Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1121/
Does my doppelgänger go to my workplace and do my job?
If he doesn’t, there’s your answer.
If he does, I’ll leave him to it and go read a book in the park.
Congrats, your doppelganger goes to your job and gets you fired. The monkey’s paw strikes again.
Then they can get another job or die. Enjoy it, fucker. I have books to read.
In that case, that’s the giveaway
Don’t let my boss know that I know this.
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.
This is the most D&D campaign thing I’ve ever heard, no further questions
Simple. I kill my doppelgänger, if he wins he wanted it more.
There could be only one Rusty Shackleford.
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Nice try, Doppelganger!
Save it for queen dopplepopolis!
I dub thee Sir Phobos, Beater of Ass.
I haven’t thought of that quite since the late ‘00s. Thank you.
You wanna be me so bad? Here’s the keys, good luck, fucker.
Same as I do now, passwords. Unless they inherited my memories, in which case who’s to say I’m not the doppelganger?
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.
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.
You authenticate either with something that you have (physical key, for example), something that you know (passwor for example), or something that you are (biometrics, basically).
Dopplegangers rule out that last one, but the previous two still work fine
“Something you have” is not exactly a good way to authenticate. Once they steal it, they can assume your identity (see: ID Theft)
That also goes for what you are. Biometric security has been rendered nearly useless since everybody and their mother started using it without giving a single shit about securing that data
Why must we be enemies? I want to be his friend.
I don’t think I’d get along with me.
I’m just thinking about the amount of pranks I can pull
Well, easy, I’m the one without the moustache.
I’m pretty sure you always had a moustache …
Be too useless to merit a doppelganger. To paraphrase zhuangzi, few know the usefulness of uselessness.
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?
Does my doppelganger have the same tastes as me? If not, then only the real me would walk around with Amy Rose and/or Sonamy (Sonic x Amy Rose) wallpapers on all his devices without the slightest hint of shame or embarrassment.
If he has the same taste, then we’ll play SoulCalibur 3 together.
Ooh, that’s a good one. If we don’t share taste, then just hook me up to a lie detector and ask if I liked the dub of the last Eureka Seven movie. If we do share taste, then sweet! There’s two fans of it!
Shit, that may be the most personally identifiable information I’ve ever shared
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.
Cryptography is the only correct answer
I have a hardware key, that’s probably secure enough. 128 bits of unique data.
