i agree i find it weird and sort of creepy when people start going on about how hot video game characters are
Couple thoughts on this (honed over years of "ew! cooties!" threads on WoW general

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1. people can find a person "attractive" without it being some sleazy six thing, and
2. people have been making representations of "attractive" people in art for thousands of years.... charcoal, watercolor, oils, marble, photographs, pixels - it's all the same. Looking at a picture - in whatever form - and saying "That's a good-looking man/woman/landscape/whatever" is perfectly valid. (Heck, it even works with particularly vivid text.)