Your not supposed to see that, Truman!
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I zoomed in a bit for you....
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 ❤️🔥
Cat absolutely shocked at the price of cheezburgers.
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.
What am I looking at? Why is there a hole in our reality?
Don't look up!
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.
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.
lol. Before i saw the title I thought an AI had hallucinated a down facing solar panal inside a cloud. 😅
There's a glitch in the matrix
I FUCKING KNEW IT!
THE SKY IS FALLING THE SKY IS FALLING
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.
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