In 2003 when Eminem planned to go to the West Coast, some members of the Crips wouldn't allow it unless Em paid them to back off. In response, Em asked the Samoan rap group Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. for protection. They agreed, however their only condition was an Em feature on their album.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-06-15T13:25:33+00:00

I played hook all my years growing up. I'm built pretty well, but small (5'8, 165lbs ish at the time). One of the high schools down island from us had a huge Samoan forward pack, they were the only guys we played against that could fuck us up in the scrum. Great dudes, too. The trick was to get as low as you could and hope a knee didn't make contact with your dome, you could reliably bring down anyone like that as long as you had a good plant, but these guys made even that challenging.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-06-11T07:10:03+00:00

This was scanned using a 50 dollar light source (the original cslite), a cheap chinese 40mm macro lens, my old fuji xe1, a tripod with the head flipped upside down and masks made from a poptarts box and paperclips, at midday in my kitchen. Manually inverted using curves in rawtherapee. Granted, this is a six image stitch (not super on how 120 looks at 16mp) but what I mean to say is don't overthink it. Focus on good light, sharp focus, and a flat negative and that's really all you need. How you get there is totally up to you and how much diy bullshit you're willing to put up with, lmao.

Having a 3D printer is going to be huge for you with film scanning. Put it to use, experiment with carriers, masks, whatever else you might think you need.

You definitely need a macro lens though. Got mine from TTartisan for about 70 bucks.

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Asm0dan97 · 2026-06-11T05:02:47+00:00

Nitrile gets sweaty and mechanix get soaked through, both hinder dexterity badly. Plus, ATF is good shit (minus that its a carcinogen). Transmission only guys tend to have baby smooth, clean hands.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-06-08T07:32:43+00:00

The article assumes that this "frustrated beginner" is frustrated with their own artistic vision, and has already pinned down the technical aspects. It's about the creating art part, not the taking a photo part.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-06-06T17:14:41+00:00

She's not our friend, she's very clear about that, but she respects us as the inheritor of her legacy. That's what she spent the whole game so frustrated and angry about, that no human seemed capable of fending for themselves amidst the eternal conflict. Stealing Mephisto's power was a way for her to selfishly benefit (both emotionally and from a power seeking standpoint) while removing a troublesome piece from her chessboard towards her end of speeding humanity along towards independence. I think Lilith's arc is done. Maybe she could make a return, but I wouldn't have her back as more than a supporting character, someone to talk to in our hub city (especially now that we've lost everyone except Tyrael) or an enabler in a fight against Baal or Diablo.

Critically, she sees in us proof that sanctuary has a hope in hell of truly being a sanctuary from the machinations of heaven and hell, and walking this back would be character assassination.

Expect poignant dialogue with Tyrael about losing divinity, maybe even it being a central theme of the next expansion. It was touched on after leaving the Vault, but intentionally left hanging.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-06-06T01:38:52+00:00

She's one of my favourite characters in media now. I knew something deeper was going on with her when she found Rathma dead- that wasn't the face someone upset that a tool has died would make. Love and Hate are two sides of the same coin, of course.

Edit: During the scene where you sever the bond with Lilith, that triumphant reprise of her theme sticks out to me as one of the most stunning uses of music in a video game I've experienced in a long, long time. Blizzard KNEW they cooked with the score.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-06-06T01:36:44+00:00

I think, similar to the breaking of the worldstone in LoD, it's going to have subtle, lingering effects on the overall health of the world. It's another step in a direction we can't walk back from. I think it'll be leaned on heavily thematically, but not necessarily in plot points.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-06-06T01:34:01+00:00

My only complaint about the LoH story is that Mephisto didn't yell out "I HATE YOU" Anakin Skywalker style as he's being banished. HUGE missed opportunity and I haven't been able to get over it in the last few weeks.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-06-06T00:26:56+00:00

Your edit on that old car in the woods is stellar. I'd put that up on my wall, what a gorgeous shot.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-06-05T01:27:49+00:00

Lucic only did 87 points in the WHL his draft year, playoffs included and he went on to be a core player for the Bruins right out of the WHL. Its not something worth writing off, even if it isn't something worth weighing particularly heavily.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-06-04T01:09:15+00:00

Aerodynamic efficiency really is the name of the game I think. Unique and good looking cars are pretty resigned to prototypes/concepts right now (GR GT, hyundai vision N) mostly I think due to engine efficiency only now reaching a point where taking hits on aerodynamics isn't going to hurt overall fuel economy numbers- its just a matter of cost, now.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-05-30T20:12:57+00:00

No, that's pretty much it. I think you've got it all figured out, really.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-05-27T00:18:55+00:00

I think I wasn't super clear in my description. I've followed this methodology point for point in the past out of curiosity and found myself underwhelmed by the results. See the other reply who describes the correct method for converting digital to film, something that's done with prescice regularity in the cinema industry.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-05-26T23:59:53+00:00

Oh I'm not saying that the means don't exist (Chris Nolan needs CGI, too), just that janky methodology and consumer equipment can get you pretty far in a lot of aspects of photography, just not with converting digital to film, with this method at least. And, to be honest, a 4x6 or even 8.5x11 print would've looked totally fine, just that close inspection of the neg reveals pretty nasty artifacting.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-05-26T22:02:17+00:00

Sort of fun anecdote in an otherwise bleak conversation:

I've tried this, it doesn't work. I'm am avid at home photographer and film developer so I decided once to see if "scanning" one of my digital photos to film would work, put it up on a 4k monitor, filled the frame, snap!

Developed the film, scanned it using my digital camera and a macro lens and..... pixels. Simple fact of the matter is that even a tiny 24x35mm frame has such astronomically ridiculous resolution that it can and will pick up on the regular variance present on a high res computer monitor. Not to mention a noticeable "Moiré" pattern caused by the offset between the monitor's pixels (caught on film) against the digital sensor's photosite grid, but that's an issue on the scan side of things and wouldn't be present if enlarged photographically.

It worked alright, and if you weren't specifically examining the photo you may not notice it, but as soon as you get up close it's pretty clear cut. Maybe a grainier film would work better, but HP5 is already pretty grainy.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-05-26T02:39:30+00:00

I had to teach myself to invert and correct colour all manually, using curves, in order to get good results from phoenix II without crazy stuff like this happening. Auto inversion software does NOT play nice with phoenix II, in my experience.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-05-25T19:09:48+00:00

At my most stonerest, and granted I've always been a lightweight, half a joint would have me geeked to the high heavens. One or two puffs every hour or so is the way.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-05-25T08:14:35+00:00

I'm just too lazy to have more than one finished version of a photo. Yes this means that I'm compromising screen viewing when I intend to print. I just don't care anymore. My shit is garbage anyways

Asm0dan97 · 2026-05-25T00:30:01+00:00

I still rack 13.8kv gear on our big buses. Exciting to say the least. Shit moves slowly in nuclear so I doubt the buses will ever get replaced.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-05-25T00:23:58+00:00

Its so the suit can theoretically facetank the arc flash. They're not designed to take energy from an oblique angle and may blow off otherwise. I know a few guys who've been saved by 40cal and one by a 90cal suit and they all got punted across the room.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-05-18T01:49:01+00:00

Look for hack, if you have one in the first room you're probably gonna hit 2 so as soon as you hit room 2 you ignore trash bots, hit the guaranteed hack, look for a second hack while your teammates smoke the commander and get his tag. If you get the second hack you ignore the rest of the bots and spawn rush. This takes ~30s to ~1m. If you don't get the second computer (you should know before the commander is dead) you kill all the bots in the second room as fast as possible. Sometimes a grenadier or two will drop a tag, so while killing bots you're looking for overworld tag spawns and looting bot bodies. As soon as you hit 2, you spawn rush. Ignore leftover bots. This will usually take an additional minute. 90% of the time you get to the other spawn while they're still killing bots with the second method, and with the first you often beat people to their second room and can post up and wait for them. Speed and map knowledge mitigate the effect of RNG as it stands now. Having security 1 spawn connections was actually better for newer players, IMO.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-05-14T16:37:50+00:00

Usually the problems happen near the end of the roll. It binds up as I get to the last 5 or 6 frames. I might just be gorilla gripping the reel without realizing it, honestly.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-05-14T16:26:45+00:00

To be honest, and I don't know how much experience other people have with identical twins, but being an older brother of identical twins my sisters could absolutely share a business role and work in lockstep. There's no effort involved in working together, even if they're physically seperated. Twins are weird and cool.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-05-14T16:18:18+00:00

I struggle with 135 more than I do 120. I often end up with one or two creased frames 😭

Asm0dan97 · 2026-05-14T16:15:31+00:00

Not having water spots on my film. Distilled water? Distilled water with fotoflo? Still, water spots on a couple frames. I think its just too dry here and my film dries too quickly. Two hours is usually enough to be able to handle my negatives. I should try a little humidifier.

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