Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮

@martijnfrazer.bsky.social

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Musician | Web developer | Host of DOS Game Club podcast Bandcamp: https://martijnfrazer.bandcamp.com Twitch: https://twitch.tv/martijnf YouTube: https://youtube.com/martijnfrazer Podcast: https://www.dosgameclub.com Mastodon: https://dosgame.club/@Tijn

Screenshot of Google Maps, with highlighted in red: Belgium at the south, Netherlands in the north west and Germany in the east. A route shows the cities of Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem circled, from where they would break into Germany's Ruhr area.

Screenshot of the opening credits from A Bridge Too Far, on the screen where it says: "with Denholm Elliott, Peter Faber, Christopher Good, Frank Grimes, Jeremy Kemp and Wolfgang Preiss"

black & white cartoon looking frustrated, arms crossed and then in the next panel explodes, arms in the air and says "I guess!"

A cheery statue of Ronald McDonald sitting on a bench in front of piles of rubble from a demolished McDonald's location.

European box art for Toonstruck, which has an evil clown stabbing a balloon animal in the eye with a pin, on a green background.

Bar chart showing monthly download numbers, starting in 2017 and steadily growing over time until it just crossed 12,000 in July 2026.

Screenshot of the Civilization 1 start screen, saying: "King Tijn III, you have risen to become leader of the Russians. May your reign be long and prosperous. The Russians have knowledge of Irrigation, Mining, Bronze Working, The Wheel and Roads."

Screenshot of Civilization 1, showing the front page of the "Moscow Weekly" newspaper, with the headline "Your civilization has conquered the entire planet!"

Civilization 1 replay showing how my civilization (the Russians) take over the entire world by first conquering the Aztecs and Indians who started on the same continent as me, then the Greeks to the West, then the Aztecs to the East and finally the Egyptians on an island to the South. In the end the Aztecs keep a single city to themselves, which I never find, but then a horde of Barbarians take them out, which makes me win the game.

A woman with a crazed look on her face, between a bunch of wires, who says "I am the machine"

Screenshot of Sid Meier's Civilization 1 showing a palace made out of a mix of the three available styles (Arabian/Persian, Medieval European and Roman/Greek)

Introduction of Sid Meier's Civilization, showing a history of the earth from its formation through the spread of life, until the modern day.

The full text contents can be found here: https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Civilization#Civilization's_introduction

Screenshot of Sid Meier's Civilization (1991) showing a game in play on the world map screen (population 4 million, 1901 AD, 332 gold), cities on screen are Vladivostok and Washington. A pop up is overlaid that says "Defense Minister: American civilization destroyed by Russians!"

Screenshot from Sid Meier's Civilization (1991) showing a man who looks like Sid Meier himself in a lab coat next to a board that says "Russian scientists discover the secret of Theory of Gravity!". In the back is a clock and a photo of Albert Einstein and in the front is an old desktop PC and a bunch of 5.25" floppy disks.

Screenshot that's shown when quitting Sid Meier's Civilization (1991), advertising 4 other Microprose games: Darklands, Hyperspeed, Railroad Tycoon and Covert Action.

Photo of several blue coloured second class NS train seats. Underneath each pair of seats is a power socket for both euro plug and USB.

Video of a Dutch train platform sign showing a pin at the front of the train, and then the train arrives and it's exactly where the pin said it would be.

Dutch train platform sign for the 9:49 train to Utrecht Central, arriving in one minute. Underneath the station list is a picture of a train, with a pin at the front and an arrow to show in which direction the train moves.

Fake King's Quest V death screen with King Graham's portrait and text: "whoa whoa whoa, key now come on"

Photo of a sign at Utrecht Centraal station that reads (English translation, original Dutch below): "07/07 Today in nature: Giant woodwasps emerge from old wood."

Dutch original: "07/07 Vandaag in de natuur: Reuzenhoutwespen komen tevoorschijn uit oud hout."

All the settings Firefox has in about:config that have "autoplay" in them

Screen recording of me switching the image.animation_mode setting from "normal" to "none" along with some dumb cat gif to show the effect of the setting

Screenshot of Java Setup saying "3 billion devices run java"

Korg MS-20 synthesizer, with a 36 key keyboard at the bottom and a whole bunch of knobs and wires at the top.

NOFX

Various shots of Babylon 5 character Lyta Alexander staring real hard, after captain John Sheridan tells her to "send the password"

A bucket with 20 or so garlic bulbs, with long green/yellowing leaves attached.

Screenshot of a YouTube comment by user "@mostlycusimbored" posted "7 months ago", saying: "This is the first time i feel like im not that online", with 713x thumbs up and a like by the video creator.

Photo taken at Blast Galaxy arcade, showing a row of arcade cabinets. Prominently shown in front is one with two giant drums.

Scene from Babylon 5 season 2 episode 11, in which an alien wants to have sex with a human woman. He doesn't know what "human sex" is however, so instead she performs some kind of wacky dance and convinces the alien that that was sex.

Screenshot from the 1969 moon landing as it was broadcast on NBC, showing two astronauts outside the lunar lander setting up the US flag.

Screenshot of Shapez 2 running, with a temperature monitor app overlaid that says the CPU is 68 deg C and the GPU is 55 deg C.

A little plastic bin with a handful of red strawberries, with several strawberry plants with green strawberries on them behind it.

A white banner hanging on a wall, with black text saying "Joy is an act of resistance"

Sitting in the shade my garden, legs stretched on a cushion, while the sun is starting to creep in from the left

Screenshot of Neofeud 2, showing a robot and a green-haired woman in a small space. The robot's portrait is shown next to the text line: "Socialism is a pretty good idea, actually."

Screenshot of a YouTube video titled "every kind of rationalist explained in an extremely long video" by channel "Tor's Cabinet of Curiosities", paused on a frame where the host is sitting behind a big black microphone, in front of a painted background of some abstract lines in blue and yellow, and in front of the mic is a big yellow rubber toy animal.

The top comment reads "This is the first time I feel like I'm not that online."

$Black screen with white pixely letters saying "Starting MS-DOS... C:\>_"$

"Traffic mortality" chart, showing Norway at the top with just over 20 road deaths per million inhabitants per year, the European Union on average around 50, and the United States at the bottom with well over 120, just below Romania and Bulgaria who are both under 100.

Screenshot that shows Bluesky user "Why" with handle why.bsky.team has blocked me.

Screenshot of Prince of Persia (1989) showing the protagonist pointing a sword at his own mirror image

screenshot of a text message by "morl" sent at 01:14 that reads: "its nice to know that for every frequency there's someone broadcasting"

Screenshot of Horsey Game showing my trailer full of horses and other items in front of a garage that houses a giant computer. Outside of the garage is a vat filled with purple goo. Next to the computer is a floppy disk. In front of the garage is a guy who says "The genes of the most optimal horse are on that disk!"

Me messing around with an old Casio keyboard and discover a sound that sounds good with a whole tone scale

Screenshot of the Bluesky app on a phone, not showing any content (a blank timeline)

Screenshot of Little Big Adventure 2, showing a space port on some kind of alien planet. There are two bright yellow space ships parked on a fenced in parking lot, lit by weirdly curved street lights. A wizard dressed in a blue robe, white beard and a blue hat is standing in front of the closest space ship. Across the road are two vaguely humanoid aliens, one somewhat resembling a businessman in a green suit and the other looking a bit like a soldier with a big helmet.

Fire blanket instructions hanging on a tiled wall, titled "Manta abafa fogos - usar para abafar fogos". On the left it shows a woman holding it up to a burning stove with text "adequado para: fogos em frigideiras, fogos em oleos, fogos em caixotes de lixo". On the right it has a man rolled in the fire blanket with text "adequado para: envolver pessoas cujas roupas estejam a arder"

xkcd 2501 variant, a comic where one person says "modular synthesizers are second nature to us music nerds, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows about Moog, ARP, Korg and maybe Roland."

A second person says: "And Buchla, of course."

The first person: "Of course."

Underneath it says: "Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field."

Screenshot of part of the above image, where on the left is a pencil with a pen-like clip attached for some reason

screenshot of a google search for "limp bizkit break stuff lyrics" to which google suggests appending "english" and "meaning"

On the left Lecy Goranson, on the right Sarah Chalke, both as Becky Connor in Roseanne (1988)

Screenshot of the opening screen of Hero's Quest (1989) in EGA, showing the entrance of the town of Spielberg. The hero is at the bottom, with yellow hair, a blue shirt and a black cape. The mayor is smoking a pipe on the porch outside of his pink house, next to his goon assistant, who is wearing lederhosen. Everything is drawn using chunky pixels and the bright 16 colour EGA palette.