#megaten yhvh

[riotgrrrlkat]

Found Ichiro Dazai's reddit account

[storminaviavertical]

Doesn’t that suck

[megamitenseifun]

YHVH 真・女神転生2 Megami Tensei

[martianmantakemebythehand]

'EL ELOHIM ELOHO ELOHIM SEBAOTH'

'ELION EIECH ADIER EIECH ADONAI'

'JAH SADAI TETRAGRAMMATON SADAI'

'AGIOS O THEOS ISCHIROS ATHANATOS'

'AGLA AMEN'

SHIN.MEGAMI.TENSEI

[smt-smash-or-pass]

[foundfamilyhq]

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THE END OF THE SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI II STREAM

TONIGHT, July 28th, 8:00 PM EST/7:00 PM CST, we're finally sheathing our Skrep in Shin Megami Tensei II! Join us for the grand finale as we slip the surly bonds of earth and autobattle the face of God! Tonight!!!

Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/streamingknowledge

Archive: https://www.youtube.com/@streaming_knowledge

[vinegar-on-main]

Edit: showed this to my friend and she said they look like official artwork. Op you are amazing.

@beantothemax @meme-boys-blog morning boys, have some peak

[eleemosynecdoche]

Had a flash of insight about Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, which despicably now must forever be qualified as Soul Hackers 1, today. Namely: Nemissa is Hitomi's online persona, symbolically and more than a little literally.

Nemissa talks as if she's been in Hitomi for much longer than the... maybe single day she's been in Hitomi for by the time the clothes shopping event happens. She's "always" hated Hitomi's wardrobe for being too drab. She talks to the other Spookies extremely familiarly. Nobody else can tell that Nemissa looks extremely different from Hitomi, bar perhaps her hair color changing. Nemissa's magic spells are determined by what the player thinks of Hitomi.

The simplest explanation is that Nemissa is what Hitomi wishes she was- bolder, able to dress how she pleases, strong and confident. Overconfident, a little bit childish or chūnibyō, because Nemissa, like Manitou, is a mirror, or perhaps a computer system. You get out what you put in. (And because Manitou is being accessed by so many people through Paradigm X, their sprite is a "golden human" like YHVH, Yaldabaoth, or Mem Aleph, being literally torn apart. Revealing snaking cables beneath.)

Of course, Soul Hackers as a text is frightened of the Internet and its possibilities, so a peaceful coexistence between the online handle/persona Nemissa and the meatspace self Hitomi isn't really possible within its spaces.

The overall paranoid stylings of the first two Devil Summoner games probably dictate some of this as well- the supernatural presence is associated with a grand conspiracy to unveil the gruesome historical foundation of the present day, and by integrating and accepting that foundation, the supernatural fades away. Megaten games are almost relentlessly secular-humanist in outlook, to the point where it can sometimes feel a little bit like being religious in their cosmology inevitably means being a puppet of dark forces.

[riotgrrrlkat]

When god is like YHVH, even law fans hate him.

[storminaviavertical]

Naoya hates God

[vinegar-on-main]

@meme-boys-blog

December 1 2023

it’s okay jouhei. it could be worse.

[eirikrjs]

Do you think the “YHVH/Abrahamic religions vs everyone else” angle is overused?

Of course, it's been three games in a row. They literally killed YHVH off in SMT5 and they still couldn't get away from this. They wanted to copy Nocturne so bad but they couldn't quite leave the Maniacs version behind, it seems. This is just how things are now.

I'm just shocked that, looking back, now that we know Mem Aleph really is just an original character with nothing to do with Yahweh, Strange Journey managed to avoid the cliche. Thanks, Barbara Walker!

[velvetpaku]

i finally beat smt2 today and literally all I was thinking this entire fight was

"THIS ONE'S FOR NAOYA-NIISAN U BITCH!!!!"

[landoftheway]

So I noticed a parallel.