Filler
Currently working on “My Happy Holidays post” which should be finished in a few days. In the mean time if you’re looking to kill a few lazy minutes, go and try to stump Akinator the web genius.
He’ll ask you to think of a character (ie a real person or a character from film, television, literature etc doesn’t have to be human), then he will attempt to guess it by asking a series of yes or no questions. He’ll take a guess after the 20th question, and if he doesn’t get it he’ll take another guess after the 30th. If you can make it to the 40th question without him guessing correctly, then you win.
It’s actually trickier than it sounds: he has an extensive knowledge (he guessed Jubei from Ninja Scroll correctly), and even when he fails he is usually on the right track (I was thinking of Emil, the dude who got melted by toxic waste in Robocop, Akinator guessed Clarence Boddiker). Also, if you pick somebody (or something) too random, you’re not going to know the correct answers to his questions, so can’t claim a successful victory through that route.
I’ve managed to stump him with a few characters, including Marlene McFly (Marty’s future daughter), and Rupert 'Stiles' Stilinski from Teen Wolf. Dowling topped my acts of randomness by winning with Mitchell Goosen from the 1993 Rollerblading movie Airborne.
But for every time he failed to guess correctly, there was more than a few times when Akinator freaked out my delicate brain with spot on answers. Just a few of the characters he managed to guess correctly:
Yes, that is the Chinese Wildman from Big Trouble in Little China. As for Master Shake, Akinator guessed him in only 12 questions. Freaky.
Give it a go anyway, click here. If you beat him*, email me and let me know the character you stumped him with (beefabeef@yahoo.com), because if there’s anything I love more than movie and TV characters, it’s random-ass third tier supporting movie and TV characters.
I mean, what else have you got to do online anyway? Work? Solitaire? Jealously stare at your friends’ extravagant holiday photos on facebook, with growing bitterness and resentment? Bah.
Go visit Akinator, and if you see Stiles, tell him I say ‘hi”.
* But don’t be too spastically esoteric about it, I doubt Aki will know ”That kinda cute tractor repairman from two episodes of series four of McCleod’s Daughters”.
He’ll ask you to think of a character (ie a real person or a character from film, television, literature etc doesn’t have to be human), then he will attempt to guess it by asking a series of yes or no questions. He’ll take a guess after the 20th question, and if he doesn’t get it he’ll take another guess after the 30th. If you can make it to the 40th question without him guessing correctly, then you win.It’s actually trickier than it sounds: he has an extensive knowledge (he guessed Jubei from Ninja Scroll correctly), and even when he fails he is usually on the right track (I was thinking of Emil, the dude who got melted by toxic waste in Robocop, Akinator guessed Clarence Boddiker). Also, if you pick somebody (or something) too random, you’re not going to know the correct answers to his questions, so can’t claim a successful victory through that route.
I’ve managed to stump him with a few characters, including Marlene McFly (Marty’s future daughter), and Rupert 'Stiles' Stilinski from Teen Wolf. Dowling topped my acts of randomness by winning with Mitchell Goosen from the 1993 Rollerblading movie Airborne.
Are you as cool as this guy? Didn’t think so.
But for every time he failed to guess correctly, there was more than a few times when Akinator freaked out my delicate brain with spot on answers. Just a few of the characters he managed to guess correctly:
Yes, that is the Chinese Wildman from Big Trouble in Little China. As for Master Shake, Akinator guessed him in only 12 questions. Freaky.
Give it a go anyway, click here. If you beat him*, email me and let me know the character you stumped him with (beefabeef@yahoo.com), because if there’s anything I love more than movie and TV characters, it’s random-ass third tier supporting movie and TV characters.
I mean, what else have you got to do online anyway? Work? Solitaire? Jealously stare at your friends’ extravagant holiday photos on facebook, with growing bitterness and resentment? Bah.
Go visit Akinator, and if you see Stiles, tell him I say ‘hi”.
* But don’t be too spastically esoteric about it, I doubt Aki will know ”That kinda cute tractor repairman from two episodes of series four of McCleod’s Daughters”.
posted by Beef at Sunday, January 17, 2010
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