You don’t want to tangle with an octopus in a snowball fight. Unless you’re an octopus too, or maybe a spider or centipede or something, there’s NO WAY you have enough arms to keep up.
As someone who loves octopi so much that my mom let me skip a day of school as a teen to go to an aquarium and stare at a sleeping one for three hours in a wind tunnel while it twitched precisely once, it really means a lot to me how much better AI is getting at drawing them.
I used to kneel and salute the dead baby octopuses in the deli at WinCo every time I passed them as a kid. It’s never bothered me eating meat… but I won’t eat octopus.
Anyway, I was a weird kid. And I still desperately love octopi.
Oh, and the reason it was so important to me to skip school and stare at an octopus?
This was before online videos; the only documentary I could find involved waiting on a glacially slow inter-library loan; and I’d already read all the library’s books on octopi…
…but teen me had a science-fiction book planned that involved octopus aliens, and I wanted to be able to describe their movement realistically. That’s right. I was essentially already researching Otters In Space when I was in high school.