This isn't a gotcha thing I'm doing, I was watching this AI vs artist Arch was doing where he did one before with black April O'Neil and he's done another with dark skin Velma this time. Some flaws here and there but a massive improvement over the HBO show, at one point, he puts out the idea with what I like to refer to as 'milfy Velma' was having it that she was detached from the group, is a reporter herself and events brings her back with her old friends, so like the show just, not shit.
One of the immediate things that detached me from even trying to watch it was how ugly the self insert Velma was yet if this AI made hotter Velma was in it, I might at least give it an episode.
But a key part of this is that watching shows is passive, you're not interacting so for games it depends for me. Does it fit the setting as if it's a game about giant mechs then it isn't really a factor. If there's character customisation beyond just selecting outfits, then it becomes a big factor as if I want to create a really hot character, the game itself shouldn't limit me. Same as if there's 'romance' choices and all of them are fugly.
I've gotten to the point where having attractive guys but ugly women in a game is a massive red flag for me as then it means this is a self insert game and there's likely to be a lot of ideology in the narrative too. So just want to hear your guys takes if having attractive female characters even affects the shows and games you play/watch.
Yes.
I want attractive characters. People want attractive characters. When people make mods for games, what's the first thing they do? Make all the characters they interact with attractive.
This really shouldn't be some biblical revelation, but I suppose we've gotten to the point where these various DIE hires are so up in their own little bubble that they don't actually interact with real people, or the 'sweaty gamers' they sell this stuff to.
I suppose the question that comes is, would you give a show like Velma a chance if we got hot milfy version the AI made over what we got or would hearing the plot be more important to you?
Velma is shit no matter how pretty you make it out to be. The ugly and lack of quality go hand in hand like the red flag you mentioned.
But I will say: if someone were to tweak the color levels on Death from that Sandman tv show so she ends up paperwhite, it doesn't even need to look good, just make her a white shape with black hair, I'd watch the show even if its dog shit just to see what the show is about. Hey, maybe deepfake the dialog to clean up the woke shit to boot.
God... now I'm remembering that terrible watchmen tv show, these people really are monsters.
You have a point, when you are creating an attractive or pretty character, you're intentionally thinking what would appeal to an audience so more chance you try to make a good story with it. Whether that lands or not, eh we've seen plenty of flops with good looking characters but no ill will to know that's always a risk.
Compared to a self insert ugly character, you're already putting yourself and/or ideology first so you're already creating an atmosphere of hostility towards a potential audience.
Most of those AI edits wouldn't scare me off a show. Excluding the trampy and slutty ones. Still I don't think you'd get me to watch Velma specifically from it. I can't think of one nostalgia reboot I've ever liked. I want my nostalgia to stay in the past. If you were offering some other show I was interested in then we're good to go.
Yeah even if Velma was hot I'd have written the show off for the race-swap bullshit, just knowing it's the tip of the woke iceberg of shit to come. That, and the fact that I'm far too old to be watching those kinds of kids shows in the first place.
I tend to hate to gatekeep things by age, like the adage of what adult things are. Like I'd argue a lot of video games, books, some anime, etc. that would be thought of as kids things really aren't exclusive to that.
Whereas so many of these "adult" things are locked in the mind of a 13 year old boy. The people that think they are mature because the movie they watched had a vagina in it, or a Scooby Doo show for adults because "haha Shaggy said penis and they want to fuck". As far as I'm concerned all that stuff is for adult babies.