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MrNumbers


Stories about: Feelings too complicated to describe, ponies

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  • 18 weeks
    Tradition

    This one's particular poignant. Singing this on January 1 is a twelve year tradition at this point.

    So fun facts
    1) Did you know you don't have to be epileptic to have seizures?
    2) and if you have a seizure lasting longer than five minutes you just straight out have a 20% chance of dying in the next thirty days, apparently

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    10 comments · 516 views
  • 24 weeks
    Two Martyrs Fall for Each Other

    Here’s where I talk about this new story, 40,000 words long and written in just over a week. This is in no way to say it’s rushed, quite the opposite; It wouldn’t have been possible if I wasn’t so excited to put it out. I would consider A Complete Lack of Jealousy from All Involved a prologue more than a prequel, and suggested but not necessary reading. 

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    2 comments · 598 views
  • 27 weeks
    Commissions Open: An Autobiography

    Commission rates $20USD per 1,000 words. Story ideas expected between 4K-20K preferable. Just as a heads up, I’m trying to put as much of my focus as I can into original work for publication, so I might close slots quickly or be selective with the ideas I take. Does not have to be pony, but obviously I’m going to be better or more interested in either original fiction or franchises I’m familiar

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    5 comments · 592 views
  • 29 weeks
    Blinded by Delight

    My brain diagnosis ended up way funnier than "We'll name it after you". It turned out to be "We know this is theoretically possible because there was a recorded case of it happening once in 2003". It turns out that if you have bipolar disorder and ADHD and PTSD and a traumatic brain injury, you get sick in a way that should only be possible for people who have no

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    19 comments · 780 views
  • 39 weeks
    EFNW

    I planned on making it this year but then ran into an unfortunate case of the kill-me-deads. In the moment I needed to make a call whether to cancel or not, and I knew I was dying from something but didn't know if it was going to be an easy treatment or not.

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Jul
19th
2020

Just got warned someone's impersonating me on Discord · 8:24pm Jul 19th, 2020

You see screenshots of me saying stuff going 'round at the moment, check for the user ID number. I also use a different username, but I'd obviously rather not specify at the present.

But yeah. This isn't me.

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Comments ( 23 )

Ergh, sorry about that; I hope it gets cleared up soon, and there isn't too much confusion, or worse, in the meantime.

I can tell this is not you because your actual avatar is a picture of us two making out, and not some random owl. Won't fool me.

Wow, that's pathetic

Awful people are awful. I can't imagine doing something like this to somepony, no matter who they are.

I always find people who LARP like this to be incomprehensible.

RoMS #6 · Jul 19th, 2020 · · 1 ·

Some people are pathetic. Sorry that you're being targeted.

That's stooping real low.

Checking user id number won't help much as you can change it if you have Discord Nitro.

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I've set mine to a custom one because of it - but given the context here, and the fact that I know I've specifically got people spite-following me, I'd rather not say what it is. I'm not going to assist in the creation of better imitations, as it were. I'm already annoyed at the scraping of my profile picture.

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That'd be crazy. You know you're being controversial if people are paying to dirty your name.

iisaw #12 · Jul 19th, 2020 · · 4 ·

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Have you not met the alt-right? :rainbowwild:

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You can't change it so that it collides with an existing one. The idea of these systems is to prevent the problem of a user's desired name being "taken" without losing the whole point of usernames (unique ID.) So the combination of name + number has to be unique.

That Mr.Numbers is a Spy!

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Unfortunately, there are many tricks to still have the username be unique while looking identical, like letters that are actually different characters but look like regular letters.

But yeah. This isn't me.

I appreciate the sentiment, but when you and the imposter are grappling in a life-and-death struggle and I have a gun and I don't know which one to shoot, how do you expect that to help me!

Clearly the only way to solve this is for you to give me all of your personal information so you can prove which one's really you! Don't give me that look, it's the only way to be sure!


In all seriousness, that sucks and I hope there's some way for you to deal with this or, at least, one comes up. Either way, you got my sympathy.

In my day, we just used Inspect Element and web dev tools to fake screenshots.

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For the programmer's prank, replace all the semicolons with Greek question marks in someone's code.

That sucks.

I've had a freaking doppelganger for years.

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I count 72 separate homoglyph attacks on this particular username, so if you made 72 accounts you could set them all to the same number and control all combinations of that name & number.

It's unfortunate that discord allows homoglyphs, probably would be better to disable them.

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Would you like to elaborate more of what you mean for the folks at home and give some examples? I actually do know this one, but not enough to know how you went about counting it, so I don't want to steal your thunder here.

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I am now picturing Pyrrha Nikos and a bug-eyed Twilight Sparkle in a white coat making out.

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well for example e and е are good homoglyphs. е is from the cyrillic character set but looks identical the the latin e. I'm not counting things like e that look unnatural next to regular ANSI characters and won't fool anyone.

To get the number of attacks on a string, you take the product of the numbers of attacks on each character:
3 (МMМ) * 1 (r) * 2 (ΝN) * 1 (u) * 1 (m) * 1 (b) * 2 (eе) * 1 (r) * 2 (sѕ) = .. 24? I think the first time I got 72 by forgetting that the second M was lowercase.

Username systems should really not allow them, even if they allow unicode. I haven't actually checked to see if discord allows collisions using them, it may just silently flatten them into the latin version.

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I think those are just glasses. On the other hand, dying is apparently the easiest way to make it to Equestria...

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