I bet these people had an unsatisfying experience with their hobby, but you can clearly see that now that they are connected to a community, it is a lot more rewarding and interesting to them. They are making punching themselves in the dick fun.
I can absolutely understand being frustrated starting out in Eve. The experience of a new player is utterly shit. I think a lot of people come in expecting to just follow a course prescribed by the game and have fun doing it. If you are crazy then you might have some fun for a week or so. The real fun requires work and the drive to say "This looks fun. I'm going to make that happen." It also requires playing with others.
I was pretty bored after about a month of playing until I joined Eve University and started flying with people I could recognize and who were willing to show me the ropes. I then moved out to zero security space (free-for-all PvP area) and joined a big alliance. It can be incredibly thrilling to fight out there. It's not all like the trailers but there are certainly moments where you feel like you're in one as you're dodging enemy fleets, blowing up someone's stuff, or mashing the warp button to save your ship you've saved up to buy.
Eve isn't for everyone but it bothers me a little bit when people say "Eve isn't fun. What are all these psychopaths doing with their time?" We're making Eve fun.
I would also add it sounds like you fell into the trap of using autopilot everywhere. The tutorial doesn't really tell you but you can manually do each jump and it will go a lot faster since you end every warp right on the jump gate instead of an agonizing 15km off.
Even with a friend "egging" me on to play it I don't think I got quite as far as you did. Too much commitment, too little fun.
Perhaps worst of all, the trailers always show enormous capital ships and huge fleet vs fleet combat but the player starts in a tiny ship and will rarely see anything close to massive combat.
This just happened to me literally like 5 minutes ago. I stay up late and surf the web but my husband goes to be early. So I use my headphones to watch videos, listen to music. All of a sudden I hear a tapping in my ear and I felt something. I slapped the headphones off my ear and the earwig was sitting just inside them, ugh!!! I'm totally grossed out now....I guess thats why they invented ear BUDS!!!
I think that if she genuinely cared, she'd have given him some of her groceries, even if she did have the change. I did like the comic though. Well done.
Since he wasn't considerate enough to spare you the turmoil of someone else's ire, you should get him in a place where he depends on you to get somewhere or continue doing something with tight time constraints. When that happens, you should require him to learn about the courtesy flush.