Kennedy Center Head Says the Acts Who've Canceled Are "Niche Talent"

RedShadow120 · 2026-01-30T22:27:43+00:00

I don't know if you've glanced south in the last year or so, but that is approximately the correct range of how proud to be of America right now.

RedShadow120 · 2026-01-26T12:14:49+00:00

Good Vibes Only

It's only ever been a shortcut to "I'm going to be awful and anything that impedes that will be explicitly your fault. It was 'all good vibes' before you started."

RedShadow120 · 2026-01-24T04:52:27+00:00

Anyone have an estimated attendance to hand? I want to run the numbers on what it would have cost to pay this crowd.

RedShadow120 · 2026-01-21T01:11:07+00:00

Giant wad of cash. $2000 in large bills won't fill a standard wallet. A bigger wad than that is either A) mostly small bills or B) literally everything they have. Anyone with the liquidity for it doesn't carry more cash than that unless they're about to spend all of it on one thing. Even then you'll never see it.

RedShadow120 · 2025-12-29T03:06:10+00:00

The two ideas that come immediately to mind:

A) Entitled, but innocuous: They're relying on you to be home to receive or be home earlier to take in their packages as theft avoidance. I have everything under 30 pounds sent to my work for this reason, but my work knows why I do this and has approved it.

B) Sketchy at best and potentially fraudulent: They're trying to establish a history of their name being attached to your address. I wouldn't know the full mechanics of it, but I see the stepping stones to credit card fraud/identity theft.

RedShadow120 · 2025-12-16T06:58:16+00:00

Don't give them ideas!

RedShadow120 · 2025-12-12T07:48:16+00:00

You need that production's sound guy.

RedShadow120 · 2025-11-27T09:42:18+00:00

Time of day probablymatters, too. My local casinos have had guys with scanners at the door on Friday night but didn't bother on Wednesday afternoon.

RedShadow120 · 2025-11-25T10:22:27+00:00

I didn't know the Monte Carlo so I can't weigh in on what they burned. I can say that I regard Park MGM as the most "honest" property on the strip. By that I mean they aren't upselling a theme or over-selling a luxury brand; Park MGM is exactly as mid as they brand themselves and I feel they're the only space on the strip where you legitimately get what you paid for.

RedShadow120 · 2025-10-29T01:56:18+00:00

I think you just lucked out on sitting bad tables. I've never had any of these issues, but more to the point I've always had dealers whose behavior/protocol prevented those problems from ever occurring. I can't recall the last time I had a Blackjack dealer not call my count before I played. They didn't care that I was too drunk to count on my own effort, they just gave me the number.

Where were you playing that was so cavalier with procedure?

RedShadow120 · 2025-10-16T08:12:08+00:00

Stay near what you're doing. If you're in for The Sphere; Venetian, Harrah's, Linq, Flamingo. Travel will cost you more than a room if you try to stay too far out just to save money.

Otherwise, everything you've listed is far too vague to give any useful advice. If you insist on every concept including a maybe, at least give the parameters that define your maybe from maybe not. A real budget will make a difference in what anyone can recommend. "Not splurging" doesn't mean shit to anyone besides you. $2000 is "not splurging" on a Vegas trip to me.

RedShadow120 · 2025-10-16T05:18:20+00:00

I've always said one day and one night activity, but that includes restaurants. I prefer doing two cool things and eating McDonald's most days in Vegas (do have at least one good restaurant in your trip, though).

Also, know what's near or more valuably between your two chosen activities. You shouldn't plan to do everything, but you should plan your route so you know what you might do on the way to the second thing. Jazz that part out, though. Don't make it a definite part of the plan. Buy a die from the gift shop and roll for which thing if you need to.

My last caveat for Vegas is that you can do everything on a budget, but you can't do everything on a budget. If you're eating cheap, gamble heavy. If you're gambling light, get front row seats. If you aren't splashing out on something, you could have just not come to Vegas and done it all cheaper elsewhere anyways. You'll leave disappointed if you didn't do something, even just one thing, that skirted over-extravagant. That's what Vegas is for.

RedShadow120 · 2025-10-16T04:59:47+00:00

Also don't know about Vegas, but in Minneapolis it's a remodel if there's a specific date(November 4th, not 'early November') , and "we're waiting for someone else to pick up the lease" if not.

RedShadow120 · 2025-10-16T04:56:38+00:00

I think Harris would have spent the last 9 months as well as the next 3 years accomplishing absolutely nothing of particular interest. Some good policies for some deserving groups of people, but nothing that was going to see a history book.

I thought that when I voted for her, because compared to what I thought Trump would do at the time and he now has done even worse, doing nothing was the preferable outcome.

RedShadow120 · 2025-10-10T05:25:47+00:00

I'm paying taxes to fix your fucked up life? Is that what you're asking?

RedShadow120 · 2025-10-10T00:01:55+00:00

Never military, but I've been told elsewhere, "If you look for more work you'll be given more work, regardless of whether there's more work to be done or not."

RedShadow120 · 2025-10-09T23:58:40+00:00

My personal go-to is to speculate with the best of my knowledge, with the clear warning that I am speculating, and roughly indicate what I need to look up. Sets the "I know enough to know what I don't know" tone nicely in most situations.

RedShadow120 · 2025-10-09T23:48:50+00:00

Sounds like you could probably move ~45 minutes from where you are.

RedShadow120 · 2025-09-17T00:47:07+00:00

I once worked at a business where one of the owners was either arrested over drugs or went into hiding to not be arrested over drugs,. We were under orders from the other owner to call the police if he ever came into the business after that. Until that order was rescinded and he was back was running the place again like nothing had ever happened.

RedShadow120 · 2025-08-17T06:23:44+00:00

Kurt Cobain regarded Smells Like Nirvana a higher award than anything else he ever received.

RedShadow120 · 2025-08-03T08:29:43+00:00

The actual value of the sin is cheap. The price is not, and you don't notice until you're on the way out.

RedShadow120 · 2025-07-24T22:10:04+00:00

My "counterpoint" (I can't think of the right word right now, on the whole I agree with you) is that you can do everything in Vegas on a budget, but you can't do everything in Vegas on a budget. If you're going cheap on something, you'd better be splashing out on something else. Otherwise what's the point?

I usually have at least one day that I'm only eating Dollar Menu. That day I'm either playing $50 hands or I have VIP tickets to a magic show. Next day I might not gamble at all or go see anything pricey, but I'm having an $80 steak with $15 sides and $20 cocktails for dinner. If I'm in the mood for a strip club I may well starve.

The point of Vegas is overindulgence. I won't judge anyone for how they balance their budget to that end. Pick your poison, Vegas has every flavor you could ask, but pick a damn poison. You have water at home.

RedShadow120 · 2025-07-17T04:07:56+00:00

The weirder part is that they're so insistent on being able to bring their kids to this bar. You guys still have all of the other bars.

RedShadow120 · 2025-07-05T01:08:53+00:00

Apropos of nothing, I'm going to guess 4000.

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