What music do you listen to when playing?

[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.

[cmacq]

When on the hunt.




To draw the enemy near.




Then to deminstrate, close, and to kill.



With the moment of decision made clear and then to chase.



I might blame the heavens or the stars, but know in truth, this is in my better nature.

[Ibrahim]

well, I rarely listen to music when playing any mod whatsoever.(to add to the " realistic" atmosphere). in fact, music was never very interesting (tone deafness is partial, but does affect this. cultural and personal concerns add to the problem). when i do, its either the EB music, or just about the only band i listen to (a.k.a rammstein-mein herz brennt is preffered, or spieluhr perhaps? Nebel is nice too. all of them have a sadish/ etheral tone, but i'm a sad fellow).

and what could be more worthless than shit?!?

the one who understimates it. S*** is a good manure (granted, not too efficient for what you said, but it works better than most). it is also a good way of generating power-add a layer of salt and a copper nipple and zinc nipple (you can use a spent battery), and voila!

it can be used to feed a city-get creative (like culcutta), and its a carbon neutral alternative to fossil fuel. its a good source of methane (in fact, 12% of all methane emmissions come from cattle alone), which can be made into car fuel (like natural Gas). also, the finest brands of coffee, cooking oil, and a few others, are basically pooped out of an animal (the coffee from an indonesian civet that swallows coffee beans, and the oil from morrocan goats eating nuts from a special tree). some types of tea are made from insect droppings in some parts of china (the insects eat the leaves, poo the left overs out, and they are collected-don't ask). the hindus can be damn creative with cow dung: they have soap, shaving cream, and even toothpaste from the stuff, made from dung of cow-yes, its perfectly safe. also, in parts of Africa, elephant or Rhino droppings can be used to make paper. Saltpeter is/ was often made of the stuff. cow urine can be use to make a wierd red ink, and can be used to treat wool (if your last name is fuller, then an ancester was knee deep in it curing wool). but now I'm getting into the world of urine.

Moral: have imagination. even the seemingly insignifigant can be an asset....that's what got us humans with outr present state.

sources:

1-some special on TV
2-I read articles in Nat. geographic, Collier's encyclopedia, me school book, and talked to a person who actually handels the stuff (Mrs. tarrent).
3-ever heard of Karen Chen? she can teach you how to use fossil poop to open your narrow mind on the use of dung in paleontology

[Ibrahim]

one othe thing: anyone here listen to rammstein as well? while playing of course.

[Aemilius Paulus]

the one who understimates it. S*** is a good manure (granted, not too efficient for what you said, but it works better than most). it is also a good way of generating power-add a layer of salt and a copper nipple and zinc nipple (you can use a spent battery), and voila!

it can be used to feed a city-get creative (like culcutta), and its a carbon neutral alternative to fossil fuel. its a good source of methane (in fact, 12% of all methane emmissions come from cattle alone), which can be made into car fuel (like natural Gas). also, the finest brands of coffee, cooking oil, and a few others, are basically pooped out of an animal (the coffee from an indonesian civet that swallows coffee beans, and the oil from morrocan goats eating nuts from a special tree). some types of tea are made from insect droppings in some parts of china (the insects eat the leaves, poo the left overs out, and they are collected-don't ask). the hindus can be damn creative with cow dung: they have soap, shaving cream, and even toothpaste from the stuff, made from dung of cow-yes, its perfectly safe. also, in parts of Africa, elephant or Rhino droppings can be used to make paper. Saltpeter is/ was often made of the stuff. cow urine can be use to make a wierd red ink, and can be used to treat wool (if your last name is fuller, then an ancester was knee deep in it curing wool). but now I'm getting into the world of urine.

Moral: have imagination. even the seemingly insignifigant can be an asset....that's what got us humans with outr present state.

I have to admit all of this is pretty impressive and ingenious, but how much of the manure actually gets processed? Haven't really seen manure-processing plants any time lately.