The Mirage casino, which ushered in an era of Las Vegas Strip megaresorts in the '90s, is closing
The Mirage casino, which ushered in an era of Las Vegas Strip megaresorts in the '90s, is closing
The July 17 closure will clear the way for major renovations and construction on the property, which is to reopen in 2027 as the Hard Rock Las Vegas, featuring a hotel tower in the shape of a guitar.
I puked in the ashtray in a hallway there once.
So many memories.
Is closing to be replaced by something more gaudy.
It does feel kinda weird when one of those old casinos actually closes.
But when I was visiting my brother last, he said one cool thing he likes about Vegas is that it's always new. Whereas places like New York, Chicago, St. Louis are old cities with a lot of old architecture, which can be beautiful, Las Vegas is like constantly changing it up so there's almost always something new.
At least Terry Benedict still has two other casinos.
"If you guys are going after Terry Benedict, you better goddamn know..."
I love that first one. The sequels are good too, but that first one is the best.
oh no that's terrible
Enshittification comes for Vegas. The money will still flow, you'll just get less actual entertainment for it.
How rapidly that word has become meaningless. It just means “I want to bitch about something” now.
While I agree with you, I do also feel like everything in the world has gotten shittier.
Except I will justify this as enshittification because: online sports betting, gacha mobile games, and online slots have taken over for free entertainment, ridiculously cheap high quality food, and a tourism entertainment, because the prior is cheaper to maintain, quicker to deploy, and more easily accessible to the average user, and the latter required more upkeep, more American jobs, and wasn't as obscenely profitable (somehow....)
So yes, this is a pretty text book example of the Internets enshittification of a market.
I'm interested to see how I'm just using this as "I want to bitch about something", because I honestly disliked Vegas and have never been a big gambler (though every time I have, I've walked away with a profit, but I don't think I'll tell you my strategy, 100% guaranteed low stakes winnings, because your energy is too damn negative, and I don't wish you any happiness in life, besides that I hope you have a wonderful Friday.)
I mean this implies that Vegas was ever good. A position I will argue strongly against.
The thing about Vegas is that they have figured out, no matter who you are, a way to extract money out of you.
In this thread, people so excited to point at "the person using the word wrong" they haven't considered that the Internet is really fucking Vegas up right now, and the thousands of wage slaves that find their honest lively-hood there.