[09:33] <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
[09:36] <elky> Is this the one that puts the women in their 40s?
[09:37] <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
[09:38] <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
[09:39] <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
[09:40] <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
[09:41] <AlanBell> elky: could be. It is basically pointing out that the non-action games industry is pretty big and targeted at women
[09:42] <elky> AlanBell, it's around the right timeframe for mainstream media.
[09:43] <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
[09:44] <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.
[09:45] <elky> This is probably not -project discussion though, so lets stop clogging up the logs.
[09:45] <AlanBell> yup
[20:39] <loverkiss> And why do nobody not write ?
[20:41] <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 :)
[20:45] <loverkiss> pleia2 , ;-P