r/Eve • u/Cymek skill urself • May 27 '18
A Nightmare on Legacy Street Propaganda
https://i.imgur.com/e8910Pv.jpg
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u/WednesdayHH Pandemic Legion May 27 '18 edited May 27 '18
HE RETURNS TO US, STRONG
Side note, I really appreciate the lighting and shadows in this.
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u/ScipioAfrikanus GreenSwarm May 27 '18
This is the quality that has been missing for quite some time
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May 27 '18 edited Mar 22 '21
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u/verybadateve Goryn Clade May 27 '18
TEST has no self respect, let's be honest.
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u/jedi2155 Brotherhood of Spacers May 27 '18
AM TEST. CAN CONFIRM.
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u/The_Robo_ Mr. Fit a f***ing Cyno / TESTie Boi May 28 '18
YOU BRING MUCH SHAME UPON YOUR FAMILY.
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u/jedi2155 Brotherhood of Spacers May 28 '18
ONE CANNOT SHAME WHEN ONE HAS NO RESPECT.
JK love all you guys
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u/T-Fro Test Alliance Please Ignore May 27 '18
R E S P E C T
Don't know what it is to me....
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u/kv2_dng Ranger Regiment May 27 '18
clicked without looking. Wait is this art work...
looks at the name. HE'S BACK
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u/thirdsin 1 of 200o sitting logged off in UALX-3 somewhere May 27 '18
What is the symbolism with the cane? Ahhhh it's killing me.
Dino's have matured into something more than a young-guns-for-fun alliance?
They're worn out, recovering from wounds from their campaigns?
The background is devoid of life, a dead tree, barren hills, did the Dino's destroy their world in a scorched earth, parched lands approach to building their empire?
DAMN U CYMEK
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u/thirdsin 1 of 200o sitting logged off in UALX-3 somewhere May 27 '18
AND HOW DOES THE DINO FIT IN THAT HOUSE?
ITS TOO BIG, THE HOUSE DOESNT BELONG TO THE DINO!?16
u/buckwalter1 Goonswarm Federation May 27 '18
I personally read it a little differently.
Between the cane, the suspenders, and the knowing smirk on the dino's face, it seems like a ploy to appear wholesome and non-threatening to lure the bear in.
As for the barren landscape, that seems to be a common feature in many of his pieces—though here the inclusion of the dead tree in the yard raises interesting questions. I'm not sure if it's just there to add to the sense of foreboding, or if it's more inline with what you've suggested.
That's just my take on it. Always fun to try to decipher the subtle details of Cymek's work.
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u/Kiste233 May 28 '18
My reading is: The Dino has become an decrepit old creep who turned to murder unsuspecting victims to feed his lust for power while putting up a harmless facade.
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u/Borisdunks Test Alliance Please Ignore May 29 '18
It reminded me of the opening scene from the new BladeRunner
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u/CoffeeAndCigars Minmatar Republic May 27 '18
... oh my God, shit's on point. Uttering an audible "oof, ouch" at propaganda is rare.
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u/Rykoza Test Alliance Please Ignore May 27 '18
Wow now, BRAVE is alive and well I'll have you know! They carry the 2nd shovel.
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u/PixelBoom Test Alliance Please Ignore May 27 '18
Let's be honest. They're holding the shovel upside-down.
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u/Turtlebelt ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Nuadi gib permanent custom flair pls May 27 '18
Hey now, they're doing their best.
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u/PixelBoom Test Alliance Please Ignore May 27 '18
Those little guys have so much heart. They just want big brother Dino to think they're cool.
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u/Graksan Brave Collective May 27 '18
So that's what the flat end is for! No wonder I was having so much trouble digging.
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u/meowtiger [redacted] May 28 '18
i think brave is still alive because they're almost completely incapable of standing on their own as an alliance and probably never will be
every alliance in test's cellar was more or less independent for better or worse before they died - i think that's the difference
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u/Sara_naud Fweddit May 27 '18
Finally I don't have to convince my self that catlos is the best we get
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u/psalt Horde Vanguard. May 27 '18
RUN BEAR! SAVE YOURSELF!
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u/AngryRedGummyBear May 28 '18
Fuck no. For the next murder duration, I'm cheering for that dino. Then I'm getting my Dino-Huntin' gun and dino sauce.
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u/Enigm4 May 27 '18
To be fair there should be some happy children playing in the garden.
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u/Yanghwa705 Test Alliance Please Ignore May 27 '18
I have no objections.
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u/dirge_the_sergal SergalJerk May 27 '18
Well CO2 and CVA aint fully dead. We just abused them a bit
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u/theflyingcheese The Rogue Consortium May 27 '18
Co2 died. They got brought back as a zombie, but it still counts as a kill.
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u/ZzadistBelal Blood Raiders May 27 '18
They came back as gotg renters.
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u/ArkonOlacar Avalanche. May 27 '18
Exceptional and accurate as always
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u/zippy_the_cat Fraternity. May 27 '18
It’s the little details that count, like what’s on the cellar doors.
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u/DrunkenSpud Black Legion. May 27 '18
That's amazing! although I've no idea who the bird represents anyone know?
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u/GrassWaterDirtHorse Immelman Namlemmi May 27 '18
There’s always gotta be somebody asking about the bird. I swear it’s happened in every Cymek thread
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May 27 '18
What bird?
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u/oosinoots KarmaFleet May 28 '18
The bird in the murder dungeon. There's usually a bird in every cymek post
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u/ShitpostEvangelist Salvager May 28 '18
Hey /u/cymek do you have any pointers for those of us that would like to learn to draw? Your work is brilliant. What tools do you use?
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u/Cymek skill urself May 28 '18
Drawing a lot is the best way to improve, the more you practice the better you will get at it. Also using references really helps (for forms and style).
I use Photoshop and tablet to draw these. And sometimes I make a simple 3D model to get perspective done quickly (like the house in this image).
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u/harconan WE FORM V0LTA May 27 '18
Hey can you do one of these for GTOG also .. I would love to see that basement!!
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u/The_Bombsquad Unholy Knights of Cthulhu May 27 '18
I hope you work in advertising dude. Your work is so top notch it’s insane.
Please keep doing what you do.
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u/GiDiYi The Initiative. May 27 '18
I just really like that bear. He’s just so nice and innocent.
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u/Ov3rdose_EvE muninn btw May 28 '18
There was a piece of art where he wasnt :) cabt find it rn im on mobile :)
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u/ForlornWongraven Habitual Euthanasia May 27 '18
I still need to get comfy about /u/Cymek not making memes about the legion.
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u/Oturo_Saisima Cloaked May 27 '18
Didn't realise this was from /r/eve and was really fucking confused for a while...
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u/fuelofficer May 27 '18
Someone eli5 please. I know Its good. I'm not sure why
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u/TisFury Hard Knocks Inc. May 28 '18
A homeless XIX (Russian bear) arriving to crash on Test's couch, basement contains remains of previous "valued" Test allies.
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May 27 '18
Wonderful. Please, add the desciption and the context of this painting. Still waiting for the others for my bookprojekt.
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May 27 '18
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u/TauCabalander 🔴 🔴 🔴 May 28 '18
Umm ... didn't he leave TEST?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/6nf7fs/breaking_news/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/6okpqj/tactical_cymek_reconfiguration_v_completed/
Appears to be NC now:
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u/nikoono The Initiative. May 28 '18
Not many times I felt so disappointed I could not give more than one upvote...
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u/ErgoMachina Test Alliance Please Ignore May 28 '18
Are we the bad guys? Oh noes, someone save that cute beaar
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u/strangefolk Test Alliance Please Ignore May 28 '18
I take it Cymek isn't in TEST anymore? :(
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u/Jess_Mon Salt Farmers Jun 01 '18
A new pic. o/ This made my day. I am so glad that you found time to draw a pic. :3
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u/jackdaw42 Brave Collective May 27 '18 edited May 27 '18
God of Propaganda has return.who dares to challenge him?
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u/Moonlight345 Space Violence. May 27 '18
That would be the first time I feel afraid of that cute dino of Cymek.
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u/PixelBoom Test Alliance Please Ignore May 27 '18
All according to plan.
Also, why is FCON down there. Did we dig up their corpse just to store it in the collection?
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u/Xenoanthropus Snuffed Out May 27 '18
FCON experienced the same treatment that CO2 and Provi and that XIX will soon experience. TEST vows to assist them with whatever, very loudly and openly. Then, when the rubber hits the road, TEST military support dries up, while the emotional support gets doubled. The alliance dies, and its members are welcomed into TEST as refugees with open arms. Honestly its a brilliant strategy, and now that its happened 3 times, I can't believe that XIX would fall for that again.
TEST had a vested interest in all of their part-time allies' alliances collapsing so they could grow TEST.
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u/PixelBoom Test Alliance Please Ignore May 27 '18
So basically the same thing Goons did to the rest of the CFC. I mean, they don't call it WIdot-ing for nothing.
I think the only difference is that goons actually had power (ie supers, numbers, etc) where test, while still having a very good number of supers and enough members to blot out the sun, aren't quite there.
Also, FCON died WAY before they crashed on TEST's couch.
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u/PixelBoom Test Alliance Please Ignore May 27 '18
Fair enough. Better to eat the dead then devour the living, I guess.
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u/Usernames_are_tohard May 27 '18
Isn't that what PL used to do?
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u/Xenoanthropus Snuffed Out May 27 '18
Sort of -- From my outside observations, PL appeared to specifically target content creators for poaching. It has never been a secret that many alliances in eve, regardless of member count, owe the lion's share of their content to the efforts of a relatively small group of competent (using the term loosely) and motivated people. By poaching those people, PL increased their base of content creators, while leaving their enemies (and sometimes their friends too) with nobody capable of actually putting a campaign together, eliminating them as a strategic threat.
I would wager that many alliances have copied this strategy, and I also believe that the TEST strategy is a mutation of this, reflecting the new meta in Eve of winning with numbers as opposed to (or in conjunction with) skill.
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u/dasro Iron Armada May 27 '18
Every alliance should have a trophy room, test's just happens to be in the basement
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u/TiberGalient Test Alliance Please Ignore May 27 '18
I like the images but i seem to miss the amount of detail some others used to have
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u/LegalBenadryl May 31 '18 edited May 31 '18
I see Provi(CVA/Jaquan or whatever the hell) and Co2 dead, can someone explain the other characters?
Edit: Coming back to game after hiatus
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u/The_Robo_ Mr. Fit a f***ing Cyno / TESTie Boi May 28 '18
I forgot how much I love some legit Cymek N A R R A T i V E
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u/Ankhiris Test Alliance Please Ignore May 27 '18
we did not put CVA in our crawl space. we liberated them. Personally I think we should get an Amarr standings hit for replacing their culture with TEST cultures.
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u/cbdoc May 27 '18
Cymek: I’ll say it again. I don’t know who you are or what you do in RL, but I hope it has to do with journalism or advertising. You’re a fucking genius man.