Nier: Automata is a very lewd game indeed - God bless Japan and Taro Yoko

Earlier today I (Robin Ek, TGG spotted a tweet that truly proved once and for all that Nier: Automata is a very lewd game indeed (may Automata remain uncensored in the West). So here's my take on the matter.

[skydragoonityx]

Lions & Tigers & Bears Oh My!!

[TGG_overlord]

Epicness awaits ;)

[quent]

Yes please

[Spenok]

It's very disappointing when people use Gods name in vain for something he wouldn't condone....

[Featuring_Dante]

Agreed!

[S2Killinit]

It's ok god can take it, he is more powerful than to take offense about such triviality when there are people dying of hunger and war around the globe.

I say let the people say what they like, as long as they aren't hurting anybody else. this isn't the 16th century anymore when god was angry.

[Featuring_Dante]

oh no, people are dying, why can't god helpz them!!

[S2Killinit]

Exactly. Some god.

[PizzaSteve]

When God was angry? God still is angry because the world put sex, money, fame, material things 1st over him and worship false Gods. This world could have been ended years ago from the sins of men but didn't because God sent his son Jesus so the world could be save through him.

[CaitSith]

Whoa, hi religious people! I missed you, what with all the SJWs in some of the comments. You know I can't stand them.

[S2Killinit]

Woah you taking that whole religion thing a little literally there. I wonder what god thinks about his followers leading the way in causing human misery where it really counts while paying lip service to him the whole way.

[xX-oldboy-Xx]

christ some people are sensitive, pre-ordered and payed for - can't wait.

[Bathyj]

oh I see what you did there.

[opinionated]

He meant the other God, Krom.

[Knushwood Butt]

^ yeah, not that god, the other fella.

[Kokyu]

God isnt gods name he has actual names so its pretty disappionting when someone has no clue what their talking about get disappionted about stuff they dont understand.

[Kurdishcurse]

sounds pretty dumb.

[Kurdishcurse]

naaah. god sounds pretty insecure and small for "not condoning" something so trivial. he should get over himself.

[PizzaSteve]

Speak the truth even if they don't want to see it.

[robtion]

It's true. God wouldn't condone it because God is not real.

[Bathyj]

I hate it when people think everyone should care about God as much as they do.

Ah religion. Responsible for more deaths than any other contributing factor in the history of mankind.

[medman]

@Bathyj
Anything can be perverted, especially religion, but in the end, people are responsible for those deaths. To blame God is to abdicate responsibility for our own weaknesses. We all have free will, such as it is..such as it appears to be. Some use it to hurt others. That is on them. Can't blame God for that....we all make choices, everyday.

[Bathyj]

I didnt blame God. I blamed religion.

Do you see the distinction?

Many wouldnt, and thats the problem. When people speak in the name of religion, they think they are actually speaking for God, but the are only saying what was drummed into them by other people.

God didnt write the bible. He didnt put pen to paper. A person did.

[medman]

You do realize that the Bible is believed by Christians to be the word of God, right? You do get that the bread and wine are believed to be the body and blood of Christ, right? You do get that the same goes for many of the other major religions? So when you say you blame religion, you don't really mean you blame religion. You're blaming people, which is fair enough, but don't say you blame religion.

Religion isn't the problem, people's perversion of it is. Which was my point. If someone gets drunk and drives over a bunch of people on the sidewalk, you don't blame the car, you don't blame the engine, you don't blame the tires, you blame the driver for choosing to drink and drive. People are the problem, not religion. You're trying to attribute blame to something that is ethereal.

[Princess_Pilfer]

No, religion is the problem. Huge swaths of the planet believing creation myths not supported by science that *explicitly* condone things like slavery, rape, murdering non-believers and acting in accordance with said barbaric teachings is the problem.

Not having religion wouldn't fix all of the problems, but it would certainly lessen many of them. Replacing religion with a proper moral belief system (Humanitarianism) should be a high priority, for the benefit of everybody. Western religions effectively lost during the enlightenment, and have been increasing forced to accept humitarian values over the last 300 years or be abandoned as the barbaric nonsense that the scripture is. If the Bible Belt and Catholic Church are an indication, christianity in particular has not come so far willingly, it's been dragged kicking and screaming by a more humanitarian public that values things like equality and maximising the happiness of the largest number of people over fallowing the orders of their particular interpretation of god. If you want to see what happens when religion wins, Try Saudi Arabia, Iran or Quatar.

[medman]

@princess_pilfer
Can't spell Qatar nor does it know the first thing about the Middle East, has no ability to read what others have written and comprehend it, but thinks it knows something it possibly couldn't know. Typical. Some mothers do have them.

[Princess_Pilfer]

Yes, my ability to spell Qatar is what is relevant here.

The simple facts are, religion is influencing peoples actions. You can claim otherwise and say it's all on the people, but when you're taught something from the time you're born and leaving the faith will get you put to death (or disowned by your family or incur whatever other negative consequences) then it's power to control lives and inspire actions is massive. Religion in particular suffers from not being based on humanitarian values, but the supposed "will of god."

People who might have been good people, raised under religious teachings, become monsters. Imagine for 1 second if the muslim Jihad wasn't crazy and violently devoted to their fairy tale, and instead had that fanatical devotion put to use running humanitarian aid projects and charities. Just like people who *are* good people, do stupid things like drink and drive and so get people killed.

You're also not using an exact parallel. Alcohol is not a belief system that shapes peoples entire lives. It's a physical object which can be used responsibly with no ill effects. That's not how religion works, it's explicit goal is to make you live by it's commands at all times. It's not that religion is the only bad belief system, far from it, but *all* of the major world religions are exceptionally bad belief systems.

You're over focused on the micro scale. You don't just blame people, you change the things that are influencing their behavior and equally responsible for the result. You have relentless education campaigns and put super harsh laws in place so getting caught driving drunk permanently lose their lisence. You disallow the teaching of religion and religious values in schools/by public officials and teach humanitarian values instead.

[Featuring_Dante]

sure, religion was the leading cause for all the wars in the 20th century alone. i knew infidels were dumb, but not this dumb.

[medman]

@Princess_Pilfer
You say, "The simple facts are, religion is influencing peoples actions...People who might have been good people, raised under religious teachings, become monsters."

I say.... and?? You do realize that there are far more people doing good works in the name of whatever God they worship, than committing heinous acts in the name of those same God's, right? There are approximately two billion Muslims and approximately two billion Christians on the planet...the vast majority of which are decent people.....yet you focus on the fraction of one percent in the Muslim community that is acting like monsters (conveniently ignoring the Christian religious zealots/murderers by the way). And you do realize that there are plenty of monsters who are atheist, agnostic, and everything else, right? Yikes. Once again, blaming "religion" at large for the weakness of man. Typical.

[Princess_Pilfer]

You would have those same good people doing good work in the name of humanitarian values in the absence of religion, for the same reasons.

Uh, no, I didn't ignore christian zealots, I *explcitly* mentioned the catholic church and the bible belt and implied they're the repressive, reggressive zealots that they are. I also explicitly stated *ALL* major religions are bad belief systems, in no way exclusive to Islam.

I *also* explicitly state it's far from the only bad belief system, so yes I do realize plenty of monsters are not religious.

What's typical, is religious apologists making stawmen out of anti-religious arguments to defend aincent backwards ideologies that are reprehensible beyond any rational attempt to defend them.

Humanitarianism, even if it became the 1 and only belief system, would not solve all conflicts. What is the most beneficial to the largest number of people varies based on other values and how to actually achieve that varies as well, but at the very least it, as a belief system, would be free of (or at the very least far less prone to) the institutional active maliciousness encouraged and perpetuated by other major and minor religions because it is fundamentally about giving as many people as possible the best lives possible, and in no rational way does that include most of the violence, oppression and bigotry included in quite a lot of religions.

[Aenea]

Nah, doesn't exist anyways so who cares...

[SatanicEyeJesus]

I believe that religious people shouldn't play video games. It's the devil's work.

[GrimReaperGamer]

Yet your God allows children to born with countless diseases, some of them not even getting to live 1 year, hell even 1 week. Yeah he sure is an awesome fairy tale isn't he.

[Lynx0207]

Personally, I don't care about your God, I don't have one. But I find it funny that "God" should "bless Japan" and most Japanese don't care about him neither.

[drunkenspy007]

lol, you actually think you know what god approves of or disapproves of. Famine, disease, war, suffering... so that's ok, but showing a butt in a video game, well that makes him mad? Nice grip on reality you have, perhaps if you pray extra hard to your concept of the invisible man in the sky and he'll make everything better for you in your dreams.

[Mr Marvel]

Not really.

I find it more disappointing that people are still stupid enough to believe in divine beings. I suppose you think the world is flat too?

[PhoenixUp]

Of course it is, it's part of the mature Drakengard series after all

[raWfodog]

I figured there would be no less from this game as well. I still remember the intro to the original Nier featuring Kaine's colorful language. Needless to say, I was hooked from there :)

https://www.youtube.com/wat... (warning: very graphic language)

[CrimsonWing69]

Good and put that in your pipe and smoke it SJWs

[bluefox755]

Love Japan.

[rocketpanda]

Is this the same guy who said to those who complained about 2Bs backside to send him all the pics in a zip file?

That is how you deal with SJW twats!

[ninsigma]

Haha yep. He said there's lots of it and it's pain to share it so if someone could zip them up and share every week that would be great (more or less what he said). Which definitely how you deal with those sorts of people. Don't give them a serious thought.

[GrimDragon]

May yoko live a long healthy life. 2B has a great @ss. It's nice to see hot game babes kicking @ss and still look like hot doing it. Unlike some devs who can't see a difference between genders like the makers of "for honor" and others that have something against pretty females like "mass effect"

Japan 4 life!

[ShadowWolf712]

So... going for historically accurate armor means you "can't see the difference between genders"?

[GrimDragon]

I don't play games for historic accuracy I play for the fantasy. But to each his own.

[ShadowWolf712]

It's a game that goes for historically accurate depictions of warriors of different cultures meeting on the battlefield. It was part of the point. Dunno why people expected them to stick the female avatars in leather bikinis with jiggle physics.

[iNcRiMiNaTi]

Can't wait till this finally hits pc :D

https://media.giphy.com/med...

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

Yass, more lewdness!

[ShadowWolf712]

Of course it's thegg. Why wouldn't it be?

[Razzer]

Because they beat dualshockers to it?

[Brohan]

Interesting 🤘🏻

[DivineAssault]

A little fan service never hurts..