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.
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.