I zoomed in a bit for you....
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Ceiling cat is watching you gamble away your future.
Technically, where this is in The Venetian is where all the shops are, no gambling.
So Ceiling Cat is more watching you shop away your future.
Are you sure? Those machines on the bottom left of the image certainly look like a slot machine, or something like it. I guess it could be advertising it for something somewhere else?
Oi, I missed Ceiling Cat more then I thought.
It's lonely, masturbating without anyone watching me.
Don't be sad...!
... I'm watching you ❤️🔥
Aw, thank you, friendly NSA agent!
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Cat absolutely shocked at the price of cheezburgers.
Your not supposed to see that, Truman!
I am okay watching Las Vegas crumble to dust.
Yep. Place is falling apart while simultaneously getting more expensive than ever. They're trying to charge ultra-premium prices for the memory of how things used to be, while constantly skimping on maintenance and upgrades. We're definitely in the decline of Vegas era.
No more free drinks. Shit is expensive. Hotels want city prices. Nah.
If I want to get drunk and lose money, I'll buy a bottle of Everclear and install Kalshi.
Huh. Anyone want to form a company to build a spaceship to travel to a nearby exoplanet?
Vegas can be pretty fun for a non-gambler.
I've been there. I don't gamble, yet it was fun. I don't think I'd go again, but a vacation is a vacation and the price could be right.
The big draw to me and, subconsciously, I'd bet most people, is that it's walkable. You can arrive by plane, taxi to the hotel, and not need a car until you leave for the airport. I walked 7 miles on the day I went around the different casinos to see the "architecture", including the one you've pictured, without ever really exiting an entertainment area. Other days were under 3 miles. One day, I saw a comedy show, a magic show, and an EDM set (concert?) and walked to each. Plenty of places to eat and drink, easy enough to find something between your hotel and destination to break the walk in half. Prices matched what I've seen in major cities.
So why wouldn't I go again? Because I live by a major city already. With a little extra walking to get through residential blocks, I can get about the same experience. Travel to the city is the hangup, as it likely means a car for 90% of the area. If everyone is getting inebriated, that's obviously an issue for the return drive. So, sure, Vegas is cool in that everyone can imbibe and no one has to take the brunt of the responsibility. It certainly has a particular flavor to it's shows in both style/genre and quality, being it's a world-renowned city.
But I would get baja blasted in the Taco Bell bar again.
Is it more interesting now? As a child who went there in the 90s for the summer, it was pretty boring. We'd go to the ymca more than anything on the strip.
What am I looking at? Why is there a hole in our reality?
Don't look up!
I think it's the ceiling inside this hotel.
and... there are buildings and street lights Inside this hotel?
Yep!
And a gondola river.
I first thought you were kidding me.
So this is actually indoor?
yes it's actually indoors. when well maintained, the ceiling looks quite realistic in my opinion. I've been there a few times.
The water kills the immersion. I can clearly see through at least a few centimeters of it, which could never happen in Venise
Doesn't look like anything to me.
There's a glitch in the matrix
That area is pretty cool, though it looks more convincing in photos (due to depth perception). It reminds me of the wall paintings in California Adventure.
Have some alcohol, don't look directly at the ceiling. But I think I was still stuck in this uncanny feeling where the sky was a bright blue (midday color) but the lighting level was sunset without the orange hue. So I guess it felt fake to me regardless as I begrudge the casino industry and their bullshittery aesthetic.
lol. Before i saw the title I thought an AI had hallucinated a down facing solar panal inside a cloud. 😅
THE SKY IS FALLING THE SKY IS FALLING
I FUCKING KNEW IT!
A glitch in the matrix?
Gonna be honest, I respect them a little for doing this.
You know those folk who are addicted to the slots? The ones who consider wearing diapers and catheters because every second away from their machines is a second not gambling?
They put skylike covers on the fluorescent lamps in many hospitals because seeing something that looked like sky made the patient's less depressed. This probably has similar effect. Like, go casino for at least doing the slightest for their addicts' mental health (while picking their pockets and giving them a place to play and to hang out, let's look at the whole picture)
This part isn't in the casino - it's in the mall (there's a huge mall in this place that has canals running through it). The casino looks like.... a casino (loud, ugly ass carpet to make you look forward, maze of confusing stuff everywhere to keep you wandering around, etc).
What's the barriers and scaffolding under it; it looks like they're doing construction, where it makes sense to have to open the ceiling? Are they setting up a stage/restaurant/shop? A hole in the ceiling is normal if they're installing something that needs top lighting under it?
I would be very surprised if they decided to install top lighting in their sky-painted ceiling that has no other lights in it and is clearly designed to be lit from below to give the impression of outdoors.
It's possible there was a leak that caused a section of the roof to collapse, or maybe there's something above they have no other way of accessing. It's weird seeing it in this half-repaired state
Its place in the order of simulacra just went down a notch
It is not that the sky in the Venetian is not real, rather the sky in the Venetian exists to hide the fact that the sky outside the Venetian is no longer real
Well that’s depressing
It's just exactly right, isn't it?
Sky so realistic they installed solar panels