| === izdubar is now known as MarkDude | ||
| DarkNemesis | Almost half the people who play computers games in Britain are women, but they often prefer a different type of game http://bit.ly/aRmd3C | 09:33 |
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| elky | Is this the one that puts the women in their 40s? | 09:36 |
| AlanBell | elky: can you see the video? | 09:37 |
| elky | I'm arguing with flash at the moment it seems | 09:37 |
| elky | or whatever codec it is | 09:37 |
| AlanBell | probably with BBC geocoding too | 09:37 |
| elky | i just have a black square | 09:38 |
| DarkNemesis | elky, i dunno... i'm a woman/lass/girl/etc in her 20's | 09:38 |
| AlanBell | hmm, it should say "go away you foreiger" or words to that effect I think | 09:38 |
| AlanBell | anyhow it is showing a car racing game with a 14 year old lad playing it | 09:39 |
| AlanBell | and saying his mum plays MahJong | 09:39 |
| AlanBell | and saying facebook games like farmeville are for women | 09:39 |
| elky | DarkNemesis, so am I, but i recall seeing some research a few months back about women in their 40s being the leading game playing demographic | 09:39 |
| elky | AlanBell, ok, so it probably is riffing off the same research I'm thinking about | 09:40 |
| DarkNemesis | elky, ahh ok, well first game i played was green bottles on the bbc micro | 09:40 |
| AlanBell | elky: could be. It is basically pointing out that the non-action games industry is pretty big and targeted at women | 09:41 |
| elky | AlanBell, it's around the right timeframe for mainstream media. | 09:42 |
| AlanBell | some joyful advertiser pointing out all the crap they can sell to women when they are in a "receptive state of mind" | 09:43 |
| elky | But yeah, it's interesting how the topic of a game changes who plays it. When it's not about the topics of games that do antisocial things, people who don't like antisocial things play the games. Funny that. | 09:43 |
| AlanBell | the advertiser was a woman btw | 09:43 |
| elky | As compared to the amount of product placement guys get (which is probably more) I'd say she was asked a leading question to get that comment. | 09:44 |
| elky | This is probably not -project discussion though, so lets stop clogging up the logs. | 09:45 |
| AlanBell | yup | 09:45 |
| loverkiss | And why do nobody not write ? | 20:39 |
| pleia2 | loverkiss: this is the project channel for Ubuntu Women, apparently no one has anything to say about work they're doing on the project right now :) | 20:41 |
| loverkiss | pleia2 , ;-P | 20:45 |
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