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.

This was in the JP Nintendo Direct but not the English one, so for a minute I was wondering if this might not be getting localized. Why’d they leave it out?

Yes, I remember.

I know the hivemind around here has some pretty strong opinions about Nintendo, but I do appreciate that their games still feel normal when nearly every other AAA has pretty thoroughly enshittified.

Arcades have always been about providing experiences you can’t get at home, but they’ve had to repeatedly pivot what those experiences are. First that meant playing games at all, before home consoles existed. When home consoles became a thing, arcades still had cutting-edge hardware better than what you could get at home. During the Street Fighter boom, arcades were a social hangout to play multiplayer. But now we have much better home consumer hardware, and we have the internet for multiplayer, so every game that can be played at home has no real need for an arcade.

There are still four things left you can find in arcades but not (common) consumer hardware. Gambling for kids, racing games with an immersive setup, rhythm games with increasingly wacky control schemes, and pinball. Modern arcade rhythm games are actually going through a bit of a renaissance right now and I’m here for it.

Glad that Namco finally remembered the 2D games exist, surely they can’t fuck this port up (right? right???).

Really just hoping they’ll give us anything we don’t already have in the west. Destiny DC+2, Phantasia PSP, Rebirth.

It wasn’t completely ignored, but I have a little bit of a chip on my shoulder that Apocalypse Hotel didn’t get way more recognition than it got. Should’ve won all the awards.

Going back a little deeper, I can’t pretend to be surprised that Akagi isn’t mainstream, but Kaiji by the same mangaka deserves more popularity. It’s a tragedy that the anime ends at part 2 when part 3 was the peak.

95 minutes? Wowza, big one.

Oh, Direct is 50m, Treehouse is 95m. Yeah that makes more sense.

I would say truly good word usage should go unnoticed. If the fact that you’re using a lot of big words sticks out, that means you’re using too many.

I really wish this hadn’t been turned into a SF6 ad.

I believe the meta is to not play Symphonia 2.

Holy shit, forgot all about that one but just hearing the title took me way back. What a time capsule to look back on.

Maybe some of those accents haven’t aged so well though…

Akagi. Can I also count Saki as a battle shoujo?

They don’t. I know one indie developer once privately told me they wished they could.

Steam has far greater reach than 4chan. 4chan is the quarantine in your analogy, everyone else left that Nazi Bar after /pol/ happened.

If you think you can teach the average Steam user critical thinking skills, I welcome you to go ahead and try. Have fun.

Forcing the most radical extremists underground won’t deprogram them, but it will make it significantly more difficult for them to spread propaganda. The point of deplatforming is to shut down the pipeline so that fewer people get radicalized.

I never said Steam was the only website on the internet with problems. But I’m replying to a thread specifically about Steam.

Steam Forums are slowly devolving into one of the worst right-wing incubators because they refuse to proactively moderate. Any time a game gets declared a target by the post-Gamergate crowd, the boards become flooded with propaganda, and Valve does not care.