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I don't see why not. They are rarely GOOD art, lol.
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He's basically on his deathbed, though, poor dude.
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Is it all food and drink you feel this way about? If you don't feel that way about drinks I guess you could try doing something like... protein (... ensure? can be okay if you mix with simple ice cream or something) and veggie drinks (like V8) to try and get nutrients in without having to linger on the actual eating, if that would make it easier. You have to be careful not to develop a disorder, though, that can be really shit to deal with.

I guess you could get raw protein powder and then just buy a little bit of milk every once in a while to mix it into. Optimum Nutrition and Premier Protein are okay. But it's an upfront investment which can be tough for someone in your position.
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SunWuKung420 posted...
Find one who wants to take you home.
Fuck you, that's not funny.
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Did you have a favorite level? I was always partial to the torture chamber basement.
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It's one of the easiest classicvanias lol. NES fans of the series complained that the whip was too long and powerful in 4. CV 3 is one of the hardest games on the NES that is still popular.

But yeah the old CVs are tough, and even the later ones have their moments.
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VioletZer0 posted...
Congratulations!
Yes, I'm happy for you, Jen!

I need to stop being so maudlin, lol. Wtg for what you want in life.
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God I wish I could get mine out, but I can't afford it. I really hate being afraid all the time. There's a serial rapist in my area right now and it's a fucking nightmare to live in terror that someone's going to break into your house and destroy your life. I'm in one of the "no abortions ever for any reason" areas so if the worst case scenario happens, fml.

JTilly posted...
Practicing responsible and safe sex?
Mutilating your body to get at the Govt?
You know nothing about women's bodies, so shut up.
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I'm not good at them, so I don't play them, but I have watched them.
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kind9 posted...
Crabs are the opposite of cute. They are eldritch nightmare creatures.

How dare you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEpSjhY9WSY
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Humble_Novice posted...
...Is this a political topic?
It's an art project topic.
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I can't help it, I'm a huge Castlevania fan, so I love his CV episodes because you can feel the love with him, especially in IV's.
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Ehm... probably not. I guess if the couple wants them, then go for it.
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Ow. D:

Years back one of my coworkers, a cook, was ALONE in the kitchen on shift when he had an attack of stones. He fell on the floor, and had to crawl out the kitchen and dining room into the halls of the facility to get help. It made me not like the way the kitchen hours were set up, because kitchens are not really a safe environment.
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VioletZer0 posted...
The modern symbols incorporate a gear representing heavy industry workers.
I think the main way to go would be 1 symbol for product workers and 1 symbol for service workers (though obviously there is overlap with the job type) just because anything else I can think of quickly gets way too complicated. Let me think...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/afc277c5.jpg

*Shrug* A bit overly complicated maybe, but it could easily be simplified. The gray symbols are optional and could go where the blue circles are.
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Lokarin posted...
google gave me 4 pages of tiktoks of people eating fried baby crab
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Yeah it really sucks to try and look up any sort of sea animals because inevitably it's clogged up with people killing and eating them. People are fishing so much seafood that it's outright depopulating the oceans (we don't even eat most of it). I wish I was kidding.

Overfishing
Scientists estimate that 75% of the worlds fisheries are either fully exploited, overexploited or have collapsed and only 1% is recovering from depletion. In response to the declining fish populations, the number of fishing vessels has increased. Currently, the commercial fishing fleets are operating at 2.5 times the sustainable level resulting in too many boats chasing a devastating low number of fish.
Fisherman ... catches average 80 million tons of fish a year. Research estimates that we have removed 90% of the large predatory fish such as shark, cod and tuna from our worlds oceans.
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Habitat Destruction
Fishing vessels with trawling nets or dredges destroy ocean habitats.
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Bycatch
Bycatch is the accidental catch of unwanted species. Worldwide, one out of every four fish caught is discarded, dead or dying as bycatch.
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Fishing Down
Once a particular fish species has been depleted, fishermen sometimes move onto a new species lower in the food web. As top predator populations decline, more fishermen catch species such as crabs, sardines and squid. Many birds and marine mammals depend on these lower level species for survival and their absence creates negative impacts throughout the ecosystem.

https://www.oceanconnections.org/overfishing
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Well, here's Milly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyzf9JpSKps

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/65b198ab.jpg
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Mailed it in weeks ago.
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Hell no it's way too cold.
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I like these:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0017TMMLS/?coliid=ITTUI07P012GB&colid=DMU72MA18OYO&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it&th=1

But honestly I'm not sure. I have crippled hands so if I found one that made writing much easier for me, I might spend a bit more than I'd initially expect myself to for that.
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The Message. It's sad. He's very good with prose, though.
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I would die if I never moved cats that sat on me; there are five in this home and 3 of them love sitting on me. That said, I might wait a while if it's not pressing.
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Uh... sexual abuse/assault I guess. That or South Africa. I guess it depends on the context.
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Watch some Sitting With Dogs videos and you'll get a good feel for dog body language and needs.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I5Dz5d4mmdU
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-ptA-R6Gl0A
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Sometimes I feel like the only person who doesn't hate Ymir forest, lol, but I can see how it could cause problems if you don't have a really good memory for things because otherwise you'll end up back and forthing a LOT.

I've played most of the main Tales of games except for the Destiny 2, Rebirth, and Tempest (I get the distinct impression Tempest would be at the bottom of my list if I played it), but I also haven't played certain versions of games (ps1 destiny, DS Hearts/Innocence, some versions of Phantasia).

My favorites list goes something like:
Abyss > Berseria/Symphonia > Eternia/Innocence R > Vesperia > Graces F > Xillia 1-2 > Phantasia > Legendia > Arise > Hearts R > Destiny R > Symphonia 2 > Zestiria

Abyss has some dated gameplay but it's irrelevant to me; I like it's story the most by far so it's my favorite. Eternia, Innocence R, and Vesperia have pretty good qualities all around and some great qualities but some things hold them back a bit which keeps them out of the top 3 for me. The rest are a bit more nebulous. Graces and the Xillias have rough stories but their combat is really fun, however these games mark a downturn in level design that can't be overlooked and that's why they're below Graces F. Phantasia actually surprised me with how much I liked its story, but its gameplay holds it back. Legendia has a lot of issues but I think it had the potential to be one of the best; unfortunately it didn't get the budget it deserved and it shows, but if it ever gets remade, I think it has a lot to offer, and a great OST.

Arise was hyped a lot and ended up disappointing me as it retreaded a lot of old ground in the series and, imo, did it worse than much older games; I think I only liked 1 party member by the end of things, too, and I didn't care much for many of the new mechanics. Hearts R has fantastic gameplay but I did not care for the plot at all, and the cast made me want to throttle them most of the time, which is not great.

Destiny R, like Arise, was hyped up a lot, so I was very, very disappointed by it, and found characters who I was told were amazing to be extremely lacking- like Hearts R, the gameplay was good, but if I'm not enjoying the story, it doesn't mean much, and worse still, the game's story nose-dives later on, becoming more and more vapid and empty- I had expected the story to at least be better than Phantasia's, and imo, it wasn't. DotNW needs no explanation, it's garbage, but for some reason I actually kind of like it, so it's my guilty pleasure, and as such it doesn't get last place. That's Zestiria. I have never wanted to murder the camera in a Tales of game before. If that was my only problem, it would still be the worst Tales of game, but it's not. Combat is shit. Customization is shit. Story is weak. Cast is mostly obnoxious and boring. At least the music is good.
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I think I haven't had enough of it to judge really (I live in the middle of nowhere, I'm not getting good sushi here lol). I do like the veggie ones I've had, they're refreshing.
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Depends on the fixture you're putting it into.
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ALttP contains most information you need to beat it within it. It is not the game's fault if you didn't pay attention/think things through, and I am saying this as someone who got stuck for a while in several places. That was my bad as an 8 year old.

The first two games were a bit extreme on this front- especially the first one- but personally I feel ALttP hit the best balance between guiding you and expecting you to use your head of the games.

Damn_Underscore posted...
The problem I had was the one dungeon where you have to find a secret pathway randomly hidden in a waterfall
... But you can see the path from the adjascent room.
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lmao I'm sticking to PC and Nintendo from now on, this is ridiculous.
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People's opinions seem to differ greatly on this. Personally I liked XIII-2 more, but it does have some issues.

XIII is balanced a bit better (meaning overall the game is tougher and requires more strategy) but it has some obnoxious quirks like if the lead character dies, it's instant game over (this SUUUUUUUCKS I'm sorry it just does wtf were they thinking; XII didn't screw up like that). However, the optional side-quests that let you fight things in XIII are fun. XIII also starts INCREDIBLY slowly. It takes a VERY long time to open up, and a lot of people burn out on it.

XIII-2 has fucking QTEs, but they aren't terrible imo. It also has some puzzles which people seem to hate, but I didn't mind and also the internet exists if you really can't stand them. People also disliked that parts of XIII-2 were paid DLC when it first came out, and that's a VERY valid complaint, it was a terrible choice, but it's no longer an issue.

XIII is a bit more melodramatic/serious and has a better focus on multiple characters- it's more about character drama than plot really-, but the script is... sometimes it's really, REALLY bad, and I thought XIII-2's was a bit better. 2 also had a more interesting antagonist, I think, but the game often takes itself less seriously than XIII, which some people don't like. I'm ngl, I did not like XIII's story, so XIII-2's deviations didn't bother me like they did bother many fans of the original. In the first game I wanted to strangle most of the cast members for most of the story, lol. YMMV. Hard to say whether or not you'll jive with it, some people love one or hate the other, some hate both, some like both.

There are NPCs you can actually talk to in XIII-2, which is nice, but it also means that XIII is a more unusual JRPG because most of the time it's just the party talking amongst themselves or facing off against enemies. The XIII games have data logs which flesh out the story; it's not that you won't get it at all if you don't read them, but you might be confused at first because unlike other games, they often don't have the characters use exposition for the audience (although they constantly remind you that they are "SPOILERS OF COCOON!" for some reason, lol) and they use some technobabble (I'll try and fix that for you at the end of this post).

Personally, if you've tried to play FFXIII and didn't enjoy it, I would consider watching it sped up on Youtube and then playing the sequel. But if you haven't played it at all, I would at least try to play the first one, or maybe watch a little bit of gameplay to decide if you want to try it out? Here?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s4cUWCixA8

Oddly, the third game is my least favorite, though it probably has the best combat of the three. I could not get over how atrocious the story is in 3 is and I didn't care much for any mechanics other than the combat. Most people say the first game doesn't get good until chapter 10. Chapter 10! but at least I can think of some sequences I really enjoyed. I did not like 13-3 at all.

For me it's 2 >> 1 >>>>>> 3.

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One issue people have is the lack of early-game clarity with some terminology. I'll just clear that up for you now without any spoilers:

Cocoon is a location, and you start inside it. It's really big. Sanctum is the name of Cocoon's government. Pulse is another location. It's even bigger. The two places historically have been at odds. If I recall correctly, in order to reach one place or the other, one has to fly (it's been a while since I played these games).

Fal'cie are big creatures that do important tasks. Sometimes they look less like living things and more like structures, but characters will usually point them out to you so don't sweat it. There are Pulse Fal'cie and Cocoon Fal'cie.

L'cie are humans the Fal'cie have made a connection to sort of, there's more to it but I won't go into more detail. Both Pulse and Cocoon Fal'cie can have L'cie.

Eidolons = name of the summons this time around. There are gods in this setting; keep an eye out for when they are mentioned as they become more and more relevant over the course of the games.
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Nichtcrawler-X posted...
With how much Abyss keeps getting passed over, they must have great plans for that one.
Pleeeeeeeeeeease... ;_;
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josh posted...
Hard times create strong monkeys
Nah, they usually just end up dead or traumatized, and being traumatized does not make you strong, lol.
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Hmm, yes, though I find chimps rather unsettling. They're extremely violent- not just violent, but sadistic, like humans can be. Gorillas, you have to be careful with as well, but not nearly as much as chimps so long as you follow most basic rules, you *should* be okay.

When my mother's father was stationed in Thailand (this would have been like 50+ years ago), they had a pet monkey. I don't remember what kind of monkey he was, though. Rhesus, maybe? What on earth they were doing with a pet monkey, I have no idea; my family is usually pretty good about animal rights (we have multiple animal rehab folk in the family), so maybe he couldn't be released or something. My mom's younger brother taught him to do backflips off of an elevated surface.

Monkeys in general are a very complex and diverse clade, so it's fine to feel different about individual species- heck, even individual members of individual species. I'm no fan of silverback gorillas, I hate to say. They are fascinating but terrifying, they frighten me more than sharks, gators, etc, but fortunately you are VERY unlikely to run into one and I think most people know what to do and not do around them. I think they just trigger an uncanny valley feeling in me on top of everything else.

On the other hand... there's this little guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_lion_tamarin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG8kx5moTqg
And the littlest guy:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p5uRpJpmTOA

ParanoidObsessive posted...
That low, huh?
What are you talking about? Cats are closer to the gods than us and they know it, lol. Well... some of them know it. XD
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I think once? A really long time ago. I have a vague memory anyway. It might have been a pony instead of a "horse" horse.
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Maybe? I'd have to ask my older family members. If I did, it was when I was really little.

There's a fenced field in the NE part of town that has horses near the sidewalk. If they're out, sometimes I'll give them something to munch on if I have something to offer when I walk by. It's been a while since I've been in that area, though... oh, I think I have a picture:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e9ab04ef.jpg
I took that photo years ago, but horses can live a long time, so I wonder if this one's still there.
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captpackrat posted...
Oh, they did worse than that. They forced Rosemary Kennedy to have a lobotomy, literally cutting out a chunk of her brain. The procedure left her with the mental capacity of a 2 year old. She was 23 at the time, and she lived to the age of 86.
Yeah. Karma sent brain worms to the wrong Kennedy; they should have gone to her parents.
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I think it was Pokemon White? But I don't think I finished it.
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rjsilverthorn posted...
There is something seriously wrong with that guy. The whole dead bear in Central Park thing was just messed up.
He's a Kennedy, of course there's something wrong with him. The whole family has a lot of problems. Parents locked away disabled family members and hid their existence from others, the two assassinated ones had a ton of personal baggage in addition to... being assassinated. Just sad, really. I can see how coming from a family like that could make a person exceptionally paranoid/prone to conspiracism, but that doesn't excuse the harm he's done:
In the piece, Kennedy relied extensively on the work of Mark Geier, a doctor whose license to practice medicine was revoked by Maryland in 2011. Geier pushed the vaccine-autism link as a frequent expert witness. He also misrepresented his credentials and developed "a 'protocol' for treating autism that involved injecting children with the drug that is used to chemically castrate sex offenders at a cost of upwards of $70,000 per year.
https://popular.info/p/the-pernicious-elite-obsession-with
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Jen0125 posted...
Why do you automatically assume it's fake?
It's a trauma response/defense mechanism, usually developed by people who have been on the receiving end of false apologies before.
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I don't hate dogs, but they are absolutely not for me.
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High school was the only time I wasn't shit on.

Regardless, I would be immediately suspicious of their motives, and would likely try to shut off communication asap.
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zhangliao1 posted...
Inaction isnt action and the fact that youre trying to argue that it is is ridiculous
Uh, no. This is actually a very old and well-understood concept.

Those who see action in inaction and inaction in action are truly wise amongst humans. Although performing all kinds of actions, they are masters of all their actions.

That's from the Bhagavad Gita. It's thousands of years old. You're getting tripped up by the "literal" meaning of the words rather than what they mean in practice.

https://moralguillotines.wordpress.com/2018/09/18/why-inaction-is-action/

You're just being a coward if you try to dodge responsibility for a choice by saying "I didn't act."
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Muscles posted...
If you don't act you are an observer of someone else's atrocity, if you do act you become a participant of the single person's murder
No. Inaction is in and of itself an action that one chooses. In the scenario you choose to either be responsible for 5 deaths or responsible for 1. People who try to weasel out of this are cowards; you are already a participant in the scenario. "I choose not to participate = I could have killed 1 person and saved 5, but I instead killed 5 people and saved 1."

If we apply your attitude to the real world, then the inaction of nations when the Rwandan genocide took place doesn't matter. The inaction of nations during the genocides happening NOW don't matter if that's the case. And that's ridiculous on its face.

Accrovideogames posted...
The only reason I wouldn't pull it is if I somehow find the single person's life more important than the group's. It can be both objective or subjective. Subjective is if the single person is someone I love. Objective is if the group consists of dangerous criminals or terminally ill people, or the single person is doing great things for humanity.
This is unfortunately where it gets muddled. There's lots of ways to complicate this, as the meme has demonstrated over the years, lol.
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Muscles posted...
The correct answer is to not pull it. If you pull it you are at least partially to blame for the single person's death, if you don't pull it you share none of the blame.
Inaction doesn't make you not culpable.

Anyway, I'd flip the switch and *try* (and fail) to save the one person. Maximizing harm reduction makes sense if you accept that the premise that the scenario does not allow for alternatives.
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Their pizzas are simultaneously very greasy and very unsatisfying... but I still like them. :-/
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Playstation 1, I think.

Maybe if it had been 2000-2001, I'd have picked N64, but without those, there's no Majora's Mask, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Paper Mario, Banjo-Tooie, Ogre Battle 64, Kirby 64, Mario Party 2, Pokemon Stadium...
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Just one pint? Beta.
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-kind of taste like chicken.
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Biscoff really do taste like high quality graham crackers.

They both have: wheat flour, sugar, salt, vegetable oils, leavening

Biscoff has: cinnamon and brown sugar syrup (the big difference), soya flour, emulsifier ( soya lecithin), acid (citric acid)

Graham crackers also have: honey and "artificial flavor"??? (the big difference), unbleached enriched flour, wheat starch

The end result is that Graham crackers are slightly simpler in flavor, have a different texture. Graham crackers are also shaped differently, like a flat grid cracker that can snap into 4 smaller pieces so that you can put things on them. There are variations but generally Graham crackers are a bit less "cookie-like" than Biscoff, if that makes sense. You can stick some graham cracker in your mouth and just let it dissolve into mush, which makes it a fairly safe sweet for young kids.
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Sega9599 posted...
What do you mean then by spirituality? It seems to be very unscientific when I look for definitions of it. Some unseen power that connects everyone. And I think people liking the values of Christianity, but denying any existence of a god or heaven or anything like that doesn't make them Christian at all. That's like me saying I'm muslim, but I dont believe in muhammed or allah, I just like the traditions and think some teachings are good.
Again, it sort of depends on your interpretation. I've met Christians who say that what it means to be Christian is to follow the teachings of Jesus, but that they don't see him as a divine entity (so they view him more like a spiritual leader like Siddhartha Gautama). This shouldn't surprise anyone; there are so many different interpretations of Christianity it'll make your head spin.

It is very interesting to hear some people say they are atheist but still religious and ascribing to Buddhism, for example as above. I'd never heard of that before.
It's definitely less common in the Americas and Europe, I think.

Wait wait wait. I'm not super super familiar with the story of Adam and Eve, but didn't they already know about God as they had talked and could talk and ask stuff, and had been given instructions?
Yes, but how could they make use of any of that? They had no knowledge that would give them context. They literally did not know what was right and wrong, that disobeying God was bad. God tells them they'll die if they eat the fruit, but they don't know what that even means. And the snake tells Eve God lied to them, how is she supposed to know the snake is lying? She doesn't know anything. It's like getting mad at a toddler for sticking doing something because their older sibling told them to do it.

But this is what happens when people try to make grand statements about the stories being literal and about God being absolutely moral and correct all the time and stuff, it turns stories that are meant to be explanatory and thought-provoking into... really deranged tales about an all-powerful being that keeps doing things that seem completely ridiculous.
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Maybe Mulan? (original obviously)

I like that one a lot. Emperor's New Groove, Lilo & Stitch, The Little Mermaid, and Beauty and the Beast are all great, too.

There are quite a few I haven't seen, though.
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