Re: The Devil of Dave and Buster’s
Last month, Beej took me to his company Holiday party at Dave and Buster’s.
Dave and Buster’s is one of these theme restaurants we call “game bars”. It’s a glorified video arcade with a bar in the middle. However, the video games are usually pretty high-budget virtual-reality jobbies, and it’s a very popular hangout, especially for upscale Asian kids, for some reason.
Anyhow, Beej works for Activision, so it was actually a pretty logical place for them to have their party. I was at the end of a nasty flu, so I was in no condition to start up a game of Mechwarrior. I decided to hang out and watch other people. I noticed a small group of people watching someone play “Dawn of the Dead” or something: another one of those first-person shooters you play with those plastic handgun controllers. It was a small, pretty, Russian-looking woman with short hair, playing two-fisted and doing very well. She wore a tight cropped turtleneck, leather pants, and stiletto-heeled boots. She had pale skin with heavy black eye makeup and silver lip-gloss. Very cyberpunk.
Beej came over and said that a guy he worked with said this girl was famous around there for playing the entire game on one credit. Not only that, but “she’s the devil”. I watched her play the game for about a half-hour or so. A lot of guys were trying to get her attention, to no avail. She was totally into the game, smiling to herself. As predicted, she finished the game with no problem. Some of the braver guys came up to her and said, “Hey, nice job.” She smiled weakly at them, smoothed back her hair, picked up her long black coat and purse, and left the place, alone.
10:22:38 AM 
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