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Hard Rock Las Vegas is bringing something back the Strip almost never does: balcony suites. That’s a BIG deal. Balconies are extremely rare in Vegas hotels — not by accident. Most resorts avoid them due to liability, safety concerns, and design economics. The one major exception has been The... Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas — and there’s a reason for that. It was originally built as a condo project before the 2008 crash killed that model. The units were never sold, it became a hotel — but the balconies stayed. Vegas actually tried this twice. One became Cosmo — a hit with terraces. The other was The Harmon — a condo tower at CityCenter that never even opened due to structural defects… and had to be demolished. After that (and the financial crash), developers moved away from condo-style builds entirely. Outside of Cosmo? Very limited inventory: • A few specialty suites at Bellagio • Some off-Strip or legacy properties • Almost nothing mainstream on the Strip That’s why Cosmo balconies became such a signature differentiator. Now Hard Rock is stepping into that lane. If they execute this right, these won’t just be rooms — they’ll be premium inventory with real pricing power. Bottom line: Balconies aren’t normal here. #vegasshow more

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Jedi Rich

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VEGAS ISN’T DEAD. IT’S BREAKING UP WITH THE GRISWOLDS. 🎰 Three resort CEOs say they’re prepared to keep high-end room rates up—even if that means fewer occupied rooms. That’s the distinction I’ve been talking about: filling every room isn’t the same as protecting the experience. When COVID hit, Vegas discounted rooms to bring people back. That part is documented. From what I saw living here, parts of the Strip started feeling less like an adult Disneyland and more like a bargain-basement free-for-all. Here’s the problem: you can discount a room overnight. It takes years to undo a bargain-basement reputation. My uncle worked directly for Sheldon Adelson. He told me Sheldon’s approach at the Venetian in 1999 was straightforward: raise table minimums to $10, establish a dress code, and actually enforce it. The lesson wasn’t simply “charge more.” It was decide what experience you’re selling—and protect it. People paying for luxury aren’t just buying a bed. They’re buying atmosphere, service, and standards. They don’t want chaos in the lobby. And when you market yourself as the cheapest option long enough, “cheap” becomes the expectation—not a temporary promotion. My read? This is more of the Strip deciding it would rather compete for higher-spending guests than win every bargain-hunting vacation search. That doesn’t make every price increase smart. And it certainly doesn’t make every empty room intentional. But “Vegas costs more than I want to spend” and “Vegas is dead” are two very different statements. As I said before: Vegas didn’t die. Vegas reset. The Griswolds may still want the old deal. These resorts appear willing to let that deal—and some of that business—go. Smart reset, or a dangerous bet on too few big spenders? 👇

VEGAS ISN’T DEAD. IT’S BREAKING UP WITH THE GRISWOLDS. 🎰 Three resort CEOs say they’re prepared to keep high-end room rates up—even if that means fewer occupied rooms. That’s the distinction I’ve been talking about: filling every room isn’t the same as protecting the experience. When COVID hit, Vegas discounted rooms to bring people back. That part is documented. From what I saw living here, parts of the Strip started feeling less like an adult Disneyland and more like a bargain-basement free-for-all. Here’s the problem: you can discount a room overnight. It takes years to undo a bargain-basement reputation. My uncle worked directly for Sheldon Adelson. He told me Sheldon’s approach at the Venetian in 1999 was straightforward: raise table minimums to $10, establish a dress code, and actually enforce it. The lesson wasn’t simply “charge more.” It was decide what experience you’re selling—and protect it. People paying for luxury aren’t just buying a bed. They’re buying atmosphere, service, and standards. They don’t want chaos in the lobby. And when you market yourself as the cheapest option long enough, “cheap” becomes the expectation—not a temporary promotion. My read? This is more of the Strip deciding it would rather compete for higher-spending guests than win every bargain-hunting vacation search. That doesn’t make every price increase smart. And it certainly doesn’t make every empty room intentional. But “Vegas costs more than I want to spend” and “Vegas is dead” are two very different statements. As I said before: Vegas didn’t die. Vegas reset. The Griswolds may still want the old deal. These resorts appear willing to let that deal—and some of that business—go. Smart reset, or a dangerous bet on too few big spenders? 👇

Jedi Rich

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VEGAS WANTS TO KNOW WHERE EVERYBODY WENT. I HAVE THE RECEIPT FROM MY LAST BUFFET. Downtown Las Vegas is looking a little lonely. The numbers back it up. Visitation was down 4.3% in August. Passengers through Harry Reid down 9%. Downtown gaming win down 3%. They're cutting room rates and the rooms still aren't filling. And somewhere in a corporate office on the Strip, a man in a $4,000 suit is asking how this could possibly happen. Sir. Let me help. Vegas used to be the deal. Sinatra, Dean and Sammy at the Sands. A 99-cent shrimp cocktail downtown at the Golden Gate. Cheap rooms, cheap buffets, loose slots, free drinks if you sat down at a table. They knew you'd lose money at the tables, so they made everything else feel like a steal. That was the whole business model. And it worked for fifty years. Then the MBAs showed up. (I'm allowed to say that. I have one.) Room rates went up. Then they added a resort fee. Fifty bucks a night for a pool you won't use and Wi-Fi that drops every time you open your laptop. Parking that used to be free? Now it's not. Blackjack used to pay 3:2. Now a lot of tables pay 6:5, which is a polite way of saying they shaved your winnings and hoped you wouldn't do the math. And the buffet. The buffet used to be the cheapest meal in America. Now the fancy ones on the Strip run close to $90 a person on a weekend, and the crab legs still taste like the freezer. Who thought that money train would run forever? You squeezed the golden goose until it filed for divorce. Vegas casino bosses have pulled off something I didn't think was possible. They made McDonald's leadership look like value heroes. At least the Big Mac doesn't come with a resort fee. I still end up in Vegas once a year for work. I didn't say I like it. I hate the room rates. I don't eat on the Strip. Get in an Uber, go to Spring Mountain Road, and eat your way through Chinatown. Some of the best Asian food in the country is sitting in strip malls a mile from the casinos, at a third of the price. The locals know. Now you do too. And the desert is still a desert. It's hot, it's dry, my hair hates it, and the whole place still looks like a showgirl's jewelry box exploded. There's exactly one thing on the Strip I'd fight you for. The Peppermill. Neon, mirrors, velvet booths, plates the size of hubcaps and a drink so big it needs two straws and a designated driver. I go every single year. I order too much, I share it with my coworkers or my customers, and we pass that giant drink around like it's 1978. That's my Vegas. You can keep the rest of it. 🦋

VEGAS WANTS TO KNOW WHERE EVERYBODY WENT. I HAVE THE RECEIPT FROM MY LAST BUFFET. Downtown Las Vegas is looking a little lonely. The numbers back it up. Visitation was down 4.3% in August. Passengers through Harry Reid down 9%. Downtown gaming win down 3%. They're cutting room rates and the rooms still aren't filling. And somewhere in a corporate office on the Strip, a man in a $4,000 suit is asking how this could possibly happen. Sir. Let me help. Vegas used to be the deal. Sinatra, Dean and Sammy at the Sands. A 99-cent shrimp cocktail downtown at the Golden Gate. Cheap rooms, cheap buffets, loose slots, free drinks if you sat down at a table. They knew you'd lose money at the tables, so they made everything else feel like a steal. That was the whole business model. And it worked for fifty years. Then the MBAs showed up. (I'm allowed to say that. I have one.) Room rates went up. Then they added a resort fee. Fifty bucks a night for a pool you won't use and Wi-Fi that drops every time you open your laptop. Parking that used to be free? Now it's not. Blackjack used to pay 3:2. Now a lot of tables pay 6:5, which is a polite way of saying they shaved your winnings and hoped you wouldn't do the math. And the buffet. The buffet used to be the cheapest meal in America. Now the fancy ones on the Strip run close to $90 a person on a weekend, and the crab legs still taste like the freezer. Who thought that money train would run forever? You squeezed the golden goose until it filed for divorce. Vegas casino bosses have pulled off something I didn't think was possible. They made McDonald's leadership look like value heroes. At least the Big Mac doesn't come with a resort fee. I still end up in Vegas once a year for work. I didn't say I like it. I hate the room rates. I don't eat on the Strip. Get in an Uber, go to Spring Mountain Road, and eat your way through Chinatown. Some of the best Asian food in the country is sitting in strip malls a mile from the casinos, at a third of the price. The locals know. Now you do too. And the desert is still a desert. It's hot, it's dry, my hair hates it, and the whole place still looks like a showgirl's jewelry box exploded. There's exactly one thing on the Strip I'd fight you for. The Peppermill. Neon, mirrors, velvet booths, plates the size of hubcaps and a drink so big it needs two straws and a designated driver. I go every single year. I order too much, I share it with my coworkers or my customers, and we pass that giant drink around like it's 1978. That's my Vegas. You can keep the rest of it. 🦋

Selene Mariposa

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Mike P

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As I sit here in DC this week, we are closer to something I was not sure I would ever see. I have been working in this industry since 2015. For most of those years, the defining feature of crypto in Washington was not policy. It was the absence of it. A gray zone where serious people built serious things under a constant cloud, never quite sure which rules applied or whether the ground would move beneath them. This week the CLARITY Act sits on the Senate calendar. A federal framework for digital asset market structure, the thing this industry has wanted for the better part of a decade, is closer than it has ever been. It is not law yet, and there are real hurdles left. But the distance between where we stood a few years ago and where we are sitting today is hard to put into words. I keep thinking about the work that got us here. Over the past year I watched Chainlink move from outside these conversations to inside them. Sergey at the White House for the signing of the GENIUS Act. The Department of Commerce putting government economic data onchain. Meetings with the SEC that became real interpretive guidance. Conversations with the lawmakers now writing the rules. None of that happens by accident. It happens because people keep showing up, year after year, and make the case in rooms where it is not yet obvious. And there is something fitting in it. The entire premise of what we build is verification. Making truth provable. Removing the question of what is real. The work here in DC is the same thing in a different form. Trading a decade of ambiguity for something the industry has never actually had. We are not at the finish line. But sitting here, it is hard not to feel the weight of it. The gray zone is ending. What comes next is something this industry has never had. Clarity.

As I sit here in DC this week, we are closer to something I was not sure I would ever see. I have been working in this industry since 2015. For most of those years, the defining feature of crypto in Washington was not policy. It was the absence of it. A gray zone where serious people built serious things under a constant cloud, never quite sure which rules applied or whether the ground would move beneath them. This week the CLARITY Act sits on the Senate calendar. A federal framework for digital asset market structure, the thing this industry has wanted for the better part of a decade, is closer than it has ever been. It is not law yet, and there are real hurdles left. But the distance between where we stood a few years ago and where we are sitting today is hard to put into words. I keep thinking about the work that got us here. Over the past year I watched Chainlink move from outside these conversations to inside them. Sergey at the White House for the signing of the GENIUS Act. The Department of Commerce putting government economic data onchain. Meetings with the SEC that became real interpretive guidance. Conversations with the lawmakers now writing the rules. None of that happens by accident. It happens because people keep showing up, year after year, and make the case in rooms where it is not yet obvious. And there is something fitting in it. The entire premise of what we build is verification. Making truth provable. Removing the question of what is real. The work here in DC is the same thing in a different form. Trading a decade of ambiguity for something the industry has never actually had. We are not at the finish line. But sitting here, it is hard not to feel the weight of it. The gray zone is ending. What comes next is something this industry has never had. Clarity.

Chris Barrett

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32 coins. $2.5 million. 0.0038% of the stack. That is the sale the market is now blaming for a $3 billion liquidation cascade and a Bitcoin price nearly halved from its peak. A $2.5 million sale cannot move a trillion-dollar asset. It is a rounding error. In the same week, Strategy raised $128.3 million selling its own stock, 50 times larger. It did not need to sell coins. It chose to. The crash has real drivers: a record 13-day run of ETF outflows, a rotation into AI, a Fed in no hurry to cut. But the accelerant the market keeps naming is 32 coins. The coins were never the point. The signal was. And the signal was deliberate. Michael Saylor told the Q1 call he would “probably sell some bitcoin to pay a dividend just to inoculate the market and send the message that we did it.” His logic was sound: prove the Bitcoin is usable capital, not a vault that can never be opened, and show he is not a prisoner of his own vow. His “never sell” always meant be a net accumulator. He is up more than 170,000 coins this year against the 32 he sold, and he scores himself on one number, Bitcoin per share. By that math, defending the dividend with a sliver was discipline, not distress. The market read it as the opposite. The dose became the catalyst now blamed for the crash. The inoculation became the infection. Because what changed was never Strategy’s solvency. It was its identity. The market has stopped pricing a permanent holder and started pricing what the filings always described: a state-contingent allocator now funding its own preferred dividends, at the margin, from the Bitcoin beneath them. And the buffer is thinning. The cash reserve behind those dividends has fallen from $2.25 billion to $900 million. Against a preferred bill near $1.7 billion a year, that is roughly 6 months of runway. Be precise. This is not a death spiral. Strategy still holds 843,706 Bitcoin, worth more than $50 billion even now, and has more funding levers than almost any company alive. A real rally makes this a footnote, and the sell-side calling the reaction overdone is not wrong on the fundamentals. But the regime has changed. The question is no longer Bitcoin’s price on any given day. It is the cadence of the dividend declarations and the path of that reserve. Bitcoin did not acquire a yield. The wrapper acquired liabilities. This week the market learned that difference costs far more than 32 coins.

32 coins. $2.5 million. 0.0038% of the stack. That is the sale the market is now blaming for a $3 billion liquidation cascade and a Bitcoin price nearly halved from its peak. A $2.5 million sale cannot move a trillion-dollar asset. It is a rounding error. In the same week, Strategy raised $128.3 million selling its own stock, 50 times larger. It did not need to sell coins. It chose to. The crash has real drivers: a record 13-day run of ETF outflows, a rotation into AI, a Fed in no hurry to cut. But the accelerant the market keeps naming is 32 coins. The coins were never the point. The signal was. And the signal was deliberate. Michael Saylor told the Q1 call he would “probably sell some bitcoin to pay a dividend just to inoculate the market and send the message that we did it.” His logic was sound: prove the Bitcoin is usable capital, not a vault that can never be opened, and show he is not a prisoner of his own vow. His “never sell” always meant be a net accumulator. He is up more than 170,000 coins this year against the 32 he sold, and he scores himself on one number, Bitcoin per share. By that math, defending the dividend with a sliver was discipline, not distress. The market read it as the opposite. The dose became the catalyst now blamed for the crash. The inoculation became the infection. Because what changed was never Strategy’s solvency. It was its identity. The market has stopped pricing a permanent holder and started pricing what the filings always described: a state-contingent allocator now funding its own preferred dividends, at the margin, from the Bitcoin beneath them. And the buffer is thinning. The cash reserve behind those dividends has fallen from $2.25 billion to $900 million. Against a preferred bill near $1.7 billion a year, that is roughly 6 months of runway. Be precise. This is not a death spiral. Strategy still holds 843,706 Bitcoin, worth more than $50 billion even now, and has more funding levers than almost any company alive. A real rally makes this a footnote, and the sell-side calling the reaction overdone is not wrong on the fundamentals. But the regime has changed. The question is no longer Bitcoin’s price on any given day. It is the cadence of the dividend declarations and the path of that reserve. Bitcoin did not acquire a yield. The wrapper acquired liabilities. This week the market learned that difference costs far more than 32 coins.

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🚨 URGENT SAFETY CONCERN – LAS VEGAS 🚨 I’m from UK Today in Las Vegas, I was threatened by a group of individuals identifying as Khalistan supporters while I was with my family. They stopped stopped me and issued a direct threat, stating “this is not the UK and you are not safe here”, clearly referencing my peaceful but vocal stance on social media against radical extremism. During this incident, my daughter was pushed, which has left us extremely shaken. The situation escalated quickly, and security at the Forum Shops failed to intervene or provide any meaningful assistance. This is a serious threat to the safety of my family and myself. I urge Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department to urgently investigate this incident. No one should be threatened or physically assaulted for expressing their views, especially in front of their children. Freedom of speech must never be answered with intimidation or violence. I thought London is gone but didn’t expect this in Las Vegas USA Donald J. Trump LVMPD U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Donald J. Trump ‼️ My family’s safety is in danger and must be taken seriously

Harman Singh Kapoor

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🇺🇸 🇮🇷 BREAKING: TRUMP JUST PULLED THE PLUG ON IRAN'S OIL MONEY! Iran wanted to play games in the Strait of Hormuz. Three tankers hit with unknown projectiles in a matter of days. Now the bill just came due. The Treasury Department is revoking the license that let Iran sell oil under the June ceasefire deal. That waiver was a gift, not a right, and Iran just spat on it. A US official put it plainly. "As President Trump and the administration have repeatedly affirmed, the MOU in effect with Iran is entirely performance based." Translation. Behave or lose the deal. Another official didn't mince words either. "Iran's actions in the Strait were wholly unacceptable to the United States and will be met with consequences." This is not a slap on the wrist. Oil exports are Iran's lifeline to China and its only real source of hard currency. Cutting that off is aiming straight at the regime's wallet. Iran signed up for a deal that required keeping the strait open. Instead they fired on a Qatari LNG carrier, a Saudi supertanker, and a third vessel hit by a drone. That is not a misunderstanding. That is a pattern. You do not get to torch tankers with one hand and collect sanctions relief with the other. Oil prices jumped more than three percent on the news, proof that markets know exactly what this means. Consequences are not just words anymore. Iran wanted leverage. What they got was a reminder that Trump's deals come with strings, and he is not afraid to pull them.

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 BREAKING: TRUMP JUST PULLED THE PLUG ON IRAN'S OIL MONEY! Iran wanted to play games in the Strait of Hormuz. Three tankers hit with unknown projectiles in a matter of days. Now the bill just came due. The Treasury Department is revoking the license that let Iran sell oil under the June ceasefire deal. That waiver was a gift, not a right, and Iran just spat on it. A US official put it plainly. "As President Trump and the administration have repeatedly affirmed, the MOU in effect with Iran is entirely performance based." Translation. Behave or lose the deal. Another official didn't mince words either. "Iran's actions in the Strait were wholly unacceptable to the United States and will be met with consequences." This is not a slap on the wrist. Oil exports are Iran's lifeline to China and its only real source of hard currency. Cutting that off is aiming straight at the regime's wallet. Iran signed up for a deal that required keeping the strait open. Instead they fired on a Qatari LNG carrier, a Saudi supertanker, and a third vessel hit by a drone. That is not a misunderstanding. That is a pattern. You do not get to torch tankers with one hand and collect sanctions relief with the other. Oil prices jumped more than three percent on the news, proof that markets know exactly what this means. Consequences are not just words anymore. Iran wanted leverage. What they got was a reminder that Trump's deals come with strings, and he is not afraid to pull them.

Bill Mitchell

158,537 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

Not a dick measuring contest. Just a difference of incentives. Trump Tower was built privately. Private capital has to earn its keep and people actually have to choose to stay there, buy a condo, or lease space. Bad design or function gets punished fast with empty rooms, lost revenue, and real pain for the builder. That’s why you get something tall, useful, and still valuable decades later. The Obama library is a legacy project with roughly the same money. Foundations, donors, and public land perks funded it. The people writing the big checks aren’t the daily users, and there’s no monthly rent test forcing constant improvement. And the result is a lot of “iconic”, whatever that means, and not much everyday value. (And they made it ugly) The TLDR is that free markets don’t promise perfection, but they do make waste expensive and reward what people voluntarily pay for. Different incentives, different buildings.

Not a dick measuring contest. Just a difference of incentives. Trump Tower was built privately. Private capital has to earn its keep and people actually have to choose to stay there, buy a condo, or lease space. Bad design or function gets punished fast with empty rooms, lost revenue, and real pain for the builder. That’s why you get something tall, useful, and still valuable decades later. The Obama library is a legacy project with roughly the same money. Foundations, donors, and public land perks funded it. The people writing the big checks aren’t the daily users, and there’s no monthly rent test forcing constant improvement. And the result is a lot of “iconic”, whatever that means, and not much everyday value. (And they made it ugly) The TLDR is that free markets don’t promise perfection, but they do make waste expensive and reward what people voluntarily pay for. Different incentives, different buildings.

Rothmus 🏴

2,664,011 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

Holy shit. Four and a half years. My role as Marketing & PR Manager at Syscoin has officially ended, and I needed to write this before I posted anything else. So please, stop DM'ing me about Binance AMA's for $200 and telegram trade groups that have all the alpha, and 100k "active" members in them lol. The day I knew web3 was going to be the industry I live and die in started in Dubai. Binance Blockchain Week, March 2022. We threw what I still think was one of the best side events in blockchain history at the time, and from that night forward we had a standard. Syscoin stayed the true web3 vibe that everyone else strayed away from for casinos and meme tokens that died 2 years later. We always had the vibe. The right room, the right people, the right energy. That became the rhythm of the next four years for us. Syscoin stayed imitated but never duplicated over the next four years. Austin. Nashville. Las Vegas. Colombia, Singapore, Dubai, Davos. Medellín, where I first met Fernando Paredes at Devconnect, in a room full of builders who were actually building. Conferences and events all blur together when you've been to enough of them. But the side rooms don't. The 1am conversations don't. Those are the moments that built the network. Those are the moments I'll carry. Through every one of those rooms I had the honor of working alongside some of the biggest names in this industry. VC's, Founders, exchange leadership, protocol engineers, journalists, influencers and KOLs who actually move markets, builders shipping in silence. The kind of access most people in this space never get and with current industry conditions may actually never get again. I never took a single one of those rooms or connections for granted if you can't already tell by my X following. Behind all of it, the receipts that don't fit on a tweet. Over 400 terabytes of content, video, graphics, strategies, brand systems, blueprints, four years of building the marketing engine for a chain trying to scale Bitcoin without compromise. Thousands of hours, research, everything we needed to make it through cycle after cycle with our integrity, honesty and trust intact. Hundreds of strategies and playbooks that never even made it to market. There were good times. There were bad times. Anyone who tells you a four-year run inside a top-tier crypto project was all good times is selling you some straight bullshit. The project came out the other side. The team came out the other side. The work continued. That matters more than the noise. To everyone who made this run what it was. Every founder who picked up a call, every KOL who actually showed up, every journalist who took the meeting, every member of the community who never asked for anything but stayed loyal anyway. Thank you. So what's next for me? This astronaut isn't leaving the field. He's walking into the Wasteland of what he's had to watch our industry become over the last decade. Somewhere out there is the oasis. I'm going deep into AI. AI infrastructure and AI-native marketing, the place where autonomous agents, content systems, and Web3 product strategy actually meet. The next decade will define what the next century holds and I'm here to capture that. I've spent the last two years quietly building in that lane and I'm ready to make it the lane. If you're still in Web3, AI, or the seam where the two collide, my DMs are open. What a ride. — 1DC

1DC

14,875 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

Exploring Las Vegas in a whole new way ✨🇺🇸 A miniature world brought to life with iconic landmarks and cinematic details. Made With SuperCool Supercool.com Prompt ⤵️ Create a premium vertical 3D isometric travel diorama poster of LAS VEGAS, USA. Show a highly detailed miniature version of the Las Vegas Strip surrounded by realistic desert terrain and rugged Nevada mountains. Include recognizable Las Vegas landmarks such as the Bellagio resort with illuminated fountains, the Las Vegas Sphere, Paris Las Vegas Eiffel Tower, Luxor pyramid, New York-New York with the Statue of Liberty, Venetian-style resort architecture, High Roller, iconic Las Vegas boulevard, palm trees, glowing signs, roads, and tiny realistic vehicles. Use a high-angle three-quarter isometric perspective with realistic architectural miniatures, cinematic lighting, detailed textures, realistic glass, stone, metal, water, vegetation, roads, and atmospheric depth. The entire miniature terrain should form one cohesive landscape, not separate objects. Keep the Las Vegas Strip as the main visual axis and make the Sphere and Bellagio fountains prominent hero elements. Use a sophisticated editorial travel-poster composition with generous warm off-white negative space around the diorama. The miniature terrain should occupy approximately the lower 70% of the vertical composition. At the top center, display exactly: LAS VEGAS USA · NORTH AMERICA 🇺🇸 Use bold condensed uppercase typography for “LAS VEGAS” and smaller widely spaced typography for “USA · NORTH AMERICA”. Softly feather and dissolve the left, right, and bottom edges of the terrain into subtle atmospheric haze and soft shadows. Do not create a hard rectangular base, pedestal, sticker-like border, or toy display platform. Add subtle brand placement in the bottom-right corner: Keep the brand text small, clean, sharp, elegant, and clearly readable. Do not make it look like a large watermark. Style: ultra-realistic cinematic 3D architectural visualization, premium miniature craftsmanship, realistic aerial photography aesthetic, sophisticated travel editorial poster, detailed ambient occlusion, natural shadows, realistic reflections, cinematic depth, high detail, photorealistic materials. Vertical 3:4 composition. No cartoon style, no low-poly look, no chibi elements, no generic city, no Los Angeles landmarks, no duplicated landmarks, no distorted architecture, no incorrect text, no extra text, no unnecessary borders, no hard terrain edges, no oversized logo, no watermark.

Alina Ai

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OFFICIAL: It has been 134 days since the release of Totenreich, which is longer than the search for both Samantha's Drawing, and Gong COMBINED. With the release of s6 next week, it felt fitting to use our platform to get as many eyes on it as possible. As a quick disclaimer, just because things have been 'tested' does not mean it is not the solve. This post is also not an invitation to share your personal thoughts on datamining/leaks. This relic, by everything shown in the game files, can NOT be datamined: "Even in the current state of the game, relics are a lot harder to solve via datamining and ingame hack tools... For relics, only the sequential item ones (like Dancing Arnie and Agarthan device) are incredibly easy. Agarthan device with the helmet, radio, and mr peeks is actually the easiest. Dancing Arnie becomes hard due to it becoming a kill challenge for the lobster and you cant datamine that". Because of that, the leading theory is that the missing piece has to be something kill condition related, or player action related. Below is literally all of the information I could find on the belt that I thought was worth mentioning, to try and help the community solve this together. CONFIRMED: There is a magazine with a sticker of Mr Peeks holding a Geiger Counter that has a pickup interaction, and is located at the top of the lighthouse while you are picking up the Jotunn Star. This only appears in cursed mode, and appears without any relics active. Considering the only other grim relic (power switch) is solved, we know this mag fits in with the wrestlers belt in some way. The sticker comes directly from intel located on Paradox Junction. THEORIES: Treyarch Dev Tweet - One Treyarch dev tweeted out: "It feels very fitting this is the final unsolved relic given the reward... good luck" Coda Wallbuy Sounds - In a video, a user hears a distinct ding sound when buying ammo off of the coda wall buy in spawn. This has been difficult to replicate, but has been replicated by the original user. Disappearing Boxes - There are 7 boxes around the map that have a hit box, and disappear when hit/shot (they disappear fast with melee macchiato). Currently it is believed by the majority of the community that this is nothing Clocks - There are five clocks near Richtofen's office. Dataminers have said "The hour, minute and second hands are all separate individual models stacked on top of the base model. lol I mean it could mean something or it could just be nothing. Their design choices on some stuff is weird But it is a model without a script and isn’t setup to move in any way" Swordfish - The mag located at the top of the lighthouse is the same model of a mag from the Swordfish A1. Some people believe that is a hint for the swordfish being needed from the box in order to complete the relic. Here are links to a spreadsheet managed by one community member that has things that community members have tested directly. Feel free to look through it, and see if you have an idea that has not already been tested: If you are interested in hunting this with other community members, please feel free to join the Mystery and ZoneX discords, as many of the community is hunting throughout there regularly. You can also feel free to comment under this post anything you might have found interesting.

OFFICIAL: It has been 134 days since the release of Totenreich, which is longer than the search for both Samantha's Drawing, and Gong COMBINED. With the release of s6 next week, it felt fitting to use our platform to get as many eyes on it as possible. As a quick disclaimer, just because things have been 'tested' does not mean it is not the solve. This post is also not an invitation to share your personal thoughts on datamining/leaks. This relic, by everything shown in the game files, can NOT be datamined: "Even in the current state of the game, relics are a lot harder to solve via datamining and ingame hack tools... For relics, only the sequential item ones (like Dancing Arnie and Agarthan device) are incredibly easy. Agarthan device with the helmet, radio, and mr peeks is actually the easiest. Dancing Arnie becomes hard due to it becoming a kill challenge for the lobster and you cant datamine that". Because of that, the leading theory is that the missing piece has to be something kill condition related, or player action related. Below is literally all of the information I could find on the belt that I thought was worth mentioning, to try and help the community solve this together. CONFIRMED: There is a magazine with a sticker of Mr Peeks holding a Geiger Counter that has a pickup interaction, and is located at the top of the lighthouse while you are picking up the Jotunn Star. This only appears in cursed mode, and appears without any relics active. Considering the only other grim relic (power switch) is solved, we know this mag fits in with the wrestlers belt in some way. The sticker comes directly from intel located on Paradox Junction. THEORIES: Treyarch Dev Tweet - One Treyarch dev tweeted out: "It feels very fitting this is the final unsolved relic given the reward... good luck" Coda Wallbuy Sounds - In a video, a user hears a distinct ding sound when buying ammo off of the coda wall buy in spawn. This has been difficult to replicate, but has been replicated by the original user. Disappearing Boxes - There are 7 boxes around the map that have a hit box, and disappear when hit/shot (they disappear fast with melee macchiato). Currently it is believed by the majority of the community that this is nothing Clocks - There are five clocks near Richtofen's office. Dataminers have said "The hour, minute and second hands are all separate individual models stacked on top of the base model. lol I mean it could mean something or it could just be nothing. Their design choices on some stuff is weird But it is a model without a script and isn’t setup to move in any way" Swordfish - The mag located at the top of the lighthouse is the same model of a mag from the Swordfish A1. Some people believe that is a hint for the swordfish being needed from the box in order to complete the relic. Here are links to a spreadsheet managed by one community member that has things that community members have tested directly. Feel free to look through it, and see if you have an idea that has not already been tested: If you are interested in hunting this with other community members, please feel free to join the Mystery and ZoneX discords, as many of the community is hunting throughout there regularly. You can also feel free to comment under this post anything you might have found interesting.

COD: Zombies News

45,414 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

Aman has no training manual. Most properties are under 55 rooms runs on staff hired for judgment, not procedure and is vetted one person at a time by a company that never built a system to replace that. More hotels doesn't mean a better hotel company. It means the company traded something for reach. Four Seasons runs 130 properties, Ritz-Carlton close behind, and both train every GM on the same playbook. The same system that turns one founder's vision into something 200 people can execute without ever meeting him. That's what a training manual is: a delegation tool. A way to remove the founder from every decision so the company can outgrow the size of his attention. Aman never built one. Its standard is applied one hire at a time, by people selected for judgment rather than procedure. This is where the math runs backwards on scale. Most Aman properties are under 55 rooms with staff-to-guest ratios between 4:1 and 6:1. A density of attention no 200-property group can afford, because it would mean thousands of individually vetted hires instead of thousands of manual-trained ones. Harvard Business School's case on Aman describes staff pushed toward "considerable initiative" rather than procedure, hired for attitude over hospitality-school credentials. A big group calls that a liability or a lawsuit waiting to happen at scale. At Aman it's the whole product. I've stayed on both sides of this line. The branded properties are excellent, reliable. You can predict the shower pressure before you turn the tap. The Aman properties are the ones where something feels decided by a person, not configured by a department. But if the whole product lives inside one person's taste, it may not survive that person's absence and Aman has grown far past the scale where that was a small bet. Taste that lives in one person's judgment is either the deepest moat in hospitality or a risk no one is paying attention to. I don't think anyone, including the people inside Aman, knows for certain which one it is yet. What this proves about operating at a genuinely high standard: 1/ A training manual is proof a standard has been simplified enough to teach. That's an achievement. It's also a ceiling. 2/ Taste doesn't scale through documentation. It scales through proximity to the person who has it. Meaning a hard structural limit is built into the model. 3/ The real luxury is direct access to the person who decided what the room should feel like, with no system standing between you. Scale protects a company from its founder's limits. Aman is a bet they were never the problem.

Aman has no training manual. Most properties are under 55 rooms runs on staff hired for judgment, not procedure and is vetted one person at a time by a company that never built a system to replace that. More hotels doesn't mean a better hotel company. It means the company traded something for reach. Four Seasons runs 130 properties, Ritz-Carlton close behind, and both train every GM on the same playbook. The same system that turns one founder's vision into something 200 people can execute without ever meeting him. That's what a training manual is: a delegation tool. A way to remove the founder from every decision so the company can outgrow the size of his attention. Aman never built one. Its standard is applied one hire at a time, by people selected for judgment rather than procedure. This is where the math runs backwards on scale. Most Aman properties are under 55 rooms with staff-to-guest ratios between 4:1 and 6:1. A density of attention no 200-property group can afford, because it would mean thousands of individually vetted hires instead of thousands of manual-trained ones. Harvard Business School's case on Aman describes staff pushed toward "considerable initiative" rather than procedure, hired for attitude over hospitality-school credentials. A big group calls that a liability or a lawsuit waiting to happen at scale. At Aman it's the whole product. I've stayed on both sides of this line. The branded properties are excellent, reliable. You can predict the shower pressure before you turn the tap. The Aman properties are the ones where something feels decided by a person, not configured by a department. But if the whole product lives inside one person's taste, it may not survive that person's absence and Aman has grown far past the scale where that was a small bet. Taste that lives in one person's judgment is either the deepest moat in hospitality or a risk no one is paying attention to. I don't think anyone, including the people inside Aman, knows for certain which one it is yet. What this proves about operating at a genuinely high standard: 1/ A training manual is proof a standard has been simplified enough to teach. That's an achievement. It's also a ceiling. 2/ Taste doesn't scale through documentation. It scales through proximity to the person who has it. Meaning a hard structural limit is built into the model. 3/ The real luxury is direct access to the person who decided what the room should feel like, with no system standing between you. Scale protects a company from its founder's limits. Aman is a bet they were never the problem.

Avery Chauhan

21,957 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

OK, I have a definitive word on the CJ Abrams play from today's Pittsburgh Pirates at Washington Nationals game after talking with Elias Sports Bureau on this. This play will stay as a sacrifice fly. The originial ruling of NOT a sacrifice fly was for the exact same reason that I thought, which is that the infielder is not running into the outfield, which is year's past would have been correct As it was explained to me, in past years, an infielder had to be running almost in a straight line towards the outfield wall to be considered "running in the outfield". Here, since he is running, and he ends up further away from home (157 feet) than when he started (145 feet), this is going to count as a sacrifice fly. That definition is changing, in part from this play to help bring greater consistency, and to take some of the guesswork out of it (the argument that he is running into the outfield as opposed to more parallel). Now, folks all the time ask "why doesn't MLB publish the OS Manual" and I always say because it is a living document that can have the wording change, and the wording for this play will be modified to something like "more towards the outfield wall than towards home plate" to eliminate any confusion. The big key to this play is that he was running on a full sprint. Also, and this is helpful for me, but for all fly ball outs that score a run, Elias Saba reviews to ensure consistency. So, yes, it's a sacrifice fly, and now that I have that info from Elias themselves, that sort of settles this one. Sounds like the guidelines for this definition will be changing, either this season, or certainly for next season.

OK, I have a definitive word on the CJ Abrams play from today's Pittsburgh Pirates at Washington Nationals game after talking with Elias Sports Bureau on this. This play will stay as a sacrifice fly. The originial ruling of NOT a sacrifice fly was for the exact same reason that I thought, which is that the infielder is not running into the outfield, which is year's past would have been correct As it was explained to me, in past years, an infielder had to be running almost in a straight line towards the outfield wall to be considered "running in the outfield". Here, since he is running, and he ends up further away from home (157 feet) than when he started (145 feet), this is going to count as a sacrifice fly. That definition is changing, in part from this play to help bring greater consistency, and to take some of the guesswork out of it (the argument that he is running into the outfield as opposed to more parallel). Now, folks all the time ask "why doesn't MLB publish the OS Manual" and I always say because it is a living document that can have the wording change, and the wording for this play will be modified to something like "more towards the outfield wall than towards home plate" to eliminate any confusion. The big key to this play is that he was running on a full sprint. Also, and this is helpful for me, but for all fly ball outs that score a run, Elias Saba reviews to ensure consistency. So, yes, it's a sacrifice fly, and now that I have that info from Elias themselves, that sort of settles this one. Sounds like the guidelines for this definition will be changing, either this season, or certainly for next season.

MLB Scoring Changes

49,141 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

This is an incredibly important post, because it tackles the false accusations against Israel of famine and weaponized hunger. It was never Israel responsible for any hunger. In 2024, the world spent months screaming at Israel for taking too long to check the aid going into Gaza, as if the inspection itself was the thing making people hungry. Every pallet was opened because we already knew what was being hidden in them, and this short video filmed directly on site is one of the reasons the check existed. Look at the trays. They are full of eggs, right? It’s what a food shipment is supposed to look like. Then a hand picks one up and it reveals how it’s been emptied and packed with tobacco, and put back so that anyone giving it a glance would pass it as food. That didn’t happen inside Gaza. Hamas did not empty these eggs. Somebody packed them, labeled the pallet as food, and sent it down the logistics chain as aid, which means the complicity sits with the people who filled the truck, not with the men the world prefers to blame after it arrives. These consignments carrying tobacco, according to OCHA, originated in Egypt, and distributed by the United Nations. Tobacco was found not only in eggs, but also concealed in flour, diapers, baby formula, canned foods and even watermelons. The funders behind this aid was predominantly Europe, but the packaging was done in Egypt. That summer a single cigarette in Gaza was selling for about $25, which is why trucks were being hit inside the Strip for whatever had been stuffed into the flour and the diapers. The people who built this shipment had already decided that tobacco was worth more than the meal, and that a few Gazans going without didn’t really matter enough to stop them doing it. That’s not a famine. A famine is an absence of food. This is food that was thrown away on purpose so a cigarette could take its place, and the little hunger that did exist was made by the same chain that stood in front of a camera and said it was feeding them. The concealment documented that summer started in Egypt, inside United Nations food, and after Rafah was taken the trucks came through Kerem Shalom. The same trucks were then torn apart inside Gaza. An Egyptian driver filmed the cabs on the way back, a Scania and a Mercedes with the windshields punched through, and warned the others not to cross because the Palestinians had not left a single truck intact. He points at blood in the cab and says the driver came back beaten. On the road the armed men were already on the load, standing on the white sacks with rifles, taking the pallets before the food ever reached the people the shipment had been labeled for. The shipment had been certified as food. The men who ripped it open knew it wasn’t.

This is an incredibly important post, because it tackles the false accusations against Israel of famine and weaponized hunger. It was never Israel responsible for any hunger. In 2024, the world spent months screaming at Israel for taking too long to check the aid going into Gaza, as if the inspection itself was the thing making people hungry. Every pallet was opened because we already knew what was being hidden in them, and this short video filmed directly on site is one of the reasons the check existed. Look at the trays. They are full of eggs, right? It’s what a food shipment is supposed to look like. Then a hand picks one up and it reveals how it’s been emptied and packed with tobacco, and put back so that anyone giving it a glance would pass it as food. That didn’t happen inside Gaza. Hamas did not empty these eggs. Somebody packed them, labeled the pallet as food, and sent it down the logistics chain as aid, which means the complicity sits with the people who filled the truck, not with the men the world prefers to blame after it arrives. These consignments carrying tobacco, according to OCHA, originated in Egypt, and distributed by the United Nations. Tobacco was found not only in eggs, but also concealed in flour, diapers, baby formula, canned foods and even watermelons. The funders behind this aid was predominantly Europe, but the packaging was done in Egypt. That summer a single cigarette in Gaza was selling for about $25, which is why trucks were being hit inside the Strip for whatever had been stuffed into the flour and the diapers. The people who built this shipment had already decided that tobacco was worth more than the meal, and that a few Gazans going without didn’t really matter enough to stop them doing it. That’s not a famine. A famine is an absence of food. This is food that was thrown away on purpose so a cigarette could take its place, and the little hunger that did exist was made by the same chain that stood in front of a camera and said it was feeding them. The concealment documented that summer started in Egypt, inside United Nations food, and after Rafah was taken the trucks came through Kerem Shalom. The same trucks were then torn apart inside Gaza. An Egyptian driver filmed the cabs on the way back, a Scania and a Mercedes with the windshields punched through, and warned the others not to cross because the Palestinians had not left a single truck intact. He points at blood in the cab and says the driver came back beaten. On the road the armed men were already on the load, standing on the white sacks with rifles, taking the pallets before the food ever reached the people the shipment had been labeled for. The shipment had been certified as food. The men who ripped it open knew it wasn’t.

Mor Edge Insight

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🗣 Rio Ferdinand: “You’ve got to give it to Chelsea, yeah. Their owners have come in, they’ve created a new model right, everyone laughed at them, everyone ridiculed them, said, ‘There’s no chance they’re going to finish anywhere, if you were a player you’d never sign for Chelsea’. They’ve swept up some of the best talents in the world…. They’ve gone full throttle with it and backed themselves, and then found a few loopholes, that some people are turning their nose up at, but if there’s a loophole there to be had, it’s there to be had, and they’ve exploited that and that’s the Premier League’s doing, not theirs.”

🗣 Rio Ferdinand: “You’ve got to give it to Chelsea, yeah. Their owners have come in, they’ve created a new model right, everyone laughed at them, everyone ridiculed them, said, ‘There’s no chance they’re going to finish anywhere, if you were a player you’d never sign for Chelsea’. They’ve swept up some of the best talents in the world…. They’ve gone full throttle with it and backed themselves, and then found a few loopholes, that some people are turning their nose up at, but if there’s a loophole there to be had, it’s there to be had, and they’ve exploited that and that’s the Premier League’s doing, not theirs.”

Vince™

519,868 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Here is why I disengaged FSD 14.3.3. Before this clip starts, I could see a semi coming down the on ramp and saw that it had some momentum. FSD did not slow down but the truck in the right lane would have ran into the other semi and either had to brake real hard or switch lanes. I took over to make it clear to the semi driver that I would let them over. No big deal, would be nice, if FSD could have seen that coming and facilitated that move. Tesla AI

Here is why I disengaged FSD 14.3.3. Before this clip starts, I could see a semi coming down the on ramp and saw that it had some momentum. FSD did not slow down but the truck in the right lane would have ran into the other semi and either had to brake real hard or switch lanes. I took over to make it clear to the semi driver that I would let them over. No big deal, would be nice, if FSD could have seen that coming and facilitated that move. Tesla AI

Andy ze German

32,632 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

They started with 50. Now they say they’re 18,000 In 1996 there were fewer than 50 of them. Today, according to the organizers, up to 18,000 walked through Copenhagen. From Dronning Louises Bro to the Imam Ali Mosque. Look at the curve. This is how it happens. First a handful. Then a few hundred. Then it fills a bridge, a district, a capital. A little at a time, until it is no longer a little. And let me be fair, because fairness is the point. There is nothing strange about them holding this mourning procession. They have done it as part of their faith for more than a thousand years. It is theirs, and they believe in it. There is nothing strange about that at all. What should stop us is the other half. There is nothing strange about Europe allowing it either, and that is exactly the problem. Europe allows it because Europe has forgotten who it is. A people that remembers what it stands for does not need to ban anything, it simply knows where its own line runs. We have lost that. And so the issue was never them. The issue is us. Now look at what actually moved through the streets. Men in front. Women in the second row. That is not a detail, that is the whole point. It is a view of women set into a system and marched out into the public square, in a city where generations fought for women and men to stand as equals. The real question is not whether people may believe what they want. They may. The question is why our capital should cultivate a political law-religion that commemorates a 7th-century power struggle by dividing people by sex on Nørrebrogade. One of the organizers is the Imam Ali Mosque, repeatedly described as the Iranian regime’s extended arm in Denmark. The same regime that hangs women and young men from cranes. We are not importing culture. We are importing a system. And we let it grow, not because they are strong, but because we forgot why we were. First a little. Then a lot. Then too late.

They started with 50. Now they say they’re 18,000 In 1996 there were fewer than 50 of them. Today, according to the organizers, up to 18,000 walked through Copenhagen. From Dronning Louises Bro to the Imam Ali Mosque. Look at the curve. This is how it happens. First a handful. Then a few hundred. Then it fills a bridge, a district, a capital. A little at a time, until it is no longer a little. And let me be fair, because fairness is the point. There is nothing strange about them holding this mourning procession. They have done it as part of their faith for more than a thousand years. It is theirs, and they believe in it. There is nothing strange about that at all. What should stop us is the other half. There is nothing strange about Europe allowing it either, and that is exactly the problem. Europe allows it because Europe has forgotten who it is. A people that remembers what it stands for does not need to ban anything, it simply knows where its own line runs. We have lost that. And so the issue was never them. The issue is us. Now look at what actually moved through the streets. Men in front. Women in the second row. That is not a detail, that is the whole point. It is a view of women set into a system and marched out into the public square, in a city where generations fought for women and men to stand as equals. The real question is not whether people may believe what they want. They may. The question is why our capital should cultivate a political law-religion that commemorates a 7th-century power struggle by dividing people by sex on Nørrebrogade. One of the organizers is the Imam Ali Mosque, repeatedly described as the Iranian regime’s extended arm in Denmark. The same regime that hangs women and young men from cranes. We are not importing culture. We are importing a system. And we let it grow, not because they are strong, but because we forgot why we were. First a little. Then a lot. Then too late.

Krisztina Maria

38,814 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten