I'm genuinely surprised that city has made it this long.
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Very few cities can withstand four dudes like this.
Lmfao thanks for the audible chuckle that just woke the SO up
Been awhile
I aim to please, my little duckling,
I'm both weirded out and flattered. Thanks for that too I think
Is your username a John Mullaney reference?
Not directly no, but it does apply
God help the poor residence of Wilmington Delaware should they ever show up ther
We can only pray that this nightmare never comes to pass.
I once doubled my money (from $200 to a little over $400). Played cheap ($5/hand) blackjack at one of the crappier casinos down the strip. Sat there for a couple of hours, free drinks, walked away at double, hit the craps table on the way out, won first try (only like $20), walked out of the shithole casino feeling like a god among men. Pretty fun. But I can't fathom doing it at the level some people do. I saw a guy playing two hands at once, $5,000 a hand. Fucking BLACKJACK. It's such a fast game. Still blows my mind.
That feels like an addiction even if you make your living doing it.
I now what a movie about the four horsemen of the Apocalypse doing exactly this but being super petty every time something doesn't go their way.
They're the reincarnation of the Horsemen, all turned 18, celebrating in Vegas, and just now slowly unlocking their powers and memories.
It starts In petty and roundabout ways. The entire movie you hear in the background "my phone suddenly died". Sudden trade war news causing the business men to flee who were hogging the tables. Computer in the lobby acting up like it's diseased, and throughout the movie vending machines suddenly giving them free stuff. A kid at the salad bar having a temper tantrum suddenly craving vegetables.
Angels show up and try to stop them. These are lingerie models of course, just getting ready to go on the catwalk with their wings and suddenly getting taken over by divine spirits.
Various demonic entities take over casino and mob bosses. Various fights start, the four guys overwhelmed, chased by Victoria's Secret and the mob.
In the end, the dudes accept their destinies, and win. They drive away in a mustang leaving behind a Vegas with for sale signs everywhere.
I'd watch that
And let it be set on the Discworld
Let us not sully the corpus. Let his work remain unblemished. We should set it on the frisbee world. On the back of a terrapin.
So what, like a dark comedy/horror? Maybe John Lithgow and John Larroquette as two of them?
War starts a fight when he loses a bet, walks away with his chips in the chaos?
Famine gets pissed at a fat person playing slots, and every time we see them in the background for the rest of the movie they're wasting away more like Thinner?
Pestilence gives instant super gonorrhea to a dude flirting with the waitress he likes?
Cause I'd watch that.
Totally. And then they spend time in an emotional repose where they talk about their lives and they just give each emotional support before riding off and bring the apocalypse.
Yes, we are on the same wavelength here. I envisioned the ending as the "talking on the hood of the car at dawn" emotional-but-lightly-funny wrap up scene at a ranch outside the city. At the end of the conversation we pan to the city in the distance where a hellmouth opens or a nuke goes off, they give each other smirks and knowing nods, and ride off.
One of the is the "young" horseman whose a little insecure and sad that his a recent divorcee played by some like Ben Stiller or Michael Cera. And then there's the cool one. The guy who planned the trip. But he's also trying too hard and at the end comes out wishing he'd become a jazz dancer and loves watching Hollywood golden era films and thinks Danny Kay is under rated. He should be played by JK Simmons or someone like that.
Only the one button down for the four dudes?
They were standing on each others' shoulders.
Shirt must have had a hundred buttons. Nightmare to put it on or take it off.
Has anyone went to Vegas in the past year? Its ridiculous.
Everything has been priced up. There's zero walk ability unless you live in the strip. They were selling $12 Coors light and $16 bottled water at a club I was in. Dinner was $25 plates, and easily fed three people. I got tickets to a show that were $40 in other city, but $80 in Vegas. My Uber guy was complaining about how even he can't afford to have a good time here.
I told my gambling aunt about it and she was like, "No, you need to know the secrets" and then talked about how they used to give free things to people to gamble more - things that they must have phased out.
"The secrets". I can almost guarantee the stuff shes talking about used to be plastered all over billboards.
I liked Las Vegas.
Granted, I was a child living there in the summers with my grandmother and great grandmother and almost all my memories are of
The Heat The YMCA Belt buckles burning me Cicadas So many fucking cicadas Pouring water down the heat vents Grandmother's cats Great grandmother cutting out paper dolls for us The heat Oh my god it was so many cicadas
And getting heat exhaustion and vomiting at the pirate boat show when mom and dad visited.
Pouring water down vents?
My grandmother owned a trailer that had vents in the floors. She also owned a water cooler.
I was a gremlin child and got water from the cooler and poured it down the vents.
Ahhh fun times.
An makes sense, I thought it was some like, humidifier trick or something you did
No no, just gremlining it up!
Oh I thought cicadas were an Australian thing. Til
Global species, although they range in size and shape a lot.
The ones in Vegas were ones on a 17 year cycle (so not the normal global annual cicadas) which is why So Many.
They literally were covering every inch of outside. Although a lot of that was molted shells, to a kid they were EVERYWHERE.
I love Macy's though, and JC Penney.
I don't like Las Vegas more than the next guy, but this is just misanthropy.