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Helm

@helmll.bsky.social
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makes videogames, makes comics, makes records - perennial pixel artist - dedicated to Heavy Metal Lightning Steel

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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 8m
often I am reminded of the sense of scale and camera placement in Shadow of the Comet, it's such a choice
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 1h
disclamer: I love videogames. I think they're art, I don't think something 'being art' is such a big deal, it's all art that said, good argument for why (narrative) games are a lesser offering compared to literature, cinema etc: the very low percentage of them set in real world historical setting
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 6h
Perestroika_Girls.GIF CGA palette 3 low intensity
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 13h
We don't really make better graphics today. We make more literal or higher fidelity stuff but this is the complete aesthetic of a machibe used by a person for fun. Tech beyond this point is an obfuscation of the machine or the human or the fun
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The Saint of Sinners! @thesaintofsinn1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Display art created for Elsa Schiaparelli hosiery.
A vintage mid-century fashion illustration or display art from the 1950s, created for Elsa Schiaparelli hosiery featuring a woman fastening a nylon stocking.
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Let me introduce you to the story game archetype once called "the point and click adventure game" friends, main players in the lark being the once mighty Sierra On-Line and the much imitated but never surpassed LucasArts, they've such beautiful stories waiting for you with nary a turn to base
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It'll be quite a thing to witness the mass scale of immiseration - such cruelty in the name of deadend greed and willfull extinction - converge on not a restart but reinvention of the communist project. The first principle is "We suffer but Why?!"
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Self care today looks like playing Deus Ex for 8 hours straight. Gotta shut off shit vibes from increasing dystopia by play-pretending in my software pocket dystopia where I can do something about it, irony not lost but crystallized
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Windlass @windlass.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Didn't post this finished piece, one of the characters for a story me and @vividmercurial.bsky.social are working on :) #art #fantasy #ocsky
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Windlass @windlass.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Basajaun #art
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Windlass @windlass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Honor of Her Evening Second Version #art #darkfantasy #vampire
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
if this thing doesn't tank to the point where people won't take it even if they are aggressively giving it away for free I'll be surprised. Tear it off, throw it on the ground
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Batfeula @batfeula.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lisa Simpson's room
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The price Democrats are going to eagerly pay to inherit Trump's fascist regime - which they will rectify not at all but instead lugubriously exploit - will be to throw transgendered people under the bus in an act of symbolic inhumanity.
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PULSE.7z @impulsar7z.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
this rules
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sorry. Story not ready.
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
computer games!
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
don't underestimate the hole, bro
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
console child in 1993: mom I am so happy you bought me starfox!! PC gaming child in 1993:
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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
yeah mom for christmas I want the computer came ball-licks, you can find it by the cover of that bucktoothed dude getting spitroasted by a pinball table
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Barbie dreams of driving recklessly
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
one of the happiest moments of my life is listening to playlist and trawling through the DOS mines
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
at your service my Queen
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sextris - 1992 - the Dream Team
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
very aesthetic
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
my significant tetris skill is wasted on this one. It only has one rotation button and it's sluggish as hell. Here just for the legg, I suppose.
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
finally my two favourite things combined
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Go to prison, then.
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
sick idle pose
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CONZEIT @conzeit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
need a 1UP? I sure do so I made one Pixelart animator looking for work 🌐craftmused@riseup.net #megaman #ロックマン #pixelart #ドット絵 #animation #アニメーション
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𝕾𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊 𝕳𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊 @strangehouse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cover art I made for the Italian edition of Between Two Fires. Available to pre-order from Mercurio Books
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
of course people are addicted to AI gen. The basic human impulse to see your preferences and outlook expressed back through the results of your hard work and creativity is a bit part of what makes us, us. Imagine pressing a button and getting infinite such reflection, hollow and ravenous reflection
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet
5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion
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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
breathe out a bit
psyduck floating in a lake at twilight, no text
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Alita/Gunnm is a big part of why I did comics but I was also intimidated by it 'if you can't do as good as this, why bother'. Akira is like that x100. Whenever I think of Guyver I want to reread all of it. BotI I never finished. Ippo just addictive even when bad. Homunculus the smartest manga around
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Birb
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
hell yeah! @ptoing.bsky.social found it! A piece of pixel art cultural history right there. You darned Pc Bucket Kidz!! Also look at that sick-ass Nauris pic, who the hell would have a problem with that?! dude got jelly lmao
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bird 🔞 \(⁠☉⁠д⁠⊙⁠)/ ! @emrynbird.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
god I love getting into discussions that are just like...
crop of The School of Athens by Raphael, closing in on Plato and Aristotle who are wearing a chiton and cloak with "sickos" written on them
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
what was it that that dude called pixel artists of a younger generation? pc bucket kids? sometimes I remember that and I have a chuckle to myself
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
'accounts I block preemptively' on bsky list has expanded, if I am honest with myself 1. diaper/feeder/ageplay/anthro fetish accounts (usually they are superstacks of all of these) 2. obama nostalgia accounts 3. taylor swift fan accounts
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
lol get FUCKED thetimes dot com lol
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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.doomworld.com/idgames/leve...
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moth ₊☽ ཐི༏ཋྀ ☾₊ @moth-grill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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