• RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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    44 minutes ago

    I’m already an identical twin and it’s a nightmare even having a different first and middle name but same everything else.

    I think we’re just living with a second set of identical twins?

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    10 hours ago

    Some years back I was in a D&D campaign where doppelgangers became a major ongoing concern. It turned out that in that case doppelgangers built up their image of the person they wanted to mimic through careful observation, but thanks to the general prudishness of society doppelgangers rarely ever caught glimpses of peoples’ genitals. So we ultimately came up with the “crotch check” system. Doppelgangers usually couldn’t form plausible genitalia.

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Does my doppelgänger go to my workplace and do my job?

    If not, that’s the giveaway. If he does, I leave him to it and go read a book in the park.

  • tauren@lemm.ee
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    9 hours ago

    I’d sign a payload using my private key that my doppelganger doesn’t have.

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    11 hours ago

    Same as I do now, passwords. Unless they inherited my memories, in which case who’s to say I’m not the doppelganger?

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      11 hours ago

      Lol, I think passwords are very trival to get.

      I mean, they got the ability to look like you, you gotta assume they can get CCTV footage of you typing your passwords.

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        10 hours ago

        I don’t see how looking like me would help them get CCTV footage, unless it’s through some sort of supernatural means. And even if they could find footage of me entering a password, they’d be hard-pressed to extract individual keystrokes from a typical CCTV quality recording. Perhaps it’s technically possible, but it’s certainly not trivial.

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    9 hours ago

    My friends would notice immediately when we started playing any fps games after work. I don’t wanna toot my own horn too much, but I am decently above average at fps games and my friends tend to like having me on their team since I am almost always top fragging.

    If they aren’t weirdly good at shooters people are gonna get suspicious quick lol

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    12 hours ago

    Be too useless to merit a doppelganger. To paraphrase zhuangzi, few know the usefulness of uselessness.

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    13 hours ago

    I would be signing all my communications cryptographically and sharing a key in person so people can validate whether a message not delivered face to face is really from me.