What music do you listen to when playing?

[fatsweets]

In addition to music I also have other things on my "to detest list" such as food, women, liberals, popular culture, television, etc. Don't get me wrong, I am not some nefarious, antisocial, everything-hating person. I have friends in my local nerd community, I like reading, history, computers, sketching, computer games (duh!) but not any of the things on the "to detest list".

Ok, I can understand some of your statement, because there are some foods and some women that I dislike or detest but are you saying you hate all women and all food? I am trying to picture who you are or what you might look like from this statment and I am seeing a very skinny(or very fat) person who is interested in homesexuality or asexuality. "Not that there is anything wrong with that."

Wow?

[Aemilius Paulus]

No I am not homosexual, nor do I have abnormal weight. I am a conservative, a Tory/Republican. My weight is just perfect, or at least according to the body mass index chart, and I am not a weakling or anything. Homosexuality sickens me, although I am very tolerant of gays, especially for a conservative (they can do whatever the heck they like as far as I am concerned). Allowing gays to marry in church is nevertheless too far. A civil marriage should be enough. A better way to describe me would be somewhat of an asexual(no I am not castrated), or at least currently, as things do have the propensity to change. It is quite possible that I might find a woman that I like, but that has yet to happen. Sexuality is just an enormous distraction that has led so many people astray. It is far better to live without it.

As for food, I derive no pleasure from consuming it. That is why I do not care what I eat as long as it is healthy. I am not a health nut though, I avoid organic foods (inefficient) and would be the first to buy cloned meat. I could and have eaten the same thing for a week and have not gotten bored with the food. I was actually a vegetarian for a quite lengthy period, but not for any moral reasons. I still avoid red meat and my non-vegetarian diet consist of mostly seafood.

[||Lz3||]

wow... and I tought I was nerd/geek...

... you seem to have a very happy life bro

but well to each it's own... besides who am I to critizice when I'm at home boring the hell out of myself while the rest of the country is celebrating the independence day <.<

[jabarto]

I just use the default EB music, which I like so much that I actually use it when I play Civilization 4. I might try listening to Ulver, Kila, or Empyrium while playing next time, though. And I bet "Asgard" by Therion would make an awesome battle song.

[Subedei]

Eb music is very good, so i usually listen to it a bit muted and in the background something like:
Slayer
Sham 69
Kassabean
Adriano Celentano
Ramones
Jefferson Airplane
Dr. Dre
The Beastie Boys
Some Mariachi/ Calexico
Johnny Cash
Nine Inch Nails....you name it....
...just a good mix of fine music...

I am currently playing Karthago..so some African/ Islamic music fits well in my opinion....I am a big music fan btw.

[Aemilius Paulus]

wow... and I tought I was nerd/geek...

... you seem to have a very happy life bro

but well to each it's own... besides who am I to critizice when I'm at home boring the hell out of myself while the rest of the country is celebrating the independence day <.<

No, actually I do have a very happy life. I am doing what I like and I am always busy as well as never bored. Are you from Mexico, since that is the only country I can think of celebrating its Independence Day today? Unless of course you are from Papua New Guinea, which also happens to have its Independence Day today, but that is probably much less likely.

[bovi]

I'm glad that you have found worthwhile interests to pursue. It would be a boring place if we all only liked the same things. For one thing, there would never be a game called Europa Barbarorum.

[fatsweets]

I am not trying to put you down paullus, I just find it very interesting. To each his own.

One statement you made that caught my attention was that you avoid organic foods and they are inefficient, I would have to disagree with you and what is your reasoning in that?

[Aemilius Paulus]

I am not trying to put you down paullus, I just find it very interesting. To each his own.

One statement you made that caught my attention was that you avoid organic foods and they are inefficient, I would have to disagree with you and what is your reasoning in that?

My reasoning? It takes much more land to produce organic food than it does to produce normal food. "organic cereal crop yields in Europe typically are 60 to 70% of those under conventional management" shows a recent Swiss study at the Research Institute for Organic Agriculture that has just been published by a 21-year study in the Science Magazine. We, the fat, indolent Westerners sit down, putting down our hefty arses and babble about the wonders of organic farming while the people in Third World Nations, especially in the Sub-Saharan Africa are dying of hunger. That's about 25000 people drying every day of hunger or hunger-related causes such as malnutrition. 18,000 of them are children. Organic farming and grwoing crops for fuel is shrinking the amount of food production in worldwide, but especially so in the First World Countries. Not only this, but secondly, the researchers declared that they found nutrients "in the organic systems to be 34 to 51% lower than in conventional systems, whereas mean crop yield decreased by 20% over the period of 21 years." So the organic foods actually have less nutrients, which is not unexpected, since you cannot have a high amount of nutrients in the soil, especially for an extended period of time without using chemical fertilizers. University of Manitoba agronomist Vaclav Smil credits the Haber-Bosch method of producing nitrogen fertilizer, invented in 1909, with sustaining two billion people today! That is unlikely to be an understatement, since the stuff on your table is mostly a result of nitrogen fertilizing, no matter if it was of meat of plant origin. Fertilizing with dung is not much of an option either since it is not cost-effective to transport dung over such sizeable distances. After all, it is shit, no matter what you say about it and what could be more worthless than shit?!?

However, don't get the wrong. I am not an Angelina Jolie. I have very little empathy for the starving people of Africa. Their starvation is a direct result of their incompetent choices. First of all, they broke free of European nations, who colonized them. The European-African colonial rule was definitely not all peaches and cream, but by Jupiter was it better than today! Civil wars, international skirmishes, half of the people infected with AIDS, the other half dying from hunger, genocides, repressive governments, no economy are just a few of the problems that plague most of the African countries (with exception of Muslim North Africa and South African Republic). Don't you find it interesting that the only two regions that are actually somewhat well of in Africa are not ruled by Africans? No educated person can possibly argue that the de-colonization of Africa was a good thing. Not even for the sake of freedom, which Africans do not have by the way. Dictatorships and "kleptocracy" (where the president and his high officials steal all of the money/resources from the country) are the norm. If the colonial powers took advantage of their colonies and "exploited" them, then what do you call the current situations. Just take the former "president" of the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire). He is reputedly the world's third wealthiest man and his country is the second largest and first richest (resource-wise) in Africa but there is absolutely no infrastructure, such as roads or anything public for that matter. The only means of communication are the rivers. Things were much better in the colonial times, foreign visitors/observers and local officials admit that.

[Shadowwalker]

When not listening to Eb original music:

Primordial, Falkenbach, Summoning at campaign
(classic) Death Metal like Bolt Thrower, Obituary or Fleshcrawl for battles.

Listening to "execute them all" (Unleashed) while fighting on of these annoying ptolemaic elite phalanxes feels just right.