Comments on: Women and Twitter http://silona.org/women-and-twitter/2010/01/05/ silona's central identity Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:06:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: jrep http://silona.org/women-and-twitter/2010/01/05/comment-page-1/#comment-113 jrep Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:34:27 +0000 http://silona.org/?p=397#comment-113 I think you're right, that it's accessibility. My wife never got video games until Tetris. Then she never got another until Wii. And cooperation isn't enough: she won't touch two-player shoot-em-ups, like Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. Building isn't enough: she won't touch SimCity. But both of those are very complicated interfaces: loads of commands, loads of options to decide among constantly, loads of things to watch and note and factor in. I think you’re right, that it’s accessibility. My wife never got video games until Tetris. Then she never got another until Wii.

And cooperation isn’t enough: she won’t touch two-player shoot-em-ups, like Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell. Building isn’t enough: she won’t touch SimCity. But both of those are very complicated interfaces: loads of commands, loads of options to decide among constantly, loads of things to watch and note and factor in.

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