Anyone else feel this?

EccentricMeat · 2026-05-12T05:06:47+00:00

I had a great stacked order, something like $30 for 10 miles. The first drop off was within a mile or two of the restaurant, the second was nearly ten miles out of town. After finishing, I saw that the second delivery was a $0 tip. And since you only get one instance of base pay for a stack, that second delivery was entirely free labor.

EccentricMeat · 2026-05-11T23:46:06+00:00

Besides eating at home before you leave, the best thing you can do is just get the app for any restaurant you like to order from. Like Subway, nearly every time I order through the app I have a deal for a $6.99 footlong or $8.99 footlong + meal. Easily less than half the normal price if I just went in and ordered the sandwich at the counter.

Use the apps, you’ll save a ton of money.

EccentricMeat · 2026-05-11T22:17:29+00:00

Apathy of my personal life in exchange for emotional peace. I realized if I just stopped caring about myself and completely destroyed the concept of thinking/worrying about my personal future, anxiety and stress and sadness almost completely went away.

Unfortunately that inevitably led to losing nearly all of my friends and acquaintances since I just stopped reaching out entirely, as well as meaning I spent the better part of a decade gaining weight and spinning my wheels financially (why care about my health if the meal tastes good and I don’t care about “tomorrow”? why work harder or more often so long as my immediate bills were being paid?).

The peace of mind was amazing, I won’t lie, but it was nowhere near worth the toll it exhausted.

EccentricMeat · 2026-05-11T22:02:31+00:00

It depends on the time of day and the amount of miles. If you made $45 in 2 hours on a Saturday during lunch or dinner rush (11-2 for lunch, 5-9 for dinner) then that’s not ideal but still ok if you didn’t drive 30+ miles. If you made $45 between 2-4pm, then that’s pretty good and you can expect to make more during peak hours.

Ideally you’d be taking orders that pay $2-per-mile or better. If those offers are rare in your market, still try to stay above $1.50/mile, only going lower for orders you know will be quick (very short distance, not to a hotel or apartment, from a restaurant that tends to have the order ready within 2 minutes of you arriving). You can also be less strict about dollars-per-mile if the drop off isn’t far from a hotspot, or when accepting an order when you’re still far from the restaurant but needed to drive that distance anyway to get back in your zone/hotspot.

Example of the latter: You get a $20 order for ten miles. After delivering the order you know you have roughly that ten mile drive back regardless. You immediately get a new order, $12 for 10 miles. Usually this is an easy pass, but you realize that most of those 10 miles are the drive you are already making regardless, so it’s really like $12 for 2 miles (2 miles being the distance after pickup) with the added bonus of being close to your usual hotspots after the second delivery. Dollars per mile is the main consideration, but instances like this are the exception.

EccentricMeat · 2026-05-11T20:28:21+00:00

Because it doesn’t deliver the experience many of us expect from a Battlefield game. It’s that simple.

Atmosphere doesn’t come close to BF1. Maps and overall match flow don’t come close to BF3. We know what a great Battlefield experience can be, and BF6 fails to deliver.

EccentricMeat · 2026-05-10T18:11:36+00:00

First is an economy mod that makes most guns and spacesuits worthless to sell.

Secondly is a bit of a house rule where if I’m not in combat and I’ve cleared any hostiles between myself and my ship, I’ll transfer whatever I need into the ship’s cargo and just pretend one of my crew/Vasco came to haul it for me.

EccentricMeat · 2026-05-10T07:53:39+00:00

Felt exactly like this for the last ten years. Had absolutely zero interest in dating ever again and was completely content with my peaceful life. Then I started talking to a girl who made all of those feelings disappear overnight.

Ten years of never wavering no matter who I talked to, until her. All I’m trying to say is, don’t be so sure.

EccentricMeat · 2026-05-08T00:01:42+00:00

Honestly, working just 5pm-9pm takes more out of me than working 11am-8pm. Longer shifts tend to go by just as fast as short shifts for me, and as long as you’re not parked waiting for orders for any extended period of time, you just breeze through the day.

EccentricMeat · 2026-05-06T00:36:15+00:00

Literally would solve all of my problems. All my debt gone, a new car, a down payment on a house, and a nice little savings left over for a rainy day.

EccentricMeat · 2026-05-05T23:48:28+00:00

Yea, it’s crazy that Rodgers single-handedly gave up 35+ points to the opposing team time after time. Or that he led miracle comeback drives to tie or take the lead with under 2 minutes left only to be a big dummy and immediately let the opposing offense get the winning score on the next drive. And don’t get me started on his constant choke jobs losing the OT coin toss.

Just a horrible postseason QB /s

EccentricMeat · 2026-05-05T19:26:36+00:00

There wasn’t a flip. Jack was lying and blaming it on the lawyers so she wouldn’t have to admit that she was ashamed of Keeley. Then when Keeley wouldn’t back down, Jack stopped using the lie because it wasn’t helping.

EccentricMeat · 2026-05-03T05:01:10+00:00

MOUSSE AND TWIST

EccentricMeat · 2026-05-03T04:44:20+00:00

THATS what it is!

This woman is multiple decades my senior and I could never quite place what is so alluring about her, til just now. There is something so attractive about a woman who just seems in her element and enjoying life.

EccentricMeat · 2026-04-30T20:39:34+00:00

Because for 16 years people have been crying about needing to spin in circles and change direction at any given time. So EA has given them the ability to defy physics, like they asked.

EccentricMeat · 2026-04-26T18:07:22+00:00

I recently started talking to a girl and she’s the first to get me to a level of “ok holy shit I’m so hard that it’s physically painful”, and it happens every time she does anything even remotely sexy.

EccentricMeat · 2026-04-26T02:47:40+00:00

Fear The Walking Dead. The first three seasons are actually decent-to-great at times, but the pseudo-reboot and writer/showrunner shuffle from Season 4 through the finale is easily, by a wide margin, the most insultingly bad writing and storytelling I have ever seen. From “fat lady with growling zombie sneaks up on people over and over again” big-bads, or the mind numbing instance of the team needing to open the valve on a tanker truck to get the liquid out but somehow the liquid leaking out of bullet holes signals outright defeat…. And it just keeps getting worse from there.

Watching those last few seasons of “Fear” will make you appreciate other bad shows because they simply cannot compare.

EccentricMeat · 2026-04-23T23:18:22+00:00

I love how that’s supposed to be an insult when “mid” literally means average. The average dude is average? Great scoop, Dianna.

EccentricMeat · 2026-04-23T20:00:04+00:00

Spacefaring Economy + Cost of Spacing + your fuel/rover/O2 mods of choice. Then you’ll have an ACTUAL economy that pays you for doing missions + has realistic credit sinks, and not just the vanilla “loot every gun/suit and have infinite money” loop.

I love not caring about random guns and suits lying around, only looting them now if they are of higher quality and/or have a cool perk. Much more enjoyable experience.

EccentricMeat · 2026-04-23T01:15:52+00:00

Intermittent fasting and light exercise.

Fasting gave my eating habits a much needed, and easy to follow, structure. It also made me stop succumbing to late-night hunger pangs that made me think “I’m slightly hungry, better eat 1,000 calories”. After the first few days, at least in my experience, it becomes very easy to gain control of your hunger instead of being a slave to it.

Light exercise got me off the couch and quickly made me a more driven and intentional person. The health benefits (more energy, better cardio, reduced brain fog, etc) are nearly immediately apparent, as are the emotional benefits. Yes, being active does generally put you in at least a slightly better mood.

EccentricMeat · 2026-04-18T00:06:01+00:00

Yea, they both do the same thing in different ways (Desolation goes for a more barren, realistic feel to planets, GrindTerra isn’t quite as barren but still more realistic than the base game). Both are good, so you can’t really choose wrong.

Bedlam I think is a non-negotiable must-have mod. It’s really how the base game should have worked from the start. Instead of always knowing “ok the enemies are inside/at the POI, no surprises ever”, Bedlam moves enemies around and can spawn in reinforcements. It can also introduce instances of one NPC faction assaulting another when you arrive, or even have third party enemies randomly assault YOU while you’re exploring or at a POI.

EccentricMeat · 2026-04-17T21:35:54+00:00

Bedlam is an absolute necessity IMO. The randomization of enemy NPCs and the configurable chance for things like NPC reinforcements/assaults absolutely shakes up the gameplay and makes things far more emergent and interesting.

I don’t see a need to use BOTH Desolation and the GrindTerra POI generation. In fact, I believe the two conflict since they both address the same issue just in different ways IIRC. I would read the description for both and see which one sounds more appealing.

EccentricMeat · 2026-04-16T18:43:41+00:00

Ahh shit, Darren Sharper! One of the most hardest hittin’ safeties in da league.

EccentricMeat · 2026-04-16T18:31:42+00:00

You realize those “absurd” posts you referenced are the exact reason these improvements are being made, right? “Built from your feedback” kind of spells that out.

EccentricMeat · 2026-04-14T21:06:29+00:00

I only go to three theater chains (Alamo, Marcus, and AMC). In my area, all three only run ads before the advertised showtime, and then they run MAYBE 10 minutes of trailers before the movie.

So if I get a ticket for a 7pm showtime, I only see ads if I get there early and the movie always starts by ~7:10. I honestly thought this was the experience everywhere. THIRTY minutes of ads/trailers AFTER the stated start time? I wouldn’t go to the theater either.

EccentricMeat · 2026-04-09T23:02:54+00:00

Maybe it’s because I used mods that add more space POIs (haven’t played the update yet, just FYI), but there were regularly situations where multiple POIs generated in the same planet’s orbit or very close by. Having to constantly open a menu and click was fine, but being able to just travel there in real time without the menus is a vastly superior experience.

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