What is it with you and 'lolsauce', txty? It's getting kind of disturbing. roflcream I actually tried to write in code once. It took ages, as it was really complex, and I had to go through and work it out one letter at a time. It was something like 'take the original letter, go forward in the alphabet by the number of letters after it in the word, and then find the resulting letter's number value (eg A=1, B=2 etc) and then go forward that many letters in the alphabet. Go back 5 and there's your letter.'
Needless to say, I got sick of it pretty fast. I recently found a couple of paragraphs written in this code, but I couldn't remember the effing formula, so no dice.
That's what
programming is for, S.D.! ;)
It's been a long time since I last used a ciphertext alphabet of sorts but yeah, I grew bored of paper translation and wrote a program to do the deconding/encoding for me.
Then I found about ROT13 and berated myself for takin so much time and effort for nothing...
Neo Groudon said:
Yup, I did create a code, unfortunately, it can't be written in the computer unless I create the font for it. It consists of 26 circular symbols that resemble the original alphabet in some way and if that wasn't enough the code is also mixed a certain way so even if you crack it, you'll still be reading gibberish. I do use this code sometimes but it takes so long to write.
That sounds like a job for
Aquaman SVG and Python to me! :cheeky:
Nah, today if I want to write something cryptical I take one of two choices: I either do it handwritten (my handwritting is difficult enough for
Med students) or scramble the words on each sentence by combining with math symbols that determine the order.
When you're writing and releasing a fanfic/story, do you usually post your current finished chapter and then start writing, or wait a couple days before the release to start writing the next?
I always have some things written beforehand. Never release the "last" release, that's
my policy an aftereffect of my backstory addiction.
Are you paranoid with your writing?(i.e. don't like other people to know what you're writing until you're done or forever) If so, have you ever written in a cryptic code or any variation thereof?
I'm paranoid enough, thanks. There's the ccasional friend who knows I write FF but they don't know
what fandoms I write in and they never will. With Pokémon being seen as a childish matter
and a mark of social outcasts plus Final Fantasy being somewhat confused with D&D and its related geekiness where I live, it's difficult enough that if people startes questioning me more often I'd rather let them think I'm all into the Narutard fad.
Or... BIG No, I have to pick something not
that low.
Anyways, I don't like my family knowing about some things I do, either. Or anyone for that matter. I save my fics, as well as those that I like to read, and my development database in an encripted flash drive. The key to that flash drive is hidden in
another flash frive, my normal one, disguised as a file with topographical data. So not only an intruder needs to get
both of my drives to access the files, but they need to have earlier knowledge about my development work to pinpoint the correct key file.
So yeah, I'd say I'm a bit paranoid. Then again, even if I weren't there would be some nasty people hunting me.
And then...
why did I post the whole thing about the keys above.....?????????
Oh and hi.