I don't think that's gonna hold up in court.

If you bought a game, and they've made it so you cannot play the game that you paid for, they are taking the game from you. This is the whole point of Stop Killing Games.

Under SKG, the new title would effectively be forced to compete with the old despite the fact that the IP holder doesn't want that.

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Publishers shouldn't be able to erase existing games consumers have purchased so that new games don't have to compete with them. That's the equivalent of Disney confiscating all DVDs of the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy and destroying them so that the new MCU movies don't have to compete.

If their new products aren't good enough to compete with the old, tough shit. Not an excuse to confiscate and destroy what consumers already paid for.

Do you think the Civil Rights movement started and ended with Ruby Bridges?

I've never heard anyone say the Civil Rights movement was about enforcement of existing laws and rights. Segregation was the existing law that needed to be changed, not enforced.

I believe the Minecraft Hunger Games mod was where it all started.

Ah yes, SMB1, a game so rare they only printed 30 million copies.

The term "facial recognition" has a specific meaning. You are trying to break that down into the most literal interpretation of the word 'recognize', but that's not what the full term "facial recognition" means. Compound terms have more specific meanings that you cannot just redefine by taking part of the term out of context.

"Facial recognition" means using a picture of a face to identify who the person in the picture is. This has all sorts of privacy concerns, especially if it's done without consent.

"Face tracking", on the other hand, means simply tracking the position of facial features to map them onto and animate a 3D model. This is the same technology used to animate VTubers. As long as they're not using it to identify who that face belongs to, which we have no reason to believe that they are, this is harmless. Even if it truly scares you, you don't have to turn it on, this feature only works if you opt-in.

You might be surprised to hear that there's a lot of anime/manga about mahjong. I'm aiming to watch/read all of them (or at least what's available in English, there are even more manga series that are still untranslated).

Akagi is without a doubt the GOAT of this weird little subgenre.

Well that doesn't sound optimized at all.