Yosodog
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Stop posting you snek and go listen to Frank Ocean's new(trash) album.
What?! That shit is fire bruh
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You think so? Because it seems a lot more like:
>Someone part of our hegemoney has left us and made us slightly weaker! This is awful, !@#$ SK!
But I guess you'd have a vested interest in SK not shaking things up, right? lol.
Someone's triggered.
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Aftershocks in the treaty web! Is the earthquake over?!
Alpha/tS MDAP?
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[19:39:56] <%Gandalf> Everyone join SK[19:40:05] <%Gandalf> Yoso|Away you too[19:40:13] <~Yoso|Away> Hell nah[19:40:22] <~Yoso|Away> You all are in the middle of two spheres. That's totally last yearGandalf moves fast.
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Amazing gif. 10/10
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paperless
There's still paper there and the cardboard is still technically paper so it's still essentially the same thing.
Seriously though, there's more complaining about complaining in this thread. TEst did what they want and personally I like it. Shut the !@#$ up already lmfao
Someone roll Roz so we can see TEst in action.
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By not joining UPN, or by providing proof that your bot didn't recruit me?
I don't see any proof except a record saying that my bot recruited you soooooooo.....
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brb, putting you to the test.
Dance puppet, dance.
You're my !@#$ now Partisan.
Try me. I dare you.
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Alpha did call off their allies. And guess what, while it's not really a popular view, some people criticize said allies for not defending Alpha.
Also, the out lash for not honoring a written treaty is definitely not the same as a handshake agreement. When we fought TKR and co., Kastor said that TEst would help with the rebuilding. Now, whether this is true or not, I don't really know. He handled the talk by himself. But later on, nearing the end of the fight, several things happened and we were led to believe that no financial help is coming. Despite the seemingly confusing info all around, the general sentiment was, "oh well, both us and TEst are paperless. Guess they gotta do what they gotta do." There was virtually no backlash against TEst. Of course, with their recent announcement, this is a moot point, but I believe it serves to illustrate what kind of backlash, if any, if a paperless alliance were to retract their promise.
It's okay if you disagree though, paperless is not for everyone. All in all, while it might be interesting if every single alliance in Orbis is paperless, I believe it would be better if both paper and paperless exist. Ideological clash makes politics interesting, definitely more interesting than if everyone is paper, or everyone is paperless.
Also, I must remind you that you still owe me burgers for that tutoring session.
Those people who blame Alpha's allies for not going in are crazy lmao I wanted them to go in so we would've had a war, but personally I have no issues with it. It was a losing war and Alpha decided to take one for the team, nothing wrong with that. Their allies were ready to come in and Alpha said no. Anyways...
I guess it's personal opinion about lashing out for not following through with your word. I think if you say you're going to do something and you don't, you better have a very good explanation for doing so. If I'm paperless and I say I'm going to defend you and I don't, isn't that the same thing as signing a treaty and not following through with it?
If you like peanut butter burgers I can hook you up. Peanut butter burgers, sounds !@#$ing delicious.
Pretty much this.
How can trees be real if our eyes aren't real.
No but seriously I don't understand what you meant with those two sentences.
What I was trying to portray is that just because your alliance has paper doesn't mean they're restricted on what they can and cannot do. There's no rule book that alliances must follow. If we want to do something we will, pretty simple as that.
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Let say being paperless give us a degree of freedom to do whatever we want without caring about what other people think.
For example tEst, Arrgh, RW have the option to hit literally every single alliances in the game without having to heard something like "but we're allies!!" for the simple reason being we're not and we don't care. And as much as I despise the neutral menace, you can't deny that their play style is different and actually bring another flavor to the game no matter how horrible it is.
Paperless group are wild card, we have no sure allies other than ourselves. Sure tEst is technically part of Syndisphere but nothing stop them from hitting t$ if it comes down to it; same goes for this agreement, tEst can roll our entire upper tier because we pissed them off and we won't be butthurt about it for the simple reason of they may not always stay our ally unlike papered alliance being bound by treaties and common enemies.
But you can do the same thing as a paper alliance, and it has happened a couple times before too. There's no treaty police that are going to come and arrest you if you do what you want. No one's stopping BK from hitting Rose or UPN, and if we wanted to tomorrow we would. No one's stopping us from leaving our bloc with TKR and BoC and rolling them. Just because you have paper doesn't mean you are restricted, the only thing it does is declares to the world that you will defend them. There's cancellation clauses in treaties and in my opinion they should be used more often.
That part I emphasized. That's pretty much the explanation you seek about the difference between paper and paperless.
As for why you'd want to be paperless, the main argument for it would be flexibility. In paper alliances, you're bound to the words in you're treaty document. If something goes wrong, one side will argue for the "spirit of the treaty", while the other would argue for "words as written". And third parties would take sides. Then things get ugly.
I think a good example of this would be TKR in NPO's First Time. Despite all the good intentions they might have (or not, I don't know), they still get some flak for purportedly breaking a treaty.
This is where being paperless is advantageous. You have no written, defined treaty. So if you, for example, say "I'm gonna help A", you have the flexibility to choose how exactly you're going to help A. Maybe it's military. Maybe financial. Maybe both. And while a form of "contract" exists, you don't really have to obey a written document which states what form of help you should give, as long as you actually help A.
I hope that satisfies your curiosity. I accept burgers as payment for my tutoring services. I know you have lots.
I can understand the whole not being bound by paper thing, but without any treaties or agreements, you're isolating yourself and setting yourselves up to get rolled once again.
Taking TKR/NPO's example, let's say they were both paperless and had an agreement in place anyway, the same argument NPO used could still apply. I don't know the whole issue, but if TKR and NPO said they'd defend each other but didn't sign a treaty it's the same thing as signing a treaty.
Okay I can see the advantage of being able to determine how you want to help an alliance, but most treaties don't actually define what "defending" them is. eLawyering aside, it also doesn't stop the defending alliance from saying "Hey yeah, you can just send us aid." We saw Alpha call off their allies even though those allies were obligated to defend them. History has proven that just because it's on paper doesn't mean alliances can't be flexible. If Rose was attacked, BK could decide that they wanted to defend them.
My main argument is that being paperless you should have agreements with other alliances to help defend you or aid you if attacked and those agreements are essentially the same thing as a treaty. You can drop a treaty at any time, you can end an agreement at any time. You can decide that you won't honor a treaty, and the out lash would be the same as if you had a handshake agreement in place. If TKR was hit and we didn't defend them, people would be pretty pissed. If we had a handshake agreement with TKR to defend them and we didn't, the same anger would occur.
I'm not in any way saying that paperless is a bad thing, I just don't see the point of it. Maybe my opinion is that way because BK is very dynamic and flexible when it comes to this. If we want to do something, we'll do it. If a treaty isn't beneficial to us, we'll drop it. If we say we'll defend someone, we will, and might as well throw up a treaty because it doesn't hurt anything. If we want to get involved in a conflict that doesn't involve us, we will. If tS gets involved in a conflict that's not theirs and we don't support it, we'll tell them that and if they ignore us we can easily drop the treaty.
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So people are realizing that paperless is essentially the same thing as having paper just.... without paper. Let's say Arrgh and Roz decide that they will defend each other if they were attacked.... that's the same thing as signing an MDP.
I've never really understood the premise of paperless because it's essentially the same thing as having paper but instead of paper it's just handshake agreements. If BK were paperless we would have the same exact agreements in place as we do now. So why not throw in some paper so it's official?
I'm genuinely wondering what arguments for paperless there are. I've never been in a paperless alliance so I've never experienced it first hand, so maybe someone can enlighten me.
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It's been suggested before and for some reason has been turned down.
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Why the !@#$ does it say Arrgh's side. All the trouble I had to do for this war! Better change that shit. The !@#$ Yoso
Because Arrgh was the primary target in my opinion. It's just a label, why does it matter?
You need to take a chill pill buddy. It's just a game.
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Iirc, i applied to UPN first. I am exactly 86% sure you're wrong.
Phew, you dodged a bullet there.
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I was recruited by Filthy Filth's message. Your face smells bad. kek
Although proper screening would do the trick, i'm just saying that some of the top-tier potential members would get triggered from the bot, and join a different alliance just because of that.
Hence why recruiting bots are less effective than normal recruiting members, but i mean, they are efficient.
But banning bots is stupid, it only affects new players for a very limited amount of time. Which, of course, could determine whether or not they stay in the game.
I can confirm that you were recruited at exactly Sun, 22 May 2016 06:29:03 GMT by my bot
Meh, totally disagree. Just because your alliance is larger doesn't mean you csn recruit better. I recruited/poached for Titan way better than most alliances did. Assassin Order(Cynic's old aa) and he recruited really well without an auto recruiter. You just have to have several committed guys and a good pitch. The bigger the alliance means nothing.
My point is that we can muster up more people to recruit more often. Yeah, you can get one or two people to recruit for hours on end, but we can get at least 20 people from different timezones taking shifts recruiting so it doesn't get stale.
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Eh, in this case, banning bots would be like banning short shorts on guys.
Like, if an alliance wants to look like an asshat, let them.
Personally I think those members that are recruited by bots are more likely to be lower quality members, but whatever.
You were recruited by a bot, so yeah I can agree with your statement
In my experience using a bot attracts the same kind of players as any form of mass recruitment. Just have a good screening process and you can do fine. We've had a bot recruiting for probably over a year now and nothing has really changed.
When I created our recruiting bot it put a lot of people out of jobs. We had a pretty large recruiting team and they were messaging members 24/7 almost as soon as they joined. It was essentially the same thing as having a bot do it.
If anything, banning recruitment bots would only help larger alliances like BK. We can produce the people to have 24/7 recruitment unlike many other alliances.
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A tad late, but I've compiled stats for this war located here.
Same exact format as the previous wars I've collected stats for.
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Generic titles are generic smh.
Congrats anyways.
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Yeah, this will never happen. BBCode is the closest you'll get because allowing users to display custom HTML opens up a plethora of possible exploits. And by plethora I mean a !@#$ load and it's not even close to worth the effort.
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No, it states that entropy in a closed system always increases. Entropy is more or less a measure of the number of possible arrangements in a given scenario.
LordRahl2 gave an example of a scenario in which entropy decreases (at least for part of the system). The concept of entropy is still applicable.
Actually, you're all wrong.
Hi PW, my name is Yosodog and I have a PhD in Astronomics. You can call me Dr Yoso if you like.
Your assumption about entropy is entirely incorrect. According to Dr Smhity, a researcher at MIT who studied Astropy, entropy is a phenomenon caused when salt levels in a community gets too high. Heard mentality assumes that x = 1, and if the speed of light stays constant, we will continually see entropy increase. When the paradoxical fastidious gets to nirvana, we see the x constant rise to 1.2, which causes you to smell the salt in the air.
Now, you said that the second law of thermodynamics states that entropy in a closed system always increases. This is also clearly incorrect as it conflicts with Einstein's second law of calculus, which states that an object in motion always slows down unless it is pushed again. Now, when a circuit stays closed, that circuit will continue to build in power resulting in a phenomena called: supernova. When a supernova occurs, entropy increases.
The moon landing was fake.
I hope that answered all of your questions. I wanted to make sure the record was straight. I couldn't tolerate the amount of incorrectness that was going on here.
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All anybody wants is for Pre to notice you. At least that's been my goal since I started playing.
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BALLS TO THE WALL.
Love the move Paragon.
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The "Kastor hasn't stolen Roz's bank yet?" war.
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Dank meme war?
Bring it on. We're preparing our memes as we speak.
Also congrats on the elections.