In an effort to consolidate data and make it easier to find. We decided to create a DEF CON 27 Informational Mega Thread. It will be updated frequently and will mostly provide links to other threads and places to find more information.
 

DEF CON 27 Will take place August 8-11, 2019 - Cost for all four days is $300USD cash at the door

 

DEF CON Planning

DEF CON Website / Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Youtube / Store / Forums
DEF CON 27 Ride & Room Sharing Thread
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Talks

DEF CON 27 Talks DEF CON 27 Schedule DEF CON 27 Lockpick Village Schedule
   

Workshops

The DC 27 Workshop registration should go live on July 8 at 1500 PDT and be done via Eventbrite. They will cost $25 to sign up this year in an effort to discourage no-shows.
DEF CON 27 Workshop List
   

Venue

DEF CON 27 Venue Page Ballys/Paris PDF Flamingo PDF Planet Hollywood PDF
   

Villages

Village List

Who/Website	Twitter	DC Forums	DC27 Location*
Wireless Village	@WiFi_Village	Forums Link	Palace Meeting Rooms 1-7 - Bally's
Blue Team Village	@BlueTeamVillage	Forums Link	Savoy Ballroom - Flamingo
IoT Village	@IoTvillage	Forums Link	Eldorado - Flamingo
Skytalks	@dcskytalks	Forums Link	Jubilee Tower - 2nd Floor Pacific Ballroom - Bally's
Crypto & Privacy Village	@CryptoVillage	Forums Link	Celebrity 1 & 2 - Planet Hollywood
Packet Hacking	@wallofsheep	Forums Link	Skyview 1, 2, 5, 6 -Bally's
BioHacking Village	@DC_BHV	Forums Link	Melrose 1, 2, 3 - Planet Hollywood
CarHacking Village	@CarHackVillage	Forums Link	Bally's Event Center
ICS Village	@ICS_Village	Forums Link	Bally's Event Center
Lockpick Village	@toool	Forums Link	Platinum II - Bally's
AI Village	@aivillage_dc	Forums Link	Skyview 3 - Bally's
Blockchain Village	@bcosvillage	Forums Link	Laughlin III - Flamingo
Monero Village	@monerovillage	Forums Link	Skyview 4 - Bally's
Recon Village	@ReconVillage	Forums Link	Celebrity 5 - Planet Hollywood
Red Team Village	@VillageRedTeam	Forums Link	Laughlin II - Flamingo
Ethics Village	@EthicsVillage	Forums Link	Reno II - Flamingo
Social Engineering Village	@humanhacker	Forums Link	Jubilee Tower - 3rd Floor Pacific Ballroom - Bally's
Voting Hacking Village	@votingvillagedc	Forums Link	Wiltshire Ballroom A - Planet Hollywood
Data Duplication Village	@DDV_DC	Forums Link	Bally's Event Center
r00tz	@r00tzasylum	Forums Link	PH Tower Preview Center - Planet Hollywood
Aviation Hacking Village	@aviationvillage	Forums Link	Bally's Event Center
Drone Warz	@drone_warz	Forums Link	Bally's Event Center
Hack the Sea	@hack_the_sea	Forums Link	Bally's Event Center
Hardware Hacking Village	@dc_hhv	Forums Link	Bally's Event Center
Rogues Village		Forums Link	Carson City II - Flamingo
Tamper Evident Village		Forums Link	Platinum I - Bally's
Cloud Village	@cloudvillage_dc	Forums Link	Reno I - Flamingo
VX (Chip-off) Village	@vxresearch	Forums Link	Bally's Event Center
Ham Radio Village	@HamRadioVillage	Forums Link	Virginia City - Flamingo
AppSec Village	@AppSec_Village	Forums Link	Mesquite - Flamingo

 

Past Village AMA's

Wireless, Blue Team, IoT Skytalks, Crypto & Privacy, PacketHacking BioHacking, CarHacking, ICS Lockpicking, AI, Monero
   

Contests

Short Story Writing Contest	AI Village CTF	DEF CON Beard Contest
Beverage Cooling Contraption Contest	Capture The Packet	Car Hacking Village CTF
Coindroids	Crack Me If You Can	DEF CON Capture the Flag
DarkNet Project	Drunk Hacker History	Dungeons@DEFCON
EFF Tech Trivia	Hackfortress	Hacker Jeopardy!
Hack the Plan[e]t	Warl0ck Gam3z CTF	Ham Radio Fox Hunting Contest
Homebrew Hardware Contest	Hospital Under Siege	Maps of the Digital Lands
OpenCTF	OpenSOC Blue Team CTF	OSINT CTF for Missing Persons
Red Alert ICS CTF	Scavenger Hunt	Schemaverse
Secure Code Review Challenge	SOHOpelessly Broken	SpellCheck: The Hacker Spelling Bee
Spy Contest - Who is the Best SE	Whose Slide it is Anyway?	The d(struction)20 CTF
Threat Modeling Challenge	Tinfoil Hat	TeleChallenge

   

Events

DEF CON 27 Sticker Swap	DEF CON 27 Bike Ride	DC Shoot for DEF CON 27
Ham Radio Licensing Exams	DEAF CON Meetup	Toxic BBQ

   

Parties

For the best Party Information we recommend watching the @defconparties twitter and checking out their DEF CON Parties 2019 Calendar
   

Badge Life

For the most up to date information checkout the DC 27 Badge Life Tracker done by @hermit_hacker
   

Hotel's

DEF CON 27 Will take place across four hotels this year : Bally's, Paris, Flamingo & Planet Hollywood Official Hotel Registration
   

Hacker Summer Camp

Other hackeinfo things happening that aren't necessarily DEF CON specific

BSidesLV

Twitter / Website

Black Hat

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Diversity Resort

Queercon is proud to host this year's Diversity Resort in partnership with DC Furs, Out in Tech, and other like-minded groups. We are taking over all of Alexis Park Resort to bring you more events, talks, and parties all week! Alexis Park is where it all began for Queercon and we're returning to our roots, better than ever. There will be talks, recruitment fair, social mixers, and of course our fabulous parties all weekend.
QueerCon : Twitter / Website / Telegram / Hotel Reservation / Call for Events / Call for Presentations DC Furs : Twitter / Website Out in Tech: Twitter / Website
For more information Check out the Diversity Resort Thread by @CyberSulu
 

Diana Initiative

Located at the Westin Hotel (Next door to the Flamingo), The Diana Initiative has a $30 registration fee this year. Registration closes Wednesday August 7th, 2019, no tickets will be sold at the door. Entry fee includes all workshops, talks, parties and the "Learn to solder project".
There will be Three tracks of talks, CTF, Career Village, Soldering/Maker Village, and Lockpick Village Twitter / Website
   

Getting Around

Las Vegas Monorail Information Monorail Map
   

Staying Informed

Hacker Track for DEF CON

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Scholarship Programs

WISP DEF CON 2019 Scholarship
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First time going to DEF CON? Going Solo? Want to make some friends pre-con? Make sure to check out the Lonely Hackers Club on Telegram : https://t.me/joinchat/EdrZSUQiYU-1kxTaMD_1sw
 

Going through old issues of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter and posting highlights in my own words. For anyone interested, I highly recommend signing up for the actual site at f4wonline and checking out the full archives.
PREVIOUS YEARS ARCHIVE: 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995

1-2-1996	1-6-1996	1-15-1996	1-22-1996
1-29-1996	2-5-1996	2-12-1996	2-19-1996
2-26-1996	3-4-1996	3-11-1996

• Johnny B. Badd (real name Marc Mero) quit WCW last week after an argument with Eric Bischoff and is expected to sign a 3-year contract with WWF. Bischoff then buried Mero on Nitro that night, saying he couldn't hang where the big boys play. Mero was working without a contract. WCW had offered him a new contract for about the same amount he was already making ($300,000ish per year) but there were other issues in the contract they couldn't come to terms on. Most people working without a contract only get paid $150 per night. While Mero worked without a contract, he wanted to make sure he was still paid the same amount he was making before the contract expired ($6,000 a week) but Bischoff wouldn't sign off on it. Mero also told Bischoff that he had been negotiating with WWF and they had offered him a better deal and wanted to know what future plans WCW had for him. One thing led to another and it led to Bischoff telling Mero to put over Lex Luger on Nitro that night and then be done. Mero refused to work the show unless Bischoff would sign something saying he would be paid his normal salary rather than the standard $150. Bischoff refused. Mero then said he was leaving and hoped they could at least shake hands and part on good terms, but Biscoff told him that he wasn't leaving on good terms at all.
  
• There were other issues between Bischoff and Mero that had been brewing. Mero was asked to work in the pit crew as a celebrity guest for a NASCAR race that happened to fall on his daughter's birthday. Mero is well-known within WCW for his willingness to make public appearances, but he asked to have someone else do this one so he could be with his daughter that day. Bischoff threw a fit and said lots of people have had to miss their kids' birthdays for this job. Mero had finally agreed to do it before someone changed Bischoff's mind and Mero was allowed to skip it. Mero had also asked Bischoff to drop his angle with DDP and Kimberly due to his strong religious beliefs. He didn't want to be portrayed on TV stealing another man's wife. Bischoff went along with ending the angle but was irritated and said he shouldn't have to worry if Jesus Christ would approve every time he booked Mero in an angle.
  
• The Nasty Boys were released by WCW last week in a cost-cutting measure (as part of offsetting the money they're spending to bring in Scott Hall and Kevin Nash). It is strongly rumored that they may be returning to WWF (didn't happen). Other names that have been rumored to be on the cutting block for WCW include John Tenta (Shark/Earthquake) and Bunkhouse Buck.
  
• WCW has also been talking about bringing in 1-2-3 Kid to feud with Eddie Guerrero, but that won't be happening for now because Kid's WWF contract recently rolled over. Aside from Hall and Nash, WCW is reportedly negotiating with another top WWF star, but Dave doesn't say who.
  
• Regarding Hall and Nash, some of the WCW wrestlers are upset at the rumored money both guys are being given to jump ship, since it's more money than almost everybody except Hogan is making. Speaking of, even though he makes waaaaay more than anyone else in the entire industry, Hogan has also been vocally complaining about the big money being offered to Hall and Nash, saying they are being offered too much and that the money would be better spent on Yokozuna or Ultimate Warrior (coincidentally, the 2 people Hogan has done jobs to and never gotten his win back).
  
• Dave takes an in-depth look at ECW and, in particular, their fans. ECW has sold out every building they've held shows at so far in 1996, including packing 1,200 into a building in Queens, NY last week in the middle of a snow storm. But some of those fans are just the worst. In Philly, the ECW fans have developed an appreciation for the characters and the angles and great wrestling. But at shows in other cities, the crowds often have no interest in great performances and they only came because they want to see tits and violence. Dave says Mick Foley, "a man who has given far more to pro wrestling than it will ever give back to him" wrestled his next-to-last match as Cactus Jack at the Queens show and was pelted with disrespectful chants of "You sold out!" and they chanted boring during the first minute of a Sabu/Too Cold Scorpio match. They ignored a Pitbulls/Eliminators match and spent the entire time chanting "Show your tits!" at Francine. In fact, Dave says the tits chant was directed at pretty much every female in the building, even women in the crowd who dared to get up from their seats to go to the concessions. They called Chris Jericho a "Hunter Hearst Helmsley wannabe" and they threw so much trash at the ring that the state athletic commission almost shut the show down until Paul Heyman came out and cut a promo to get the crowd to behave. Fans complained about the lack of blood (remember, ECW has stopped doing bladejobs for now) and the in-ring wrestling because they wanted violence. Dave was at this show and says it was among the most depressing nights he's ever spent watching wrestling live.
  
• On the flip side, the show the following night, back at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, was the polar opposite. Cactus Jack was greeted with a thunderous and respectful standing ovation and his post-match speech was wonderful. Rey Misterio Jr. and Juventud Guerrera had one of the best matches ever in the building and the crowd was nuclear hot for it. They were still a bloodthirsty and horny crowd of 98% men, but overall, they were infinitely more respectful of the show than the Queens fans were.
  
• Dave also went backstage at the ECW show in Philly and says it looked more like a hospital triage room with all the people laying around injured after the show. Raven worked 2 matches, but backstage, he needed crutches to get around due to gout. Hack Myers had his shoulder separated. "Tommy Dreamer's body is falling apart from the brutality." Sandman took chairshots so stiff that he couldn't remember the match afterward. J.T. Smith's hand was busted up. One of the jobbers had a nasty black eye, etc. etc.
  
• Dave then reviews the two shows (dubbed ECW Big Ass Extreme Bash). So many legendary moments from the Philly show. Cactus Jack's final ECW match, the Misterio/Guerrera match that saw them fighting on cars in the snow out in the parking lot, some Brian Pillman stuff....all on this one show.
  

WATCH: ECW Big Ass Extreme Bash (Full Show) Pt. 1 | Pt. 2 | Pt. 3

• AAA wrestler Pentagon (better known as Espanto Jr.) was clinically dead in the middle of the ring for 3 minutes at a show last week before being revived. After taking a backdrop, Pentagon lied motionless in the ring. An ambulance was called and doctors later said that the only thing that saved his life was that the hospital was so close to the arena and that he was given mouth-to-mouth while they waited for the ambulance to arrive. For several minutes, his respiratory system had shut down and his brain was deprived of oxygen. After reviving, he was still totally paralyzed for several hours but eventually started to regain movement and now he's expected to make a full recovery. He's expected back in the ring in about 2 months. (Nope. This ended up causing him to retire. Also, Dave says at the beginning of the story that the respiratory failure was "from mixing alcohol and drugs" but then doesn't mention anything about that again. Every other article I've read about it says nothing about drugs either. But throughout the next year, Dave occasionally mentions this story and he always says it was due to a drug overdose but I can't find any verification of that elsewhere).
  
• Ric Flair was arrested last week and charged with aiding and abetting a DWI. The driver of the car was a 20-year-old woman (so not legally old enough to drink) who was driving Ric's car home from a night club. Flair was in no condition to drive, so he turned the keys over to the also-drunk 20-year-old (who is a friend of Flair's wife). Flair told the police he wasn't aware that the woman was also drunk when he gave her the keys. Her BAC was twice the legal limit. Because of Flair's celebrity status, the incident was all over the local news in Charlotte and even made some national outlets.
  
• Brian Pillman showed up in the crowd on WCW Nitro, holding up a sign advertising his 900 number. Eric Bischoff acknowledged it on camera and then left the commentary booth to go to ringside. Bischoff is still trying to play it off as a shoot and is even working everyone behind the scenes, to the point that the cameramen and producers didn't know it was going to happen either, so they tried not to show Pillman on camera because they thought it was real. But at this point, it's clearly a work.
  

WATCH: Brian Pillman in the crowd on Nitro

• WCW recently did a marketing survey and found that of all the wrestlers in WCW, the one with the highest "likability quotient" was Eddie Guerrero, so expect him to start getting a major push. Surprisingly, Alex Wright also got a high rating, while many in WCW were surprised at how low Hogan scored. Sting did well on the survey, but not as well as expected.
  
• In a dark match, a rookie named Kid Flash got a tryout against Chris Kanyon. He was green at first but he and Kanyon built to a fantastic match and many said it was the best tryout any newcomer has had since Sean Waltman (who had a WCW tryout a few years ago and stole the show, but wasn't hired because they thought he was too small). For those keeping score, Kid Flash would later become Billy Kidman.
  
• Halloween Havoc will be taking place outdoors at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, the same place Wrestlemania 9 was held. It's really not a good venue for wrestling, but Slim Jim was willing to give WCW $300,000 in sponsorship money if they held the show there, so....it's happening there.
  
• At the latest WWF Superstars tapings, Brooklyn Brawler worked a match against a rookie who was getting a tryout. Dave didn't quite get his name but he believes it was either Craig Johnson (nope) or maybe Dwayne Johnson (ding! ding! ding!). Anyway, this Johnson kid looked green but he did okay. And then no one ever heard of him again...
  
• Ringmaster has changed his name to "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and was using that name at the latest tapings.
  
• Mankind also debuted at the tapings, wearing some sort of mask. Everyone recognized him and chanted "Cactus Jack" at him. That's just crazy looking back at it. At that one TV taping (in Corpus fuckin' Christi of all places...), you get Rock's first match, Austin's first match as "Stone Cold", and Mankind's debut. Talk about a historic event that no one could have possibly realized at the time.
  
• On the latest Raw, they did a segment with Jerry Lawler insulting a guy named Mark Henry, who is a weightlifter being sponsored by WWF and who will probably end up as a pro wrestler after he competes in the Olympics later this year. They're billing him as the strongest man in the world.
  
• WWF has brought in Jose Lothario as Shawn Michaels' trainer for the upcoming Ironman match at Wrestlemania. Lothario was a big draw in the San Antonio area during the 70s and was Shawn's trainer when he began training for wrestling after high school.
  
• "Hakushi is history." Thanks Dave.
  
• Ultimate Warrior would only allow a professional bodybuilding photographer to shoot his new WWF publicity photos because he wanted someone who knew how to highlight the strengths and hide the weaknesses in his physique. So WWF paid to bring in a guy to do it. Man, talk about insecure...
  
• This week's Billionaire Ted skit wasn't really anything special. Just jokes about Hogan, Savage and Okerlund being old and bald.
  

WATCH: Billionaire Ted skit #11

• Bob Backlund makes autograph-seekers name all the Presidents in order before he will give them an autograph. So far, since he started it, apparently only 6 people have gotten Backlund's autograph after successfully doing it.
  
• WWF is reportedly interested in bringing in Rey Misterio Jr. but so far, nothing serious has been discussed.
  
• Letters section is mostly about the Monday night wars, with people saying Vince is acting like a big baby because WCW is simply doing the exact same things Vince did to the territories in the 80s. Basically, he can dish it but he can't take it.
  

TOMORROW: Hulk Hogan changes the booking plans for the Uncensored PPV, Brian Pillman returns to WCW because Hogan wants to leech off his heat, WWF sells out Madison Square Garden for the first time in ages, and more...

The two people addressed briefly at the beginning of this Email are a Paralegal at the Connecticut law firm of Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder https://www.koskoff.com/
who are suing gun manufacturers as part of their overall lawsuit strategy and doing the same in relation to Sandy Hook and independent journalist Mike Turber, one of the producers of the upcoming documentary Vegas Wrong, along with Ramsey Denison https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1774444/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1 , producer of the award winning documentary What Happened in Vegas https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6615426/?ref_=nm_knf_i2
Hi Lorena,
The following is a very good overview of what I know of what happened in Las Vegas on October 1, 2017 - and I venture to say I know way more valid information than 99% plus of the population about this subject.
It was originally sent to Mike Turber months ago. I have added comments where needed, but for the most part it was already very complete and well documented.
Please let me know you received this, there are many links and a few images so not all email systems will treat this as serious correspondence.
Thanks,
Rodney Peterson
​
Hi Mike,
A week before you posted the videos with Eric (Paddock, Stephen Paddock's brother), I posted roughly 120 to 130 posts on Twitter in succession with links to back up everything I say. These are the original writings I culled those posts from.
Eric Paddock interviews for Vegas Wrong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPEmD5KKvb0
(Long)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diofrf4nwaE&t=9s
(Short)
On his last day on Earth, just hours before committing the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shootings in which he killed 59 people, including himself, Stephen Paddock won $860,000 playing video poker. Independent Journalist and Investigator Mike Turber has seen the official records. (while this is true, he LOST even more than that. This gives you an idea of just how fast paced and pressure filled becoming an addicted gambler playing video poker for up to 14 hours a day year-round can be).
There is more about that specifically and about Mike Turber later in this email.
Rodney Peterson
​
You can also find an extended interview with the shooters brother Eric Paddock, who is speaking through Mike Turber on this video, and myself on the You Tube page of Weg Oag, who has posted many videos about the Las Vegas shootings here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zR1rBjtwHI&t=5s
All of that is true. If you read my comments beneath, and there are many of them, you'll see that I've answered all the inconsistencies and reasonable objections anyone brought up.
All of the interview and all of my writing is first and foremost based on the following. Without this, it's very unlikely I would have remembered meeting Stephen Paddock, let alone what he said with regards to wishing to extract revenge on the casinos through extreme violence.
I did not remember it right away, it took several days after I read the comment below and it was not very clear at first. It took probably right around a week to actually remember everything accurately. Here it is copied and pasted from the Los Angeles Times website at which it was published on October 17, 2017 - two and a half weeks after the shootings where it was posted after an article about Jesus Campos appearing on the Ellen DeGeneres Show:
robert.roberts0361
1 year (s) ago
Quite a while back talked to that guy in an Edmonton casino about how the casinos cheat their patrons. Not a Muslim terrorist thing at all. Same guy Filipino girlfriend. Lived in a hotel in Vegas. Asked him why he came to an out of the way place like Edmonton. He said just to gamble. He mentioned he was a retired accountant. Talked about nothing you can do about the casinos cheating if you tried to sue they would bury you with their lawyers. He said he tried that once. He said he was going to do something about it. He mentioned something about a AR 15. I said I didn't know what that was (at the time) I'm retired military what would that be in military talk? He said M16. When I left I thought that guy is an American so he can't get guns in Canada. Can anyone figure out the dates he was up here. I recall he said he drove in from British Columbia and was on a 2 day stopover from a 19 day cruise when I met him. Maybe 30th September 2016???
Compare that with my conversation with him, which started as just being at the same Blackjack table where he and Marilou Danley were in the Excalibur, staring at me for half an hour or so while I played, Then complimenting me on winning money as he noticed the mathematical progressions of my betting patterns, then his bizarre rant about the casinos cheating, and finally this exchange when talk of cheating became talk of revenge:
"How? How are you going to get revenge on the casinos? They'll have you before you get ten feet on the floor!"
"LOOK ALL AROUND YOU! WHADDAYA SEE?! WINDOWS!"
Couple that with having nearly the same set of mental issues as Paddock. The major difference is I became obsessed with music and movies, not guns and not gambling 14 hours a day. I'm sure there are other differences as well, my contact with him was limited, but in retrospect, there was a ton of common ground. The types of personalities he and I have are not in the slightest bit desirable or advantageous. Especially when every effort is made to deny a problem even exists, as is the case with him. Anyone with these same issues and real introspection abilities would never have carried this out, they would look inside themselves first. He couldn't even blame himself for his own gambling issues, let alone anything else.
How he even thought for a minute he would survive such a heinous act uncaught, unpunished and with impunity is probably pretty good proof he couldn't ever accept the reality of his predicament and mental disabilities. The reality is from what I know of him he didn't attempt to deal with problems in any constructive way and just let the anger keep building, it's toxic. Lots of people with these same issues snap violently and always will. Largely because of the introspection he apparently lacked, I know I would never get away with such an act, even if I wanted to, even on a much smaller scale, no matter how much I tried or wanted to.
I knew immediately that comment was very important, it literally checked many of the boxes of what I instinctively believed, as well as had been originally reported, and urged the writer to contact the FBI. I had no idea when I read it I would have a similar story to tell, to say that was shocking when I began to remember my own encounter with Stephen Paddock is a huge understatement.
You can find it at the comments posted underneath the linked Los Angeles Times article here. To find it click where it says Be the first to comment (I don't know why it's set up like that, but it is) when you do comments will open. Keep clicking until the comment above appears.
Here is the link to the article:
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-jesus-campos-20171017-story.html
It's extremely detailed as you can see, plus EVERYTHING FITS. A couple of important points - a retired military person would not have to know what an AR15 is, maybe they didn't have a huge interest in guns. And maybe they knew what it was but didn't know what it was called exactly. And the part about the two day stopover from Vancouver is irrelevant. ALL 19 day cruises to Alaska end with a two day stopover in Vancouver. That means Stephen Paddock had already disembarked, and did not have to go back to the ship at all.
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AND SOMETHING THE FBI COULD EASILY DO IF THEY WANTED TO GET TO THE TRUTH OF THE MOTIVE
>>>>This would be easy to prove by checking passenger manifests for 19 day Alaska cruises that began in early to mid-September 2016 from the port of Vancouver.
My experience with Stephen Paddock was very similar and is written in detail, particularly at Instagram. Telephone, text or Twitter are the best ways to contact me directly.
I suspect he has aspergers as I do. That explains his obsession with numbers and math. That was why he wanted to talk to me - he saw I was using a mathematical system to win money. No one, before or since, has ever wanted to speak to me about using progressive math to win money, and that’s counting hundreds and hundreds of Casino Blackjack games. Very few people ever even notice it.
Being obsessed with activities and collecting stuff is part of the aspbergers, I believe, another part is the math. He collected guns and gambled 14 hours a day at times. My obsession is not about those things, it’s about collecting music, movies and television series, on every conceivable format at one time or another. But it’s part of the same pattern of aspbegers.
He’s unfriendly, he was annoyed I sat down at the same table he was playing at. He stared at me for a good half hour while we played, hardly saying a word. So he was both annoyed and studying the math I was using to place bets, which I didn’t know until after the game had ended for me, and he started talking about how I using math to win money. He thought that was smart.
He is incapable of blaming himself for his problems. He lacks introspection. Losing money at gambling is not his fault, the casinos are cheating him. That’s what he told me and I disagreed. The casinos don’t need to cheat.
He flies off the handle quickly. Disagreeing with him sent him into more of a rant about the casinos cheating, getting revenge, and finally when I asked how he was going to do that, yelling about shooting out of windows onto the Las Vegas Strip. It didn’t make a whole lot of sense, and even though he mentioned he lived at Mandalay Bay, which sounded like bullshit and I pretty much didn’t believe him, we were at The Excalibur which I’ve never thought of as a place with large windows, so it sounded even more ridiculous.
All in all, it sounded like a fantasy of revenge that would never happen. Yet, clearly, 15 months before he did it, he already had a clear plan of how to proceed. I believe that over the next 15 months it gelled from an insane idea to a workable plan.
But he still made a ton of mistakes. Otherwise, if he knew what he was doing when he shot at the jet fuel tanks, it could have been way, way worse. Just as an example of how inefficient the entire plan was.
It is extremely frustrating not to get real traction on this part of the story being reported, and it seems to be a deliberate decision possibly made by people in power at various institutions that have an interest in not divulging these details. These include MGM Resorts and other casinos, for certain, which in turn have a large degree of influence over the FBI and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, as well as media outlets, especially the Las Vegas Review Journal which is owned by casino magnate Sheldon Adelson.
There are new stories being investigated and confirmed that concern other angles of this story that are not being disclosed by MGM Resorts. This includes MGM gifting security guard Jesus Campos with Real Estate in the form of Las Vegas condos to sign an NDA and not talk about the events, including that management knew there was a huge quantity of guns in the room but chose to ignore them because of Stephen Paddock's High Roller Status.
See this article, one of many written by Doug Poppa. It’s important to note his background is in casino security, while my story revolves around my experience with Stephen Paddock, and examines both psychology and a very strong case of explaining the motive as revenge against the casinos, which is what he told me in person.
http://baltimorepostexaminer.com/exclusive-mgm-resorts-international-buys-mandalay-bay-security-officer-jesus-campos-silence-with-all-expenses-paid-trips-condos-in-exchange-for-nda/2018/12/09
Here are a couple of newer posts I’ve written at You Tube with relevant information about what Stephen Paddock told me:
Regarding what Paddock shouted “LOOK ALL AROUND YOU! WHADDAYA SEE?! WINDOWS!!” and Doug Poppa saying he’s never seen windows in the Excalibur, he wasn’t talking about that casino. He was talking about the entire strip. It was pretty obvious.
In fact, when he said it the image that came to mind was that he would shoot out of the windows of a central location, like Aria, not Mandalay Bay and certainly not Excalibur. Although he did tell me he lived at Mandalay Bay, which just added to how nuts I thought he was. People do not live at Mandalay Bay, and yet, he actually was very close to that, but I didn’t believe him.
Naturally, when I remembered all this I felt horribly guilty I never reported it. But now I know thanks to the efforts of Doug Poppa interviewing Luis Castro it wouldn’t have made any difference at all. Mandalay Bay knew about the guns in the room and ignored them. They weren’t about to take my word over his no matter what I told them on July 6, 2016. He was a high roller, I was not. I didn’t know he was a high roller, of course, I just thought he was a disheveled angry nut.
The interview also includes comments by Eric Paddock, who tries to negate my testimony in two ways. First, he claims Stephen Paddock didn’t play table games. Second, he tries to negate my memory of Stephen Paddock with a beard and mustache by saying he’s clean shaven. In both cases in the comments section I link to articles and photos that prove he did play Blackjack - for up to $2500 a hand. Photos of Stephen Paddock with a beard and mustache are easily found searching Google for images.
All reasonable objections and any time I misspoke during the interview are addressed in my comments - there are a lot of them. A lot of people asked questions, but some were redundant and others just will not accept that this tragedy was not a conspiracy, or that it didn’t happen. Of course, it happened. And it wasn’t a conspiracy.
Here is an early article from October 7, 2017 printed in the Las Vegas Sun confirming Stephen Paddock did indeed play Blackjack:
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2017/oct/07/dealers-lv-gunman-paddock-would-spend-long-hours-p/
Excerpts from that article specifically about Blackjack:
When one blackjack table dealer at the D Las Vegas first saw Stephen Paddock’s picture on television last week, she thought it was Paddock that had been shot — not the other way around.
Upon later finding out Paddock was responsible for the deaths of 58 attendees and the injuries of nearly 500 more at last Sunday’s Route 91 Harvest Festival on the Las Vegas Strip, the dealer said she was surprised that a man she knew to be calm yet reclusive was responsible for the largest mass shooting in modern United States history.
“He wasn’t the nicest guy, but he never came across as threatening,” said the dealer, who asked not to be identified. “Unpleasant in general, but he didn’t go out of his way to be rude or go after other people.” “I never would have thought he was capable of something like this, not him,” she added.
The dealer was one of several to speak with the Sun about Paddock, who owned homes in Mesquite and Reno but spent his retirement years and the final weeks of life frequenting the tables and machines of downtown and Strip casinos.
An avid blackjack player, Paddock also played video poker, interviewed dealers said. His girlfriend, Marilou Danley, enjoyed playing video slots when the two came to the casino together.
Another female dealer at the D Las Vegas, who requested anonymity, said Paddock had been a regular at the casino for “many years,” gambling as many as four days a week and sometimes spending an entire afternoon shift between gaming tables and the upstairs video poker room.
Despite betting up to $2,500 per hand on high-limit blackjack tables, Paddock was a poor tipper at first, she said. But he eventually came around when she gave him a hard time for “being cheap.” “I told him, ‘Steve, it would be nice if you started tipping me,’” she said. “From there on, he always left a fair tip.”
Three other dealers at the D Las Vegas said they last remembered Paddock at the casino on Sept. 26, just five days before he opened fire from his 32nd floor hotel room onto the 22,000 attendees of the country music festival.
SOME OF THE FOLLOWING IS REPEATED. THERE ARE OTHER AS YET NEW TO THIS EMAIL ANGLES OF THE STORY FOLLOWING THE REPEATED BACKGROUND INFORMATION.
Independent Investigator and Journalist Mike Turber has seen official records confirming Stephen Paddock won $860,000 on September 30, 2017, just hours before he committed the Las Vegas shootings. However, that figure doesn’t include losses for the day, which are right around $890,000.
Mike Turber, along with Ramsey Denison, who produced the documentary What Happened In Vegas, have interviewed me extensively on camera and in person. Mike Turber has stated that he observed my body language and other factors as a sort of lie detector test to determine if I was telling the truth without my knowledge which he states in that You Tube video. His conclusion is that either I am telling the truth or I believe I’m telling the truth.
Mike Turber can be contacted here:
[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
I believe, based on behavior, both Stephen Paddock and I have similar mental illnesses and Asperger’s syndrome. I believe that’s why he instinctively talked to me and noticed I was using the same type of mathematical formulas he did and was familiar with. (It works too 98% of the time the problem is it doesn’t work 100% of the time and that’s what you need). So was he crazy? Of course he was crazy! So am I. But instead of guns, my obsessions are artistic – movies, music, media production, and the like. There’s nothing I can do about the Asperger’s or High Functioning Autism that’s part of this. Like him I’ve had it all my life. You cannot fake this.
I would never have even remembered meeting Stephen Paddock, let alone what he said to me about wanting revenge against the casinos if I hadn’t come across this post written after an article about Mandalay Bay security guard Jesus Campos appearing on the Ellen show. Everything here fits:
robert.roberts0361
1 year(s) ago
Quite a while back talked to that guy in an Edmonton casino about how the casinos cheat their patrons. Not a Muslim terrorist thing at all. Same guy Filipino girlfriend. Lived in a hotel in Vegas. Asked him why he came to an out of the way place like Edmonton. He said just to gamble. He mentioned he was a retired accountant. Talked about nothing you can do about the casinos cheating if you tried to sue they would bury you with their lawyers. He said he tried that once. He said he was going to do something about it. He mentioned something about a AR 15. I said I didn't know what that was (at the time) I'm retired military what would that be in military talk? He said M16. When I left I thought that guy is an American so he can't get guns in Canada. Can anyone figure out the dates he was up here. I recall he said he drove in from British Columbia and was on a 2 day stopover from a 19 day cruise when I met him. Maybe 30th September 2016???
You can find the original at the comments posted underneath the linked Los Angeles Times article here. To find it click where it says Be the first to comment (I don't know why it's set up like that, but it is) when you do the comments will open. Keep clicking until the comment above appears.
Here is the link to the article:
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-jesus-campos-20171017-story.html
It's extremely detailed as you can see, plus EVERYTHING FITS. A couple of important points - a retired military person would not have to know what an AR15 is, maybe they didn't have a huge interest in guns. Or maybe he knew what it was but didn't know what it was called exactly. And the part about the two day stopover from Vancouver is irrelevant. ALL 19 day cruises to Alaska end with a two day stopover in Vancouver. That means Stephen Paddock and Marilou Danley had already disembarked, and did not have to go back to the cruise ship at all.
AND HOW TO PROVE THE EDMONTON STORY IS TRUE:
Any FBI investigator or private investigator could prove if what Stephen Paddock told that commenter is true by checking passenger manifests for 19 day Alaska cruises that began in early to mid-September 2016. Unless Stephen Paddock and Marilou Danley were on that cruise, this person couldn’t have possibly known about it unless he was directly told by Stephen Paddock, as he says.
THE FOLLOWING IS ALSO VERY IMPORTANT TO MOTIVE. THIS IS WHAT STEPHEN PADDOCK MEANT WITH REGARDS TO THE CASINOS CHEATING, NOT TRADITIONAL CHEATING. I don’t play Video Poker, so I had no idea what he meant by his talking about the casinos cheating that morning unless he had explained it to me, which he didn’t do.
Here is another recent You Tube post I’ve written which details more about Stephen Paddock and Video Poker with links to yet more relevant information. There are several posts by myself near the bottom of the thread. Just like on my Instagram page, Rodney4K, you can see how the details of the memory of meeting Stephen Paddock was not at that time completely clear and changed as I remembered more and more of what happened.
There are very rare video poker machines known as 9 over 6 Jacks or Better. If played perfectly they give the player 100.8% payout. But that's no guarantee. Someone figured out that in order to have a 90% chance of winning $140,000 you need at least a six million dollar bankroll.
There is a whole thread about this and Paddock in one of Anthony Curtis columns on the Las Vegas Advisor website. Of course, beating the house long term is close to impossible. Even the Sheriffs department admits Paddock had lost a considerable amount of wealth prior to the shootings.
There's also a report that he won $860,000 on the day of the shootings. But that figure doesn't include losses, which are reported to be some $890,000. Mike Turber knows the details of this.
I have several comments in that article. Just like on my Instagram page, if you read them, you'll see how they change more and more as I start to remember meeting Stephen Paddock and what he said about getting revenge on the casinos. It was a very bizarre few days as that memory returned:
https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/gambling-with-an-edge/the-shooter-gambler-steven-paddock/
Because that blog is about gambling, many of the posts are about how much Stephen Paddock did gamble, his odds of winning and related subjects. It is this post from the above thread that appears to be the most accurate about the level of Video Poker Stephen Paddock played nearly every day:
What everyone is forgetting is what kind of bankroll is required when playing 9/6 Jacks or Better at $125 a hand. According to Video Poker for Winners if you bet $125 a hand and you get 0.5% slot club return, which I think is generous for a strip club casino in 2015, you need over $6 million bankroll. And that is for a chance of going broke 10% of the time! If the average gambler can make this calculation so can a casino. There’s no way a casino is going to give you free rooms, food, shows, etc and at the same time let you win $5 million over the year!
You can see how complicated it gets. Did he win the $5 million? Sure, probably several times. But at a cost that probably was more in the neighborhood of after 6 million dollars of losses.
Another insightful commenter provided this information about changes in tax law under Donald Trump which would be something that could very much upset Stephen Paddock to the point of taking these drastic actions:
I am surprised nobody has commented on an obvious angle to the Shooter’s profile. He had millions in Royal Fushes each year. At Tax Time those wins were undoubtedly counter balanced by his losses. Anthony Curtis related in the latest issue of LVA that the last 2 books purchased were about Taxes and Gambling Law.
Under the Trump tax plan guess how much will be allowed to be written off as losses?? ZERO!!!!! That deduction dies and so with it will any AP (Advantage Play) play on VP. The Shooter was an accountant, he had to have knowledge of that reality. Anyone who plays VP, at any level above a $1200 Royal, would have to be an idiot to be in action under those conditions.
The winning sum of $5.000,000 has been used in previous posts, Can you imagine having won $5.000.000 and subsequently losing that back plus an additional $500,000? You would not only be stuck the $500,000 but also owe the IRS another $1,000,000 to $2,000,000 in taxes on your non deductible winnings.
How come nobody in the casinos is screaming about this? It will kill destroy $1 and up Slot and VP play.
According to Mike Turber, who says he has seen the records, Stephen Paddock won $860,000 on September 30, 2017, just before the shootings. But, he also very likely lost $890,000 that very same day, according to the full accounting.
This is also very important, in that besides my testimony of what happened when I met Stephen Paddock and when Robert Roberts met Stephen Paddock, here is a CNN article quoting his Caesars Palace host that says that when they switched out the high payoff machines, he stopped coming altogether.
This helps give credence to the motive of being angry at the casinos, wanting revenge, and his belief the casinos were cheating. They don't cheat in the traditional sense - they don't have to, and that's why I disagreed with him and why he became angry. But, in his mind, switching out the higher payoff Video Poker machines for the ones that gave the house a better edge after years and years of playing them-I can see how he would equate that with cheating:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/us/las-vegas-shooting-documents/index.html
This is an excerpt from that CNN article:
A man who worked for Caesars Entertainment who had known Paddock for years said Paddock was a regular guest for several years but Caesars took out his favorite video poker machines.
Paddock was a skilled gambler, the casino host said, and he stopped coming once those games were taken out.
The host said Paddock was an odd guy who either came to one of the Caesars properties alone or with his girlfriend, Marilou Danley. Danley was in the Philippines at the time of the shooting, and police said they don't think she was involved. Paddock, who killed himself, acted alone, police have said.
The host said there was one incident years ago in which Paddock yelled at him over late luggage, something the host thought peculiar. When asked to specify why he thought Paddock was odd, the host said: "He was just weird."
I'm also on Instagram where you can find more information. The Instagram account is not active, I can’t respond to it or anything anyone else chooses to write there, or edit or remove comments from others, but there are several posts there that are relevant. The top of the page explains which posts to look for by date that are relevant.
www.Instagram.com/Rodney4K/
I also have a Twitter page, which is active, with brief tweets and through which I can be contacted for communication or chat:
www.twitter.com/Rodney4KBluRay
Rodney Peterson
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This is an email recently sent to journalists, attorneys and others.
The two people addressed briefly at the beginning of this Email are a Paralegal at the Connecticut law firm of Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder https://www.koskoff.com who are suing gun manufacturers as part of their overall lawsuit strategy and doing the same in relation to Sandy Hook and independent journalist Mike Turber, one of the producers of the upcoming documentary Vegas Wrong, along with Ramsey Denison https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1774444/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1 , producer of the award winning documentary What Happened in Vegas https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6615426/?ref_=nm_knf_i2
Hi Lorena,
The following is a very good overview of what I know of what happened in Las Vegas on October 1, 2017 - and I venture to say I know way more valid information than 99% plus of the population about this subject.
It was originally sent to Mike Turber months ago. I have added comments where needed, but for the most part it was already very complete and well documented.
Please let me know you received this, there are many links and a few images so not all email systems will treat this as serious correspondence.
Thanks,
Rodney Peterson
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Hi Mike,
A week before you posted the videos with Eric (Paddock, Stephen Paddock's brother), I posted roughly 120 to 130 posts on Twitter in succession with links to back up everything I say. These are the original writings I culled those posts from.
Eric Paddock interviews for Vegas Wrong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPEmD5KKvb0
(Long)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diofrf4nwaE&t=9s
(Short)
On his last day on Earth, just hours before committing the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shootings in which he killed 59 people, including himself, Stephen Paddock won $860,000 playing video poker. Independent Journalist and Investigator Mike Turber has seen the official records. (while this is true, he LOST even more than that. This gives you an idea of just how fast paced and pressure filled becoming an addicted gambler playing video poker for up to 14 hours a day year-round can be).
There is more about that specifically and about Mike Turber later in this email.
Rodney Peterson
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You can also find an extended interview with the shooters brother Eric Paddock, who is speaking through Mike Turber on this video, and myself on the You Tube page of Weg Oag, who has posted many videos about the Las Vegas shootings here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zR1rBjtwHI&t=5s
All of that is true. If you read my comments beneath, and there are many of them, you'll see that I've answered all the inconsistencies and reasonable objections anyone brought up.
All of the interview and all of my writing is first and foremost based on the following. Without this, it's very unlikely I would have remembered meeting Stephen Paddock, let alone what he said with regards to wishing to extract revenge on the casinos through extreme violence.
I did not remember it right away, it took several days after I read the comment below and it was not very clear at first. It took probably right around a week to actually remember everything accurately. Here it is copied and pasted from the Los Angeles Times website at which it was published on October 17, 2017 - two and a half weeks after the shootings where it was posted after an article about Jesus Campos appearing on the Ellen DeGeneres Show:
robert.roberts0361
1 year (s) ago
Quite a while back talked to that guy in an Edmonton casino about how the casinos cheat their patrons. Not a Muslim terrorist thing at all. Same guy Filipino girlfriend. Lived in a hotel in Vegas. Asked him why he came to an out of the way place like Edmonton. He said just to gamble. He mentioned he was a retired accountant. Talked about nothing you can do about the casinos cheating if you tried to sue they would bury you with their lawyers. He said he tried that once. He said he was going to do something about it. He mentioned something about a AR 15. I said I didn't know what that was (at the time) I'm retired military what would that be in military talk? He said M16. When I left I thought that guy is an American so he can't get guns in Canada. Can anyone figure out the dates he was up here. I recall he said he drove in from British Columbia and was on a 2 day stopover from a 19 day cruise when I met him. Maybe 30th September 2016???
Compare that with my conversation with him, which started as just being at the same Blackjack table where he and Marilou Danley were in the Excalibur, staring at me for half an hour or so while I played, then complimenting me on winning money as he noticed the mathematical progressions of my betting patterns, then his bizarre rant about the casinos cheating, and finally this exchange when talk of cheating became talk of revenge:
"How? How are you going to get revenge on the casinos? They'll have you before you get ten feet on the floor!"
"LOOK ALL AROUND YOU! WHADDAYA SEE?! WINDOWS!"
Couple that with having nearly the same set of mental issues as Paddock. The major difference is I became obsessed with music and movies, not guns and not gambling 14 hours a day. I'm sure there are other differences as well, my contact with him was limited, but in retrospect, there was a ton of common ground. The types of personalities he and I have are not in the slightest bit desirable or advantageous. Especially when every effort is made to deny a problem even exists, as is the case with him. Anyone with these same issues and real introspection abilities would never have carried this out, they would look inside themselves first. He couldn't even blame himself for his own gambling issues, let alone anything else.
How he even thought for a minute he would survive such a heinous act uncaught, unpunished and with impunity is probably pretty good proof he couldn't ever accept the reality of his predicament and mental disabilities. The reality is from what I know of him he didn't attempt to deal with problems in any constructive way and just let the anger keep building, it's toxic. Lots of people with these same issues snap violently and always will. Largely because of the introspection he apparently lacked, I know I would never get away with such an act, even if I wanted to, even on a much smaller scale, no matter how much I tried or wanted to.
I knew immediately that comment was very important, it literally checked many of the boxes of what I instinctively believed, as well as had been originally reported, and urged the writer to contact the FBI. I had no idea when I read it I would have a similar story to tell, to say that was shocking when I began to remember my own encounter with Stephen Paddock is a huge understatement.
You can find it at the comments posted underneath the linked Los Angeles Times article here. To find it click where it says Be the first to comment (I don't know why it's set up like that, but it is) when you do comments will open. Keep clicking until the comment above appears.
Here is the link to the article:
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-jesus-campos-20171017-story.html
It's extremely detailed as you can see, plus EVERYTHING FITS. A couple of important points - a retired military person would not have to know what an AR15 is, maybe they didn't have a huge interest in guns. And maybe they knew what it was but didn't know what it was called exactly. And the part about the two day stopover from Vancouver is irrelevant. ALL 19 day cruises to Alaska end with a two day stopover in Vancouver. That means Stephen Paddock had already disembarked, and did not have to go back to the ship at all.
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AND SOMETHING THE FBI COULD EASILY DO IF THEY WANTED TO GET TO THE TRUTH OF THE MOTIVE
>>>>This would be easy to prove by checking passenger manifests for 19 day Alaska cruises that began in early to mid-September 2016 from the port of Vancouver.
My experience with Stephen Paddock was very similar and is written in detail, particularly at Instagram. Telephone, text or Twitter are the best ways to contact me directly.
I suspect he has aspergers as I do. That explains his obsession with numbers and math. That was why he wanted to talk to me - he saw I was using a mathematical system to win money. No one, before or since, has ever wanted to speak to me about using progressive math to win money, and that’s counting hundreds and hundreds of Casino Blackjack games. Very few people ever even notice it.
Being obsessed with activities and collecting stuff is part of the aspbergers, I believe, another part is the math. He collected guns and gambled 14 hours a day at times. My obsession is not about those things, it’s about collecting music, movies and television series, on every conceivable format at one time or another. But it’s part of the same pattern of aspbegers.
He’s unfriendly, he was annoyed I sat down at the same table he was playing at. He stared at me for a good half hour while we played, hardly saying a word. So he was both annoyed and studying the math I was using to place bets, which I didn’t know until after the game had ended for me, and he started talking about how I using math to win money. He thought that was smart.
He is incapable of blaming himself for his problems. He lacks introspection. Losing money at gambling is not his fault, the casinos are cheating him. That’s what he told me and I disagreed. The casinos don’t need to cheat.
He flies off the handle quickly. Disagreeing with him sent him into more of a rant about the casinos cheating, getting revenge, and finally when I asked how he was going to do that, yelling about shooting out of windows onto the Las Vegas Strip. It didn’t make a whole lot of sense, and even though he mentioned he lived at Mandalay Bay, which sounded like bullshit and I pretty much didn’t believe him, we were at The Excalibur which I’ve never thought of as a place with large windows, so it sounded even more ridiculous.
All in all, it sounded like a fantasy of revenge that would never happen. Yet, clearly, 15 months before he did it, he already had a clear plan of how to proceed. I believe that over the next 15 months it gelled from an insane idea to a workable plan.
But he still made a ton of mistakes. Otherwise, if he knew what he was doing when he shot at the jet fuel tanks, it could have been way, way worse. Just as an example of how inefficient the entire plan was.
It is extremely frustrating not to get real traction on this part of the story being reported, and it seems to be a deliberate decision possibly made by people in power at various institutions that have an interest in not divulging these details. These include MGM Resorts and other casinos, for certain, which in turn have a large degree of influence over the FBI and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, as well as media outlets, especially the Las Vegas Review Journal which is owned by casino magnate Sheldon Adelson.
There are new stories being investigated and confirmed that concern other angles of this story that are not being disclosed by MGM Resorts. This includes MGM gifting security guard Jesus Campos with Real Estate in the form of Las Vegas condos to sign an NDA and not talk about the events, including that management knew there was a huge quantity of guns in the room but chose to ignore them because of Stephen Paddock's High Roller Status. This is according to his former brother-in-law, Luis Castro, and is partially documented in the article mentioned below.
See this article, one of many written by Doug Poppa. It’s important to note his background is in casino security, while my story revolves around my experience with Stephen Paddock, and examines both psychology and a very strong case of explaining the motive as revenge against the casinos, which is what he told me in person.
http://baltimorepostexaminer.com/exclusive-mgm-resorts-international-buys-mandalay-bay-security-officer-jesus-campos-silence-with-all-expenses-paid-trips-condos-in-exchange-for-nda/2018/12/09
Here are a couple of newer posts I’ve written at You Tube with relevant information about what Stephen Paddock told me:
Regarding what Paddock shouted “LOOK ALL AROUND YOU! WHADDAYA SEE?! WINDOWS!!” and Doug Poppa saying he’s never seen windows in the Excalibur, he wasn’t talking about that casino. He was talking about the entire strip. It was pretty obvious.
In fact, when he said it the image that came to mind was that he would shoot out of the windows of a central location, like Aria, not Mandalay Bay and certainly not Excalibur. Although he did tell me he lived at Mandalay Bay, which just added to how nuts I thought he was. People do not live at Mandalay Bay, and yet, he actually was very close to that, but I didn’t believe him.
Naturally, when I remembered all this I felt horribly guilty I never reported it. But now I know thanks to the efforts of Doug Poppa interviewing Luis Castro it wouldn’t have made any difference at all. Mandalay Bay knew about the guns in the room and ignored them. They weren’t about to take my word over his no matter what I told them on July 6, 2016. He was a high roller, I was not. I didn’t know he was a high roller, of course, I just thought he was a disheveled angry nut.
The interview also includes comments by Eric Paddock, who tries to negate my testimony in two ways. First, he claims Stephen Paddock didn’t play table games. Second, he tries to negate my memory of Stephen Paddock with a beard and mustache by saying he’s clean shaven. In both cases in the comments section I link to articles and photos that prove he did play Blackjack - for up to $2500 a hand. Photos of Stephen Paddock with a beard and mustache are easily found searching Google for images.
All reasonable objections and any time I misspoke during the interview are addressed in my comments - there are a lot of them. A lot of people asked questions, but some were redundant and others just will not accept that this tragedy was not a conspiracy, or that it didn’t happen. Of course, it happened. And it wasn’t a conspiracy.
Here is an early article from October 7, 2017 printed in the Las Vegas Sun confirming Stephen Paddock did indeed play Blackjack:
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2017/oct/07/dealers-lv-gunman-paddock-would-spend-long-hours-p/
Excerpts from that article specifically about Blackjack:
When one blackjack table dealer at the D Las Vegas first saw Stephen Paddock’s picture on television last week, she thought it was Paddock that had been shot — not the other way around.
Upon later finding out Paddock was responsible for the deaths of 58 attendees and the injuries of nearly 500 more at last Sunday’s Route 91 Harvest Festival on the Las Vegas Strip, the dealer said she was surprised that a man she knew to be calm yet reclusive was responsible for the largest mass shooting in modern United States history.
“He wasn’t the nicest guy, but he never came across as threatening,” said the dealer, who asked not to be identified. “Unpleasant in general, but he didn’t go out of his way to be rude or go after other people.” “I never would have thought he was capable of something like this, not him,” she added.
The dealer was one of several to speak with the Sun about Paddock, who owned homes in Mesquite and Reno but spent his retirement years and the final weeks of life frequenting the tables and machines of downtown and Strip casinos.
An avid blackjack player, Paddock also played video poker, interviewed dealers said. His girlfriend, Marilou Danley, enjoyed playing video slots when the two came to the casino together.
Another female dealer at the D Las Vegas, who requested anonymity, said Paddock had been a regular at the casino for “many years,” gambling as many as four days a week and sometimes spending an entire afternoon shift between gaming tables and the upstairs video poker room.
Despite betting up to $2,500 per hand on high-limit blackjack tables, Paddock was a poor tipper at first, she said. But he eventually came around when she gave him a hard time for “being cheap.” “I told him, ‘Steve, it would be nice if you started tipping me,’” she said. “From there on, he always left a fair tip.”
Three other dealers at the D Las Vegas said they last remembered Paddock at the casino on Sept. 26, just five days before he opened fire from his 32nd floor hotel room onto the 22,000 attendees of the country music festival.
SOME OF THE FOLLOWING IS REPEATED. THERE ARE OTHER AS YET NEW TO THIS EMAIL ANGLES OF THE STORY FOLLOWING THE REPEATED BACKGROUND INFORMATION.
Independent Investigator and Journalist Mike Turber has seen official records confirming Stephen Paddock won $860,000 on September 30, 2017, just hours before he committed the Las Vegas shootings. However, that figure doesn’t include losses for the day, which are right around $890,000.
Mike Turber, along with Ramsey Denison, who produced the documentary What Happened In Vegas, have interviewed me extensively on camera and in person. Mike Turber has stated that he observed my body language and other factors as a sort of lie detector test to determine if I was telling the truth without my knowledge which he states in that You Tube video. His conclusion is that either I am telling the truth or I believe I’m telling the truth.
Mike Turber can be contacted here:
[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
I believe, based on behavior, both Stephen Paddock and I have similar mental illnesses and Asperger’s syndrome. I believe that’s why he instinctively talked to me and noticed I was using the same type of mathematical formulas he did and was familiar with. (It works too 98% of the time the problem is it doesn’t work 100% of the time and that’s what you need). So was he crazy? Of course he was crazy! So am I. But instead of guns, my obsessions are artistic – movies, music, media production, and the like. There’s nothing I can do about the Asperger’s or High Functioning Autism that’s part of this. Like him I’ve had it all my life. You cannot fake this.
I would never have even remembered meeting Stephen Paddock, let alone what he said to me about wanting revenge against the casinos if I hadn’t come across this post written after an article about Mandalay Bay security guard Jesus Campos appearing on the Ellen show. Everything here fits:
robert.roberts0361
1 year(s) ago
Quite a while back talked to that guy in an Edmonton casino about how the casinos cheat their patrons. Not a Muslim terrorist thing at all. Same guy Filipino girlfriend. Lived in a hotel in Vegas. Asked him why he came to an out of the way place like Edmonton. He said just to gamble. He mentioned he was a retired accountant. Talked about nothing you can do about the casinos cheating if you tried to sue they would bury you with their lawyers. He said he tried that once. He said he was going to do something about it. He mentioned something about a AR 15. I said I didn't know what that was (at the time) I'm retired military what would that be in military talk? He said M16. When I left I thought that guy is an American so he can't get guns in Canada. Can anyone figure out the dates he was up here. I recall he said he drove in from British Columbia and was on a 2 day stopover from a 19 day cruise when I met him. Maybe 30th September 2016???
You can find the original at the comments posted underneath the linked Los Angeles Times article here. To find it click where it says Be the first to comment (I don't know why it's set up like that, but it is) when you do the comments will open. Keep clicking until the comment above appears.
Here is the link to the article:
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-jesus-campos-20171017-story.html
It's extremely detailed as you can see, plus EVERYTHING FITS. A couple of important points - a retired military person would not have to know what an AR15 is, maybe they didn't have a huge interest in guns. Or maybe he knew what it was but didn't know what it was called exactly. And the part about the two day stopover from Vancouver is irrelevant. ALL 19 day cruises to Alaska end with a two day stopover in Vancouver. That means Stephen Paddock and Marilou Danley had already disembarked, and did not have to go back to the cruise ship at all.
AND HOW TO PROVE THE EDMONTON STORY IS TRUE:
Any FBI investigator or private investigator could prove if what Stephen Paddock told that commenter is true by checking passenger manifests for 19 day Alaska cruises that began in early to mid-September 2016. Unless Stephen Paddock and Marilou Danley were on that cruise, this person couldn’t have possibly known about it unless he was directly told by Stephen Paddock, as he says.
THE FOLLOWING IS ALSO VERY IMPORTANT TO MOTIVE. THIS IS WHAT STEPHEN PADDOCK MEANT WITH REGARDS TO THE CASINOS CHEATING, NOT TRADITIONAL CHEATING. I don’t play Video Poker, so I had no idea what he meant by his talking about the casinos cheating that morning unless he had explained it to me, which he didn’t do.
Here is another recent You Tube post I’ve written which details more about Stephen Paddock and Video Poker with links to yet more relevant information. There are several posts by myself near the bottom of the thread. Just like on my Instagram page, Rodney4K, you can see how the details of the memory of meeting Stephen Paddock was not at that time completely clear and changed as I remembered more and more of what happened.
There are very rare video poker machines known as 9 over 6 Jacks or Better. If played perfectly they give the player 100.8% payout. But that's no guarantee. Someone figured out that in order to have a 90% chance of winning $140,000 you need at least a six million dollar bankroll.
There is a whole thread about this and Paddock in one of Anthony Curtis columns on the Las Vegas Advisor website. Of course, beating the house long term is close to impossible. Even the Sheriffs department admits Paddock had lost a considerable amount of wealth prior to the shootings.
There's also a report that he won $860,000 on the day of the shootings. But that figure doesn't include losses, which are reported to be some $890,000. Mike Turber knows the details of this.
I have several comments in that article. Just like on my Instagram page, if you read them, you'll see how they change more and more as I start to remember meeting Stephen Paddock and what he said about getting revenge on the casinos. It was a very bizarre few days as that memory returned:
https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/gambling-with-an-edge/the-shooter-gambler-steven-paddock/
Because that blog is about gambling, many of the posts are about how much Stephen Paddock did gamble, his odds of winning and related subjects. It is this post from the above thread that appears to be the most accurate about the level of Video Poker Stephen Paddock played nearly every day:
What everyone is forgetting is what kind of bankroll is required when playing 9/6 Jacks or Better at $125 a hand. According to Video Poker for Winners if you bet $125 a hand and you get 0.5% slot club return, which I think is generous for a strip club casino in 2015, you need over $6 million bankroll. And that is for a chance of going broke 10% of the time! If the average gambler can make this calculation so can a casino. There’s no way a casino is going to give you free rooms, food, shows, etc and at the same time let you win $5 million over the year!
You can see how complicated it gets. Did he win the $5 million? Sure, probably several times. But at a cost that probably was more in the neighborhood of after 6 million dollars of losses.
Another insightful commenter provided this information about changes in tax law under Donald Trump which would be something that could very much upset Stephen Paddock to the point of taking these drastic actions:
I am surprised nobody has commented on an obvious angle to the Shooter’s profile. He had millions in Royal Fushes each year. At Tax Time those wins were undoubtedly counter balanced by his losses. Anthony Curtis related in the latest issue of LVA that the last 2 books purchased were about Taxes and Gambling Law.
Under the Trump tax plan guess how much will be allowed to be written off as losses?? ZERO!!!!! That deduction dies and so with it will any AP (Advantage Play) play on VP. The Shooter was an accountant, he had to have knowledge of that reality. Anyone who plays VP, at any level above a $1200 Royal, would have to be an idiot to be in action under those conditions.
The winning sum of $5,000,000 has been used in previous posts, Can you imagine having won $5,000,000 and subsequently losing that back plus an additional $500,000? You would not only be stuck the $500,000 but also owe the IRS another $1,000,000 to $2,000,000 in taxes on your non deductible winnings.
How come nobody in the casinos is screaming about this? It will kill destroy $1 and up Slot and VP play.
According to Mike Turber, who says he has seen the records, Stephen Paddock won $860,000 on September 30, 2017, just before the shootings. But, he also very likely lost $890,000 that very same day, according to the full accounting.
This is also very important, in that besides my testimony of what happened when I met Stephen Paddock and when Robert Roberts met Stephen Paddock, here is a CNN article quoting his Caesars Palace host that says that when they switched out the high payoff machines, he stopped coming altogether.
This helps give credence to the motive of being angry at the casinos, wanting revenge, and his belief the casinos were cheating. They don't cheat in the traditional sense - they don't have to, and that's why I disagreed with him and why he became angry. But, in his mind, switching out the higher payoff Video Poker machines for the ones that gave the house a better edge after years and years of playing them-I can see how he would equate that with cheating:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/us/las-vegas-shooting-documents/index.html
This is an excerpt from that CNN article:
A man who worked for Caesars Entertainment who had known Paddock for years said Paddock was a regular guest for several years but Caesars took out his favorite video poker machines.
Paddock was a skilled gambler, the casino host said, and he stopped coming once those games were taken out.
The host said Paddock was an odd guy who either came to one of the Caesars properties alone or with his girlfriend, Marilou Danley. Danley was in the Philippines at the time of the shooting, and police said they don't think she was involved. Paddock, who killed himself, acted alone, police have said.
The host said there was one incident years ago in which Paddock yelled at him over late luggage, something the host thought peculiar. When asked to specify why he thought Paddock was odd, the host said: "He was just weird."
I'm also on Instagram where you can find more information. The Instagram account is not active, I can’t respond to it or anything anyone else chooses to write there, or edit or remove comments from others, but there are several posts there that are relevant. The top of the page explains which posts to look for by date that are relevant.
www.Instagram.com/Rodney4K/
I also have a Twitter page, which is active, with brief tweets and through which I can be contacted for communication or chat:
www.twitter.com/Rodney4KBluRay
Rodney Peterson

Las Vegas Travel Wizards - @LVTWs
Uber and Lyft Pick Up Locations
​​Uber and Lyft are changing the game in Las Vegas. Taxis that charge almost criminally exorbitant prices are on their way out! Uber and Lyft are two apps that give you the ability to pick out your driver, see their reviews, and track your entire ride. They put you, the rider, in control. The deals in Las Vegas (especially for gambling!!!) are often found at off strip properties. Uber and Lyft allow you to access parts of Las Vegas where you can find the best deals and the rides are very affordable. It's usually about a $10 UbeLyft ride from the airport to the strip, versus Taxi Rides that have been known to cost upwards of $30.
MCCARRAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT LAS VEGAS Terminal 1 Pick-up point: After you collect your baggage or take the train towards baggage claim. Go ahead and request a ride with Uber or Lyft. The pick up spot is in the Parking Garage, on Level 2M of McCarran International Airport Las Vegas to get a pick-up from their driver. Please follow the Rideshare signs.
Terminal 3 Pick-up point:
After you collect your baggage or take the train towards baggage claim. Go ahead and request a ride with Uber or Lyft. The pick up spot to catch your ride is the Parking Garage on the valet level of McCarran International Airport. Please follow the Rideshare signs.
ARIA Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the north entrance of the ARIA Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver. It is not allowed to get a pick-up from the main entrance.
BALLY’S Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the side of the Bally’s Hotel closest to Flamingo Road where the Tour Bus Pick-up Area is to get a pick-up from their driver. It is not allowed to get a pick-up from the main entrance.
BELLAGIO Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to South Tour Lobby, which is at the right side of the main entrance of the Bellagio Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
CAESARS PALACE This hotel has a designated area for Rideshare services like Uber and Lyft which is directly across from the main entrance on the other side of their fountain.
CIRCUS CIRCUS This hotel has a designated area for Rideshare services like Uber and Lyft at their Main Entrance.
COSMOPOLITAN This hotel has a designated area for Rideshare services like Uber and Lyft at their Main Entrance.
​CROMWELL Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the side entrance, then past the roundabout at the Flamingo hotel entrance to get a pick-up from their driver (there is a sign for the pick-up spot).
Elara Pickup is by the valet. Just walk a bit west past it and turn right for the pick up area.
ENCORE Customers using Uber or Lyft can go to the main entrance of the Encore Hotel, the main entrance of the Encore Tower Suites or the Wynn self-parking garage on floor one (for Encore Beach Club).
EXCALIBUR Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to Tower 1 Drive at the corner of the hotel, past the main entrance toward self parking.
​FLAMINGO Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the main entrance of the Flamingo Hotel, past the roundabout to get a pick-up from their driver.
Hard Rock Hotel Pick-up is in the Paradise Tower parking garage (Rehab entrance).
HARRAH’S Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the north side entrance and then go to the parking garage, just before the valet of the Harrah’s Hotel.
THE LINQ Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the Bus and Tour Lobby of the LINQ Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
LUXOR Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the north entrance of the Luxor Hotel at the right side to get a pick-up from their driver.
MANDALAY BAY Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the lower level at guest pickup of the Mandalay Bay Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
MANDARIN ORIENTAL Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the main entrance of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
MGM GRAND Customers using Uber or Lyft must follow the signs near the main entrance to the pick up spot in the garage of the MGM Grand Hotel.
THE MIRAGE Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the north entrance close to the valet at The Mirage Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
MONTE CARLO Customers using Uber or Lyft must go pas the main entrance of the Monte Carlo Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
NEW YORK NEW YORK Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to past the main entrance of the New York New York Hotel at the right side.
PALAZZO Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the north end, in front of the shuttle area of the Palazzo Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
PARIS Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the north entrance of the Paris Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
PLANET HOLLYWOOD Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the hotel lobby, then go outside and walk left to the Tour Bus Pick-up at the Planet Hollywood Hotel.
SLS Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the main entrance of the SLS Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
STRATOSPHERE Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the back entrance of the Stratosphere Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
TREASURE ISLAND Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the main entrance of the Treasure Island Hotel and then go to Siren’s Cove Boulevard across the street.
TROPICANA Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the north entrance of the Tropicana Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
THE VENETIAN Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the 3rd level valet of the The Venetian Hotel parking garage to get a pick-up from their driver.
VDARA Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the main entrance of the Vdara Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
WYNN Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the South Entrance or Tower Suites of the Wynn Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
We have a tip for using Uber or Lyft from the airport in Las Vegas that will save you money and help you better enjoy your trip! Simply ask the driver to stop at the CVS on Paradise Rd (4490 Paradise Rd) on route to your hotel so that you can load up on supplies for your hotel room. UbeLyft only charge about $0.20/minute to wait in the parking lot while you go in to the store. What has worked best for us is a folded up green grocery bag (our best option is an IKEA bag) and a thin flat cooler bag in our luggage to use on these runs. Some of our essentials supplies include:

• A Case of Waters
• Snacks like fruit, yogurt, and granola bars
• Orange Juice
• Cheap Champagne
• Energy Drinks

These items would truly cost a small fortune at your hotel or anywhere on the strip and we have found that they really are the essentials (especially the case of water!) when you are in Sin City. When you arrive at your hotel in your UbeLyft, just put your cooler bag with your other luggage and request a bell person. They'll transport your supplies to your room for free with your luggage. Just remember to tip the bell person a few dollars when you drop off the bags and again when the bell person arrives with your luggage in your room!
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    5. The Wild Gypsy Tour Is A Game Changer For Women In Motorcycling (36 points, 2 comments)
    6. Bebe Zahara Benet: First winner of Rupaul's drag race. Originally from Cameroon (22 points, 3 comments)
    7. Violet Chachki, Rupaul's Drag Race winner (22 points, 3 comments)
    8. The 10 Coolest Time Capsules Opened in 2015 (7 points, 0 comments)
    9. Annual Tulip Fest in Oregon, Happening Now (3 points, 0 comments)
14. 350 points, 28 submissions: art-man_2018
    
    1. The True Origins of ‘X-Men’ “The main objective was to show that bigotry is a terrible thing,” - Stan Lee (102 points, 3 comments)
    2. Hole - Violet (1994) (34 points, 3 comments)
    3. Henry Rollins Show - Joan Jett recalls what she saw and heard in Afghanistan on her USO tours in 2001-2002 (25 points, 0 comments)
    4. Closer to the Edge (The Isle of Man Tourist Trophy) documentary [1:39:19] (2015) (18 points, 4 comments)
    5. Public Image Ltd. - Flowers of Romance (1981) (18 points, 0 comments)
    6. Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (1987) (17 points, 2 comments)
    7. New Coke: The Failure | "In April 1985, New Coke was announced to the American public. Within hours, things began going downhill for Coca-Cola’s New Coke." (15 points, 3 comments)
    8. Kimba the White Lion (1965) (11 points, 3 comments)
    9. Lou Reed - Kill Your Sons (1974) (11 points, 1 comment)
    10. Michael Pederson’s Lighthearted Street Art is Hidden in Plain Sight | "The artist’s plaques, signs, and miniature architecture tend to center around ideas of escape, isolation, and our relationship to social norms." (11 points, 1 comment)
15. 340 points, 3 submissions: illestMFKAalive
    
    1. Buzz Aldrin Punched a Conspiracy Theorist Who Said He Didn’t Walk on the Moon (162 points, 7 comments)
    2. Giannis Antetokounmpo literally jumps over 6'6" Tim Hardaway Jr. on a ridiculous dunk (129 points, 12 comments)
    3. N.C.A.A.: North Carolina Will Not Be Punished for Academic Scandal (49 points, 1 comment)
16. 339 points, 4 submissions: jostler57
    
    1. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (SMBC) is one of the greatest webcomics, ever. I read he makes enough money from the comics to take University classes in his free time, so he can continue to write comics about a wide variety of topics, in depth. (175 points, 22 comments)
    2. No cartoon got me running to the TV on an early Saturday morning more than X-Men. (120 points, 13 comments)
    3. One of the best anime movies I’ve ever seen is Beautiful Dreamer 2. Why is the day repeating over and over? Beware the consequences should you unravel the mystery! (YouTube trailer gives away too much, so here’s the Wikipedia) (43 points, 9 comments)
    4. This rap song honors all the breakfast cereals we used to eat while watching cartoons. Every time I hear this song, it brings me back to those days! (1 point, 0 comments)
17. 288 points, 4 submissions: goofballl
    
    1. Tunak Tunak Tun, a classic by Daler Mendhi. The video got a HD upgrade a couple years ago. (102 points, 8 comments)
    2. xkcd map of the worst hurricanes in history to hit the eastern US from 1914-2014 (87 points, 16 comments)
    3. Baobabs! (74 points, 2 comments)
    4. Japanese shiokara - strips of squid meat served in salted, fermented squid viscera/guts (25 points, 2 comments)
18. 271 points, 9 submissions: Sanlear
    
    1. Giannis Antetokounmpo, surging Bucks end 2018 with NBA’s best record (80 points, 1 comment)
    2. Thousands march on May Day, demand better working conditions (71 points, 0 comments)
    3. Byzantine Gold Coin Discovered in Northern Israel (45 points, 1 comment)
    4. British food: 20 classic dishes (19 points, 0 comments)
    5. Cameroon soldiers kill 21 separatist fighters in NW region (18 points, 0 comments)
    6. Sturgis campgrounds may face fees ahead of popular motorcycle rally (16 points, 1 comment)
    7. The power of editorial cartoons (14 points, 3 comments)
    8. 114 Of The Most Famous Cats On The Internet (5 points, 0 comments)
    9. American Winter by Gerry Johansson (3 points, 1 comment)
19. 266 points, 26 submissions: Flo__Moore
    
    1. Dungeness Crab (39 points, 2 comments)
    2. The Pre - 1976, Proto Punk Bands That Embodied the Punk Rock Genre Long Before It Existed (37 points, 4 comments)
    3. Flight of Fancy: Magritte's "Clairvoyance" (31 points, 5 comments)
    4. The Sound of Dial Up Internet (20 points, 2 comments)
    5. Billy Preston - Nothing From Nothing (14 points, 0 comments)
    6. Haddaway - What Is Love (14 points, 1 comment)
    7. Marula Tree (13 points, 1 comment)
    8. Sit in your bookcase (11 points, 0 comments)
    9. Sweet - Fox On The Run (10 points, 2 comments)
    10. The 3 Kinds of Friendships (8 points, 0 comments)
20. 216 points, 5 submissions: NotSid
    
    1. The Great Boston Molasses Flood (61 points, 1 comment)
    2. Take Me To The River performed by Talking Heads, originally by Al Green (57 points, 3 comments)
    3. March Across The Belts. A 1600s military campaign in which Sweden marched across a frozen strait to kick Denmark's ass (42 points, 0 comments)
    4. Velvet Revolution, a nonviolent transition of power that ended 41 years of Communism in Czechoslovakia. (36 points, 1 comment)
    5. Caring and Supportive Funky Kong Gives You a Ride Home From The Airport (20 points, 1 comment)

Top Commenters

1. 0and18 (222 points, 161 comments)
2. astronoob (95 points, 9 comments)
3. bebds (80 points, 1 comment)
4. jostler57 (72 points, 17 comments)
5. Aquadagger6 (71 points, 2 comments)
6. ThePaperAmoeba (57 points, 1 comment)
7. Our-Year (54 points, 19 comments)
8. illestMFKAalive (49 points, 3 comments)
9. EKrake (45 points, 3 comments)
10. joelschlosberg (42 points, 20 comments)
11. RediscoveringReddit (41 points, 4 comments)
12. Dat_Paki_Browniie (38 points, 14 comments)
13. twitch1982 (38 points, 9 comments)
14. Kezika (36 points, 3 comments)
15. fixdark (36 points, 1 comment)
16. sciences_bitch (36 points, 1 comment)
17. Codebender (35 points, 3 comments)
18. jarvis400 (34 points, 8 comments)
19. WhoTookPlasticJesus (34 points, 2 comments)
20. elbitjusticiero (33 points, 14 comments)
21. gypsywhisperer (33 points, 4 comments)
22. HerrPurple (33 points, 2 comments)
23. Das_Mime (33 points, 1 comment)
24. gaviidae (33 points, 1 comment)
25. art-man_2018 (32 points, 19 comments)
26. j_gagnon (32 points, 1 comment)
27. no_frill (31 points, 2 comments)
28. YOUREABOT (30 points, 17 comments)
29. Penguin-Pete (30 points, 4 comments)
30. JackRaichu (30 points, 1 comment)
31. PoTaToeChips (30 points, 1 comment)
32. _Foy (30 points, 1 comment)
33. m_Pony (29 points, 6 comments)
34. sbroue (28 points, 19 comments)
35. FurryDoedens (28 points, 1 comment)
36. mitch_h_30 (28 points, 1 comment)
37. Zentaurion (27 points, 9 comments)
38. Broe_Tom (27 points, 1 comment)
39. goodoldfreda (26 points, 5 comments)
40. jerisad (26 points, 2 comments)
41. rodion_kjd (26 points, 2 comments)
42. RossMacLochness (26 points, 1 comment)
43. jeebus224 (26 points, 1 comment)
44. traphag (26 points, 1 comment)
45. despawnerer (25 points, 6 comments)
46. The_Bravinator (25 points, 4 comments)
47. awowadas (25 points, 2 comments)
48. GreekAlphabetSoup (24 points, 4 comments)
49. Chilis1 (24 points, 3 comments)
50. doeraymefa (24 points, 3 comments)

Top Submissions

1. The best villains are always the ones who have a good point. by charlesdexterward (294 points, 15 comments)
2. Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra's burger recipees by twitch1982 (205 points, 0 comments)
3. Blood Moon in Finland. by jarvis400 (188 points, 4 comments)
4. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen by ash_borer (179 points, 19 comments)
5. Shoes, which just turned 12 last month by Dat_Paki_Browniie (179 points, 16 comments)
6. Nixon's response to Roe v. Wade: "it breaks the family" but "There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white. Or a rape." by joelschlosberg (177 points, 19 comments)
7. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (SMBC) is one of the greatest webcomics, ever. I read he makes enough money from the comics to take University classes in his free time, so he can continue to write comics about a wide variety of topics, in depth. by jostler57 (175 points, 22 comments)
8. The avant-garde band The Residents recorded an album of 40 one-minute songs, then purchased 40 one-minute advertising slots on San Francisco's most popular Top-40 radio station and had the station play each track over the course of three days by Our-Year (163 points, 4 comments)
9. Buzz Aldrin Punched a Conspiracy Theorist Who Said He Didn’t Walk on the Moon by illestMFKAalive (162 points, 7 comments)
10. How to Talk Minnesotan: The Power of Negatives by gypsywhisperer (159 points, 6 comments)

Top Comments

1. 80 points: bebds's comment in January 3 - The Milwaukee Bucks
2. 66 points: astronoob's comment in Eminem Proves There Are Plenty Of Words That Rhyme With 'Orange'
3. 58 points: Aquadagger6's comment in January 3 - The Milwaukee Bucks
4. 57 points: ThePaperAmoeba's comment in January 3 - The Milwaukee Bucks
5. 36 points: EKrake's comment in Why the Myers-Briggs test is totally meaningless
6. 36 points: fixdark's comment in January 3 - The Milwaukee Bucks
7. 36 points: sciences_bitch's comment in Nixon's response to Roe v. Wade: "it breaks the family" but "There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white. Or a rape."
8. 33 points: Das_Mime's comment in Lorena Bobbitt crawled into bed with her sleeping husband and cut off his penis with a kitchen knife. She then left home with $100, Bobbitt’s Game Boy and his penis, which she tossed it into field across from a 7-Eleven.
9. 33 points: gaviidae's comment in Why do women beach volleyball players wear bikinis while men wear shorts and tank tops?
10. 32 points: j_gagnon's comment in Mill Ends Park, the smallest park in the world

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You can imagine my surprise when my phone range with an unknown phone number, it was quite limited. For you see; the average unexpected phone call these days usually starts with “you have won a…” or “are you satisfied with your insur….” Most of which end mid sentence, because I couldn’t be bothered to allow the poor soul on the other side to even finish their statement.
This phone call was different, the area code started with “313.”
313 is significant. 313 is the home of wild animals; there are Lions, and Tigers, and Horses.
Knowing the significance of this area code, I answered. “Hello, this is iamnotcreativeDET.” On the other end I was happily greeted by a cheerful woman from General Motors. Initially I was less than impressed, thinking they wanted me to review their new Tesla, or Audi, or something. Her joyful tone couldn’t break me out of my uninspired haze, they wanted me to try out some dreary new Chevy.
I was wrong.
You see, when press cars are given out they sometimes offer options; deliver to a location of your specification, or you can pick your home address, or your office, or they require you travel to a pre-selected location. In this situation; viva Las Vegas. Having never gone I ecstatic, most reviews I find myself doing end up being in my home territory, and usually end up being econoboxes, finally I could submit an expense report for long distance travel, and enjoy some R&R while I was there (shhhh, don’t tell finance).
After setting meet and great details, I booked my flight and hotel room at Ceasar’s Palace. The car would be waiting for me on the 3rd level of the Self Parking, it was mine from Thursday till Sunday.
This might be a good time to mention that I should start off by saying; I am by all means an introvert. I don’t enjoy being around large groups of people, I tend to be quiet and keep to myself in these situations, nor do I gamble or enjoy high dollar shows, I do, however find driving on a deserted road in the Nevada desert to be extremely exciting, for somewhat obvious reasons…
I arrived on Thursday morning at 8 am. My uber driver conversed with me on the way to the casino, attempting to excite me about all of the great places to gamble and shows that I could enjoy. These were at the back of my mind, all I could think about was the pedal on the right, and what it would be like to mash it, repeatedly.
The hotel Concierge had the keys to my car lined up, I hastily dropped my belongings off in my hotel room and rushed to the parking garage to get my first look at the bright red 2016 Camaro SS Convertible that had been so gracefully parked on the 3rd level of the Caesar’s Palace parking garage.
Powered by an LT1 6.2 Liter V8 and paired to GM’s brand new in house 8 speed automatic transmission, the Camaro SS is the least expensive way to get over 450 horsepower in a drop top production car. I could hardly contain myself, all I wanted to do was find the fastest possible way to piss off a law enforcement official. I could even feel the hair on the back of my head growing faster than on the top.
I had planned a couple of long road trips, an opportunity to bond with the car, long streaks of highway paired to canyon carving with low and high elevation curvaceous roads. I wanted to know this car before I got on the plane back home. The Camaro and I would spend 700 miles of pure unsupervised fun, how can this be legal?
On my 4 day excursion, I found myself at places like the Hoover dam, The Grand Canyon, and on the further side of the spectrum, Zion National Park. These are all places I highly recommend going to at one point in your life, they are spectacular places, but my boss probably will read this, and I can imagine if I spent a large percentage of my required words being spent talking about how gorgeous Zion National park is in the debt of winter, or how the Hoover dam is made of 4.3 Million cubic yards of concrete, or how it took 17 million years for flowing water to carve out the grand canyon. He might be marginally cross with me.
So how was it? Deep. I couldn’t believe how far down the Grand Canyon went, it seemed like you could spend a lifetime falling into that hole…. Oh, you wanted to know about the car. Well alright then, I suppose we can talk about that.
The interior felt cheap. On face value everything looked very nice, a true homage to 60s style combined with modern plastic molding and fit and finish. My feelings on the interior went from delighted to massive disappointment quickly, every single surface inside the car is very hard plastic, it is almost as if GM engineers haven’t heard of soft touch plastics and vinyls, these are the things that create and impression of quality, something the Germans and Japanese have figured out decades ago. There was some leather on the arm rest, and door cards, completely out of view.
Then there was the creeks and rattles. This car had 3 miles on it when I pressed the start button for the very first time, and for the 4 days that I had it I had to smack the plastic liner on the convertible top because it was constantly rattling and tapping away, even on the smoothest of roads. I would understand that out of a car that is 5 or 6 years old, especially in something as flexible as a convertible, but on a sub $46K car, it seems disappointing. Clearly all of the money on this car is spent on the powertrain, roof, and styling.
The power is savage. If you have anything sitting on the center console it almost definitely will end up wedged under the back seat and lost in another point in time and space. The 455 horsepower LT1 is a welcomed addition to the Camaro, along with GM’s own brand new 8 speed automatic. At full chat the upshifts are lighting fast, a true feat given that it still has a traditional torque converter automatic, when you take the engine to redline and use the paddle shifter with the car in track mode, the exhaust pops and crackles on every upshift. Matting the throttle in 2nd gear sends the back of the car in an all out drift and caused my face physical pain as I grinned ear to ear and laughed like a maniac.
But its civilized. Putting the car’s computer in touring mode, setting the cruise control, and sitting back in GM’s plush and comfortable cloth seats make the car feel comfortable. Long distances can easily be done, albeit with a bit of wind noise, which is always to be expected from any cloth top convertible. The engine regularly drops down to 4 cylinders at cruising speeds, during which time I found average fuel economy of around 25 miles per gallon, quite impressive given the regular elevation changes of the Nevada and Utah express ways that I traveled on, and the fact that my right foot seemed like it was glued on the carpet.
The chassis is well sorted, having driven an earlier model coupe Camaro, there is definitely an obvious loss of rigidity by removing the roof, but its far from obtrusive, the 3700 pound drop head Camaro wears its weight quite well, feeling toss-able and lively on tight and technical roads, switching to track mode ads a significant amount of weight to the steering, but doesn’t change the fact that the road feedback is numb, like any other electric power steering system of this era. The trunk, however, is next to useless. It hardly fit my two suitcases for the trip, my jacket had to ride in the back seat.
Simply put, the new Camaro SS is a taste of typical American build quality with a special taste of Corvette V8 paired to a sensible and aggressive 8 speed automatic transmission, it is tons of fun and easily livable as an every day vehicle.
tl;dr - 2016 Camaro fast, shit pants.

Period: 29.78 days

	Submissions	Comments
Total	218	368
Rate (per day)	7.32	12.43
Unique Redditors	68	233
Combined Score	4738	1012

Top Submitters' Top Submissions

1. 528 points, 13 submissions: sbroue
   
   1. In Southern Iran some women wear boregheh (114 points, 10 comments)
   2. No word for blue - the mystery of history's missing colour (92 points, 7 comments)
   3. Flight of the Concords: Foux Du FaFa (87 points, 2 comments)
   4. Conlang negotiations (60 points, 7 comments)
   5. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 14th century manuscript at The British Library (50 points, 3 comments)
   6. King Island emu (26 points, 2 comments)
   7. Saint Helena earwig (25 points, 2 comments)
   8. Who Invented Zero? (22 points, 3 comments)
   9. Western Australia's incredible underground orchid (21 points, 1 comment)
   10. Underground Jerusalem cemetery project looks to the past for the graveyard of the future (2017) (15 points, 1 comment)
2. 473 points, 42 submissions: 0and18
   
   1. The Drake Equation (84 points, 6 comments)
   2. Advanced Crew Escape Suit (ACES) or "pumpkin suit" is the aerospace standard international orange (75 points, 2 comments)
   3. Some 1,200 feet beneath the streets of Detroit, Allen Park and Melvindale exist 100 miles of subterranean roads over an area of more than 1,500 acres (66 points, 8 comments)
   4. The Forgotten World of BBS Door Games (21 points, 0 comments)
   5. Ralph Stanley "O Death" (20 points, 0 comments)
   6. What Did Byzantine Food Taste Like? (17 points, 3 comments)
   7. April 27th - Open Secrets (16 points, 0 comments)
   8. April 10th - Exobiology (14 points, 0 comments)
   9. April 17th - Extinct Animals (11 points, 0 comments)
   10. April 24th - Velvet (11 points, 0 comments)
3. 415 points, 12 submissions: despawnerer
   
   1. Britney Spears - Toxic (97 points, 15 comments)
   2. Every “Under construction” gif from the 90s internet (97 points, 6 comments)
   3. David Lang's "the whisper opera" is an opera performed for a small audience entirely in whisper and hushed sounds, where each listener can only ever hear a part of it (61 points, 8 comments)
   4. Dancing baby: the original meme and viral video (54 points, 4 comments)
   5. “Eternal September” is the name that was given on Usenet to the period starting on September 1993, when internet became widely available (43 points, 0 comments)
   6. Nothing Records was the music label founded by Trent Reznor and his manager to release Nine Inch Nails music in early days (22 points, 0 comments)
   7. A lot of things were found under the city of Amsterdam while they were building a new metro line — you can see all of them on a website, sorted by age (21 points, 0 comments)
   8. Mosaic was one of the first graphical web browsers, and the first one to actually display images in-line) (9 points, 0 comments)
   9. Steve Reich - Double Sextet (2009 Pulitzer Prize winner) (5 points, 0 comments)
   10. David Lang - Increase (2002) (3 points, 0 comments)
4. 370 points, 23 submissions: themanwhosleptin
   
   1. How The CIA Overthrew Iran's Democracy In 4 Days (51 points, 1 comment)
   2. Jan. 17, 1893 | Hawaiian Monarchy Overthrown by America-Backed Businessmen (42 points, 0 comments)
   3. Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) [Gabry Ponte Ice Pop Mix] (Original Video with subtitles) (38 points, 7 comments)
   4. The Link Between Japanese Samurai and Real Indigo (32 points, 3 comments)
   5. Geography Now! Iran (28 points, 0 comments)
   6. Why is the color green so important in the Muslim world? (28 points, 2 comments)
   7. Violet and Purple Aren't The Same Thing (23 points, 1 comment)
   8. Meet The Native Hawaiians Fighting U.S. Occupation (18 points, 2 comments)
   9. The origin of the phrase "Green With Envy" (17 points, 0 comments)
   10. What is Astrobiology? (15 points, 0 comments)
5. 252 points, 7 submissions: Dat_Paki_Browniie
   
   1. Lobsters can be many colors, most famously red. (127 points, 10 comments)
   2. As quickly as they came, ‘Hoverboards’ were banned in most cities in airports, subways, buildings, and on roads. This was primarily due to a risk of battery fires. (67 points, 6 comments)
   3. The OG. Paper Mache Volcano. (35 points, 0 comments)
   4. Poppy - Lowlife. She’s one of my favorite guilty please artists. (14 points, 1 comment)
   5. From birth, everyone knows that Ferraris are red and Lamborghinis are yellow (7 points, 1 comment)
   6. Drew Binsky - What Can $10 Get You in Iran? (2 points, 1 comment)
   7. While not as majestic as many castles with historic names, you can buy real estate that is considered a castle. (0 points, 0 comments)
6. 250 points, 10 submissions: Our-Year
   
   1. 'We're Not Gonna Take It' Can Be Anyone's Protest Song: "I mean, 35, 40, whatever it was years later, it's a folk song, for God's sake." (107 points, 7 comments)
   2. Steve and Kathryn's bedroom... could pass for a slightly ill-lit student flat. It is deep inside a passageway that stretches from the outskirts of [Las Vegas] all the way to Caesar's Palace, a 5,000-room luxury hotel. (42 points, 0 comments)
   3. Can I Go to Jail for Jury Nullification? (28 points, 3 comments)
   4. Daniel Johnston - The Story Of An Artist (25 points, 2 comments)
   5. Beneath the city of New York are living catacombs, an endless maze of subterranean tunnels unfit for anything human, unauthorized for anything experimental, and unlikely to bring anyone down there, so... they’re coming up! Tomorrow, the only thing living in New York will be C.H.U.D. (15 points, 2 comments)
   6. Is An Elevator A Vehicle? (12 points, 4 comments)
   7. John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine – BBC Proms 2014 (10 points, 1 comment)
   8. How To Make A Basic Baguette: "First, grab your baguette molds..." (5 points, 2 comments)
   9. MST3K: The Mole People (Full Movie) (4 points, 0 comments)
   10. The Kinks - Holiday in Waikiki (2 points, 0 comments)
7. 219 points, 5 submissions: spiket918
   
   1. 1995 TODAY show, what is the internet? (78 points, 2 comments)
   2. Eureeka's Castle Intro (70 points, 13 comments)
   3. Waistcoat - Words Commonly Mispronounced (43 points, 15 comments)
   4. Violet Chachki, Rupaul's Drag Race winner (25 points, 3 comments)
   5. Annual Tulip Fest in Oregon, Happening Now (3 points, 0 comments)
8. 133 points, 1 submission: pauklzorz
   
   1. One day a year, to celebrate the royal house, the Dutch all wear orange and have a big party. (133 points, 7 comments)
9. 130 points, 1 submission: jerisad
   
   1. Miss Vietnam at Miss Universe 2018 (130 points, 6 comments)
10. 121 points, 1 submission: ghostonbody
    
    1. Operation "Larry", aka the 6+ ft tall octopus tentacle in my living room (121 points, 13 comments)
11. 113 points, 2 submissions: Sanlear
    
    1. Thousands march on May Day, demand better working conditions (68 points, 0 comments)
    2. Byzantine Gold Coin Discovered in Northern Israel (45 points, 1 comment)
12. 104 points, 13 submissions: Flo__Moore
    
    1. Haddaway - What Is Love (18 points, 1 comment)
    2. The Sound of Dial Up Internet (18 points, 2 comments)
    3. Billy Preston - Nothing From Nothing (14 points, 0 comments)
    4. Violet Evergarden (9 points, 0 comments)
    5. Green in Color Psychology (7 points, 1 comment)
    6. Pete Seeger - What Did You Learn In School? (7 points, 1 comment)
    7. Red (7 points, 0 comments)
    8. Orange) (6 points, 0 comments)
    9. Ken Nordine - Yellow (5 points, 2 comments)
    10. Abba - Dancing Queen (4 points, 0 comments)
13. 104 points, 1 submission: goofballl
    
    1. Tunak Tunak Tun, a classic by Daler Mendhi. The video got a HD upgrade a couple years ago. (104 points, 8 comments)
14. 97 points, 2 submissions: TheLonerBirds
    
    1. OFFICIAL Somewhere over the Rainbow - Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole (65 points, 5 comments)
    2. David Lynch "Blue Velvet" Opening Sequence (32 points, 6 comments)
15. 86 points, 12 submissions: art-man_2018
    
    1. Hole - Violet (1994) (32 points, 3 comments)
    2. Public Image Ltd. - Flowers of Romance (1981) (16 points, 0 comments)
    3. Lou Reed - Kill Your Sons (1974) (10 points, 1 comment)
    4. R.E.M. - Orange Crush (1988) (8 points, 0 comments)
    5. "Weird Al" Yankovic - Velvet Elvis (1988) (6 points, 1 comment)
    6. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax (1984) (3 points, 1 comment)
    7. Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi (Isle of Wight, 1970) (3 points, 0 comments)
    8. Sugarloaf - Green-Eyed Lady (1970) (3 points, 1 comment)
    9. Killing Joke - Seeing Red (2003) (2 points, 0 comments)
    10. Anchorage - Michelle Shocked (1988) (1 point, 1 comment)
16. 70 points, 1 submission: redditRiXtidder
    
    1. Eminem Proves There Are Plenty Of Words That Rhyme With 'Orange' (70 points, 22 comments)
17. 68 points, 1 submission: Baarle
    
    1. "Bushisms" are unconventional statements, phrases, pronunciations, malapropisms, and semantic or linguistic errors in the public speaking of the 43rd President of the United States George W. Bush. (68 points, 5 comments)
18. 61 points, 1 submission: Sharosh
    
    1. Donald Trump: textbook narcissist (61 points, 11 comments)
19. 60 points, 5 submissions: anax44
    
    1. Age of Empires II Castle Rush Tutorial (38 points, 0 comments)
    2. The Caribbean's only species of Seal was officially declared extinct in 2008 (17 points, 0 comments)
    3. Aross America by Train (2 points, 1 comment)
    4. Extinct American Cheetahs probably have Pronghorns their high Top Speeds (2 points, 0 comments)
    5. Byzantines Civilization Overview for Age of Empires II (1 point, 1 comment)
20. 56 points, 7 submissions: joelschlosberg
    
    1. Stephen King's The Plant. In 2000, he posted 6 monthly installments from the still-incomplete tale to see if Web surfers would pay a dollar to read them. (34 points, 2 comments)
    2. "Leon Trotsky was a Nazi. Oh, we knew it for a fact. Pravda said it, we all read it, before the Stalin-Hitler Pact." (6 points, 0 comments)
    3. "how a folk song collector wound up as the legal co-author of a Jay-Z diss track" (6 points, 0 comments)
    4. the folk song "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum" was adapted into a movie in 1933 that had some of its radical spirit (4 points, 0 comments)
    5. a story from "Tex Avery's Wolf & Red" which adapted cartoon character Red Hot Riding Hood to the comics page (3 points, 0 comments)
    6. The Flowering of the Strange Orchid by H.G. Wells (2 points, 0 comments)
    7. The back cover of the folk album "Cry, the beloved country" had commentary by conservative pundit William F. Buckley, Jr. (1 point, 0 comments)
21. 54 points, 1 submission: Neker
    
    1. TOS : the papier-mâché where no man has gone before (54 points, 1 comment)
22. 52 points, 1 submission: alltorndown
    
    1. A recently discovered guilty pleasure, the Russian Band Little Big - SKIBIDI (52 points, 13 comments)
23. 49 points, 1 submission: CalamariMarinara
    
    1. Valve's Orange Box compilation; originally the only way to get Portal. (49 points, 3 comments)
24. 42 points, 1 submission: ThePoshFart
    
    1. Thylacoleo carnifex, the marsupial lion. The largest carnivorous mammal to have ever existed in Australia. (42 points, 3 comments)
25. 42 points, 1 submission: TheSuburbsDeepBlue
    
    1. How to make a film while traveling alone. A South Korean man from the opposite side of the Earth made a film while travelling alone 30 cities in Europe for 3 months. The scenes were filmed by passers-by willing to help him. It was his first trip for all of his life. nothing special about him. (42 points, 2 comments)
26. 42 points, 1 submission: my_Favorite_post
    
    1. The Raleigh Underground - Once a bustling arts and music district, now boarded up and inaccessible (42 points, 0 comments)
27. 41 points, 1 submission: cteno4
    
    1. Ithkuil is a conlang that attempts to be as concise as possible while, at the same time, express more ideas than current languages are capable of. It has 96 cases, 1800 suffixes, 45 consonants, and 13 vowels, but no explicit verbs or nouns. (41 points, 3 comments)
28. 39 points, 1 submission: NotSid
    
    1. Velvet Revolution, a nonviolent transition of power that ended 41 years of Communism in Czechoslovakia. (39 points, 1 comment)
29. 39 points, 1 submission: labyrinth44
    
    1. 90s Trash pop !!! (39 points, 6 comments)
30. 37 points, 1 submission: deadowl
    
    1. The Corpse Flower: Behind the Stink | National Geographic (37 points, 1 comment)
31. 36 points, 2 submissions: aleagueofmyown
    
    1. Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine (20 points, 2 comments)
    2. Donovan - Mellow Yellow (16 points, 2 comments)
32. 36 points, 2 submissions: codename-sailorv
    
    1. Misunderstanding Orange Juice as a Health Drink (33 points, 2 comments)
    2. Castello di Amorosa - an authentically-styled, 13th century Tuscan castle winery in the Napa Valley (3 points, 1 comment)
33. 36 points, 1 submission: wtfisthisnoise
    
    1. John Nash's PhD thesis, which runs 26 pages long, cites two sources, one of which was a previous paper he authored. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, subject of A Beautiful Mind. (36 points, 1 comment)
34. 35 points, 1 submission: easy_being_green
    
    1. Kermit the Frog - It's Not Easy Being Green (35 points, 3 comments)
35. 35 points, 1 submission: yodatsracist
    
    1. Trigedasleng was created for the 100 by David J. Peterson, the creator of the Game of Thrones languages, as an imagined slang-influenced future version of English, e.g. the word for fight is gonplei (“gunplay”) and stop is hod op (“hold up”). There are also significant grammatical developments. (35 points, 3 comments)
36. 30 points, 1 submission: RediscoveringReddit
    
    1. /NatureWasMetal — An offshoot of /natureismetal, except it's about extinct, ancient, and prehistoric animals. (30 points, 2 comments)
37. 28 points, 2 submissions: johnabbe
    
    1. This Country's Nuclear Weapons Program Is the World's Biggest Open Secret (27 points, 3 comments)
    2. First Rights of Nature Easement Established in Hawaii (1 point, 0 comments)
38. 28 points, 1 submission: AnneFranc
    
    1. St Louis has an entire network of caves underneath the city, and the links within the article only allow you to explore deeper. (28 points, 1 comment)
39. 28 points, 1 submission: redditarianism
    
    1. In 1889 a glue fire destroyed 31 blocks of Seattle's Pioneer Square neighborhood. The streets were later elevated, leaving a network of unused underground passageways and basements. (28 points, 0 comments)
40. 23 points, 2 submissions: tillandsia
    
    1. Violets for your furs - Billie Holliday (20 points, 0 comments)
    2. Byzantine - A term describing any system that has so many labyrinthine internal interconnections that it would be impossible to simplify by separation into loosely coupled or linked components. (3 points, 1 comment)
41. 23 points, 1 submission: jxj24
    
    1. We are the folk song army. (23 points, 1 comment)
42. 22 points, 2 submissions: BigD1970
    
    1. "A" - Nothing( 2002) (16 points, 4 comments)
    2. A classic advert for Tango Orange (UK 1992) (6 points, 0 comments)
43. 22 points, 1 submission: BonzosLiver
    
    1. Fastest Monowheel Motorcycle - Guinness Book of World Records (22 points, 2 comments)
44. 19 points, 2 submissions: HunterLatherer
    
    1. Castles of Mad King Ludwig is a puzzle board game loosely based on true events where you slowly build a castle and gain points by pleasing the king's strange building requests (13 points, 1 comment)
    2. The Tallest Man On Earth - Where Do My Bluebird Fly (Live on KEXP) (6 points, 0 comments)
45. 18 points, 1 submission: MrVisible
    
    1. Hugh Laurie's Protest Song - A Bit of Fry and Laurie - BBC (18 points, 0 comments)
46. 16 points, 1 submission: sterling_mallory
    
    1. The Lowe-down on Tampa Bay minor leaguers. (16 points, 1 comment)
47. 16 points, 1 submission: tomassci
    
    1. Cherenkov radiation causes reactors to glow blueish. (16 points, 1 comment)
48. 15 points, 1 submission: HeroVorpal
    
    1. Wildbow is one of the most prolific web novelists. He’s published at least two chapters a week since 2011 and has yet to miss a day. This is his first and most successful book: Worm. (15 points, 0 comments)
49. 14 points, 1 submission: ClarinetQuintetLargh
    
    1. Frank Ocean - Channel ORANGE (14 points, 0 comments)
50. 14 points, 1 submission: RegencyAndCo
    
    1. Marina and the Diamonds - Oh No! (as well as the entire Family Jewel, my biggest guilty pleasure) (14 points, 1 comment)

Top Commenters

1. astronoob (74 points, 3 comments)
2. 0and18 (51 points, 38 comments)
3. RediscoveringReddit (38 points, 3 comments)
4. Our-Year (28 points, 6 comments)
5. PoTaToeChips (28 points, 1 comment)
6. despawnerer (25 points, 6 comments)
7. sirsancho09 (23 points, 1 comment)
8. jostler57 (21 points, 2 comments)
9. Ismoketomuch (19 points, 5 comments)
10. thejesiah (19 points, 2 comments)
11. weber_md (19 points, 2 comments)
12. redcolumbine (18 points, 2 comments)
13. YOUREABOT (16 points, 11 comments)
14. mynameisntniki (15 points, 1 comment)
15. CheckeredFedora (14 points, 3 comments)
16. Penguin-Pete (14 points, 2 comments)
17. raendrop (12 points, 1 comment)
18. parl (11 points, 2 comments)
19. subser (11 points, 2 comments)
20. Juqu (11 points, 1 comment)
21. sbroue (10 points, 6 comments)
22. fishbiscuit13 (10 points, 2 comments)
23. brucifer (10 points, 1 comment)
24. hot_toddy_2684 (10 points, 1 comment)
25. mrpoopsalot (10 points, 1 comment)
26. Mikuro (9 points, 3 comments)
27. rooimier (9 points, 2 comments)
28. I_throw_socks_at_cat (9 points, 1 comment)
29. NotThatRelevant (9 points, 1 comment)
30. horatiowilliams (9 points, 1 comment)
31. kmeisthax (9 points, 1 comment)
32. timfoil (9 points, 1 comment)
33. LooksAtClouds (8 points, 3 comments)
34. N8CCRG (8 points, 3 comments)
35. anax44 (8 points, 3 comments)
36. japaneseknotweed (8 points, 3 comments)
37. dorky2 (8 points, 2 comments)
38. bigclams (8 points, 1 comment)
39. insamination (8 points, 1 comment)
40. moneys5 (8 points, 1 comment)
41. 427BananaFish (7 points, 1 comment)
42. Bbandit25 (7 points, 1 comment)
43. stoic-lemon (7 points, 1 comment)
44. spiket918 (6 points, 4 comments)
45. _Aggort (6 points, 3 comments)
46. ghostonbody (6 points, 3 comments)
47. DrinksWellWithOthers (6 points, 2 comments)
48. BrayWinsOrWeWyatt (6 points, 1 comment)
49. DaleGribble23 (6 points, 1 comment)
50. SierraEx (6 points, 1 comment)

Top Submissions

1. One day a year, to celebrate the royal house, the Dutch all wear orange and have a big party. by pauklzorz (133 points, 7 comments)
2. Miss Vietnam at Miss Universe 2018 by jerisad (130 points, 6 comments)
3. Lobsters can be many colors, most famously red. by Dat_Paki_Browniie (127 points, 10 comments)
4. Operation "Larry", aka the 6+ ft tall octopus tentacle in my living room by ghostonbody (121 points, 13 comments)
5. In Southern Iran some women wear boregheh by sbroue (114 points, 10 comments)
6. 'We're Not Gonna Take It' Can Be Anyone's Protest Song: "I mean, 35, 40, whatever it was years later, it's a folk song, for God's sake." by Our-Year (107 points, 7 comments)
7. Tunak Tunak Tun, a classic by Daler Mendhi. The video got a HD upgrade a couple years ago. by goofballl (104 points, 8 comments)
8. Britney Spears - Toxic by despawnerer (97 points, 15 comments)
9. Every “Under construction” gif from the 90s internet by despawnerer (97 points, 6 comments)
10. No word for blue - the mystery of history's missing colour by sbroue (92 points, 7 comments)

Top Comments

1. 65 points: astronoob's comment in Eminem Proves There Are Plenty Of Words That Rhyme With 'Orange'
2. 28 points: PoTaToeChips's comment in In Southern Iran some women wear boregheh
3. 23 points: sirsancho09's comment in Lobsters can be many colors, most famously red.
4. 21 points: RediscoveringReddit's comment in Donald Trump: textbook narcissist
5. 20 points: jostler57's comment in Eminem Proves There Are Plenty Of Words That Rhyme With 'Orange'
6. 17 points: Our-Year's comment in Every “Under construction” gif from the 90s internet
7. 16 points: weber_md's comment in "Bushisms" are unconventional statements, phrases, pronunciations, malapropisms, and semantic or linguistic errors in the public speaking of the 43rd President of the United States George W. Bush.
8. 15 points: mynameisntniki's comment in Operation "Larry", aka the 6+ ft tall octopus tentacle in my living room
9. 15 points: redcolumbine's comment in In Southern Iran some women wear boregheh
10. 14 points: Ismoketomuch's comment in Eminem Proves There Are Plenty Of Words That Rhyme With 'Orange'

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