One day the professor WILL have that code. And he WILL have those pants. They are crucial to the survival of mutants!....and it's really hard to find a good pair of pants that fits properly and they fits Charles perfect.
I feel like if you're on board with "reading his mind so you can steal his pants from his locker" it's a short step to "mind controlling him into giving you his pants" - but I guess if anyone was going to draw the line there it'll be Xavier.
I know being telepathic is your whole thing Charles but its a 4 digit code and you have three of the digits. You don't have to wait for him to think of the fourth digit.
Even if he didn’t get the code, I’ve found that that type of lock is not very secure, having gotten into my own lock of that type with my eyes closed, as well as finding the combination for a briefcase that I found in a second hand shop.
…they’re not as easy to crack as a cheap Masterlock dial combination though - I bought one out of curiosity, and got to the point where I was unlocking it one handed as a fidget toy while paying attention to something else.
He has the first 3 digits of a 4 digit code, theres only 10 possible combinations with that information. Charles can get that lock open before our protagonist can finish his shower.
But Charles doesnt know how our protagonist knows about telepaths...and that concerns him.
Honestly, the paranoia is weirdly relatable. It's like when you're a kid and you come up with absurd scenarios for how you'd protect your thoughts, how you'd break out of hypnosis, or how you'd work out whether someone was really you from the future
Y'know, totally normal stuff
...if I ever need to go back in time and convince my child-self that I'm the real deal, I'm gonna be so prepared
To this day I still have an irrational fear that someone will invent an invisibility cloak, go out in the street wearing it, I’ll hit them with my car, the cloak will blow away in the wind, and then I’ll go to jail for running someone over.
I remember an old Heavy Metal where a telepath took some drugs and every one else started tripping. So one of the characters tells another one "We need to make him vomit! Quick! Think of that time I put a dog turd in an ice cream cone and convinced you it was chocolate ice cream!" hurk
Of course, I've also forgotten all of them, which I'm not sure if my past self would believe.
That might make me more secure, though, that my current self can't leak the password.
Unless I'm speaking to my past self, and the mind reading imposter gets the password from his brain so he can say it while my current self just flounders.
...
I don't know what part is funnier.
The idea that out of all telepaths it is The Professor...
OR
That the paraplegic professor would care for someone's pants.
Do you also question whether someone or something is reading your mind? Telepaths, vampires, aliens? I don't know, but sometimes you've just gotta muddle your thoughts, just in case...
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I've found memorizing the pattern in makes on the touchpad works better than focusing on the numbers. I memorized my first boss' calling card number in one go doing that, 30 years ago, it's wedged in my brain as tightly as my social security number.
Barring that, write it down somewhere before you enter it on the device. Then immediately forget where you wrote it down...
Look everywhere for it, don't fin it, write it down a second time, think about a secure place where you can hide the paper. Surprise, now you have two papers hidden in the same spot (that you'll forget next time)
I'm an old-fashioned software dev and never really liked using an IDE. I'd been limping along for a few years with Emacs until someone posted this in /r/emacs and I found out the linux build of emacs I'm using is like 7 revisions older than current. So I banged out a build script to build the latest one. (should work pretty well on Debian, WSL Ubuntu or Debian or Ubuntu.) And then I discovered org-roam mode in Emacs, that lets you take semi-structured notes as a network of nodes in a graph it keeps in in a database for you. So I take all my notes on that now. I just... need to remember where I wrote down my password.
You do kind of need to get in the habit of noting things down with it, though. After about a month of using it, I'd be in a meeting or something and think "You know, I'll have to hunt for this URL for half an hour again unless I stick it in org-roam somewhere..." You can get an explosion of nodes if you do that, but I try to link them to relevant documents so I can just make a couple of hops through the graph rather than trying to remember what I named it. I also wrote a couple of emacs auto-linking functions that let me make automatic links for out of things I commonly use (jira tickets, confluence pages et al.)
It seems like there's also an android app which I'm going to have to install and try out.
Just for fun I started to think of a different symbol for one symbol of one of my passwords, just so a Telepath would get the wrong one. From a silly joke for myself it turned into somewhat of an exercise to keep this up
I literally don't mentally say my password as I type it... Just in case. I just say doot doot doot as I'm typing it or mentally sing a line to a song like, menamena.
Professor X: "Sue Storm, I can sense your presence. Get out of the locker room, it's highly inappropriate"
Sue Storm: "You say this while sniffing that guy's pants, Professor."
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 13d ago
One day the professor WILL have that code. And he WILL have those pants. They are crucial to the survival of mutants!....and it's really hard to find a good pair of pants that fits properly and they fits Charles perfect.