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Okay this is a 10 second clip of very cherry picker shots. The first one outside faces treasure Island, the sun is hitting it pretty hard, so I would say it's fairly early morning. Anyone who has ever been to Vegas will tell you that surprisingly, the floors are pretty empty in the morning. You know, because everyone is asleep.

This also could be a random Wednesday at 9am for all I know. Not exactly a reliable source here.

Not saying it's not down in numbers, but if you cherry pick your shots it will fit your narrative pretty easy

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.

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?

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.

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.

Canadians take our hedonism with a bit less BS. We’ll call when you’re sober.

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.

Won’t someone think of the day drunks

Vegas is a place for money cucks

Last time I went was about 2005. Is it really this bad?