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  • Half of US adults can’t read at a 6th grade level. This is haunting.

    Some strikingly high percentage can’t complete complicated tasks on a computer (eg: find 3 user email addresses and add them to a spreadsheet).

    Reading the manual is good advice but I think some people are just left behind



  • The world of darkness games can run like this. If you play new vampires, there’s going to be a whole political landscape that is at best neutral to you. Same with Mage. The other types probably also, but I don’t know them as well.

    It does have a paradoxical element in that your character will be a big fish as far as the mundane world is considered. A freshly statted vampire or mage is far more powerful than a mundane person.

    It does have paths for players to become big fish, too





  • Yeah, that would help. There’s also the smaller risk of “I was going to click on something else, and this new window popped in under the mouse”

    I think some applications also don’t accept input for the first couple seconds to prevent this. I vaguely remember something that had the dialogue boxes count down from 5 before you could click or keyboard-interact them.

    Feels like the kind of problem with a lot of edge cases, but even catching 70% of the problems would be a big improvement