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So if we wanted to watch some French animation, what films would you suggest?

the Triplets of Belleville is about an elderly woman searching for her son who was kidnapped in the middle of a Tour de France race. It’s largely free of dialogue, but the sound effects and such are wonderful. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature—it lost to Finding Nemo.

A Cat in Paris is about a young girl and her cat who discover mysteries in the course of one night. It was also nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature, but it lost to Rango.

Persepolis is based on an autobiographical graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi about her early life in Iran. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but it lost to Ratatouille.

the Illusionist is about an aging magician and an imaginative young girl who form a father/daughter relationship. It was also nominated for a Best Animation Oscar, but lost to Toy Story 3.

The Rabbi’s Cat is a story about a cat who swallows a parrot and gains the ability to speak like a human. It is set in 1920’s Algeria.

Ernest & Celestine is the adorable story about a big bear and a little mouse who forge an unlikely friendship. It was also nominated for an Oscar in Best Animated Picture, but lost to Frozen.

Kirikou and the Sorceress is a story inspired by West African folklore that tells the story of Kirikou, a boy who was born with the ability to walk and talk, who saves his people from an evil witch. The film was popular enough to spawn sequels and a stage adaptation.

A Monster in Paris is a 3D animated musical film that is reaaaaalllly loosely based on the Phantom of the Opera. It’s set in 1910 and is about, surprisingly, a monster that lives in Paris, and his love for a young singer.

The King and the Mockingbird is an 80’s film about a cruel king titled Charles V + III = VIII + VIII = XVI, who is obsessed with a young shepherdess, and whose attempts to capture the young girl are thwarted by a mockingbird whose wife the King had previously killed.  

Those are probably the most famous of the feature length animated films.

But the animated short films are just as glorious. Here’s a compilation of a bunch of short films and I can link you to others as well. 

Sorry for the long answer but I just really love French animation.

do you have any overwatch advice for people wanting to play mercy?

oh boy do i.

sometimes people run away from you right into fire and you just gotta let them die. just let them die. you cant save them all. if you follow them you’ll die too and then two people will be dead instead of one. just let them go.

try not to use your res unless you can bring back at least two people. if there’s a tactical advantage to bringing one person back, say you’ve got 10 seconds left and they were the only person stopping that payload then by all means bring them back but the 10 second respawn timer isn’t very long so if one teammate is dead it doesnt matter much. 

it’s better to res after an ult than just during a regular fight.

in that vein, if you hear someone ulting you need 2 get to cover or zoom away.

your blaster will do better than a damage boost for ur scores (like getting medals) but if you want to help the team buddy up with a soldier 76, a bastion, a pharah, or a reinhardt. damage boost the first 3 and heal as needed but spam reinhardt with heals and make him immortal.

keep people update on whether you’re ready to revive them or not. communication can make things so much easier.

sometimes your team will die and leave u alone on the objective with no res. it’s okay. do your best with ya gun out. if you die its on your team for not listening to you say you have no res.

try and stay out of team fights (where its 6v6 at one point on the map.) heal from further back and guardian angel zip in and out as needed. use guardian angel. it will save ur life. as a mercy if a teammate is in sight you should NEVER be running. keep an awareness of who’s in ur los and away from the fight so you can use them to get out of dodge.

if you accidentally guardian angel towards danger, you can cancel the flight by tapping the button again.

you also have a featherfall function. mercy glides if you hold down the jump button. which is p cool it means u can guardian angel up to a pharah hold it down and then just stay up there. fear the airborn mercy.

always stick with a teammate! if there’s no teammate around you should be hiding or finding a new teammate to buddy up with.

if you see a genji, even if he’s far away. run. 

be wary of flankers, this is usually tracer or reaper. they’re sneaky. as a mercy you gotta keep tabs not only on your team but the other team because if you dont you will die like 15 times a match.

if you can, back urself into an alcove where the other team doesn’t have line of sight on you but you have line of sight on your team. your beam reaches far, you aint always gotta be up on the action. 

that’s pretty much all i can think of. good luck and have fun in the stressed mother of 5 simulator.