Akinator

I must say that I'm pretty impressed at how accurate this website is. You think of a character, he asks questions and then he'll guess who you where think of. Seems to be extra good with anime characters, oddly enough.

 

It got my first one correct. Now I must focus on making it wrong.
Edit: So far it's getting them all correct...
1. Martin Luther King Jr.
2. Mother Teresa
3. Drizzt Do'Urden
4. Raistlin Majere
5. Elminster Aumar
I did however win. It didn't know Galen the technomage from Crusade.

 

http://www.20q.net/

This one does the same thing, but with things instead of characters. It's not very complicated really, it just asks the questions that has the highest potential of eliminating the highest number of options. It's like a linguistic gun kata!

 

They both are very accurate, but it didn't even recognize an Orchid.

 

It knows about Philippe Pétain and Nicola Tesla. The site's okay I guess.

P.S. Seems he also knows Rocco Siffredi. Naughty genie.

 

He correctly guessed Solid Snake, Peter Griffin, Frylock, the Count of Monte Cristo and King Solomon before I stumped him with Nathan Bedford Forrest. He guessed Robert E. Lee.

 

Attempt 1, Albel 'Freaking Psychotic' Nox: HOLY FUCK! He got it!

Attempt 2, Arlin: Nope, he reckons it was some dude called Kalas. Mwaha. Added Arlin to the list, because I am a bitch.

Attempt 3, Daniel Jackson: Oh, he's good.

Attempt 4, Simba from the Lion King: Dude, holy shit, he got it.

Attempt 5, James May from Top Gear: Yeah, he had this one pretty early on. Cock.

Attempt 6, Cadfael the mystery-solving monk: He guessed Asterix. Hell. Fuck. No. Added Cadfael to the list, because I'm perverse.

Attempt 7, Bowgentle from the Hawkmoon and Castle Brass trilogies: Who the fuck is Werther? Added Bowgentle because he's too awesome to not be on there.

Attempt 8, Hawkeye Pierce: Yeah, he got me, no surprise there.

Attempt 9, Donna Noble: Yup, but I swear to god it was thinking of Frobisher the shape-shifting penguin for a while there. (And yes, Frobisher existed in the magazine comics as a companion for quite a while. Poor Colin-Doc.)

Final Attempt, going for broke, Doctor Zelenka from Stargate Atlantis: Hole. Lee. Fuck. He got it. This game be fucked up.

End Score: 7/10, and it only missed the damn obscure ones. Conclusion: Fuck, this shit be creepy.

 

I completely stumped him on "Thornby (Warcraft)".

 

He couldn't guess Raven, mwahahahahaaa!

Or Candy Suxxx from Vice City...

But it got the Killer Rabbit from monty python...

And SHODAN (had to check)...

Tie breaker: It guessed the Grim Reaper instead of Cthulhu. But pretty smart over all. And of course it learns...

 

Couldn't get Dean Corso from The Ninth Gate, it did have various other Johnny Depp characters as options when it asked me to choose though.

It might just be me being crappy at answering but I think he should've gotten that one.

 

Guess it's hard to specify single characters played by the same man. I mean, much of the questions are about appearance, and, well, Johnny Depp is always Johnny Depp.

 

I tried the most obscure celebrity I could think of. Tommy Shannon, SRV's bass player.

And guess what. It fucking has him.

 

I didn't really get a lot of questions about his appearance (and I tried it three times to make sure I didn't answer stuff incorrectly). I see your point though.

I guess real moral here is that while Depp's characters may seem different, they really aren't?

Also, am I wrong to assume it will only get better through "learning" for a while, then the amount of characters that essentially have the same tags will make it have to chose between equally qualified options? Well, assuming the questions he has at his disposal remain the same anyways.

 

Ah, missed that one. Anyways, he just got Purple Tentacle, so I would like to be the first one to announce this thing's presidental candidacy for your new, proposed, oil rig micronation.

 

I am -killing- this guy. He got me right.

"Amane Misa," Death Note. I thought that was obscure, dammit!

...but I fooled him with Jesus Christ! (Because he got ethnicity wrong; Jesus was born in Asia. I also spun an "I don't know" on the marriage question.)

...okay. When he gets -Arf- from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, he's way too geeky.