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  • On driving factor is the (over)use of antibiotics in animal agriculture. It’s weird the article touches this issue in just one sentence…

    “Over 70 percent of antibiotics sold in the United States are given to livestock, including cattle, which translates to significant human health impacts.”

    “Unlike with human medicine, however, antibiotics are often fed to cattle as a preventative measure, rather than as a treatment.”

    “Antibiotic resistance in cattle does not only affect the health of the cattle, it impacts people as well because many of the antibiotics given to cattle are also used in human medicine. Eating meat or consuming milk from an animal with antibiotic-resistant bacteria may infect a human with that same resistant bacteria”

    Citations: National Geographic











  • After reading a book on Roman emperors I started playing Rome 2. Because of the problematic launch I never progressed far in the campaign. It seems the game was properly patched as I’m having a blast now.

    I always enjoyed Rome TW, but it lacks some core game mechanics that Rome 2 does way better: political scheming, civil war, provinces, garrison, … I also loathed the anachronistic representation of certain cultures in Rome TW.

    In short: even if it’s already 10 years old, I can’t recommend the game enough, certainly when you are a romanophile!





  • Another issue I had with exoprimal (besides having only 3 maps and one gamemode, the mtx clusterfuck) was the UI. It was all over the place both in-game and in the menu’s. No idea where to look for.

    V risings build menu was tedious as well. Putting everything in one big line made finding your pieces and their variants hard.

    On menu’s: I don’t mind a few more clicks as long as the information is found intuitively and is clearly presented. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel. What I do like though is presenting them in an immersive fashion like metro exodus or an oldie: medal of honor multiplayer.

    I think age of empires did a solid job of giving you the information you needed. Even as a little kid I understood what I was looking at.