Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20171114222226/@comment-25936766-20171117230729

2600:1017:B100:98D5:9CA0:6208:EEE7:24FF wrote: .....................................................................Okay, 3 things:

1) I did not mean my post, but the post I was responding to (yours), that was the one 73 responded to in a quote.

You talked about the need to authenticate stuff with messages and blah blah.

The Albains were told by the "Brotherhood in Mistral" that Adam became the new High Leader. For that kind of information, Adam doesn't need to authenticate anything. That was my response.

To that post of mine, specifically, 73 responded, that "Adam did authenticate". Which is completely missing the point, it's almost irrelevant. Whether Adam authenticated anything is unimportant, since for that scene at the least, he didn't need to authenticate anything.

And thus, saying that "the need to authenticate messages means a video/recording is more efficient than a letter" falls almost flat, since my real point in this whole discussion is that the usage of a letter (or just sending a messager) achieves exactly the same purpose, and does not actually defy the supposed lack of inter-continental communication

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2) I'm not saying "The characters should do X". That is severely ignoring my arguments.

I'm saying, that due to Vale's CCT being non-operational since Volume 3, while sending messages within a kingdom works fine, sending it from a kingdom to another kingdom, let alone a tiny island that never had a CCT to begin with, is supposed to be impossible, as stated by it's World of Remnant episode.

And yet, the Albains got a message from the WF in Mistral anyway. If it had been a letter, like Ruby did in V4's finale, it would've made perfect sense given the situation. But it wasn't, it was a digital message, which would've only made sense if Vale's CCT worked, which it does NOT.

And unlike people here seemingly think, it's easier to erase evidence of it's existence by simply burning the letter to ashes with all those candles they have, than setting up a digital message to auto-delete or encrypt something. Or set it to blow up, like Sentry mentioned.

Now, a recording/video could be passed in person, but if that's the case you don't even need it, just tell them yourself and save on time. It's not even long news: "Operation: Success. Sienna is dead, Adam is the new High Leader. This is the official story of what happened. Also, these are his new orders for you".

Hell, at the very absolute least they could've just told them via phone call. That function still works, as we saw in Ruby's Character Short.

3) I don't know about you, but the way you wrote that "letter"-like post was reeking of condescence.