He Got Venustoise. A fake pokemon from a single episode.
Words fail me.
He occasionally just goes ahead and answers ahead of time.
I suspect that Alkinor also has a bit of a database on users, not just relying on the questions he asks directly, but noting patterns.
Doubt it considering how many people are just listed as iphone.
edited 9th Mar '11 2:35:01 PM by NowhereMan
Not sure how you'd go about testing that.
Perpetually Confused
I doubt it, as I've gone far and wide in my questions.
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On a new IP, new acount, ask him for 20 characters who are anime/manga based, then pick someone not from there but that kinda resembles another, then check if defaults to anime?
edited 9th Mar '11 3:27:35 PM by Ghilz
Actually, I'd suspect the best way would be to have 10 people all think of the same character, but have had one of them already have answered that character or a related character beforehand. Or something? No that wouldn't work either, because while you're taking the test you're manipulating the data so there's different info for whoever goes first than for whoever goes last.
Perpetually Confused
That would not work because the order of the questions are random (notice you never get the same first question, it alternates between three or so):
- Is your character human?
- Does your character really exist?
- Is your character an adult man?
edited 9th Mar '11 3:55:36 PM by Ghilz
You'd need a sufficiently large sample size.
He got Sam in 30.
He expected the answer to "Is your character an adult man?" to be yes for Commander Shepard, but got him/her in 20 nonetheless. (I just wanted to see the expected answer breakdown.)
Here's the breakdown for Barfolomew:
| Question | Answer (Reasoning, if applicable) | Expected |
| Is your character an adult man? | No (Because the answer to the next question is "No".) | Probably |
| Is your character a human being? | No | No |
| Is your character an animal? | Probably (In that he's an anthropomorphic animal.) | Probably |
| Is your character a Pokemon? | No | No |
| Is your character from a video game? | No | No |
| Is your character from a TV series? | No (Although there is an official Spaceballs cartoon, I think it's Web Original.) | No |
| Does your character have fur? | Yes | Yes |
| Is your character small? | No | No |
| Has your character ever been in a movie? | Yes | Yes |
| Does the name of your character appear in the title of a movie? | No | No |
| Has your character been into space? | Yes | Yes |
| Does your character speak English fluently? | Yes | Yes |
| Has your character driven a Ferrari? | No (Also, WTF?) | No |
| Is your character a transporter? | No | ? (Even he had no idea why he asked this.) |
| Does your character wear female clothing? | No | No |
| Does your character mostly play in comedies? | Yes ("Mostly"?) | Yes |
| Has your character been in something produced by the Disney Company? | No | No |
| Does your character wear pants? | Yes | Yes |
| Does your character like snow? | Don't know (It's been a few years, I don't recall any mention of it one way or the other.) | No |
| Is your character linked with vikings? | No (Also, WTF AGAIN?) | ? (And again, he has no idea why he asked this.) |
Fucker got Hiro Protagonist in 19. HIRO.
edited 11th Mar '11 6:26:36 AM by BlackWolfe
But soft! What rock through yonder window breaks? It is a brick! And Juliet is out cold.
I successfully taught him Fast Eddie :D (I probably got some info wrong, but whatevs.)
edited 11th Mar '11 10:52:27 AM by Yinyang107
Apparently he thinks KW really exists![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
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Trope Tan in twenty. No surprises there, actually.
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.
The Leading Man
Confused him with Nimble and C-Conciousness (both from STALKER), and he managed to get Trope-Tan in 40 questions.
Against all tyrants.
He got the Unlosing Ranger.
edited 13th Mar '11 12:50:33 AM by SpellBlade
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Guy With The Halberd in only 27 questions. For a character who's only been played 22 times, that's really very good.
edited 13th Mar '11 1:53:02 PM by SabresEdge
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.
No longer a forum herald
I got to teach him The Professor. No one had apparently done that one yet.
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
For some reason, he didn't seem to know Kevin Winnicot
edited 13th Mar '11 2:08:02 PM by TheyCallMeTomu
Heading for tomorrow
Edward Elric in 11 questions
King Bradley in 11 questions
Solid Snake in 13 questions
Alfred Bester in 20 questions
Alpha 1 in 20 questions
Admiral Bosch in 20 questions
Prince Thrakhath nar Kiranka in 40 questions
Cyberdemon in 20 questions
Mr. Morden in 20 questions
Klonoa in 20 questions
Akinator could not guess:
Iceman
Paladin
Hans Grosse
Dr. Schabbs
General Fettgesicht
Emperor Cartagia
Lyta Alexander
NEXUS
edited 13th Mar '11 6:43:01 PM by WoolieWool
Out of Context Theater: Mike K "'Bloody Pussies' cracked me up"
Had to teach him Hinjo, which is odd because O-Chul and The Guy With the Halberd are in his database.
edited 13th Mar '11 7:24:58 PM by silver2195
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Mr. Scruffy in 40.
Took him like 25 questions to get Solid Snake for me, although for some reason after it seemed like he clearly got him at 24 (does he have a twin brother) he then asks if the character has ever sung alongside Ke$ha. wat.
Perpetually Confused
- Wash Bucket in 30
- Mr. House in 20
- Stumped him with Button Gwinnett The Protectron (Had to teach him)
- Stumped him with Ishka
- Guessed Porthos the dog in 18
- Guesses Omega Supreme in 20
edited 13th Mar '11 8:33:55 PM by Ghilz
It helps to explain the 'WTF?' questions when you realize that, A, questions have no relationships to each other (as far as he knows, being a man doesn't imply being male, nor does it mean the character's not a woman), and quattro, once he's narrowed it down to a single possibility, he wants to fill in as much missing information as possible.
edited 13th Mar '11 9:12:43 PM by Yinyang107
Heading for tomorrow
I got this series of questions when running Lucas through:
>"Is your character the main character?"
Yes.
>"Does your character wear a cap?"
Yes.
>"Does your character love Pokemon?"
Yes.
>"Has your character died in Hell?"
What.
edited 13th Mar '11 10:26:08 PM by WoolieWool
Out of Context Theater: Mike K "'Bloody Pussies' cracked me up"
How are you guys getting "within X answers" that aren't 20/30/40?
If people learned from their mistakes, there wouldn't be this thing called bad habits.