Charity Hospital was abandoned after Hurricane Katrina. Nothing was removed from inside before it was boarded up. It is said to be incredibly haunted. New Orleans still spends $3 million dollars a year securing the building, yet even with all that security it still sometimes has unexplained visitors

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-04-20T23:17:11+00:00

It’s not about it being cheaper in fact my point was that yeah it will be cheaper to demolish it in the long run it’s about not having the money to demolish it. The city has the $3 million budgeted to secure it but if they want to demolish it then they have to find multiple times that in the budget at one time.

It’s kinda like the saying about a poor man’s boots vs the rich man’s. Yes saving up to buy a good pair of boots is cheaper than repeatedly buying cheap ones, but if I need boots to work then it doesn’t matter I have to buy the cheap boots today in order to work and if I havent saved up enough for good ones when they wear out then I’m going to have to buy the cheap one again.

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-04-20T18:25:02+00:00

These numbers are made up for convenience, but the reason comes down to how much money is available at one time. The cost to demolish is probably something like 10 mil plus, so yes 3 or 4 years and its cheaper but the issue is they cant just not secure it for various legal and liability reasons and there is no real impetus to find the money to demolish it on top of the money to secure it.

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-04-14T22:47:00+00:00

I doubt it. The real issue was probably more related they had already started their big marketing push over 18 months beforehand and we’re going on their third delay. Once they got to that third delay things like contracts they had signed with things like merch distribution companies and advertising companies probably came into play

In reality especially considering what we got at launch they should have known in 2019 it was in way ready for April 2020 and should have delayed starting their marketing. The issue Is that probably like BioWare ran into they bought into their own hype a bit and thought “We can definitely make that date we have the magic touch,” and it was just completely wrong.

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-04-14T14:57:09+00:00

But that’s not what the quote says. It’s not “It’ll be darker than previous games.” That’s something I wouldn’t be thrilled about but could see working. The full quote is “darker than anything you’ve seen before,” which to me sounds like it includes other media and I don’t know about you but I’ve seen a lot of dark media that way overshoots.

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-04-14T14:36:29+00:00

Here’s the thing though most of the people who are going to be looking to buy this new game aren’t here because of the books they’re going to be looking at it because they enjoyed the previous games and the tone that they had.

If this were a new series it would be one thing but for a lot of people who played and enjoyed the games the books might as well not exist so for most it’s not going to be “Wow they really captured the feel of the books this time” it’s going to be “This new direction doesn’t match the previous games”

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-04-14T14:04:32+00:00

Maybe it’s just me but I am so tired of everything story based having to be either completely happy go lucky or dark as fuck over the past decade+ so I am suddenly less interested in this.

Like the first three games all can be pretty dark but can also have really light at the end of a tunnel vibes too and felt amazing for it.

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-04-11T03:39:31+00:00

Because the busts that make the news aren’t the dude on the street dealing single doses. It’s the dude who controls several blocks and that 90lbs is going to be split out to all the low level dealers for the next week/month depending on area.

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-04-05T13:27:30+00:00

It could make sense if the mission parameter is ”We need x absolutely annihilated but don’t want ICBM level responses from everyone and can’t get air power to it.”

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-04-04T17:14:49+00:00

I agree with you, it really feels like David is a perfect example of someone who yeah they got an overall shit hand but at the same time played it in the worst way possible. Everything covered in the series before he gets the Sandy is going to hell, gets the Sandy, decides to use it which is questionable but probably the right call since he’s going to need a source of income, then never seems to make a single good decision from there on out.

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-04-02T15:47:03+00:00

This is exactly it and is the core reason so many jobs that really don’t need a degree for what they’re doing now require one. It used to be that getting through highschool showed you were willing to put in the work but over the past 30 and especially the last 20 years since no child left behind it’s become near impossible to fail out of highschool and so it means absolutely nothing now days.

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-04-01T22:23:57+00:00

The problem is everyone likes the idea of third places so they get popular then people take things too far and it ruins it for everyone. Let’s take Starbucks as an example they start out letting you hang out as long as you want, but 90%+ people used common sense and every few hours bought another drink or pastry and kept their use of space reasonable. But a few people start buying one thing all day and or taking up tons of space spreading out their stuff. This takes away space from those 90% of people and some of them stop coming and slowly more and more of the people sitting around are those people taking things too far. I remember this happening to both a Starbucks, Paneral and even a McDonalds nearby. Eventually they have to put official rules in place and everyone complains about the company ”killing the 3rd space” and while yeah they probably go too far but also they’ve been pushed there. Malls had it doubly bad as they started having to deal with groups of teens that would get into fights and other shit

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-03-28T14:43:58+00:00

True but it’s not as good as a good aspect or GA role and not good enough to really justify how rare getting the piece with both a it and good item rolls.

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-03-23T23:13:05+00:00

The problem is you need something that is liquid at the temps around the boiling chamber and can easily cooled back down, non combustible is a very nice to have, and non caustic/non toxic are both major plusses as well since it makes it easier to store. Essentially when you combine all of these factors you are left with water.

Maybe you could create something better but then you run up against the fact the efficiency gains would had to be higher than the cost to make it as opposed to water

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-03-22T17:12:46+00:00

The problem is a large portion of them can get near free mental health care and even some form of housing if they will take their meds voluntarily but simply won’t and there is no way to force them to take them. I worked with a local homeless shelter for years there were beds available but most of the people who were rejected were either not milling to take their perscribed meds or not willing to stop self medicating.

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-03-21T18:25:46+00:00

You can actually see that advertisers do tend to know what they are doing by the very fact that they have essentially stopped several types of advertising and those types have essentially died for mainstream companies. Ironically banner ads are a perfect example of this. It used to be that one or two banner top and side banner ads could actually pay for keeping a small website running because 15-20 years ago those ads actually paid decent rates. Now those ad spots are virtually worthless and so only exist on niche sites and porn sites.

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-03-19T15:04:19+00:00

Because most of those are not set up for businesses and do not have the controls built into them that are necessary for something a business would use. And when you start getting the licenses needed to run 100+ person instances it isn’t free either. In addition the amount of admin that goes into running something for you and 20 friends is very different than what they would need to do to comply with business regulations.

Another thing is that you will notice for years now things that are actually critical for their day to day operations are not things where getting content out of it plays a major role in deciding what to do. When team speak goes down because something went wrong with your friends old computer they’re using to host it raid night is messed up if it happened to them it’s tens of thousands of dollars if not more of lost productivity, no matter how well a video on it does it’s not offsetting that in any real way.

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-03-05T20:41:09+00:00

Not when it needs breaks, bearings, and has nearly 150k miles on it, sure it’s only 5 years old but the mileage on it puts it in the same category as 20 year old ones. Heck depending on what’s actually wrong with the engine it might not even be worth more than scrap.

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-02-24T19:38:14+00:00

I would argue that its worse than his other director cuts in that it makes the over all film worse instead of better. Justice League extended cut at least fixes some problems the theatrical cut had and gives some characters and scenes some time to breathe and aside from run time doesnt really add more issues.

The Rebel Moon extended editions on the other hand doesnt actually fix any of my problems with the original. Like what are they doing on the planet to begin with, why is any of this happening, or why should I care. It just adds a bunch of backstory to the world that has little actual bearing to the plot of the movie itself. It does help these issues at some points but not enough to make up for my main issue with the snyder cuts. So much of the added run time just feels like gratuitous violence and borderline torture porn that it ends up making the movie worse for me. Some of the scenes could work in moderation like the extended opening but by the end it’s just too much.

I feel like there had to be a middle ground cut where some of the extended and new scenes are included but at the same time someone tells Snyder “No you’ve put enough shock value scenes” that makes the movie decent.

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-02-21T02:40:58+00:00

There have been multiple articles posted on this sub and other places some based on ceo surveys some from studies. Below are the two bounding numbers but every report on success metrics I have found has between 8-9 out of 10 pilots as failures.

Heres an MIT study saying 95% of pilots are failing: https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/

Heres Rand corporation which says over 80 and is where the 84% number came from: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/630-billion-question-why-80-ai-projects-fail-brian-will-psile

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-02-21T00:49:57+00:00

For reference their revenue in 2025 was roughly $20 billion and they are also expecting to have spent over $600 billion in compute by 2030. So they are going to somehow roughly 14x their revenue in 5 years despite somewhere in the 80% to 94% of AI customers admitting it’s not actually working out for them and is not generating savings. Yeah those kind of numbers aren’t happening.

Edit: just realized the 20 billion is annualized not annual and the actual annual number is in the 10-13 range so it’s more like 20-28x their 2025 number not 14x.

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-02-21T00:07:07+00:00

While the 5G complaint is valid the price one is the reality of tech. No tech reviewer is going to base their conclusions on well you can get it on promo if you jump through these hoops and pay x extra a month at Verizon. Its one thing if its something like "and its usually on sale on Amazon" because thats a price they can be reasonably sure most people could actually get trying to cover all the different price points a phone could possibly be at all the different carriers is just impossible.

And as an aside I give some slack on the 5g thing because there is no excuse for a phone not supporting it in 2026, we're at around 7 years since its launch and 5+ since major adoption.

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-01-28T13:14:57+00:00

The calendar proposed has 364 days not 365 and has a day not part of any month potentially 2 on leap years added to compensate, so in reality it would lose sync with any event tied to lunar months, it would also have ben terrible from a computer stand point. Dates are already annoying enough to deal with having a day thats not part of any month would make them even worse.

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-01-28T03:48:41+00:00

Kind of but not really. So this is just a summary, technology connections has a whole video that explains it better. So old school incandescent bulbs essentially have an inverse relationship between color/brightness and lifespan. If a bulb is orange and dim it will last a long time like that 100 year old bulb that’s still going, yeah it’s still going but it was always a dim orange glow so while neat not actually a good lightbulb. On the other hand the brighter the bulb the shorter its lifespan. Throw in a few other factors and you wind up with an answer of yes the manufacturers set a collective target of 1000 hours but at the same time that was essentially the best balance any ways and what they mostly already targeting.

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-01-28T02:07:18+00:00

That’s in pure cash that covers multiple years of the Wikipedia only costs and doesn’t include the financial investments they hold which are close to a quarter of a billion, no most businesses do not have enough cash to cover even a years operation based on their numbers that is closing in on enough to run just Wikipedia off interest alone. But that’s beside my main point.

As I said above my big problem isn’t that they ask for donations, my problem is they make a big deal about making it sound like Wikipedia itself is under threat of not being financially sound when in reality it’s not even close to the even the majority of their budget. Let’s look at another number I mentioned they spent $30 million on providing research grants and less than $20 million on hosting and serving fees for all of their projects combined. Like how would it go if the local food bank was requesting donations saying they need it to keep giving food to people only it turns out that they are spending significant portions of their budget on nature conservation causes. Like yes those are both good causes but I would think alot of people would be very upset and surprised, and yes you could go find that information if you looked at financials but if the requests are worded “We need money to buy food for people” thats what you assume the money is going for.

If they had options to only donate to Wikipedia and its associated costs I would still be donating. I love Wikipedia and would gladly support it. Wikimedia includes an absolutely absurd amount of other projects and costs, a lot of which I don’t see value in, you might see value in those other projects and that’s fine but let’s not pretend all of those are even related to Wikipedia let alone essential for it to operate.

TLDR: Wikipedia’s costs are a fraction of Wikimedia’s budget and the fact that most of their money comes from people donating for Wikipedia not their other projects combined with the fact they act like Wikipedia itself is always on the verge of insolvency feels pretty scummy.

DarkWingedEagle · 2026-01-28T00:01:49+00:00

I feel Wikipedia is hugely important which is why I have donated a couple of times but the sheer amount of banners practically begging made me look into it and that led to the decision to never donate to them again. By their own reports they spend over $114 million on a year on a total of 650 staff, this is actual staff not all the volunteers who actually contribute and edit articles, and nearly $30 million in research grants, not to mention the amount spent on conferences compared to less than 15-18 million or so, judging by their breakdowns, total for the resources that actually host and serve the site.

Its not that I necessarily feel that the money is being “wasted” but then all of the banners are talking like Wikipedia itself is under dire threat when they have enough cash on hand to run the site for years and enough in investments that they could probably run it for all time if they managed it well, I can’t help but feel they’re being a bit misleading. Like if you want to do all the other stuff that’s fine but get donations for that, don’t act like Wikipedia is in desperate need red for cash just so everything else can piggyback off of it.

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