No, you don't have permission to turn 16

Will you accept a picture of two eight year olds?

I'm guessing with 2. I don't need to do anything?

Oof, you just have to say that today‽ After my terrible performance on yesterday's Connections?

Is it ok if I turn 16 on December 11th?

Do kids still watch round the twist when the teacher can’t be assed teaching that day?

I do worry where this is going as more countries do this kind of shit.

These strategies are quite nice. I was worried I would have to show my license which I’m not entirely comfortable with. I can easily talk about how my friend skateboarded to my house after the breakfast club first aired so we could excitedly discuss it and I could take a photo of drinking a pint while driving. Easy.

I don't envy your position.

I'm certain that this new law has nothing to do with protecting children, and only exists to provide a way for AI companies to start making money.

Colour me shocked

Thanks for your efforts.

You can delete this account if you feel the need to, not interested in all verification stuff, even if is half arsed.

Actually joined the Internet when I was 16 back in 1994. Back then using Excite to search the Internet was better than what Google is today.

Was that my bald head?

I can vouch for Zagorath being one foot in the grave.

Nobody under 18 could play Connections like Zaggy.

One of the places I work at has a display cabinet showing historical media formats and devices, seeing things in it like the zip disc and the Sony camera that took floppies always makes me feel like Elrond:

Well the Mighty Boosh was 20 years ago, and I have clearly drunk baileys from a shoe...

.. but in seriousness thanks Nath. Love this little corner of the interwebs and appreciate you dealing with this stupidity to keep it rolling

No

Sofia always rained on Blanche the horn dogs brigade. Does that work lol

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I likely won't be able to do it in time.

Yeah same. I'm currently overseas and still will be on the 10th. I don't drink, and I'm born in the earlyish noughties so I can't provide a very convincing spiel.

I played those too when they came out

This one's more my era: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoombinis

Or: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putt-Putt_(series)

No. You won't be included in the compilation of compliant users when we go through the messages.

I think this was my first game as a little tacker. Text based.

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Castaway_1986

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/castaway-gjc

Nothing immediately. Unless you claim to be a child and then we're legally obligated to ban you. But if you don't send a message, we will still need verification at a later time.

Please do it. We know it's dumb. None of this is our idea. It's already work reading the responses. It'll be more work to actually chase users later. So you'll help our overall workload if you take your name off the list of users who need to be verified later.

Annoyingly I deleted my MySpace, Friendster and all my old school forums are gone.

My first Facebook account probably is 16 (late adopter) but I shut it down and wouldn’t be sharing that anyway