Balatro ReRated, James Bond to Amazon and Genetically Modified Mosquitos

Author: Nerds Amalgamated
Published: Tue 04 Mar 2025
Episode Link: https://nerdsamalgamatedpod.captivate.fm

Balatro has been rerated after an appeal to PEGI. Now teenagers can legally play it.

Amazon now has full control over James Bond. They promise there won't be any TV shows, but it remains to be seen what they'll do with the narrative problems the last movie left them.

A company plans to release genetically modified mosquitos in Australia to control the spread of dengue fever. This can't go wrong at all. We don't have many movies telling us why we shouldn't do this at all.

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Rating change of Balatro

- Balatro's contentious PEGI 18 rating has been amended thanks to 'mitigating fantastical elements'

0 0 Bezos

- Timothy Dalton Laments Amazon’s “Sad” Deal To Take Creative Control Of James Bond

Release the GM Mozzies

- Scientists worried about CSIRO-backed plan to release genetically modified mosquitos in Queensland

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