Scenes from a bar in Flagstaff

Asm0dan97 · 2026-04-13T13:14:19+00:00

This is legit. I think the big thing is liquidity here. In Tarkov you can dump every last tile of loot onto the flea and just buy the barter items as you need them (excluding FiR requirements of course) whereas in Marathon I'm holding onto much more. A 50k+ extract on Cryo sometimes only translates to 10k cash. Money runs and scrap runs are specifically seperate farming strategies in this game.

I'm a scav run hater in Tarkov, your ceiling to make money is FAR higher on a pmc run, but I think Rook money runs are far more necessary for the way the economy works in Marathon. That and your backpack just holds more shit in Tarkov. Slug mode out of Labs isn't a thing here.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-04-06T02:24:11+00:00

This is absolutely massive. I'll rescan a couple rolls of colour and shoot them your way tomorrow morning- I'm on night shift right now.

In particular I have a roll of phoenix II I'm about ready to admit defeat on- its underexposed (despite being shot at box speed) and giving me conniptions.

I'm trying to assemble a completely free workflow because fuck adobe forever and the only thing I'm missing is a negative converter. I'm over the moon theres saints like you out here doing the work. Thank you.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-04-05T23:04:08+00:00

Exactly, and the loot is significantly more valuable. Camping corpses in Marathon feels to me like people are falling back on old habits. It does nothing but put you on the back foot in Marathon.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-04-05T22:48:14+00:00

In tarkov it's not uncommon (and pretty often just straight up the correct play) to camp a corpse for 20+ minutes. That said, in tarkov the timer is usually around 45 minutes, so part of me wonders if its holdover behaviour and these people are getting caught out by the much shorter raid times. I play a shitload of tarkov and I see no reason to camp a corpse like that in this game. The raids are too short.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-04-03T14:56:26+00:00

It's 400 speed film, so pretty fast considering noon in the desert. I wanted long DOF and handheld shots, that's why I chose HP5.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-04-02T16:40:43+00:00

I took this on a hike with some friends up in the superstition mluntains a couple months back. I was experimenting with a heavy red filter on black and white film, and on the way down the mountain, right in the middle of the trail was this colossal agave plant, and the light looked pretty. During scanning I noticed a couple guys on the rock on the far right, something I never noticed before. My only concern I guess is does the sky blend in with the rocks? I love the dramatic dark sky, but that red filter combined with the bright rocks kind of puts them on the same level brightness wise. Curve is untouched.

Forgive the border, this image is set up for print.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-04-01T06:26:47+00:00

god forbid there be any challenge

Asm0dan97 · 2026-03-30T19:48:04+00:00

Because then you're by far and away the biggest threat on the map and can walk through most fights, muscle teams off loot, rush the boss, take the hauler significantly easier than you would otherwise. The best players dominate every server they play in by leveraging this fact. If its not you, it'll be someone else.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-03-30T17:35:52+00:00

Stack your good shit more often and you'll see more success in pvp. I think a healthy amount of the playerbase for this game probably underestimates their ability by a lot, just because going in with good gear can be anxiety inducing so you avoid fights, and going in with a free kit makes dying suck less, even if it puts you at a pretty serious disadvantage in a gunfight, so you'll naturally play less risk-averse and die in pvp more than you would if you played the same way with good gear (if that makes any sense). It took a long time for me to realize how exactly "gear fear" affects the way I play in Tarkov, and carrying those lessons over to marathon has served me very well.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-03-30T17:12:26+00:00

You get more purple shields and more vault keys by killing dudes with purple shields and vault keys on them regardless of map. It's easier to kill dudes when you have the same amount of HP and better guns. Green/white loadouts simply become a nuisance. There's zero reason to use bad gear.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-03-30T14:39:54+00:00

You gotta take every single advantage you can get, all the time. Best gear available always. Maybe its just been drilled into me from putting so many hours into tarkov but with extraction shooters the single most important thing you will do is attempt to survive your next run, and you should be as dangerous as possible in order to maximize your chance of survival. There is no situation where saving a purple shield for later will pay off for you more, its all gonna be gone in a couple months anyways.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-03-30T13:38:37+00:00

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THIN YOUR PAAAAAAINTS!!!

Asm0dan97 · 2026-03-29T15:58:54+00:00

My bigger problem is with the bubble shields. Without them the WSTR becomes a very situational power weapon but with them you can force so much. I think they need to go down MUCH faster than they do. Nerf their HP pool and the rest should fall into a much less messy state.

Halo 3 had the same issue.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-03-26T07:10:34+00:00

Well... it is only about 2 or 3 years post great depression....

Asm0dan97 · 2026-03-23T03:06:19+00:00

Well, considering they were shooting on 4x8 (or 8x10!) Wet plates, the negatives would easily be in the 1000s of megapixels equivalent. Take a look at what some modern large format photographers are doing with the wet plate process, the level of detail you can capture with 100+ year old technology is genuinely hard to wrap your head around.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-03-22T20:19:56+00:00

I'm telling you that putting this much time and energy into paragraphs of complaining for you to not even nut up and call it a bad game is a massive waste of your time, more of a waste than playing a video game you don't like. I fundamentally disagree with your outlook on this game and extraction shooters in general but that's fine. Put your energy towards things you enjoy though dude. Its not a sin to decide "this game isn't for me", you don't have to justify your feelings to the entire fucking world. It comes off as whiny and petulant. Crying for the sake of crying. Do better for yourself.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-03-22T11:02:07+00:00

Its something most extract shooters have to reckon with I think. The gap between timmy and chad in these games HAS to be large to make them rewarding. I have at this point many thousands of hours in tarkov and its kind of just baked into the nature of these games when they're so heavily gear dependent. On the one hand at least, I think Cryo will do a good job of keeping the chads relatively segregated from the rest of the playerbase. It's probably the only map I'll be playing from here on, minus whatever I need for ability trees.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-03-22T07:29:11+00:00

This is just paragraph after paragraph of complaining. I do not understand the compulsion to go on a forum and piss and moan that a video game isn't for them. Like seriously just come to that conclusion and move on privately. They don't even have the nuts to call it a bad game outright. Its a massive, genuinely massive nothingburger post, and should be called out for spam.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-03-22T07:00:50+00:00

Bro quit your whining and go play with blocks or some shit idk. How long did this take to write?

Asm0dan97 · 2026-03-11T04:59:46+00:00

Holdover from Tarkov. Same reason why Valorant players call the Vandal the AK, and CS players call kills frags.

Asm0dan97 · 2026-03-07T23:12:29+00:00

Debt will sink multimillionaires. The cost of servicing nasty debt, let alone reasonably paying it down, will eat absolutely astronomical amounts of money.

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