Helbeglin

Just an artist.
I enjoy sandbox survival games.
Art tag: #HelbegLines

🚫No AI, no edits or reposts!
Publicly available is NOT Free to use!

[Kirsche 🥥 🧁 @KirscheVerstahl]

first Independence Day back home and I couldn't be happier
hope everyone has an amazing day with loved ones, grilled meats, and fireworks!!!
🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸🌟

[TECTONE 🇺🇸 @Tectone]

Happy 4th.

Happy 250th.

Let’s use this as a reminder the the United States is the greatest god damn country on earth.

Let’s use today to reignite our passion to prevent invaders from destroying this great nation we’ve built. 🇺🇸

[Helbeglin @helbeglin]

"What about Chernobyl-" Chernobyl was a communist failure, not a nuclear one. It was a communist failure in the sense that the authoritarian system produced and hid flawed tech, suppressed feedback, and selected for loyalty over competence.

That just goes to show you need competent, trustworthy workers too, which you can't have in a state that imports its labor force and indoctrinates its children against itself. High-stakes industries like nuclear (or aviation, medicine) thrive on merit, accountability, selection for competence, and cultural alignment toward excellence and empirical reality over ideology.

Dysfunctional incentives, whether from authoritarian control, politicized education that undermines trust in institutions/science, or labor policies that prioritize volume over selection/assimilation(see: mass immigration, H1-B's to third world countries, and protecting illegals), erode that.

Any hate towards nuclear is just misinformed hatred towards the greatest source of energy (cleanest, one of the safest, efficient) that is even cleaner than the "green" sources we see pushed relentlessly today. Solar can be used independently for rural power generation along with natural gases, but urban and suburban areas require a power source you can trust will remain online at all times.

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

Nuclear power is the only realistic climate solution. It produces far less lifetime greenhouse gases than solar, and is about the same as wind.

And no, it doesn't make smoke. That's steam you see coming out of the cooling tower. And no, it's not radioactive. In fact, nuclear power produces less radioactive pollution than coal. Coal contains trace radioactive elements that go into the air when burned. 100% of all nuclear waste is contained, and a nuclear waste casket has never leaked in the entire history of nuclear power in the US.

Since solar only works when the sun is shining and wind only works when the wind is blowing, it needs to rely on batteries during non-productive hours. Those batteries are full of toxic metals such as lithium and cobalt, most of the world's supply of which comes from mines that rely on forced labor in Africa. There is no forced labor in the US uranium supply chain.

Speaking of uranium, a single nuclear fuel pellet produces as much energy as a ton of coal. If all of the electricity you will ever use in your lifetime were produced by nuclear power, the total amount of fuel you use would fit in a soda can.

Solar panels and wind turbines also contain non-recyclable toxic materials that we have no plan to deal with once they reach the end of their lifetime, which is only about ten years. Nuclear fuel can be recycled at 95% efficiency. If all of the electricity you ever used during your lifetime was produced by nuclear power, the total amount of non-recyclable waste from your lifetime usage would fit in a shot glass. That's not an exaggeration.

Solar panels also rely on polysilicon. More than 80% of the world's supply of polysilicon is controlled by three Chinese companies. If we were dependent on solar power, we would be economically at the mercy of China, the same country that owns most of those African lithium and cobalt mines that use slave labor.

[Helbeglin @helbeglin]

Watched Citizen Vigilante.
It perfectly explains why I chose to retire Copper (an OC) and deleted any art of her, rather than let her fall into obscurity. She represented people whose actions I couldn't ignore anymore.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Citizen Vigilante has now SURPASSED the ‘Michael’ movie and is #2 on Apple TV

Germany banned it and now the richest person in the world shared it and it’s shattering records

The greatest Streisand Effect

[Helbeglin @helbeglin]

Had a strange dream where I was playing some game and a large red dragon was lurking nearby, so I retreat to my base in a den only to be burned to a crisp in some bluish flame.
Respawn outside, and the dragon finds me again at the base of the cliff. I retreat, and... burned to a crisp.
I respawn again, this time retreating inside to a small tunnel within the den - which the fucker blows his fire breath into, forcing me to dodge into a side path and retreat even further down. I keep testing my luck and verifying the physics of the flame breath, which had been split in two at an intersection but opened into a large cavern.
So I die and respawn again, this time I'm up in that cavern, sticking between a crevice in the ceiling, shooting goblins from above. Green, red, blue goblins, all standing in a large pool of water, knee deep except for the middle where you can't even see the bottom.
I finish off the goblins, drop down, look into the tunnel where I entered the cave...
And what do you know,
The dragon can transform into a bear small enough to enter the tunnel.
So I'm *forced* to conversate with the dragon or I'll keep being turned to ash.
I don't even remember what we talked about, I just remember answering questions while plotting some way to flee, or to take back the cave I called home.

Then I woke up.

Wild.

[Helbeglin @helbeglin]

Sketchy
#HelbegLines

[Helbeglin @helbeglin]

Better not to envy at all if you are going to redirect it to something you don't even know about. Turn that envy into competitiveness instead. A phrase I was taught by an artist I admired is "don't aim to be as good as me, aim to be better than me."
I respect artists, and I respect billionaires. Both had to work hard to get where they are. Don't treat someone's net worth as what they have in their pocket - they're already paying the majority of their profit into taxes and business expenses every year because people don't understand how money works.

[Helbeglin @helbeglin]

Thanks for the well wishes, guys. 🤗💛
Doc let me out after 2 hours an gave me vouchers to redeem meds after giving me steroids.
BUT I've still got no voice and can still only consume liquids. Been unable to speak at all for 4 days now. Hopefully it comes back soon, with choccy milk 😂

[Helbeglin @helbeglin]

am hopital
(+old sketch)

[Helbeglin @helbeglin]

That's awesome that you chose to expand your expertise. However, I, living in a homeless shelter since late 2024, don't have that ability to do most forms of traditional art. I strictly separate my real and digital lives to protect my identity anyway.

I make my art for me, making what I want to see. So that drive isn't from other people, but rather it comes from myself.

I think in order to get that drive back, I need to figure out what exactly I want to draw and how, finding time to do my digital work when I can, wherever I can. I don't like copying from other people's works, so my style comes mostly from my own experimentation and anatomy study rather than the kind of "how-to-draw style" you'll see in tutorials and books.

My biggest problem seems to be that nothing really excites me anymore, so I guess I have to work on that first when it comes to creating. I appreciate the suggestion, though.

[Helbeglin @helbeglin]

No Mono sketch today.
Sick day.
Repost.

[Helbeglin @helbeglin]

I wanna play some BOOM!😋⚡️
Elegg Sketch #NIKKE #HelbegLines

[Helbeglin @helbeglin]

People accept those terms (paying extra for the project files) every day, but to refine your analogy, they aren't keeping the keys - that would be making it usable in Vtube Studio. What they're asking for is the blueprints to the car. You aren't paying for the blueprints or IP rights to the model/rigging, you're paying for the model itself and the ability to use it, unless specified.

You can certainly find someone to reverse engineer or decompile the model, like recreating blueprints based on the final product, but it risks bricking the model or breaking outfits/expressions. If you want endless service or the ability to edit the model, ask or pay for it during the initial deal.

Read the terms of service. Not sure about details, ask. Don't like 'em, don't buy - and certainly don't try to force the artist/rigger to give you the production files if they aren't willing to give them.

This is exactly why SKG is a problem (used in analogies in other replies) - they're LITERALLY asking for products to be editable or usable at End of Life, or for the software to run servers privately or for communities. Sometimes it isn't in the game's intended design. It's an unreasonable request, like legislating mandatory charity. It increases prices on the end product for everyone and discourages some developers/artists from working on the media.

[Helbeglin @helbeglin]

People accept those terms (paying extra for the project files) every day, but to refine your analogy, they aren't keeping the keys - that would be making it usable in Vtube Studio. What they're asking for is the blueprints to the car. You aren't paying for the blueprints or IP rights to the model/rigging, you're paying for the model itself and the ability to use it, unless specified.

You can certainly find someone to reverse engineer or decompile the model, like recreating blueprints based on the final product, but it risks bricking the model or breaking outfits/expressions. If you want endless service or the ability to edit the model, ask or pay for it during the initial deal.

Read the terms of service. Not sure about details, ask. Don't like 'em, don't buy - and certainly don't try to force the artist/rigger to give you the production files if they aren't willing to give them.

This is exactly why SKG is a problem (used in analogies in other replies) - they're LITERALLY asking for products to be editable or usable at End of Life, or for the software to run servers privately or for communities. Sometimes it isn't in the game's intended design. It's an unreasonable request, like legislating mandatory charity. It increases prices on the end product for everyone and discourages some developers/artists from working on the media.

[Helbeglin @helbeglin]

Happy Men's Mental Health Awareness Month!

[Helbeglin @helbeglin]

#HelbegLines

[Helbeglin @helbeglin]

Kryllis #HelbegLines