Stuff you are planning to do in Vegas before or after DC15...

[IrishMASMS]

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Talking of the Attik does anyone recommend any other nightclubs in Vegas that are worth a visit.

Clubs with large ammounts of gothic ladies would be a plus. However any nightclubs that don't catch fire after I visit them would be even better.

Attik is okish, depending on who is DJ/spining. The attendance is sparce with it being a Monday night, and most in the scene are service industry folk. Keep reading for more...

Krave (the only major on-strip gay/alternative club) has a goth night on fridays, but you'll probably be too busy with con stuff that night, unless you can convince a group to go. I've never been myself, maybe hackajar or someone else knows what's up with the scene there.

You can skip the so called 'goth' night - the venue & such has taken a serious downturn in the last year. Good luck finding those goth gals, the real ones are hard to find in Vegas - the ones you do come across are the goth-in-a-box types. For the most part, Vegas attracts a certain genre of people – this is not one of them. We do not have the scenes like Seattle, DC, or Denver – different sort of town, people, and expectations. If you want, track me down at DEFCON and I can fill you in on the details – not something I can really post here.

Full disclosure: I used to be involved with the Friday night event at Krave. Due to unprofessionalism of the others involved, and my work putting me on the night shift I am no longer involved. Thankfully.

This is my first post.. so I hope not to sound like a noob.

There is a Godsmack concert at the Palms on the 3rd just in case anyone needed any other ideas...

Really? Psst: https://forum.defcon.org/showthread.php?t=8590

Good luck getting tickets for that venue: some monkeyshines going on with tix sales.

[theprez98]

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There is a Godsmack concert at the Palms on the 3rd just in case anyone needed any other ideas...

Really? Psst: https://forum.defcon.org/showthread.php?t=8590

Good luck getting tickets for that venue: some monkeyshines going on with tix sales.

Actually, in all fairness, he did post about the Godsmack concert a day before you posted the concert thread...not that it really matters.

[FeloniousFish]

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Really? Psst: https://forum.defcon.org/showthread.php?t=8590

Good luck getting tickets for that venue: some monkeyshines going on with tix sales.[/QUOTE]


Tickets were not that hard... here is the link http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0A...&minorcatid=60

Seats my not be on the stage.. but hey... it still a indoor concert!!! And lastly.. this is VEGAS!!!

Oh, theprez98, thanks for the stand up.

[IrishMASMS]

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Actually, in all fairness, he did post about the Godsmack concert a day before you posted the concert thread...not that it really matters.

For those that work a normal day shift lifestyle that might matter - for those of us that are night owls the days & nights all blend together at some point. Sort of how some DEFCON weekend experiences are...

Tickets were not that hard... here is the link http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0A...&minorcatid=60

Seats my not be on the stage.. but hey... it still a indoor concert!!! And lastly.. this is VEGAS!!!

That is an interesting development - all the previous shows I have seen listed when tickets went on sale sold out in under 15 minutes; then went crazy with the scalpers & the ebayers. With the last (and first) time I went to a show there at the Pearl, casino security were coming down heard on people who were selling tickets - not even scalping, but folks that had an extra they were trying to get rid of. Perhaps the scalpers have gotten word that this is not a venue to work with, and hence the availability of tickets?

(SARCASM)
Naa, it is just because Godsmack sucks!
</SARCASM)

There is no way in hell I would use ticketmasterbator ever again; even if they were the only folks that had tickets available.

[Ne0nRa1n]

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I'd love to see Penn and Teller, but the prices for shows in Las Vegas are so expensive. (To me, at least.)

So, I am hoping to snag some half-priced tickets sometime during Blackhat. I really want to see Las Vegas as a 'tourist' this year since I've gone for so many years and haven't really been able to get to see anything other than the hotel the conference is at.

[theprez98]

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For those that work a normal day shift lifestyle that might matter - for those of us that are night owls the days & nights all blend together at some point. Sort of how some DEFCON weekend experiences are...

I spent a couple of months in Iraq working the night shift, primarily to stay out of the heat, but I know where you're coming from.

[Deviant Ollam]

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I really want to see Las Vegas as a 'tourist' this year

heh, maybe i'm very different than the average breed of cat, but i was overwhelmingly unimpressed with vegas when i did the tourist thing. I think it was my second time out there, DC9, and a bunch of us went up and saw the strip, walked through some casinos, and ate a meal at some expensive joint. (it was a fake "bistro" type of affair inside this huge mall/walkway deal that was entirely indoors. don't get me wrong, it was neat and all... but after that one time seeing things there i was totally done with the strip and all that nonsense and have stuck almost exclusively to the con hotel every year since, except for sushi night and the bbq and the gun ranges)

i think i felt very similar to how Arthur and Fenchurch did in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish when they looked out over the San Fernando Valley. I realize at the time they were in southern california and not las vegas, but the sentiment is the same...

Late in the evening they drove through the Hollywood hills along Mulholland Drive and stopped to look out first over the dazzling sea of floating light that is Los Angeles, and later stopped to look across the dazzling sea of floating light that is the San Fernando Valley. They agreed that the sense of dazzle stopped immediately at the back of their eyes and didn't touch any other part of them and came away strangely unsatisfied by the spectacle. As dramatic seas of light went, it was fine, but light is meant to illuminate something, and having driven through what this particularly dramatic sea of light was illuminating they didn't think much of it.

[IrishMASMS]

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I spent a couple of months in Iraq working the night shift, primarily to stay out of the heat, but I know where you're coming from.

I spent way too much time in that part of the world as well - which is where I picked up that bit of information.

[IrishMASMS]

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heh, maybe i'm very different than the average breed of cat, but i was overwhelmingly unimpressed with vegas when i did the tourist thing. I think it was my second time out there, DC9, and a bunch of us went up and saw the strip, walked through some casinos, and ate a meal at some expensive joint. (it was a fake "bistro" type of affair inside this huge mall/walkway deal that was entirely indoors. don't get me wrong, it was neat and all... but after that one time seeing things there i was totally done with the strip and all that nonsense and have stuck almost exclusively to the con hotel every year since, except for sushi night and the bbq and the gun ranges)

That is the key word: 'average'

The average sheeple or chalk player thinks it is great to roll into town, blow cash on stupid shit, pay crazy amounts on bottle service and door fees, and fancy assed eateries. Those of us that are above all of that need something a bit more to capture our interest & imagination (for the most part)

For the record, there are a handful of cool places on & near the strip - but just like anywhere else you go, they have to be hunder down. You have to go out and find those cool places, they are certainly not going to be in your face out there.

My suggestion: take 'how to ask a question' by ESR and apply it to being a tourist; or the n00b in the new town.

[L34ndr4]

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hey, I'm new to sin city :P and i'll be a couple of days off wandering the city.

I was hoping to go see the grand cannon because it's so close.

Do someone feel like going ??

contact me.

[TheCotMan]

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http://www.harrahs.com/EventsDetail....eller#upcoming

No Penn and Teller tickets available from Monday, July 30 through to Friday Aug 3.
I guess if I am going to see them, I'll have to try on Saturday night during Defcon (not going to happen) or Sunday night (which might include sleeping for me)

I guess I could always arrive earlier, but I may have o skip P&T this year.
:-(

[mfreeck]

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http://www.harrahs.com/EventsDetail....eller#upcoming

No Penn and Teller tickets available from Monday, July 30 through to Friday Aug 3.
I guess if I am going to see them, I'll have to try on Saturday night during Defcon (not going to happen) or Sunday night (which might include sleeping for me)

I guess I could always arrive earlier, but I may have o skip P&T this year.
:-(

Is anybody interested in the Sunday showing? It happens at 9pm.

[mfreeck]

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Favourite swimming pools?

I looked for a water park in vegas and it seems there is only one that shut down in 2004. I'm not terribly interested in going swimming, but enjoying tubes, waterfalls, waves, etc may be fun. Of course I don't even own a suit, so the pool would have to be permissive with pool clothing.

Wait, I know - you're going to suggest Caeser's "european" pool. Although I've considered it, it's a fuck of a lot of money for a pool. You'll have to tell me why it's cool other than "you see bewbs." I can do that at a bar, or at a defcon party.

So what's your favourite swimming pool, why, how much and who wants to find a water-park type place to hang out for a few hours?

[Z^2]

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So what's your favourite swimming pool, why, how much and who wants to find a water-park type place to hang out for a few hours?

If you find a pool cleaner than what the Riv's looked like last year, I'm in.

[blauman]

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You will love it I am sure, specially if you get access to the new spot platform, it may still be in construction, I had not flight over in long time.
There is another nice destination, you may want to visit the big crater, right out of Winslow Az.

If I get to sneak an aircraft out of Nellis, I may be able to offer you and a few others a nice flight over. we will see. PM if interested, no promises yet, but we will see.

Who knows even Astcell may l wanna join too... What do you say Astcell? it will be far more fun that diving in hostile waters... if I pull this up I will have ~25 seats. but I will need you to screen people.

hey, I'm new to sin city :P and i'll be a couple of days off wandering the city.

I was hoping to go see the grand cannon because it's so close.

Do someone feel like going ??

contact me.