Heard@GDC: Americans hate nipples

by Justin McElroy { Feb 23rd 2008 at 1:00AM }

"It's something about you Americans and nipples, there's something you hate! If this was Germany, I'd be romping around naked right now."

-Peter Molyneux at his GDC lecture

Tags: fable-2, fable2, gdc08, peter-molyneux

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Arttemis @ Feb 23rd 2008 1:05AM

No wonder his character was knocked up.
Whore.

Shagittarius @ Feb 23rd 2008 1:07AM

Do his nipples offer player freedom and realism so far unseen in other nipples?

Fernando Rocker @ Feb 23rd 2008 1:31AM

You try and try and never get voted up.

I give you a [+] for keeping trying... =)

Ghen @ Feb 23rd 2008 8:22AM

I for one am looking for more puffy nipples in todays games. There's way too many tic-tac boobies out there and I don't appreciate the lack of reality by not having a good showing of puffy ones.

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Feb 23rd 2008 1:34AM

you get an automatic +1 for having deadpool as your avatar.

He's fucking awesome

colin @ Feb 23rd 2008 2:53AM

i added the joint in ms paint, i'm building a mame cabinet and i'm thinking about painting deadpool on the sides though i don't think he's been in any arcade games ... shame

Ghen @ Feb 23rd 2008 8:20AM

Hopefully you'd get a feature article on joystiq if it looks good ;)

xeleion @ Feb 23rd 2008 1:11AM

What? Who in America doesn't like nipples? Besides Jack Thompson and extreme Christians, that is.

... Ok seriously, just who doesn't like nipples?

Abscissa @ Feb 23rd 2008 1:21AM

All of the whacked-out nutjobs that pissed and moaned over the superbowl halftime incident a few years back. Most americans are fucking insane when it comes to that sort of thing. Some bloodfest on TV or the news? A-ok. But a boob, OH NO, IT'LL DESTROY SOCIETY!! Fucking backwards idiots.

Fernando Rocker @ Feb 23rd 2008 1:29AM

The problem is that Janet Jackson is fugly.

Misquito @ Feb 23rd 2008 1:34AM

Whoa... somebody got hugged by daddy a little to much.

Fernando Rocker @ Feb 23rd 2008 1:38AM

Just look the manjaw... and she looks like Michael Jackson (you know, if he was not white).

http://www.celebritywonder.com/picture/Janet_Jackson/janetjackson_030.jpg

ThornedVenom (Ludwig Defense Force) @ Feb 23rd 2008 4:55AM

The problem isn't about the majority loving nipples, it's about the minority who doesn't who're pulling all of the levers in the country.

fyreblazer @ Feb 23rd 2008 11:35AM

[Kanye]Fernando doesn't care about black people[/Kanye]

On subject, I agree we Americans are ass backwards. The pro-blood lust anti-woman's body thing baffles me everyday.

naxe @ Feb 23rd 2008 1:12PM

@blazer

how are we (ass-backwards)?
Pro blood?...those c@ck suckers came into our country and killed our people. they drew first blood. It's easy to forget that we weren't always at war. it started after sept.11th.
anti-women? Do you want your 6-11 year old daughter asking you why that lady is showing her privates to everyone on t.v? while it is true that we AMERICANS are prudes when it comes to boobs on t.v. you have to remember that children need to hold on to their innocents as long as possible. THE WORLD IS AN UGLY PLACE. VERY UGLY!!

Abscissa @ Feb 23rd 2008 2:27PM

"you have to remember that children need to hold on to their innocents as long as possible."

Yes, people need to be as completely unprepared for the world as possible. The less they know about the adult world when they're finally thrust into it, the better off they'll obviously be.

BTW, the word you were looking for is "innocence", not "innocents". Literacy FTW.

Jerk Face @ Feb 23rd 2008 4:40PM

@naxe

He meant "pro blood-lust" as in FOR violence and against nudity. I think that is an accurant description of our somewhat paradoxical media scene in America.

How you tried to turn that in to "911 is bad and I hate boobs" is a little beyond me.

quickshade @ Feb 23rd 2008 1:14AM

you can even make a good comment for this......oh wait
I LOVE BOOBIES!!!!!!!!

GoldenS1104 @ Feb 23rd 2008 1:17AM

Nipples = Epic Win

Meta474 @ Feb 23rd 2008 1:19AM

Yeah, and if he were in Germany, when I shot him with my second-amendment protected item he would bleed green.

Abscissa @ Feb 23rd 2008 11:27AM

Shit, that really shows just how much of a dork I am. I couldn't figure out what your point was until I realized you weren't calling him a Vulcan.

Ethan @ Feb 23rd 2008 1:21AM

Without nipples, Robert De Niro would never have asked if you could milk his.

Fernando Rocker @ Feb 23rd 2008 1:26AM

Smooth round butt > Boobies =)

Imadogg @ Feb 24th 2008 2:02AM

Boobies = nurturing

Butt = poop

Raikage (Ludwig Defense Force) @ Feb 23rd 2008 1:31AM

OH NOES... This has made me question everything in my life... What even is life?!

NOOOOOOOO!!!

Tatticus @ Feb 23rd 2008 8:16AM

it's not a matter of hate, it's a matter of censorship. Apparently you can show 90% of a boob, but if you're not showing the nipples, it's not a problem (case in point, darkstalker's morrigan?). I think it's absolutely ridiculous. If it's done in good taste I don't see why it would be a problem, but of course, the censors probably believe that displaying nipples in the media is impossible to do in good taste. If that's not it, I don't know what is.

chispito @ Feb 23rd 2008 1:53AM

There are just differing cultural ideals of decency. Get over it.

NESv1 @ Feb 23rd 2008 2:13AM

I guaran-damn-tee that the vast majority of Americans (myself included) absolutely love nipples and have nothing against nudity and wouldn't be appalled if nudity was more accepted in the American society.

However, that same vast majority (myself included) are too lazy to try to rise up and change social taboos. Then again, it seems like every generation it gets closer and closer =)

mykie @ Feb 23rd 2008 2:39AM

I think it's more commentary on how this country is strung up by its balls by religious nutjobs who think it's dangerous to display an unclothed woman's body, but find it more comforting to tell children that violently killing the man they call their messiah brings them eternal forgiveness.

xeleion @ Feb 23rd 2008 2:47AM

You get eternal forgiveness... for killing Jesus? Noted.

Geist @ Feb 23rd 2008 12:53PM

"My children, I have returned..."
"OMG It's Jesus! Kill him for forgiveness!"
"NO wait I've come to take you to heav-"
*STAB STAB STAB*

Brello @ Feb 23rd 2008 3:17AM

Apparently Molyneux didn't get that memo.

RobLink @ Feb 23rd 2008 4:43AM

I've read all the comments and so far no-one's distinguished between genders. Do I take it that the nipple-lovers are talking hairy man nipples as much as rock-hard lady nips?
Speaking as a non-American, I love lady-nips, but can't say I'm a big fan of the moob, or any part thereof.

ThornedVenom (Ludwig Defense Force) @ Feb 23rd 2008 4:57AM

I'll just resume the all of these comments into the all-famous cultural statement:

In the US: Violence > Sex
In Europe: Sex > Violence

RobLink @ Feb 23rd 2008 9:24AM

In my house: sex = violence.

In more ways than one. Giggety.

Realist @ Feb 23rd 2008 6:25AM

Boobs are gay.

tmacairjordan87 @ Feb 23rd 2008 7:18AM

"If this was Germany, I'd be romping around naked right now"

that part made me happy that i'm in america. thanks for that Pete.

t_m @ Feb 23rd 2008 7:45AM

He makes a good point...
..well, two actually..

Grant @ Feb 23rd 2008 11:09AM

i am personally a fan of nipples, specifically lady ones, but not peters.

born2kill @ Feb 23rd 2008 12:42PM

This is how Hitler started you know. Telling people his dream of a nipple filled world, and before you know it, bam ethnic cleasing. Son of a bitch

GST @ Feb 23rd 2008 1:19PM

The two posts around here that have the most commentary are:
1.Phil Harrison flaming Nintendo
and
2.Americanized nipple-phobia

Welcome to Joystiq.
Online home of fanboys, flamewars, and... riveting discourses about nipples.

Yourself @ Feb 23rd 2008 1:51PM

In all honesty, his points seems to be about Americans being uncomfortable with nudity, not the "ass-backwards censoring minority" or whatever you guys have called it. If you think you aren't, read the other half of his comment.

To everyone demanding sexual liberation of the woman's body: would you mind if your father walked into the room, naked, right now? I'm not saying all Americans are uncomfortable with nudity. I'm just saying that it's way more than the minority.