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You don't care, do you? Over the summer, some massive renovations were completed under the SAU. The Ritz and the game room are now connected together. It's kind of a like a sports bar, minus the bar. Or the sports. The game room got some special work done on it too. So the story goes, there's a bad ass RIT alumni working at ESPN, and he managed to trickle down some money to RIT. This dough paid for most of the work. A testament to this is the "ESPN SportsCenter sports desk" they have at the end of the game room. For free, you and your buddy can get yourselves filmed behind this thing. I don't know what the limitations are; I haven't tried it yet.
On the other hand, after all this bitchin' work was finished on the game room, Namco closed down its contract with RIT. So a few days before classes began, they hauled out all the games. I am just a shitty GDT staff writer, not an established journalist, so I can't bother looking into the real reasons. Rather, I will just shit out some random speculation here and there.
My theory: Namco nailed the contract. RIT red-taped the crap out of it. Namco pulled out.
Obviously, the folks at Namco are much smarter people than your average RIT student. They were smart enough to pull out of a deal that was no good to them! Some may think it was the other way around. Namco has become the "evil empire" of arcade franchises, but this is RIT we're talking about. Think about it this way, who do you think has the bigger bureaucracy: RIT or Namco? Remember to excludeNamco's franchises and puppet groups because they don't count. Anyhow, I think RIT is the paper tiger here.
So what is a poor boy to do? We have to go to the mini-golf place off of Jefferson to get that authentic Dance Dance Revolution experience. And how am I going to take out frustrations when the infamous "Week 6 Syndrome*" kicks in? There's no more Marvel Versus Capcom to beat up on. All I can do is play 8 ball.
Ah, billiards, the game of physics. Angles, math, and forces. I suck at physics. I hate physics. Correction: I hate RIT physics, and I think playing pool on the RIT campus involves RIT physics. That's right, gentlemen, it's the rules of the jungle in the game room.
I guess I will just have to masturbate instead of play arcade games from now on. What is this world coming to? In closing, some haikus:
Namco pulled out
SportsCenter sports desk
Ayieee
Ayieee Aye
I'm your little butterfly
What is a sports bar?
Nobody to laugh
[Here's one representation the condenscending people around here]
In a layman's terms
You're not a gamer
So play pool with us
BTW -- I suck at haiku's. The only Japanese thing I can do well is Dance Dance Revolution.
*Week 6 in the engineering curriculum is traditionally worse, in my opinion, than finals week. This is because most classes have midterms that week, along with normal lectures and labs. It's not just the finals, but the whole nine yards. In closing, this is a difficulty/week graph to illustrate how I feel the quarter works:
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