best at speaking their language, even if it isn’t that good
@@shadowflamelightburst4503This is essentially it, as long as you're polite (saying "Bonjour", "Merci", etc...) and we see that you're trying your best, most people will be glad to help you if they can. If you're not bothered enough to know a few words of politeness when visiting our country though, we won't be bothered enough to help you in any way.
The French have gotten significantly better in speaking languages that aren't French in the past 20 years. Nowadays the teens that learned to speak English and went online more are starting to take over French society. So in big cities, you should get away with speaking English every time.
The reason french people don't talk english is very simple : 70% of us if not more are absolutely TRASH in english, making their french more understandable than their english.
The people that we want to speak french are the people who live in france, we're fine with tourists. And also we're happy when people try to learn french because it's not that easy for foreigners
Honestly it's kinda moronic to speak in absolute about a whole ass country, it lead people to having false expectations and simplistic views about a culture, people are complex and diverse.
@WirtualTV my life changed when I got myself a rice washer (basically a small plastic colander with fine enough holes so the rice does not pass through) - it makes a big difference in texture and flavor, especially with softer rice varieties. Give it a try!
so happy to see you play enchanted flake! ive been waiting for this video
I like that wirtual posts late at night his videos put me straight to sleep every time 😴 great content though.
Think Norway has the most Winter Olympic golds in the world
And apparently you can’t even escape their dominance of snow in games
you doing okay out there in oslo? I went there recently to see a relative and there was lots of flooding and a dam burst. By the way I did experience Norwegins who after I tried to respond to their first question, immediately switched to very well spoken English. Even the children I met did the same, they seemed to have a better grasp of the english language than americans at their age.
You don't NEED to wash rice (but if you wash rice after you cooked it, you can't cook at all tho, it's rice, not pasta), but you can. General rule of thumb, if you're making a dish where the rice obsorbes juices, generally not washing the rice is fine because it add to the sauce. If not, wash it before hand. The easiest way is to pour it into a bowl or cup, pour water in, mix it around with your hand so the water gets white, and then pour out the water. Repeat until the water is clearer, but it doesn't need to be a perfectly clear.
But it depends on every dish, as well as what type of rice you are using.
Came for the track mania content, stayed for the rice "washing" content lol
23:20 They don't have bags, It's another type of rice!
my biggest shock of the week is learning wirtual doesn't wash his rice
RE: the wash/don't wash rice conversation: Wash your rice if you want it loose and for things like dirty rice, don't wash it for things like risotto or if you want it to be sticky.
Also for aromatic rice like basmati washing can reduce their flavor.
Song that plays during the winning run is Pathfinder, by Kubbi
When you gonna take Redbull up on their offer of taking you out on a bobsleigh? 😅
As a French guy teaching English in middle schools and highschools, there is a huge issue concerning confidence while speaking English due to our accent. Memes are proving it too… and since the french language is based on syllable emphasis while English isn’t (we call it prosody), it is also very difficult for french people to speak the language. Finally, and that’s a french problem still, we tend to put pressure on people who try their best like « oh he’s flexing on us ». So most of my students will just do their best french accent while speaking in English just to avoid this pressure… trust me, it’s a constant battle to make them realise that phonetic is more important than the accent in itself. Though, depending on where you’re going and if you try your best first, I’m pretty sure French people, even with the worst English comprehension, will try to help ! But not in Paris, those guys are different
Imagine being a frensh guy watching your streamer do the most accurate description of your contry, it's hilarious
Btw we love when you struggle in frensh because most of us are realy bad in english and it's funny of course
cool bobsleigh, but WIRTUAL DOESN'T WASH HIS RICE
6:06 you know the French caricature is accurate because it got under this dude's skin lol
4:50 it was like that to in germany its getting better now tho in the netherlands they try to awnser you in your own language if they can speak it
W: "French people have to realize English is the universal language"
French people: "On sait. C'est juste qu'on s'en fout."
(We know. Just don't care.)
You guys have to realize you don't HAVE TO be slaves of America. I don't want Norwegian to speak to me in english if I try to speak their language, I want to learn and get better by listening to you.
Don't think it's 'being a slave to America' necessarily. If you have no long time plan to learn a different language then the incentive to put in that effort is almost non-existent. If you approach someone speaking their language though then of course, you after all didn't engage the conversation in English so it should not be defaulted to English
Whatever way of communication works, works. People don't mean any ill-intent
anyone know the song starting at 19:06?
Pretty sure it's Boxplot - Tramontane
@@communistkanna5397 thats definitely it i appreciate it a lot man
@@tyadei No problem brother 🤝
Hahahahaha the french language barrier killed me lol
Regarding rice: If you want sticky rice, then DO NOT wash it.
If you want fluffy rice then wash it.
At least that is what 1 minute of Google told me.
24:22 Where does Owl City - Fireflies come from?
Hey, french here. I was listening to the discussion about how french avoid speaking English. Well, some says this is only in Paris but I never truly visited Paris although i've been in many places in Europe. I have to say the problem is more complicated, let me explain: A lot a people do actually learn English in France but those who can speak English are mostly students or people that have an important function in their company. On the other hand, you have those who stop following the "standard" studying cursus like university and who prefer following a more professional way, and most of the time they don't learn English as accurately and sometimes not even at all. What I mean is that when you visit a bar or when you buy something in a store, it's 90% of the time people who stopped following "standard" studies to go work earlier so most of the time, people which who foreigners interact are not good at English. The EXACT same thing can be say of Italy and Spain except in the north of Spain like Barcelona where a LOT of sellers speaks french (but french and Spanish are very similar unlike English and french)
I don't even know if my English is good or not. Like many young french, I had to learn it all by myself because France sucks at learning English.
bruh the way you write english is pretty much perfect. there are a few words slightly "wrong" but everything you wrote was easy to understand which i think is the most important thing. personally i think english speakers need to go easier on those learning it as a second language. often times we pick apart tiny mistakes which don't really matter and which english people oursleves often make too. but yeah, really i just wanted to say that if you speak it even half as good as you write it then you're english is really good
@@jaywilliams720 Haha thanks mate! I can speak it well but of course not as much as I write it. The hardest part is trying to get ride of my strong french accent..
I think we can all agree that what we'll take away from this is that Wirtual eats dirty rice
the thing about this W guy is that he keeps talking, so I never know it half and hour video. ps: congrats, the grind paid out.
i was in the ER in france at night for an asthma attack and they didnt have a single nurse or doctor with even the most basic english skills and they just sent me home with some allergy pills, which later the doctor said were entirely wrong and didnt help at all. spent a few days breathing through a straw until i could get to a doctor
I think wirtual underestimates just how bad French people are at speaking English. It's not that we're pricks (I mean yeah sometimes lol), I've had classmates who used the wrong basic verb (like "be" instead of "have") in high school, which is realistically the best their English will be in their lives.
Key: an easy english word to pronounce
My classmates: "kay"
The comment above is true, but also an illustration of the main problem : we make fun of each other for our accent, even when it's good, so most people just avoid practising English. We need to be more supportive.
@@ghislainbugnicourt3709 It's usually what people think is the problem because it's easy to see, but if you look at our neighbours it's obvious what the real cause is: we got no exposure to English media, and they do. Every movie or TV show we see on tv is dubbed. It's common in other countries to only have the subbed original version.
Sure, I learnt a lot from English lessons, but it's nothing compared to what I learnt by going on the internet and actually needing to speak English.
For the record, rinsing rice before cooking changes the finished properties of your rice making it stickier, gummier, etc. depending on what kind of rice. I'm not a riceologist so idk what it does to which rice, but that's why some people rinse it.
Edit: the riceologists have informed me that the opposite of what I have said was true. Please regard my message in the reverse
rinsing removes starch, ie. makes it less sticky.
It's the opposite, maybe typo?
@@genieinthepot2455 I think I was pretty up front about my lack of credentials
Also if your rice is from a traditional rice mill not from a highly industrialized one. There would literally be small pebbles and insects in the rice. Traditionally, rice being washed and rinsed is probably because of that.
Also good for leeching the arsenic out of the rice.
I want to point out that appart from the terrible people that do definitely exist and insist on foreigners speaking french, there's also a lot of french people that won't speak english just because they are absolutely terrible at english. French people that can speak english fluently are an exception (and some of them still make zero effort in the pronounciation department) which often gives a bad image of our country. But we're not assholes, well at least most of us aren't, it's just that the average french person is terribly incompetent with foreign languages, english included, and sometimes especially english.
And on a side note, Paris might call itself the most beautiful city in the world or whatever, people living there are most definitely not the nicest in the country, which surely doesn't help...
Future challenge: Try to completely reconstruct a map by just his head movements in his facecam :)
"what I thought we would do today is play a track" let's gooo
The thing with Romance languages (Latin-derived, such as French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, etc) is that you need to know at least TWO of those in order to understand them all.
And, as a french person: we know full well that English is the international language, de facto. We just love to antagonize American tourists who expect everyone in Europe to know English right away.
One must imagine Wirtual happy
Wirtual can’t decide if he wants to throw the start or the end
Came for the game stayed for the music!
23:09 do you not wash rice? you know how the water goes opaque/white? yeah, you wash rice so it doesnt do that. thats the starch from the rice. washing the rice removes that so its less sticky once its finished cooking
23:05 so apparently it's another very american thing.
In US you are supposed to wash the rice, while eggs get washed beforehand to the point that they have very low shelf life
In EU it's quite the opposite. Rice is safe to just boil, while eggs are "dirty" with longer shelf life.
what song at 14:00?
9:29 shout out to Wirtual for being one of the only people I've heard pronounce my username correctly!
At 27:36 the serial killer face is insane.
5:05 no, it's just that we used to suck at learning English... Now it gets better but people over 25-30 usually had bad teaching. For instance, I got my first oral lesson at the University....
Ps: washing rice remove dust and extra starch.
not only he drinks the liquid for contact lenses.. he also doesn't wash his rice..
Rice has excess starch which will make the rice goopy and disgusting to eat. So if you put it in a cold water bath and stir it around for like 5 min. then you'll see and taste the difference. Look it up if you want it's so much better.
I mean, French is a romance language, but there's a reason we leave it out of the triangle when talking about mutual intelligibility and just talk about spa-ita-por
6:09 Just here to add that the complaint isn't some french dude not knowing english.
It's when frenchies deliberately refuse to speak english even though they could.
In Japan few people know how to speak english so it was rough when I visited. But not because of dickery on the Japanese side.
Similarly, if I don't use english with a tourist in Germany and insist on german, I am just being a dick.
Anybody now when this was live id like to see the full vod
Definitely wash my rice. You put the rice in a bowl, fill it with water then rinse. Repeat until the water in the bowl is clear and not murky. Doesn’t have to do with bacteria. It cooks better when washed.
I suppose the 'endurance' refers to enduring the urge to sleep when driving this map
I got the perfect setup to make french ppl speak english to you I just went:
"(in french) Sorry, I don't speak french, but I speak italian, portuguese and english"
they all just had that "melting face" effect realising they'd be pretty assholey not to pick one of my options, and just stuck with english LOL
(the fact that I was generally very well dressed it might have helped too)
Alright but what's that song at 20:00 mins???? I need answers plssss
congratulation for the 500k !!!!!
wirtual talked about the first video he might just check it out even if he doesn't know him and that's literally how I started watching channel 😂
finally... video in the main channel
@ Elensar Good job with the audio mixing 👍
damn, someone noticed the AT run had copyrighted music 😔
@@Elensar almost didn't, just noticed it mid run, it was very nicely camouflaged
It's just that the song is iconic and you'd be able to make it out by any half a second of playback 😂
Any other song and it'd be fine
About dry eyes, f1 drivers literally time their blinking for the longer straights or easier corners
I know wirt is kind of a weeb but him having touhou music in his playlist honestly took me by surprise.
I kid you not, i am legitamitely allergic to the GOD DAYUM FRENCHIES
As a garman who lived right at the german/french boarder: Even going to a boulangerie was a pain in the ass.
Ive always tried to order in german or english, i got anry look and proceeded to order in broken french. They not even try, just dead silance.
But this behavior leans more towards the older folks, i dont know any french dude under 25 who cant speak english.
I've had French people unironcally claim that French is the most beautiful language in the world, despite not knowing any other languages outside of a little English they picked up in school.