u/RemindMeToTouchGrass

edit: lol title. No, you haven't, because I won't let you play mine. But um, have you done it on yours? [/edit]

I specced into a new build and I love it-- it uses Aegis to reach 100% block chance and several synergies with block. The guide I follow says you can get it to 100% uptime but I am not even close. Is it just cooldown reduction affixes/charms/seals? Are there glyphs/Paragon changes I should make?

I'm not sure if this is a dumb question... I mean the answer is "yes do that" but I just want to see if there's a particular focus or idea that I'm missing.

I'm doing the Maxroll Blessed Hammer Paladin build where you stay arbiter. These require you to stay in arbiter form to maximize damage stacks.

I'm trying to get the recommended ring; I've upgraded like 15 plain rings so far and gotten every other unique, and so I'm trying to target farm Andariel and the others that drop it, but I have been struggling so much with just getting past the first lair bosses. When they do the poison thing that traps you in a circle, you just can't touch your arbiter flying abilities, because you cant' really aim them. Sometimes I just have to dodge something and try really hard to use the joystick to land somewhere good, and sometimes he just chooses to fly straight across the map outside of the poison and die. I got him 90% down so many times, and would just have some kind of bad luck... like it was either die or leap to dodge because my other mobility skills were on cooldown, boss had been flying around long enough that I've lost my fortify and heal stacks, all my potions gone, and I'm slowed by the garbage he throws down, so this is it.... gotta take a leap of faith-- goddammit dead again.

I quickly half-reworked my build before going to bed tonight into a Blessed Hammer Judicator build but I didn't have enough block and it didn't generate much fortify, so it was pretty squishy.

I can't get that stupid ring (argent veil.)

It occurred to me right before I went to bed that I don't have to beat the intro lair bosses on torment VII, I should probably go back down. I was thinking I wouldn't get the grand lair key or whatever at lower levels, but I guess right now I'm just trying to unlock the boss that will unlock the higher tier lair key so damn. I probably should have just dropped a few tiers. I'm dumb.

Edit: I'm an idiot, see my reply to the conversation below.

I'm just getting into coffee. I enjoy french press and drip, and I'm quite surprised by how much better my coffee has gotten since I started using my Mr. Coffee without the pot in place to let it immerse for a few minutes before draining-- more mellow, less bitter. This experience has got me kind of excited to try new things. I have a new grinder coming soon (K6) that can grind espresso but I'm not really looking to get into that yet... no way am I buying a machine at this point. I decided to buy it just to use with french press and then maybe buy a pour-over setup next.

As far as espresso I've made myself one terrible drink at work with very stale old espresso grind that I didn't make right, which I won't count. I've been wanting to try a high-end experience to see if I enjoy it, or if it all just tastes the same to me at this point.

I'd love to try something with a fermented fruit taste, if that helps. (Bonus if it serves vegan brunch, but I realize that's like.... impossible.)

Not naming names to avoid triggering rule 4, but clinic owners/corps often push an online store that profit-shares with the clinic. And it absolutely cracks me up because it's such a complete lack of a solution to any problem.

Clients want to get medications directly from us; they usually come to our clinic because we're nearby and they like us. They want their money to go to a local practice. But then they see how expensive our prescriptions are compared to places like Chewy or Costco, and go there. Sometimes they even apologize to me, which is hilarious because even as the veterinarian I go to CostCo for my dog's pilils, because it's cheaper than the rate my practice gives me.

So then some suit was like "hmmm... they're using online pharmacies. They must want to use the internet!" So they create a new online pharmacy that works a bit like the others, with the only major difference being that they absolutely screw them over with a bunch of double-digit fees so that the cost for a month's supply of common medications is often doubled by fees.

I get that there's a tiny subset of people who want to get medications online and want to supports us, or who want to get medications online and are unaware of the alternatives, but I've never worked anywhere where more than a tiny trickle of people went that route. And when they do, I feel so bad for them. I can't tell if they just only look at the per-pill cost and miss the fees, or if they really are okay paying that much just to go online because they care about supporting us and about convenience.

Anyway. I think it's funny. Maybe someone has a positive experience with it or a really good reason clients use it that I'm missing, who knows.

My brother has been getting into vinyl and bought a nice setup-- speakers, record player, and so on. And he's recently been hit by a major injury that's gonna keep him in the house for a bit. So I figure a pretty good gift would be an album that he can sit on the couch between the two speakers and really listen to.

I'm looking for something with good sound staging/separation (I'm not an audiophile person so I may not be using these terms exactly right), something with details that you might miss if you just listened in a car with all the background noise, something that you really appreciate differently when you sit and listen to it with intention. And my brother is a big DMB fan but he's always into new music, so I'm pretty sure he hasn't bought any DMB in vinyl yet, so I figured this would make a good gift.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

Edit: Appreciate all the suggestions! My instinct was to go with a studio album, was looking into BTCS (analog versions expensive) or Crash (sold out). I ended up going with the Live Trax 3 set. We'll see if he likes it! Never would have known it existed if not for you guys, and I'll keep an eye out for Crash coming back or BTCS if a live album falls in my lap for the future.

Edit: I got Crash too, just from Amazon instead of DMB :(

I could tell the long version of this story but you would be laughing at me too hard to reply. So I'll keep it short.

I poured olive oil onto my wife's Staub enameled cast iron pan when it was extremely hot, the oil immediately burned and smoked, and has created very dark stains on the enamel.

I am both curious about negative health consequences (I know overheated oil is carcinogenic, I don't suppose though that this one incident will make this pan significantly harmful for repeated use) and aesthetics (we LOVE our staub pans that match our kitchen color scheme.)

HELP! If there is any....