Yeah, true. I think I maybe misunderstood your OP - I thought you were looking to replace ages ratings entirely, as opposed to combining them with something more informative. Something like that could be useful, for sure.

Oh come on, that might do billions of dollars worth of improvements.

There’s a characteristically interesting look at this by David Allen Green, including:

one would think it unlikely that the British state would prosecute a famous Irish author and an even more famous publishing house. But little about the terrorism law of the UK makes sense at the moment, since the ludicrous decision of then home secretary Yvette Cooper and the Home Office to proscribe what is essentially a direct-action protest group as a terrorist organisation.

His view is that they must think there’s a reasonable chance of it coming to pass or they wouldn’t be taking the financial hit.

Of course, it’s great publicity for them and her, so maybe it balances out in the end.

Depends what ratings are intended to do - if they are just to be informative for potential viewers then the kind of system you propose sounds good.

But, if the main purpose is to legally restrict access based on age, such ratings wouldn’t really do the job.

Plus, of course, there’s quite a range within each category - language could mean something as innocuous as “bum”, or something as deeply offensive as “Belgium” or “Barbara Streisand”.

I suppose you could have age ratings for each subcategory - L18, V12, N0, S0, D15, but it’d start to get complicated pretty fast. Plus, presumably, whatever the highest of those ratings was would still be the overall rating. At which point we’re back where we started.

There are loads of such channels, of course, but I really like Chess Strategy for a range of puzzles and studies of varying levels of difficulty.

It won’t necessarily teach you how to win a game from start to finish, but it’s helped me see move possibilities. And it’s just fun in general, the host is great.

She must be getting VERY well paid to keep coming back.

Wow, so good to have a guarantee of at least 4 years… 🙄

Seconded. I don’t have a tablet, but I use Total on my phone and I’m very happy with it.

It requires a bit of work to get it set up, but the trade off is how massively customisable it is.

Oh yeah, I know - I just meant that someone might have (erroneously) changed it in the backend of whatever site that is. Was always a long shot though.

Ah well, that sucks. Sorry, hope you can find a way to read it again 👍

Is there any chance it’s showing as unavailable because they’ve renamed it to Mickey 17? I’m sure you’ve checked that, but just in case…

No, it’s not true.

They need to consider the difference between having something to hide and having something to protect. Privacy is something to protect, regardless of what it might be in aid of.

How bizarre.

Oh weird. It definitely was there before, just as shown in the screenshot in the OP.

That looks fantastic. I’ve played and beaten the game on both the N64 and the Wii, but to enter that world again with it looking so good… very tempting 😁

Here’s the post: https://bsky.app/profile/dpad.fm/post/3muymx7dmms2i

I fully expect to start hearing about personalised scams, using AI to mimic the voice or even the image (via video call) of people’s loved ones, in order to get the mark to send money urgently. Old scam, new tools 😞

It’s very recently closed its doors, sadly, but you’d be hard pressed to find a more specific shop than long-time Edinburgh landmark, Borland’s:

Right, ta.