Kinda depends on how old-school you are looking for, but Splitgate is a fun free modern take on the arena shooter genre

I want the Baltic Sea surrounded in a similar fasion as to how The Roman Empire once enveloped the Mediterranean Sea!

i.e. A United Nordics + Balticum + Poland + Germany (maybe just the parts of Poland and Germany that are near the sea though?)

^^ Heroic worked really well for me as well. I used it to get Affinity working. (Apart from using it for Epic Games and GOG ofc.)

I read a lot on RoyalRoad, so maybe try their writing prompts?

Huh, it’s definitely unintuitive and a bit clunky, but at least I can read local news etc even if I can’t comment

I never hade Twitter or the likes so I don’t really interact with those types of apps all too often, but I have a Mastodon and a Pixelfed that I look at every once in a while. Also recently got a Loops account that I have barely opened.

Always nice to have an account set up and ready if I feel like using them in the future

I’ve tried Vivaldi mail. Might be something for you, but I just didn’t like the UI so I’m also still using the web interface for each. Looking forward to seeing others answer as well.