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She writes, games, and occasionally streams and podcasts. Might also be a gorgon. blog: http://hiddennode.com/ pfp: @skettikritter.bsky.social

Cover art of the Arcade Paradise Official Soundtrack. It features numerous cartoon characters featured in the cabinets of the game Arcade Paradise. They're bursting out over the main building of the game, King Wash laundromat. The art style is cartoonish with moderately thick outlines.
A pixel art image of a lalafel from FFXIV. It's poorly made, but is animated. The character is wearing a yellowish green armor, and has a floating card before them. The card bobs up and down and the character blinks as part of the animation.
A screenshot of Kiki from Animal Crossing: New Horizons. She is a black cat with large yellow iris eyes and pointy ears. She's wearing an argyle sweater and is smiling. The room she's in has several wooden pieces of furniture adorned with a radio, a tea kettle, and paint supplies. The wall paper is a 70's retro yellow-green wallpaper, and there's a window behind Kiki.
A screen grab of a Steam Achievement banner. It shows off a line listing "You've unlocked all achievements! 51 our of 51 (100%) ." Below this banner, seven icons for achievements from the game Crystal Project are displayed without text displays, and an icon listing +44 for the remaining achievements).
A screenshot from Final Fantasy XIV. It shows an Au Ra woman sitting in a grassy field next to a fire just off screen. She's making eyecontact with the camera, staring whistfully into an unseen sky.
Album cover of Florence + The Machine's Dance Fever Complete Edition
A screenshot from Final Fantasy XIV. It shows an Au Ra woman sitting in a grassy field next to a fire just off screen. She's making eyecontact with the camera, staring whistfully into an unseen sky.
Album Cover to Rebecca Sugar's Spiral Bound. The cover shows a pair of currently being worn socks and stripped pajamas. Three small ink drawings on cut paper scraps are spread arund the legs and the blanket or rug they are resting on. The artist's and the album's names are drawn in a similiar style like a sticker on the bottom right of the image.
A screenshot of the game WARFRAME, featuring the Warframe Wisp and the Master Rank 35 (Legendary 5) Completion screen. The Warframe, a humanoid figure with bio-organic armor, is kneeling in a void space of large grey platforms and blue light.
Album cover of Magic Sword's Volume 1 A black sword illustration over a white background. The sword has two sharp sides to it's blade, with a flowery guard. The handle is designed with simple strips and a brush like pommel.
Album cover of Phoebe Bridgers' Punisher. A night shot in desert badlands, with a cragy peak in the background set before a star filled night sky. The foreground shows a rock strewn landscape illuminated in red light. Phoebe Bridgers stands in the middle of the shot, wearing her signature skeleton one piece outfit. She's staring up into the night sky, perhapes at the moon or a chinese satellite.
Album cover to The Midnight's Endless Summer. A dark image that has VCR artifacting errors across it, featuring an underlit feminine figure. Their silhouette glows a neon purple, and they stretch backwards with their torso pressed forward. The band's name is stretched across the figure's form, in stretched neon lightning colors. The album name appers at the bottom presented as in a font as if it was a video game selection screen.
Album cover of the Stardew Valley OST. It features a scenic shot of the mountains and foilage featured in the game Stardew Valley, with light clouds and skyline that goes from a light baby blue to a dark stary night. The album's name is written in letters constructed of wooden planks, with small leaves jutting out here and there. A Chicken sits on the top of the E in Stardew.
Album cover of George Hrab's Trebuchet The cover features Geo in a classic suit. He's profile to the camera and in midjump, holding a guitar with his arm held back. Behind him, a large poster board contains all of the song names and lyrics for teh entire album. The titles, including the album cover and George Hrab's name, are in large stylistic block letters. A small wooden trebuchet, red sneakers, and a copy of Phil Plait's book "Death from the Skies!" are in front of the poster wall on the ground.
Album cover of Infinite Third's Electronicalm A black and white drawing of several tesla coils in a lab. One of the coils is active and is illuminating Infinite Third's logo. His logo is the infinity symbol in front of the roman numeral for three, III.
Rerelease album cover of Final Fantasy IV: Celtic Moon. It features a photograph of european cliffside under sunset illuminated clouds. The sky opens to a stylized image of the moon faded by the evening sky.
Album cover of Watsky's X Infinity (pronunced Times Infininty) It featues watsky in a stylish bust with the reliefs of various ivys over his face. His fast rests in the middle of a red sphere admit a grey stone block.
Album cover of Chaos Chaos's Commited to the Crime. The album is a dark panel with a doll's hand illuminted in bisexual lighting. The album's name and band name are a high impact white font in the middle of the image.
Album cover of The Flaming Lips's Yoshimi Battls the Pink Robots. The cover looks like a color pencil sketch of a feminin figure in a yellow dress stnading before an exaggerated giant pink robot. The robot has two huge feet which seem to have additional limbs sprouting from them.
Album cover of The Birthday Massacre's Pins and Needles The cover is purple-blue/pink in tone. It features a Feminine figure wearing a dark 1800's style funeral dress, including a black lace face mask hiding the figure's skeletal face. The landscape around the figure is a dark forboding road that seems to lead to a church. A town and a distant carnival can be seen in silhouette in the distance.
Album cover for the Cabaret Original Sound Track Recording. The cover is mostly black with the movie logo, Cabaret write in a large font with negative space punches for lights, turned on it's side. Liza Minnelli as her character sits on the top of the upturned title.
Album cover of Placebo's Sleeping With Ghosts The cover is a cyan toned image of a half dressed masculine figure embracing a half transparent nude feminine figure. Neither of them clearly shows their face. The band's name and album name are on the left side of the frame in a column.
Album cover of Ninja Sex Party's Under the Covers It features Danny Sexbang and Ninja Brian sitting on a red velvey cover spread. Gold laurels are in the four corners, and the album title and band name are colored in a similar font.
Album cover of Hoobustank - They Sure Don't Make Basketball Shorts Like They Used To. The cover features several athletes wearing basketball uniforms. They are shown only from the waist down, and are standing on a yellow basketball court. The band's old name, spelled with a u, is displayed above in a bold font reminiscent of many basketball team logos. The album's name is at the bottom in front of a dark field.
A desktop cover for the game Primordia. It features the core protagonist Horatio and his assistant Crispin, two robot intelligences in decayed and worn forms. They're looking away from a dark cryptic robot necropolis. The image is mostly a grey and brownscale gradiant.
Album Cover of Rush's Snakes and Arrows The cover is a homage to the game Snakes and ladders, with various snakes coiled around spears in a vaguely historic art picture frame. The Album name and band name are at 90 degrees to the view, using the right side of the cover as their "bottom."
Album cover for Gorillaz "Demon Days" The cover is four squares in a 2 x 2 pattern, each fitted with one of the main characters from Gorillaz, Murdock, 2-D, Noodle, and Russel.
Album cover for A perfect Circle's Mer De Noms. The cover is a dark screen over light redish orange smoke brush work against a stone texture. The band's name is center stage in fromt of a broken circle image, with text in the back of the album's name.
Album cover of Childish Gambino's Because the Internet. It features a bust shot of the musician wearing a pink, red, and orange tropical shirt. He's in front of a left right gradient that mirrors many of colors of the shirt, primarly a dark orange on the left and a light pink on the right.
The album cover of Steam Powered Giraffe's Album One. The album is a stylishly aged image with frayed edges on a white border. The background is a red gardiant sheet, and three of the early robots populate the cover. Rabbit in her old brass chasis and goggles, the Spine with his black suit and silver dermis, and the Jon with his classis suspenders and copper skin. The band's name appears at the top in their logo font, and the album name appears on the bottom right.
Album cover of Carbon Based Lifeforms' - Derelicts The image is red tinted. It shows part of a large industrial plant of some kind, focused on a spherical tank. Various railing sand covered ladders adorn the site. The album's name is in a blocky clean font in the middle bottom of the image, with the band's name in the same but smaller font above it.
Album cover for The Alan Parson project - The Turn of a Friendly Card The cover is a stylized stain glass window set in a black field. The Window is in the shape of the King of Diamonds playing card, with segmented potions showing off the metal framework of the window. The album name is in the top of the window in a painted manuscript style font. The band's name is above the window in a simple clean font.
Album cover for Shirobon's Datamind.
Album Cover for Living Colour's Vivid. The cover is a maximalization collage of various images, with a core background split in the middle between a black and white field. A saw blade is centered in the back of the image, with its colors being vertically split between inverted in the middle. The album's artist and album name are at the top of hte image, with Living Colour written in a stylized yellow font and Livid in a plain white font. The center of the image shows a painted figure with lights sweeping from their head. The bottom of the cover features several palettes of color, and number hand drawn animals. The album cover is covered in similiar small sqiggly animal figures.
Album cover of Pink Floyd - The Division Bell The image depicts two idential statues in a plowed field with dark clouds on the horizon. The statues seem like tall heads facing each other, giving the impression of a single face pulling apart.
Album Cover to The Protomen - Act II: The Father of Death The album cover is designed like a comic cover, with a shallow perspective shot from street level. The characters are in partial silhouette, with bright single color highlights. Featured center stage are Dr. Light and his partner Emily. Around them in the background is the images of Sniper Joe, Dr Willy, and the forces working against Light under Willy's guidance. The background shows a storm dark cloud building above and expanding to the horizon. The primary colors are a pale yellow, dull golds, oranges, and a soft baby blue used as a dark highlight.
Album cover of The Protomen - The Protomen (Act I) The cover is stylisticly impaired with horizontal scan lines making it seem like an image from a third generation game console. The image shows a dark city, with a single point of light from the highest tower, set over a dark purple backdrop. The band's name is on the bottom right in a sharp jagged font.
Album cover of Watsky's Complaint It lists the album title in a stylistic 3 part segment: COM PLA INT These start spelling out the three album names when all three covers are placed together. The background is a distorted picture of Watsky, with slanted lines streaking from the bottom left to the top right, fitting with the trilogy's covers.
A cover image from early editions of Shadowrun. It features several shadowrunners including Dodger and Sally. Dodger is hacking a terminal, plugging in his cyberdeck into a terminal in an ally. A Glass and neon cityscape takes up the bulk of the rear of the image.
Album cover to TLC's Fanmail. The cover is a dark image with digital paintings of the three singers' busts. The group's name is in bold silver white blocks at the top of the image, and the album's name is listed at the bottom in a thin font.
Album cover of The Transformers Movie (1986) Soundtrack The background is a flat white screen. The blocky Transformers title card is at the top of the image, split artistically between Trans and Formers, with the autobot logo (a blocky robotic face set in a squint) placed after the Trans. Several Autobots featured in the film appear on the cover, including Ultra Magnus, Hotrod and Arcee.
Album Cover for Aviators' - God Hunter. The cover is set in a throne room overlooking a silhouetted pyramid with a setting sun over it. The room features polished floors and three figures approaching another sitting on a large throne. They're approaching the figure with weapons drawn, and hostile poses.
Album Cover for Anne Garner's Trusting a Twirled World The album cover looks like a rough, sandpaper-esque surface embossed with an ink block print of a curling tree on the right. Scattering little leaves dot the branches, and the title of the album and Anne's name curls along the outer edges of these branches.
Album cover of the Dear Esther OST. The cover is a screen shot from in game, featuring a overcast grey sky and a barely illuminated rock and scrub grass covered hill. Centered on the hill is an aerial antenna tower, with a single red light at it's apex. The musician's name, Jessica Curry, appears on the right-middle of the cover, with Dear Esther below it in a larger font.
Album cover for Trocadero's "Flying by Wire." The cover is a grey scale image of a woman in a pilot's helmet with her face exposed. She has heavy blushed eyes that are only slightly open. Her head is tilted upwards but she looks down her nose towards the camera. The band's name in all caps is at the bottom of the image, with the album's name in all lower case letters following it.
Album Cover for Ronald Jenkees, "DIsorganized Fun." The image is an automated rotoscoped image of Ronald Jenkees playing a keyboard. He is mostly in white and outlined in a light blue. His keyboard has similiar colors as well as a shadow of dark blue. The background of the image is a light pink with splots of darker pink tones. The album's name appears on the top left stylized in two lines, with the first line reading "Disorga-" and the second line reading "nized Fun". Ronald Jenkee's name appears under the title.
Album cover to Incubus's Make Yourself. The album is an artistic collage of various figures. The background is a gradient of reds and cream tones stretching into a dark field. Above that is a white/grey graph paper pattern, with thicker lines every ten blocks. Several points are outlined through this grid. Bar codes and figures dot the left side of hte image. A creature's exoskeleton appears in the top right. The band's name, incubus, appears on the right spelled intentially all lower case in a blocky font. The album name appears off right and below the band name in a similiar color to the gradiant.
Album Cover of the Ghost Song OST The cover features the protagonist's deadsuit, a set of blue power armor wrapped in tattered clothes. Blue is kneeling in a combat ready pose admist a purple clawing and throny woods of the desolate moon of Lorian.
Album Cover of City Girl - Neon Impasse. The art style is a flat hand drawn style. It features an image of a young woman on a balcony looking out over a cityscape. The woman and her cat sit on a pinkish-white balcony covering the right side of the cover, with blue tinted plants dotting here and there. The cityscape on the left side of the cover is the same blue green, with yellow windows dotting various points of detail. The cityscape rests under a star filled horizon and a crescent moon.
Album cover of Indigo Girls - "Swamp Ophellia" The image features the band's duo, Amy and Emily, as classic artistic figures. Amy is laying on a classic chaise lounge covered in what looks to be red velvet. Emily is sitting across from her in a medium back wooden chair. They're in a scene that's a mix between a swampy water scene with various stalking plants, and a victorian parlor. There's a wall with a classic wall paper pattern pasted over it and paintings, while another side of the room is open to sky and cloudy skies. The band's name and album cover are in the top center of the image.
The Album cover to the Cowboy Beop OST. It's stylized like classic Jazz and Bebop covers, with a solid white bar at the top featuring the show's name, and a red and black image of Spike on the lower 4/5th of the cover. Several track titles are listed in white font under the seperation of white banner and red image, including Felt TIp Pen, Rush, Spoky Dokey, Bad Dog No Biscuit, The Egg and I, Cat Blues, Rain, Space Lion, Waltz for Zizi, Car24, Memory, Tank!, Piano Black, Pot City, Too Good Too Bad, Cosmos, and Digging my POTATO.
A screen shot of Microsoft Excel. It shows various purchases from The Hex syndicate from the 1999 update. It lists the cost of each item and their total desired acquired amounts. All desired amounts have been fufilled and total faction points is listed as zero.
Album cover to Rush's "Permanent Waves." The image is designed in a classic black and white newspaper advert of the 50's. It features a lot of in jokes for the band, including having the designer of the cover, Hugh Syme, waving in the background. The woman in the center of the cover is meant to invoke the actress Donna Reed as she walks away from a tidal wave.
Album Cover for The Republic Tiger's - "Keep Color" album. The background is a green yellow with black swigly lines as if it were tall grass. The title of the band and album are hidden amongst the black grass threads as if lying in wait. They are striking white letters so they are heavily visible.
Album cover of Our Lady Peace's Spiritual machines. The background is a pale yellow white with a human skeletal structure diagram. The foreground features two anthromorphic figures. One is a faceless human in dark hospital scrubs including hair cap and mask. The other figure is on a hospital stretcher. While they have a human face, their body appears to be a partial human xray and machine diagram interposed on each other. The image suggests a touch of maximilization art style.
Album cover for C418's One, the OST for "Minecraft: The Story of Mojang." The cover is a slightly darker hued sky blue, with white lettering of C418's name, with the 1 in their name spelled out as "one", referring to the album's title. There is a sweeping group of curved pencil lines at the bottom, suggesting a drawing of wind movement.
Album Cover to Rock Plaza Central's "Are We Not Horses". The cover is a placid grey background with a foreground image that's a collage of pencil sketches. The primary image is of mechanical parts, with a large robot head and an exaggerated wing over a mound of trash.
Album art of the "I Saw The TV Glow" Movie OST. It shows the movie's title at the top in a purple hand written marker style. The center of the image features an ice cream from the movie, bellowing purple smoke. The ice cream truck appears to be driving across a foodfield or grasy park in the middle of the night with no other lights besides those illuminating the truck and the ground around it.
A screenshot of several top level notebooks from the program OneNote. They are listed as JSD Office 2025, J Samuel DIehl Office 2023, J Samuel Diehl Office 2017, 2022Journal, implying a yearly attempt at organizing projects and data.
A screen shot from the game Warframe. It displays the results of a Legendary 4 Mastery Rank test, showing to the left, the Nyx Warframe on the left holding a Corufell scythe sniper rifle. The test results include max increases to several ingame pools of resource including +1 Loadout, +500 Daily Standing, +5000 daily focus, +1 Legendary Core, and +50 Void Trace Storage. The background shows the mastery combat field, a white light and grey tile area floating in a space of similiar colors. The Nyx Warframe is using the Deulxe Pasithea Skin.