Your personal opinion, or that of the person posting. That way if people see it differently it could also be a more interesting/relevant discussion. Doesn’t need to be a lot, and of course it’s not an exact science, but I think discussions on what is typical European in comics and how it is emulated could be really interesting.

As much as I appreciate the effort the DoJ made to spare us from seeing Trump’s ugly face, I wish they’d make a more holistic effort for the cause. Why not put him away for good.

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen

This article was written with AI in mind, but it could might as well have been about blockchain. When it first arrived people were so amazed there had been a new software invention that they wanted to apply it to everything, desperately looking for problems for their brand new solution.

If it’s not obvious which problem blockchain solves in a given context, chances are it doesn’t solve any problems at all.

It’s a fun technological showcase though.

Because it’s a system consisting pretty much exclusively of career politicians, even though it was originally designed to consist of representative peers.

I guess that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but whatever the US has been doing is clearly not working.

There are movies to be made where it makes sense to strive for historical accuracy, bit I’m not sure the Odyssey is one of them. It was always a spectacular tale.

You’re running the show here and you’re providing us with a huge service. It’s easy to split hairs and to get argumentative about details, and that often happens with little regards for who one is talking to or how much they have contributed. That’s unfortunately just how things are on anonymous forums.

It’s totally understandable that some times it’s not easy to take criticism when you’re really just spending time offering something truly great for no reason other than your own interest. Don’t beat yourself up over it.

But yeah, it’s also not worth spending time arguing - especially not over the interpretation of the rules you yourself make!

Thank you so much for what you’re doing here - enjoy taking a break, and I really hope you’ll come back freshly motivated. :)

Edit: maybe a compromise solution could be to ask for some sort of reflection on why content not made in Europe nevertheless seems relevant to the community, based on the nature of the content? It would certainly add value for me, as it would be interesting to hear reflections on how foreign comics draw inspiration from European ones and why any specific comic seemed relevant for the community. In a way then it becomes a discussion about European comics even though the content itself is not. But I don’t want to add a burden of course!

French pronounciation is pretty tricky, and French is a very standardized language. So most places you go to in France, at least of bigger cities, people speak French very similarly to in Paris. People are not used to hearing variations.

German is a germanic language of course, which is the same as English. So if you speak English you already know one language in the same language family, and your guess of pronouncing it will be better than when you attempt French coming from the same skill level. Germans are also used to amny strange dialects - while many struggle with the Swiss and certain Austrians, most have heard it enough to make it work. So that might help them.

That said, there’s individual variation, and English speakers are unusually good at understanding variations of English as everybody hears all kinds of English all the time. Many europeans struggle a lot more to understand foreigners doing their best to pronounce their language—it’s not just the French.

That’s my theories on the matter, anyway!

It’s complicated. I think they would love to, but many don’t understand french unless it’s perfect, and they can get upset about faux pas made by foreigners without realizing it’s tied to a high degree of mastering the language—address them without saying bonjour first and they might get offended. On the other side they often seem self aware about speaking English so many try to avoid it. But none of these things should be interpreted as a lack of interest—my impression is that many of the people it’s hard to get through to would genuinely love to talk to people from all over the world. They just struggle to get to that point.

Gode nyheter. Jeg er ikke videre gira på å investere i aksjefond i påvente av at verdensøkonomien skal kollapse, men sparekonto føles som om jeg blir ranet.

The most generic looking Greek armour *with dangling golden spines attached

Yeah, fair point about the horse hairs at least. But I also can’t help but feel like people might have had all kinds of strange ideas about how they want things to look in the past, and a lot of it would probably surprise us if we had the chance to go back and check. So I still struggle to see things like this as genuinely upsetting. Had it been a proper blunder like imitating a roman armour or something I would have agreed much more, but taking some creative license with what ancient Greece looked like I feel should be expected.

I’m not a historian of ancient Greek armature, but if I were to fasten a bunch of horse hair to stand up like a Mohawk on top of a helmet chances are I would drill a bunch of holes of roughly .5 cm diameter systematically throughout hardwood base and stuff each hole as full of hairs as I possibly could. It would probably come out looking something like a shoe brush.

Of course, I have no idea how they were made; again, I’m not a historian. I just don’t see what is so obviously machine made here. On the contrary, I would be surprised if this helmet wasn’t in fact custom made by hand by the costume department. It would be very unlike Nolan to buy a mass produced Halloween costume from China.

I feel like it would be pretty bland and uninteresting without it. The golden spine makes it interesting. Presumably it might make sense after watching the movie.

I can’t wait for people to freak out about the lack of historical accuracy, as they always do whenever they see anything at all in a movie set before 1850.

This aged well.

Big investments like this are often very politicized-even before Trump and all-because it’s to a large degree just geopolitics. Gripen is in all likelihood the better alternative, but F35 has been considered an excellent choice for countries wishing to suck up to America. Until recently sucking up to America was considered good defense policy among parts of the political spectrum.

Also in Europe it would be totally normal to respond with measurements. 200 ml, 0.33, and half liter are the standard ones. In the UK there’s pints and half pints.

If somebody just pointed at the container for me instead of telling me the size I would probably consider it weird. Maybe it’s normal in fast food joints.

I’m probably just not cultivated enough in the refined world of internet memes, but this comes across as “girls are noobs hurr durr”

I found their roadmap for 2026 to be pretty inspiring.

Yeah, I was a way more frequent user a bit more than a decade ago (my god), so I’m really rusty. I like to do small things now and then just to not get completely unfamiliar with the tool.

It’s funny that GPT is struggling with following basic instructions. I’m in the camp of thinking it is fundamentally a bullshit machine, so I find it amusing just how incapable it is of not bullshitting for a second. And now it’s exam season, and I’m about to spend 40 hours grading AI slop submitted by mediocre bachelor students that I didn’t even teach myself. Bah.

I’m far from good at it, but I basically marked the “2” and pasted it as two new layers over the 1 and the 5. I rotated the one I had pasted over the R and used the eraser tool to leave a bit of a white line where I wanted it, but for the most part I was just using the paintbrush tool to make adjustments wherever I saw fit.

I used the “Hardness 075” brush (050 would probably have been better) and set the transparency to around 50 in order to avoid any lines from coming across as too hard, hold ctrl and click on adjacent places in order to choose colours in the tones I’m looking for. Then it’s just a matter of splashing on layers of colour until it looks somewhat alright. I guess a trick is to choose the tones in the edges (so in this case, just when the white hits the red), and to soften the edge by applying these tones all around the newly drawn edge.

But yeah, it’s a pretty simple operation, and I’m sure there are better ways of doing it!