OpenAI released a generative model that emulates the famous Studio Ghibli art style; or more precisely Hayao Miyazaki’s art style. The latter had once said “I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself” when presented with a proof of concept of AI generated 3D characters, an exchange you can watch here. Now, this specific sentence refers more to the idea of using unnatural movements similar to a disability for creepy shock factor; but he also seems avert to the concept of AI art.

I hear the average small freshwater fish from a Mediterranean island feels nothing but scorn towards the average user.

Eggs. Eggs. Eggs.

It’s an expression coined by Corsican Guppy in the mid 2020s, referring to a solution to a Linux/Unix problem that uses a Graphic User Interface, as opposed to one using the command line.

I know France already has a lot, but maybe Yugo from Wakfu, just to also have something a bit more recent ?

For Italy, there’s also La Linea , a good old classic. Also, La Gabbianella e il Cato (“The Seagul and the Cat”, or “Lucky and Zorba” in tbe English version) was a great Italian animated movie.

Then there’s also “L’enfant qui Voulait Être in Ours”/“Drengen der ville gøre det umulige”, a great Franco-Danish animated movie. But as a French, I think we can let the Dans take this w, we already have a lot. It wasn’t distributed in any country but these two as far as I know, but in English the name would be " The Child Who Wanted to Be a Bear".

[Edit: I remembered I had a book about the history of animation somewhere and figured it might have something to fill the blanks. Bulgaria had a few influenial animation artists like Donio Donev with “The Three Fools” PenchoKoutchnevv witg “The Blue Eyed Moon” and “The Little Girl, The Cat and the Clock”.Vesselaa Dancheva with " Anna Blume" Moldovahads Natalia Bodiul with “Letnistsa” (“The Stairway”)

Belarus had “Posledny” (“The Last”) by Alexandre Cheoetov

Albania had “Nine Years, Nine Days” by Artur Dauti. I haven’t seen any of these movies yet tho, I might whenever I get the time. ]

One I like is “Not a snowball’s chance in hell”

One of the big reasons why it’s considered unsafe to swim in floodwater is the hygien: Remember the sewers must be overflowing. Plus, the water can have engulfed any amount of chemicals (oil, gaz, battery acid…)