Y'know, it's really fun going around casinos on the off season. These places have so much space, yet there's very little to do with it at this time. The money isn't there, so there aren't any shows or night-stuff. The hotels drain their pools to save the hassle. It's kinda neat! I got to walk around a lit up night club, or at least that's what I thought it was, it looked like they were setting it up as a stage. Another thing that tickles me are all the island themed things here, even though we're in a foresty-snowy~lake area. It's a tad bit queer, and it reminds me I rather be in Hawaii.
Something about bars with no patrons, or staff.
that looks amazing indeed
I miss the classic games, thew were fun.
Empty.
It's almost scary without the screaming kids.
>>12875961I'm surprised there isn't an abandoned Casino liminal spaces game yet, I've been in a completely empty huge one before, just myself and I'll tell you it is eerieYour fortune: Reply hazy, try again
>>12876490i know! I also think a survival horror game set in a casino also has potential- there's only Dead Rising 2 that comes to mind. The setting has a lot of possibilities with memorable setpieces and varied environments. Here's the inside of the club.
I think the restaurant was just closed.
my neck hurts
>>12875961The cyst behind my earlobe finally drained in the shower.
I wonder what the service halls in a casino look like.
What is this room even for.
>>12876490>>12876626that is an interesting idea since the architecture of these is legitimately designed to be maze-like and keep your trapped insideYour fortune: Reply hazy, try again
I like this shot, too. Could be a safe room.
This is a nice thread
>>12877280Yeah, I gotta think that would be neat. The backtracking would be crazy hectic.(Walking around here reminded me of trying to stay on time when playing DR2; I think the constant sensory could be a novel way to disorient the player's navigation.)
I'm not going to bump this thread
Mildly interesting bathroom.
Something about these mirrors.
No good games anymore, no fighting games besides the busted MVS with absolutely trashed membrane replacements.
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Change of pace- dead retail pics!
>>12880167we're getting Amozon'd prepare for cashless society and total information awareness
>>12880173there is no Triclosan in the rust belt.*sip*Your fortune: Very Bad Luck
>>12880173Personally, I'd hate no cash. Cash is what restrains me from spending my paycheck on stupid things like four fat PS3s in bulk.
The stalls used to have candy.
I wish I got this one while there was no one, but does that make it more or less eerie?
Something about how everything is lined up I find interesting.
I'll be slightly sad at department stores falling out of style, I miss going to them with my mother.
what are these picturesthey have souli love big abandoned buildings
I should come back here when it's night, those would look nice.
>>12880633Do it and post them
>>12881046Maybe tomorrow. I got some pictures of the office area.
I wanna get pictures of the mail room next time I'm here. I saw it on the way out.
>>12881326>>12881338nice
>>12875961so... they just let you wander around all these unused places? I'd have thought they'd shut it all up and just limit you to the gambling halls>>12876949>>12878132looks a like a green room, for acts to get ready before going on stage
covid did this.*sip*the desolation is real.brick and mortar retail is the foundation of a free society.cash in hand is the basis for equality and vibrant commerce.i am not a fan of online shopping.i have never used door dash.and i never will.these pictures are giving me the bad dreams :(Your fortune: Very Bad Luck
>>12880633two same numbers!
>>12875961ive worked at a few casinos, leading up to, during, and after the pandemic, n since then they've been pretty sparsely populated. even the one in KC which got decent business never really recovered to what it was before, + i was surveillance so i was keeping track of who was there, not rly taking in the desolaton. u never lose the regulars - crackheads n geriatrics at their skinner boxes, big money drug dealers laundering cash at blackjack, middle eastern oil barons n vietmamese guys playing baccarat - but it sure wasn't bustling. the empty facades and painted cielings made me feel like i was in an abandoned mall when i'd walk out on breaks to feed the fishes in the moat.when i moved back somewhere rural i started working a job that had me at a casino after close even though my position was, for most purposes, purely public facing n otherwise supervisory to staff who left at close - my only after-hours responsibilities being dealing with ATMs and count three days a week - so basically every night when i wasn't doing that or playing uno with security, i'd just walk the floor reading books in the emptiness among the lights and din of the machines. if it weren't for the fact my commute was an hour both ways i might have stayed. well that and i wrecked my car. still, it was a surreal, almost meditative experience, walking back and forth through this forest of tacky excess and faux opulence knowing it's responsible for the abject poverty of the community, despite also being one of the only things keeping the community afloat mostly due to taxes bc they sure as hell weren't gainfully employing anyone - the benefits were terrible and the pay was worse, the only thing of value it really provided to the workers was solidarity over how shitty it was to work there. i think casinos are among the most ontologically evil institutions allowed to exist in our society, and their decay does bring me joy, and yet there's a beauty in that decline, too.
>>12882602i dont really have any decent pictures of the interior of these places sadly cuz it was kinda strictly prohibited, which really sucks cuz im actually an avid photographer with a longstanding fixation on urban decay & i was surrounded by beauty. here's a couple drawings i made at work last year when there was nothing to do tho.Your fortune: ｷﾀ━━━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━━━ !!!!
>>12882602>>12882614anyways getting my degree and then immediately falling into a sector of the workforce like this right on the cusp of the biggest disaster the world has seen in decades and watching these places chug on draining the life out of the already suffering people purely to extract capital at the expense of everyone involved radicalized me real quick. they wanted my neck on the line at the height of a plague and they wouldn't give me more than $9 an hour to do it. and what should have been an in-between job at one of these places turned into a career trap real quick, i only had one job in the industry i meant to go into sandwiched between four different casino jobs, because the jobs i was looking for ceased to exist thanks to, to put it bluntly, capitalism replacing them with AI bullshit and an untenable gig economy. nobody should be subject to these conditions, they shouldn't exist. it's anti-human to the very core.Your fortune: Reply hazy, try again
mucho textoYour fortune: Very Bad Luck
>>12882649i thought it was a neat enough anecdote :(Your fortune: Godly Luck
>>12882656it is, actually, but it was still kind of rambly and just a lot to read>>12882602the whole gambling industry is such a fucking parasite on society. these polybetting apps that let you bet on wars and shit are fucking insane. and even the lottery which is touted as good because "it gives money to skewls!" is horseshit because whenever a school district starts getting money from the lottery guess what happens: cities lower their school budgets by the same amount so it's a net zero for them. gambling is a true american institution in the worst possible way.
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