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Congratulations to those elected. We'll see about sending a diplomat your way.

So all those runic writings they show in movies are lies?! Welcome to the paperless world, Valkyrie. The government of Roz Wei sincerely hopes that you'll enjoy your stay here.

You mean the Skull Throne, right?

Huh, this might actually be the correct answer.

5. Pantheon 6. Roz Wei (?)

More like an unfinished thin framework than a wrapper, tbh. And I never got the chance to say goodbye. You probably won't read this, but, thank you and goodbye.

There'd be some backlash from the community, yes. But I think it won't be the same backlash a paper alliance would receive. I don't know of any example where an alliance one-sidedly breaks their promise. In our previous posts, Yoso and I used Alpha and their allies, but it was mutual - Alpha asked them to stay out. So I don't think it would serve as a good example for this. The closest thing to it would be the Storm Division incident, or TKR. Both got a lot of backlash. Obviously SD got more backlash, because, well, SD was SD.

It's all about personal opinion, Yoso. It's always about personal opinion. The thing is, because it's all personal opinion, there will be people who take things too seriously and throw expletives to the other guy because "they're not honoring their treaty". At least, with paperless alliance, this risk is minimized. Yes, I accept peanut butter burgers. I'll pick them up when I come around BK's residence. Nothing is new. I was just tutoring Yoso about the concept of paperless alliance. As you know, Yoso is a doge. So, while having the advantage of being able to produce dank memes, he often has troubles with formalizing concepts. Thus the tutoring session. Also, about that bolded part, uh, yeah. It came from Kazy. I guess you know how we regard the info back then.

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.

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. TL;DR: I taught you something. Now give me burgers.

It is? Well, whatever. My point still stands. Rats don't drink rums either. Or do they?

I second this. Short, memorable, and meme-compatible.

To that point Ogaden, I'll just say one thing: You're a bear. Bears don't drink rum. Rums are therefore useless to you, so give them to us instead.

This analogy is good. Too good. I now consider Keegoz as The Master of Analogies. MAnal for short.

This ^ If I raid him, I'd be wasting one of my attack slot. So there you go.