Sshhh! I'm in disguise!
Feb. 6th, 2009 05:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsThis afternoon, while I was walking to my haircut appointment, I walked passed Gameworks in downtown Seattle. Since I had a little time to kill, I slipped in to see what was what. I went in the back way, through the bar that's attached to the place. Nobody stopped me.
It seemed very odd, at first: for one thing, there was a buffet up in the back lounge, and secondly, it was pretty empty. There wasn't nearly the usual crowd there. I haven't been there in months, so at first I chalked that up to the economic downturn. But more than that the people there were all young and very, very geeky. Gameworks usually does a good job of attracting a diverse crowd, but everyone here was in their 20s or early 30s, and (and I hate to write this but, dammit, it's true) the number of bad complexions was far outside the standard deviation.
I didn't find what I wanted (a working Defender), so I tried to leave. The main doors were locked! Concerned, I went back out through the bar, then around to the front again to see if there was something indicating why those doors were locked.
A sign read Closed for private event: Microsoft Silverlight 2 Release Party.
I walked away, whistling innocently.
It seemed very odd, at first: for one thing, there was a buffet up in the back lounge, and secondly, it was pretty empty. There wasn't nearly the usual crowd there. I haven't been there in months, so at first I chalked that up to the economic downturn. But more than that the people there were all young and very, very geeky. Gameworks usually does a good job of attracting a diverse crowd, but everyone here was in their 20s or early 30s, and (and I hate to write this but, dammit, it's true) the number of bad complexions was far outside the standard deviation.
I didn't find what I wanted (a working Defender), so I tried to leave. The main doors were locked! Concerned, I went back out through the bar, then around to the front again to see if there was something indicating why those doors were locked.
A sign read Closed for private event: Microsoft Silverlight 2 Release Party.
I walked away, whistling innocently.
