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That they are >_ SoZ is still among my favourites, getting dusted off every now and then.

Bye guys...

Well, that's the thing. They all three worship the one and same God, regardless of what name they attached to their subject of worship. In broad terms, Judaism don't believe Messiah has been born yet. Christians believe He was born and died approx. 2000 years ago. Muslims believe Jesus, while being a messenger from God (Prophet) wasn't the Messiah and got a bunch of new texts to read. Still the same God of Abraham and his offspring they are talking about (i.e. a pantheon of one). Hence my comment about the devil being in the detail. It seems more about semantics as to what constitutes "crucial tenants of faith"(sic). I.e. if a Christian acknowledges that Buddha lived and tought his ideas, does that make Christians and Buddhists the same religion? I still don't agree that in the example, Dwarves and Elves have the same religion (because of the differences in the tenets of faith). If the dwarven god says trees are filthy weeds and should be chopped down while the elven god says trees are holy spirits and should be hugged, you have some seriously different tenets of faith. If you don't agree, I'll just declare you a heretic in the Church of Gorthology and keep disagreeing By the way, what is a church in this particular context? The same as a religion? Calax's original question was about single mega churches (I doubt he had cathedrals in mind). Poor guy probably played too much Dragon Age.

Possibly. It's not me you need to convince though, but the gentlemen who wrote the Oxford Dictionary Isn't that sort of contradictory? I would think whether or not to worship a particular god or not a crucial part of a faiths tenets. That would make Judaism, Christianity and Islam a sectarian difference according to your second line, yet different religions according to your first line. If you believe that you in the afterlife go to the halls of Grimnir as a dead dwarf and believe that you go to the gardens Morr as a good human Empire citizen, would you simply call that different sects?

I know a couple of bikie gangs that feel differently... Maybe it's a source of confusion that pantheon and religion seems to be used interchangeably? In the real world example, the Abrahamic Religions share a common history, all acknowledging the same God as creator of the world and mankind, right down to agreeing that they are all children of Abraham. In monotheism pantheon and religion is similar to a degree, at least on a superficial level. To quote my Oxford Dictionary quote:

Just because you call your supreme being 'God' doesn't mean you form a part of the same religion. The theological differences between Judaism Christianity and Islam are far too large to be considered a mere detail. I know, but that is not what the rest of the panel is advocating E.g. I didn't think Elves and Dwarves had the same religion, just because they happened to exist in the same universe. Edit: On the other hand...

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Took me 6 games before I realised the Brothel had a basement level Not that there is anything down there, but still... I really need to play that game again soon. This time with the fix pack and unfinished business mods.

Some day, some company is going to release some fantasy game with no dragons in it and it will be a major selling point for me

Blood for the Blood God! Umm, never mind. You Emperor forsaken heretics are all going to burn. I find it strange that by the definitions currently used in this thread, the "Abrahamic" religions are considered different religions, yet they all worship the same God. The devil is in the detail

Playing FO:NV I'm seriously considering a padlock for my fridge... my chests... my drawers... just about everything. Hi Guys, have some drinks on the House. What do you mean the fridge's empty? It was full when I left this morning. Bastards! Jeebus those guys help themselves to my stuff in the presidential suite >_

Maybe we should agree on what religion is first? From Oxford Dictionary: Pronunciation:/r??l?d?(?)n/noun [mass noun] the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power , especially a personal God or gods: ideas about the relationship between science and religion [count noun] a particular system of faith and worship: the world

There can be only one

The first one looks blurry and "bloom" like, the second one looks clearer on the details

Perfectly fine. Shouldn't it be in the gaming section though? Edit: Took the liberty of relocating it I think I have to look through that nexus thing for FO:NV mods for my second play through. Looks like a lot of useful stuff in there (checked it out a few days ago).

Not my usual style, but this time I did it. Yay. Goober question...single GPU/card use, do I need the multiple-GPU function/choice? Or can I check the "disable it"? What I'm not understanding is that EVGA's Precision thingie, only GPU2 gets "hot" to any degree when gameplaying, like it's largely/only using that one/is only one, yet it shows settings for 2. That normal? Does it only use GPU1 if you're actually drawing upon the "amazing real time physics effects?" I don't understand? I'm no expert (and haven't looked at nVidia settings for many years), but I would guess that the disable multi-gpu thing is for compatibility reasons if you have games/apps that really don't like the SLI/Crossfire thing (which is what you essentially have now). It is normal for one GPU to get warmer than the other (mine always do). Presumably because you really only need to invoke the second if you put more work on it than a single GPU can handle. I will have to wait until Amazon gets mine in stock and shipped. I haz green demon bag full of envy

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Isn't that why MMO's are popular, pitting player versus player? It sounds like you are suggesting a multiplayer crpg with the AI controlling the other players

I was too busy looking inside. Thanks.

Still playing FO:NV... I was wondering about Yes Man. I met him briefly after Benny got away from me and we had a chat. In my quest list I now have several Wildcard options for the main quest, one of them is talking to Yes Man about the families, but where did he go after that initial encounter? He sure doesn't seem to be on 13th floor anymore Did I miss a note from him where he was headed, or will I automatically run across him again during the normal course of the main plot?

To honest, I'm not sure. My experience with "Fantasy" games before PS:T was either polytheistic/pantheon type settings (most of the stuff in the old TSR settings) or a complete absence of religious observances, save possibly the odd "blessed" item with no elaboration of who or what had blessed it. Maybe the odd temple of some nameless deity to be robbed too, but you were more likely to get killed by traps and guardians than a lightning bolt from the sky. BY contrast PS:T was all about belief, one of the major themes of the setting (belief shapes reality). In DA:O the Chantry and their monotonous droning on and on about evil mages and mankinds sins and the just as repetitive endless whinging from mages about being oppressed by the Chantry and "we waz robbed!" was for me a major detractor from the game. It was simply too close to real world religions and persecutions, right down to mans disobedience and expulsion from the supreme beings presence. Sometimes a substitution for "magic", Sometimes as a source of moral values. You follow a nice god, you are supposed to do nice things, you follow an evil god, you are supposed to do evil things. Easier to justify letting the player do moustache twirling, evil cackle kind of things if you do it in the name of faith.

Only until the Chinese growth flatlines and the resource sector crashes and burns. It's the only thing generating anything worth writing about and the rest of Australia, from retail to whathaveyou is struggling to make ends meet. Australia may have made itself "independent" of trade with UK/Europe and the US to some degree, but they are now completely depending on Chinese sustained economic growth, which the Aussie economy is piggy-backing upon.

I don't remember Planescape Torment having a single monotlithic church either

I'm a sucker for Christopher Lee. Always thought he would have made a good "Fizban" in a Dragonlance dramatization.

I still have my vote no to Maastricht campaign t-shirt from 1992. It has one Danish and five EU flags and the text 'Find five errors'