Went to Vegas recently. I went there in 2005, then in 2012. So can’t say my brain remembered a lot of it.
Yeah it was as quiet as the video at the casinos I was in.
In the shopping areas, it was significantly busier. But not in the casino floor.
Again, I didn’t think anything about it as I dont have context if this is supposed to be packed or not.
What I do know is I paid $22 for nachos for my buddy and I. We had to throw half of it away because the portions were like for five people. Later we went to get a beer at a bar, and it was $14. I also had to carshare everywhere because it’s not a walking city.
That’s not great, but not unprecedented. This clip is most likely cherry picked.
Was there a few weeks ago.
This was my experience. I didn’t think anything of it. I hate busy places.
I’m guessing it’s supposed to be way more crowded than this?
It still shows a drastic reduction in crowd size. Just a year ago it would have been difficult to get clear shots of any of those places.
Was there last month, was as busy as ever before. I like the theory that this was early morning or otherwise taken out of context. Sure, it’s down, but not a ghost town
Because you can gamble online now, right?
That’s probably a large part of it. I’d also like to point out that significantly fewer Americans have disposable income now
I don’t know about the demographic who visits Vegas but where I grew up, it was mostly Asians who loved to gamble at the Indian casinos.
And we’ll, ICE ain’t making it friendly right now to be a tourist.
The poor used to gamble as a way to (unsuccessfully) get more money. The 1% never filled the floors. But they did bring in lots of money.
Gambling for the 1% has largely been about money laundering.
Canadians take our hedonism with a bit less BS. We’ll call when you’re sober.
I wonder if they could get more people in there by having tables where you could play Smash Bros. or Red Alert 2 against house players for money. Every game of poker or blackjack I’ve ever played I lost hard and had no fun, but if I could pay a professional to absolutely crush me at Street Fighter, I might be inclined to go into a casino for that kind of treatment.
Won’t someone think of the day drunks
I have no idea how half those store in that Venetian mall stay in business. I went to VMware Explore this year and there were quite a few people attending but very few of those stores had any body in them. The food places seem to do ok but the high end stores were just empty. I can’t imagine the rent is cheap enough to keep them open. It was kinda sad actually. Reminded me of going into the dead malls around here.
Vegas is a place for money cucks
Last time I went was about 2005. Is it really this bad?
