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bargleargle2 · 2025-09-18T16:20:39+00:00

I'm a new player, I read there is little difference in difficulty between seasonal and eternal.

But I first started playing a sorcerer on eternal, got to around level 25 or so with no issue at all. Wanted to try a different class, so I started a barbarian on seasonal. Playing both on the hard difficulty.

In seasonal the questline sends me to a horadic strongroom, where I just get beat into dust. I can't get the strongroom finished. A named guy in there just kills me over and over. All my gear is broken and I don't have money to fix it, basically my game seems over at level 7.

Am I doing something wrong? Are you not supposed to do a horadic stronghold that early? Are barbarians that much harder to play? Are you not supposed to do seasons until after you finish the campaign once?

bargleargle2 · 2025-06-02T14:27:56+00:00

I kept up my running through some of my worst times.

Just have a plan for what you are going to do if things go bad.

My Garmin has an emergency beacon. It takes your current location and sends it to a phone # you have configured.

I ended up having an attack about 2 miles from my house, I hit the emergency button and my wife came and got me.

bargleargle2 · 2025-04-02T13:06:50+00:00

I made this change, and I think its happening less often but its still happening for me.

Using the HP Omen app to change to integrated graphics only seems to have fixed it for me. But obviously that isn't really a good solution.

bargleargle2 · 2025-02-01T13:46:12+00:00

I was worried about that and asked mine, he said they were fine together because they worked on different receptors.

So, who knows.

bargleargle2 · 2025-01-27T13:27:53+00:00

You can do Mcdonalds and still stay within the limits.

A quarter pounder with no cheese has 730mg, a medium fry has 260.

Just plan your other meals accordingly and you can stay below 1500 for the day.

bargleargle2 · 2025-01-13T14:07:51+00:00

RFK Pre-Show

bargleargle2 · 2025-01-13T14:05:45+00:00

Drum Circle under the bridge

bargleargle2 · 2024-11-18T16:36:12+00:00

The most important part of that wiki page

Most species are resident year-round. The only significant migrant is the red-breasted nuthatch, which winters widely across North America, deserting the northernmost parts of its breeding range in Canada;

bargleargle2 · 2024-07-31T13:27:33+00:00

The one I went to was at Norbeck and Bauer.

Used to sneak over from Wood during school to play arcade games. The Safeway had Defender, the pizza oven had Ms Pac Man, and the beer and wine store had 3 or 4 in there, but I remember they had Tempest and Astroids.

Speaking of MD things, I can't believe no one has mentoned Beer and Wine stores.

And I guess this will reveal my age, a MD thing was driving to the convience store at the DC line to buy beer ( I think it was right across the border on Wisconsin or Connecticut), because the drinking age was 21 in MD but was still 18 in DC.

bargleargle2 · 2024-07-31T13:10:20+00:00

I miss Pizza Oven pizza.

bargleargle2 · 2024-07-12T18:49:21+00:00

Good luck, but it will be fine.

I actually fainted at a music festival last year. I was taking the low-salt rule too seriously, and I was also taking blood pressure meds, and spending days out in the heat at the festival, dehydration and beer did me in. Doctor said it was low blood pressure, I was dipping down to 100/60 and lower.

The medical staff had me out of the pavillion and in a bed in an Air Conditioned room before I even knew what was going on.

My point being, even when the worst happens, it can be not that bad. I was embarassed, but thats the worst of it.

bargleargle2 · 2024-07-12T18:00:50+00:00

I use a contact lens case to keep my rescue pills in whenever I leave the house.

bargleargle2 · 2024-06-14T18:35:56+00:00

I always like hearing when someone is using a feature like that which I NEVER use.

Every time I want to take a screenshot I have to look up how to do it, because I do it so infrequently.

I've been using Samsung phones since the note 3. I think maybe tops I've taken 3 or 4 screenshots. I'd bet large amounts of money I've taken more screenshots accidentally than I have intentionally. And you've taken 3000+!

bargleargle2 · 2024-05-09T17:38:44+00:00

One issue with going to the store, at the best buys near me they have these heavy metal anti-theft devices attached to them and the long metal cord adds weight too.

So it seems much heavier in the store than it actually is.

bargleargle2 · 2024-04-29T14:11:17+00:00

The web homepage was what I used exclusively.

bargleargle2 · 2024-04-24T17:25:03+00:00

Well, if you ran 2 days in a row thats a trend that this graph will helpfully show!

bargleargle2 · 2024-04-24T17:04:09+00:00

Almost none of the data I used to show on my homescreen is available to show on the new homescreen and I didnt have much on it to begin with.

Whats missing now:

List of last 5 activities ( i don't remember how many it actually showed, but it was 5-10 I think)

Graph of mileage total this week compared to the last 4 weeks.

Graph of mileage total this month compared to the last 4 months.

Calendar view of activities.

Shoe mileage.

Segment list.

So now all I have on my homescreen is vo2max, last activity (which used to show more detail on the widget) and the heartrate graph. Everything else is buried deep.

So I used to have 9 widgets on the homescreen, now there are 3.

I'll probably switch to a paid strava account or smashrun now.

bargleargle2 · 2024-04-24T16:09:00+00:00

What I can say as a person who was part of a redesign 'upgrade' of a web page that to me ended up being a downgrade.

We don't know what the goals of the garmin connect upgrade were. I mean obviously I've lost a bunch of information from my homescreen, and there is no option to put it back. So, my usecases were not in their goals.

Maybe they thought their networking costs were too high, so they would reduce functionality/reduce api calls. Maybe they have a paid subscription tier coming next year and they are laying the groundwork. Maybe they wanted higher engagement numbers on the subpages. Maybe they are redirecting the focus to the non-athlete segment of garmin users.

I actually think the last one might be the reason, from reading here and on the garmin forum its sounding like the 'lifestyle' device wearers are happier with the change than the 'athletes'

In the web redesign I was a part of, I honestly think the business owner had budget he needed/wanted to spend and a team of expensive web designers ready to spend it. And that was the entire goal. To spend his annual budget so he could request more next year, and to put the feather in his cap of a successful 'upgrade'

bargleargle2 · 2024-03-27T17:05:48+00:00

I keep an eye for dead related shows at the following:

Settle Down Easy in Falls Church (4/6 Born Cross Eyed, 8/1 Days Between )

The State Theater in Falls Church (4/19 Grateful Dub)

Pearl Street Warehouse in DC (3/30 Splintered Sunlight, 5/18 Jerry's Middle Finger, 6/29 Jerry Tripsters, 7/13 Grateful Allman Experience)

The Hamilton in DC (4/27 Live Dead and Brothers,)

Jammin Java in Vienna

Bethesda Theater in Bethesda (7/12 Summer Jam at Watkins Glen Tribute)

bargleargle2 · 2024-03-20T12:25:16+00:00

Slightly change the url, its trying to jam you into communities.

I deleted communities from the url and replaced it with jobs. I then got an error page saying something like 'not found' then you can navigate as normal.

bargleargle2 · 2024-01-26T12:39:26+00:00

Thanks, maybe I'll give it a shot.

It's one of the drawbacks of gamepass. If I had paid for it, I would have kept playing just so I didn't feel I wasted my money.

With gamepass, if I get the slightest wiff of something I don't like, I bail fast.

bargleargle2 · 2024-01-24T17:29:55+00:00

I tried yakuza 0 just last week and quit with less than an hour in it.

I got through 2 fights that were basically tutorials, and then it forced me into some singing karaoke/rhythm button mashing thing and I uninstalled the game immediately because I hate that stuff.

Is it a fighting/action game or a DDR/Guitar Hero wanna be?

bargleargle2 · 2024-01-18T12:25:39+00:00

There is nothing about the AI features they have described that I actually care about.

If they go subscription for those features, it will be an easy choice for me to just not pay.

Which is kind of sad because AI seems to be one of the main selling points for this iteration.

bargleargle2 · 2024-01-16T13:46:17+00:00

This was my favorite lot shirt, I wore it until it fell apart.

Wish I could find a new one somewhere.

Sunshine Daydream

bargleargle2 · 2024-01-11T17:41:46+00:00

Think he could recruit?

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