So 2022 updates. Several things have happened over these few years: a global pandemic decimating world economies, tourism, and the F&B industry, and there was also my MaxRates Facebook account being disappeared for refusing to provide Meta with my legal identification documents after being reported for a lack of full legal name registration. Perhaps that was an indirect consequence from forthright reviews such as the one of Kumoya’s 2019 Pusheen cafe collaboration, which also happens to be the one with the most traffic here, but who can say. Either way I’ve sternly withheld my delicate personal information from Meta’s Facebook, so of course I’m still providing them data on Instagram…

What’s on the Table

The partner has been doing a very delicious job all pandemic to keep me, a picky hard-ass, well-fed. As we ease into lowered restrictions, we’re back to buying take-out beyond our tiny kitchen’s culinary reach. At some point I’m probably going to talk about some of these dishes that I’ve gone out of my way to ravenously grab when I just so happen to be outdoors. This potential run of reviews may sound uncharacteristically joyful.

A New Yardstick: the Again Gauge

Speaking of joys, I am also easing into a more qualitative (and perhaps gentler and kinder) measure of Max Rat(ing) now that I am consuming rateable things again, because it was ironically hard to qualify what could possibly disappoint so much or be so mind blowing that the extremities of 1 or 5 could be practically used, especially across different stratas of food and other reviewable things.

As such, my partner helped me decide on the Again Gauge, as follows:
Never Again, the extreme end of distaste, to AGAIN! with Feeling, the extreme end of desire.
In between lies the spectrum of feelings like Not Again, Maybe Again, Once Again, AGAIN! and other qualitative but specific opinions.

Hopefully this new mode of measurement will retain – or improve! – the same MaxRates functionality. It’s time to MaxRates Again!