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I'm an old fart, but still love to play games, especially if they are free.
Here is a nice list on Slant: https://www.slant.co/topics/1933/~open-source-games
Some of my favourites are:
FreeOrion
Endless Sky
Wolfenstein Enemy Territory
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How about Global Thermonuclear War? 
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Love it 
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Coming soon to a capital city near you (are listening Trump, Kim, Vlad ... ?).
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Brrrr, subscription … 
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Subscription, paid for game/expansion packs and paid for in game content. Blizzard must be racking it in.
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Fueled By Caffeine wrote: Blizzard must be racking it in.
They certainly are... June Quarterly Report[^].
They are raking it in to the tune of 1.18 billion dollars from subscription services in the last three months alone. They are also claiming that there are 352 million monthly active users of Blizzard/Activision products. I might have to buy some stock.
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Played it for years.
Logged in a few weeks ago, and it lost a lot of its shine. While talents were simplified a long time (because too hard for noobs), you now have a talent-tree, and a seperate one for your weapon. That's next to the garrison you have, the farm, the fleet, and followers.
Don't think I'll be trying the new update any time soon.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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The garrison, followers, fleet etc are entirely optional. There is a subset of players that just love to grind repetitive daily tasks.
If you just want to raid, you could completely bypass the side content.
Anyway, I can't wait for next week. All preparation quests done on three geared alts.
They buy shoes, then they wear them! They make them sound old! Dairy! Dairy!
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Stable Genius wrote: The garrison, followers, fleet etc are entirely optional. There is a subset of players that just love to grind repetitive daily tasks.
I love grinding; helped someone get their insane-achievement.
Stable Genius wrote: If you just want to raid, you could completely bypass the side content.
I'll bypass the next coming expansions. It's not like you'd gain something now that still would be usable then.
Stable Genius wrote: Anyway, I can't wait for next week. All preparation quests done on three geared alts.
You come across like a rogue, and a DK as second alt. Probably alliance. Good guess, or totally wrong?
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Alliance is correct, but the rest nope. I am range DPS type of player. Hunter main, mage and priest alts. I used to play a DK when they came out in Wrath, but tanking is too much stress for me. I like the relaxed play style of ranged dps
Edit. Will try druid this expansion though.
They buy shoes, then they wear them! They make them sound old! Dairy! Dairy!
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Downside of being a drood is that you have to be an elf
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I think I will wait for WoW Classic to be released before I go back. These kids these days have no idea what grinding levels really means.
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The TOP CON quote on FlightGear made me laugh. I bet many husbands say that. 
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And as a result the next Con is: Quote: After a crash a pilot may be stuck in an upside down position with no way to recover.
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Can't you just spend your time creating viruses and malware like any normal person would do?
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Now you make me feel guilty 
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Verlorener - Devil In The Room[^]
This week Spotify recommended Verlorener to me.
The name struck me, as "Verloren" is Dutch for "Lost" and the "er" at the end makes it translate to something as "More lost" (although that's not an actual word).
Apparently, the guy's from the USA though, so I don't know if the Dutch language actually inspired him or if it's some coincidence.
Anyway, the music is pretty cool!
It's instrumental progressive rock with electronic influences, or something like that.
The album on Spotify is awesome, but YouTube only has this track.
I can live with that, so enjoy!
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Sander Rossel wrote: Apparently, the guy's from the USA though, so I don't know if the Dutch language actually inspired him or if it's some coincidence.
Kind of
Verlorener is a name derived from the German word “verloren,” which roughly translates to forlorn and hopeless. It is Werstler’s antidote to his disenchantment with working the same musically restricted path for the past decade-plus.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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So the German word verloren is the same as the Dutch word verloren except he got it from Germany and not the Netherlands?
I'll just take that as "the Dutch language actually inspired him"
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It did.
Why Are People From The Netherlands Called Dutch? - YouTube[^]
Ignore the so-called explanation on how you can use "Holland" to refer to the Netherlands; it's wrong.
Also, part of our kingdom is in a sub-tropical climate; you wouldn't call those Holland, would you?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: how you can use "Holland" to refer to the Netherlands; it's wrong.
Yeah, that's what he explained, didn't he?
Eddy Vluggen wrote: part of our kingdom is in a sub-tropical climate
This one confuses my dad. He's into biology, so once in a while he reads an article like "new species of brightly colored frogs discovered in the Netherlands!" and he's like "what the hell!?", but it's on Curacao or something.
Technically they're not wrong
Anyway, I'm all for calling the Netherlands Holland Goeree-Overflakkee, because that's really the place to be! 
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