I'm in Vegas right now, for the first time in my (Gen X) life. It is expensive as fuck.

Good, death to Vegas. Demon city

It's basically a monopoly now. Adelsons (Zionazis) ran it into the ground. That totally not Saudi-CIA-Mossad-ISIS arms deal gone bad shooting that Trump 1.0 covered up was the last time I was there.

I went there annually for about 10 years. Used to be I could take $20 and play quarter slots for an hour with a diverse arrary of games and odds. Now it's "penny" generic same shit where you need to put in at least $1.50 and maybe get $0.07 on a win - not even your bet back.

Hotel rates and fees are outrageous. No more cheap food. Even the buffets are ridiculously priced. Quality of the rooms nosedived too.

Shows can be cool. Circ de Solei is always a good time. Every now and then there were rando shows like Bruce Cambell doing a nerd trivia game show night. That guy is a serious lore keeper. Or Wayne Brady doing standup which is always fun. Hard to catch and then debate is it worth a plane gamble on Boeing and dealing with TSA shenanegans and cramper ass crowded long flights. I've avoided planes since like 2018.

Perfer regional road trips now. More economical. Hotels.com can score some decent deals. A co-worker of mine had a good time at Dollywood recently and I'm thinking that should be something to do soon before she passes and the quality control goes numb.

Las Vegas is like if enshittification were a city. The whole economic model was to make everything cheap and easy so that people would show up to gamble. Subsidize the flights, the hotels, the food, the entertainment, etc. and just make it up on the other side with people throwing money away on gambling. It worked for decades. Then a bunch of morons went "but what if we also tried to make money on all that stuff, too?" so they started getting rid of the deals and the freebies, they jacked up prices and found ways to upsell, they lowered the already-middling quality on everything, and they presumably made even more money for a few years.

But now there's no reason to go there in the first place. Almost anything you'd want to do in Las Vegas you could do better and for less money somewhere else. Of course young people aren't going to show up.

The younger generation just gambles on their phones now. DraftKings and FanDuel have created a whole new generation of gambling addicts, but they've lost too much of their money to go to Vegas even if they wanted to

Local catholic church here is doing its part to create young gamblers. They have a carnival every year and half of it is the typical carnival games where little kids just get their money taken. Those games hardly ever have anyone playing them. But toward the back you see the game ALL the kids AND their parents are playing. It's a game where you put dollars in wooden boxes that match odds to a color. Then once enough boxes have money in them the carnival person comes and puts the plexiglass cover down over them all and then throws a ball into a pit that has a bunch of colored cups. Whichever color cup the ball lands on wins and then they go around and add money to the boxes that won and take the rest of the money.

Kids sit there playing that for hours. Parents are there shelling out money and playing too while getting piss drunk. At a fucking church fundraiser carnival.

Let's also not forget that Canadians have by and large stopped travelling to The Burger Reich, I'm sure that hasn't been helping either.

wait, they made a city from fallout new vegas into a real thing?

Loss Vegas

I was there for work in my early 20's. I worked on the industrial solar farms that supply utility power.

Even with a $75 per meal per diem, hotels paid for, rental pickup truck, etc, I still had no desire to gamble. I mean I was mostly working 80 hour weeks and going out to dinner but the slots were everywhere, even gas stations and dive bars.

Used to be you could play penny slots and get free drinks. I doubt that's a thing anymore.

I did eat like a king tho. Steak and lobster like every night.

Vegas is fun and all but now it’s like super expensive to go. It used to be that it was cheap and then you spend all the money on gambling. Now is ridiculously expensive and then you have no gambling money

The city where you get blackout drunk and get married to a stranger? That Vegas?

Buddy, younger people just get blackout drunk and marry a stranger at the town/city hall these days. No-one has the money for a 20m^2^ chapel with an ordained Elvis impersonator anymore. Either that or just live with their polycule* and just not get married to a stranger you met day drinking alone on a weekday.

*Latest fad

They should implement some sort of gambling anime horse game. Should fix things.

soon the only tourists will be fans of fallout: new vegas. because of woke

Every photo of Vegas scream to me: "That's aesthetic that an American boomer loves", I don't know how that attract the younger generation, even excluding all the monetary problems.

The drop in international tourism can't be helping things either

It's probably gambling apps doing that actually, there's so fucking many of them