Topic: hobbies

Here are the best games where you get to make your own country. Some of these console or computer games allow you to create entirely fictitious nations, whereas others are built on an Earth-based map system. Many, but not all, of these games are free. It is indicated here if a game is free or not, and whether it uses an Earth based map or not.

Neocities is a fun place where people can set up their own personal sites for free. It has a cool informal vibe. Here are examples of awesome Neocities sites.

Just being about an unusual, interesting or personal topic was not enough to qualify for inclusion here. The sites in this article all have something highly original in terms of artwork, the coding, and/ or somehow add another dimension as compared with other sites on Neocities or elsewhere on the internet.

Have you started jogging - or are you about to start? If so, it probably seems a bit daunting at first. Don't worry - it becomes easy when you follow these life hacks for jogging.

When you look at your progress in your current league on Duolingo, you'll notice that some people have a little status icon (kind of like an emoji) shown next to their profile picture, as you can see in the image above. But how do you change this icon or remove it completely? It's easy to do, but it's not at all intuitive. Here is an illustrated tutorial for how to change your status mini-icon in Duolingo. This method works for both Android and iPhone at the time of writing.

If you're part of a fantasy league on CBS sports, the default when you sign up is that everyone else in your league can see your email address. You might not want that, especially if you don't already know everyone in your league well. Here is how to hide your email address in your CBS sports fantasy league.

If you're a fan of Tropico, good news: there are other games out there which are similar to the style of gameplay of Tropico 6 or its predecessors. Here are the best games like Tropico. Most of these (but not all!) are strategy based city building games, although the word "city" is used loosely here to mean anything from a city to a country.