SFW toggle as in the game skipping sex scenes? though it's something to talk over with the rest of the teams when we're closer to release with the projects i'm working on right now, my personal preference as a writer is to not make narrative content optional. there's a lot of micro and macro stuff to think about in every scene and how it relates to the whole – pacing, structure, tone, genre, imagery, character psychology, etc – and people underestimate how difficult it is to deliver a satisfying experience with a highly nonlinear structure. i think that's something a lot of FVNs already struggle with for many reasons, and i will gladly take any opportunity to simplify the overall shape of the story.

that being said, it's worth mentioning that while some FVNs treat sex scenes as porny bonus content, i'm not really writing anything like that right now. if i do decide to write a sex scene, it's coming from a place of narrative importance (which can take many different forms!) anyway; if i come to the conclusion that i don't like it, i will just cut it for everybody.

also, i'm not sure if this is what the question was alluding to, but a toggle for censoring visual nudity is something i have considered if it would help people who want to stream FVNs on twitch, put playthroughs on youtube, etc. i'm not sure how those platforms feel about purely textual depictions of sex? if you're a person who is invested in or knows something about this, DM me somewhere, it would be interesting to hear more.

ok so let's think things through here: Bay's take on the franchise specifically emphasizes how, in addition to being a sort of sinister disguise, transformation literalizes the connection between a symbol and its ideological content. most Autobots are cars, and we're told over and over again that cars represent freedom, consumerism, luxury, the archetypical American teenagehood, etc, all of which are values the movies' so-called heroes align themselves with (until the CIA gets second thoughts in AGE OF EXTINCTION). so a lion's alt mode would obviously be adjacent to monarchy, maybe a warship named after a monarch or a specific fancy car used by one, since that's what lions are all about in our cultural imagination

kind of a difficult question because i do think that something being interesting enough makes it "not garbage" on some level. i guess these are some i genuinely can't defend as art but still had a blast watching.

LYCAN COLONY: one of the better "so bad it's good" movies, imo. it's rarely uninteresting because there's so much stuff happening all the time, and there's some self-awareness to how it treats itself as a work of the genre

THE LIVE-ACTION "SILVER FANG" (ANIME WHERE DOGS FIGHT BEARS, AMONG OTHER THINGS) MUSICAL: bad as a musical but i can't say that a single second was unpleasant to watch. and the show being so physically demanding that the actors look sweaty all the time certainly is something

THE EMOJI MOVIE: i think it's not as quite as bad as people say (there are a couple of genuinely good parts, like the environment designs, and the finnish dub rules), but it's strangely thrilling to watch how a very bad idea for a movie inevitably crashes and burns

THE BOOK OF HENRY: insane on a level difficult to comprehend without watching, impossible to engage with on an emotional level but baffling enough to be compelling

CATS (2019): terrible as a musical, tom hooper should have googled "music" before starting the project, but there are some images in there that will stay with me for the rest of my life