Right now, Las Vegas is in a torrential rainstorm. I'd even call it biblical, if it actually kept up that long.

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“The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun.” The official line from the National Rifle Association after the shooting of Sandy Hook Elementary, this has since become standard rhetoric for pro-gun advocates. Yesterday's tragedy in Las Vegas highlights the grotesque lie of this claim. A simple question to ask any of your pro-gun acquaintances: How could ‘a good guy with a gun’ have possibly done anything to stop a man shooting down into a crowd from the 32nd floor of

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I was born in Las Vegas.

I have a lot to say here. I'd like to preface this with an acknowledgement that I am a self-centered human being and most of these thoughts revolve around me. Honestly I'm not sure how else a self-conscious human being is meant to process the world around them, so maybe I have no reason to apologize. Regardless, I'm sorry if this comes across as selfish. Continued below.

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OK everybody, first of all I hope you all are save and didn't lost any family members or friends there. Second, don't get dragged down by someone like the shooter. Continue with your live like nothing happened, handle the fallen with respect!

I may live in Germany but it's not like we had our shootings. I didn't lost a family member or friend by now and I don't wish someone to.

LVMPD you do a great job out there, all respects to you today.

Watch the Sky's, Thundersky Out.

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At the smoke shop with my dad so he could get cigarettes, and I try buying some red vines. Simple right?

Nope

I was told that because I forgot my ID and had no way of proving I was over 18 that I couldn't purchase anything. It's candy, not tobacco

So I made my dad buy them for me

I'm playing Fallout New Vegas now and I have a question. What main faction should I support for the final battle and why?

Arrival in Las Vegas was something of a comedy of very odd errors for me. Woke up at 5am for a 7am flight, took care of some last minute chores, then caught a taxi to the airport. Flight was on time--a direct flight to Las Vegas on Southwest; the only airline that offers them out of here--arriving at 8am local time after a four flight in which I played Ace Attorney: Justice for All on 3DS. And can I how say much I hate the Engarde case...? The Judge is in particularly bad form here, trampling

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Not my best day. Things seemed just off from the get-go, as I slept poorly and was making something of a comedy of errors pretty much all day. And yet, I actually showed a slight profit on the day because one of my errors turned golden.

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Bad day at the tables yesterday. I tried no cash games, but played two single-table satellites, and the daily deepstack over at the Rio. All failed, and all told cost me half my current profit.

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Well, as it turned out, I only played two hours yesterday, doing cash games at the Venetian. But a hell of a two hours it was.

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Got in late last night, jetlagged but I think ready to return. Las Vegas is fun, but a bit surreal.

I made one last effort at playing yesterday before it was time to return the rental car and get to the airport. After winning $50 on a craps table, I went to the Venetian and sat down with $200 at a $2/$5 no-limit cash game. This was my final play, and win or lose would ensure that I would leave with at least $1500.

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Who did you side with? Note, Fallout New Vegas has many endings. Including the Psychopath Ending where you basically go around killing everyone. You can even become dictator of New Vegus.

I chose Mr House. I believe, considering the awful state of the Fallout universe that he's basically humanity's best hope for survival. However, I hated that I had to wipe out the Brotherhood of Steel. If I didn't pick Mr House, I would pick the New California Republic. I think that's the canon ending.

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Four days early. Your first guess might be that it’s because I lost my shirt out there, but thankfully, you would be wrong. This trip turned out to be cursed from the get-go, unfortunately, but it had one hay of a consolation prize.

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Well, yesterday was the opposite of the first day, though not entirely in a bad way. I bombed in my one tournament entry, the $235 daily deepstack at the WSOP at the Rio. Out in an hour. It was one of those deals where you can literally do no right and all of your hands will inevitably be second-best. It also seems like this there's this one guy who has your number and is always going to beat you, ending up taking all your chips. Such it was here. No hands worth recounting, and I played too

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Well, I guess it was inevitable that my creative spark would return.

And guess what? I've got a drive going for a new story, thanks to one of my favorite games of all time reigniting it.

Which game, might you ask?

Easy.

Fallout: New Vegas.

I'm calling the story "Fallout: New Vegas - Days of Danger". The reason is because of what's going to happen early in the story.

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Reservations are made for Las Vegas next week (I only wish it was Las Pegasus!). I'll be staying at Harrah's on the strip for six nights, leaving crack of dawn Sunday and returning Saturday to get my fill of poker, good food, and other vices. A couple people have requested updates on my play while I'm there, so I'll be posting regular blog updates while I'm there. Win or lose, I'll share.

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Thank you readers of Gryphon Six for getting my first ever published story over the 1k benchmark. I can't tell you what this means to me. It seems like yesterday I was publishing the very first chapter, and still fretting over every spelling mistake and grammatical error. To Gryphon Six, the success of future Fallout games, and many more chapters.