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Cellar Door 07-04-11 07:36 AM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
It got James Cole (12 Monkeys) in 27 questions. It first guessed Travis Bickle.

Cellar Door 07-04-11 07:41 AM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
And Yvaine (Stardust) in 20 questions, which surprised me since the questions it was asking didn't seem to be leading in the right direction.

Matto1020 07-04-11 08:11 AM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
Ned Stark after 19 questions
Beetlejuice after 24 questions
Tom Leykis after 24 questions
Ted Theodore Logan after 25 guesses
Stay Puffed Marshmellow Man after 18 guesses

This thing is awesome!

Poink 07-04-11 08:53 AM

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Pretty cool. The only thing I'm not sure of is when it asks "Does your character play in movies?" is if it means the character from a film is an actor, or if the character itself is FROM a movie. After a few goes, I think it's the latter due to a few odd results.

It's gotten most of mine in 20 questions:

Travis Bickle
Lux from The Virgin Suicides
Batman
Dirk Diggler (straight up asked "Is your character a porn actor?" at #19)

Best (wrong) result:
Trying to get Hellboy and got Gayle Whoever, Oprah's BFF!

Drexl 07-04-11 09:04 AM

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I didn't note the exact total, but Ed from Good Burger took around 35 questions.

Solid Snake 07-04-11 09:28 AM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
Pretty damn cool...

Terminator in 17
Sarah Conner in 18
Batman in 15
Dutch (from Predator) in 17
Asami Yamazaki in 19
Predator in 14
Jake Sully in 18
Alfred Pennyworth in 18

Matto1020 07-04-11 09:41 AM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
Stumped him with MacPhisto.

http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/y.../macphisto.jpg

Mazje 07-04-11 10:10 AM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
I'm impressed. It got Bob Loblaw in 21 questions.

thematahara 07-04-11 02:46 PM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
Stumped it with:

http://www.onlygoodmovies.com/images...e-bernbaum.jpg

kd5 07-04-11 05:55 PM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
Fox Mulder in 16 questions.
Dana Scully in 29 questions.


Not too bad...;) -kd5-

Nick Martin 07-04-11 07:53 PM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
It got Angel in 25 questions, one of them being "has your character ever been on Buffy the Vampire Slayer". How's that for specifics?

Darla took 19 questions, the one deal-breaker being "is your character male".

17 questions in, if I select yes on the "is your character blond" I'd probably get Eric Northman, but I'm going for Bill Compton, and he took just two more questions to get right.

Jason Stackhouse took 15 questions.

Got RoboCop in 14 questions, most of them "probably" since he sort of defies the "is your character dead" type questions.

Ben Sisko in 19 questions.

This is a lot of fun when it's not hit with "500 Internal Server Error" problems.

Took 40 questions and two wrong answers to get Martin Bishop (Sneakers).

Apple Gooncha 07-04-11 10:52 PM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
Gypsy from MST3k In 17 guesses... not bad. I really thought it had it right after 12, but it asked a few more questions.

dom56 07-04-11 11:22 PM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
Got the porn stars alright.

Jenna Jameson - 20
Ron Jeremy - 15
Sasha Grey - 14

PopcornTreeCt 07-05-11 01:40 AM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
So this is why we invented artificial intelligence... the robots will never kill us because they'll be too busy laughing at our puny minds.

RKillgore 07-05-11 03:00 AM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
Got Rotwang from Metropolis in 29 questions, but was stumped by Joh Fredersen.

Nick Martin 07-05-11 03:59 AM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
Stumped it on Captain Steven Hiller - Will Smith's character in ID4. Took almost 60 questions and still didn't get it.

riotinmyskull 07-05-11 04:44 AM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
Lo Pan from BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA in 24 questions

arminius 07-05-11 08:41 AM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
For mine it guessed:
Yossarian at 20
McHale at 30
Lt. Burnett at 40
Nic Angel at 45
Paul Baumer at 50
G. Weisler at 60

It then gave up and asked for details.
Sgt. Steiner-Cross of Iron and Breakthrough

Groucho 07-05-11 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Nick Martin (Post 10841878)
Stumped it on Captain Steven Hiller - Will Smith's character in ID4. Took almost 60 questions and still didn't get it.

That seemed odd, so I gave it a try. Took only 17 questions for me.

arminius 07-05-11 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Groucho (Post 10841975)
That seemed odd, so I gave it a try. Took only 17 questions for me.

At the end if it does not get it, it asks for details to add to its database.

SuckaMC 07-05-11 11:18 AM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
Seymour Krelborn in 24 questions. That thing is nuts.

starman9000 07-05-11 11:29 AM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
Sturm from Dragonlance in about 25 turns. And 201 other nerds already did that one. :lol:

Nick Martin 07-05-11 11:41 AM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 

Originally Posted by Groucho (Post 10841975)
That seemed odd, so I gave it a try. Took only 17 questions for me.


Originally Posted by arminius (Post 10842013)
At the end if it does not get it, it asks for details to add to its database.

Yes, I tried it again afterward and it got him correct in just under 20 questions. When it got the character wrong I typed his name in, and chose him from a list of possible matches.

Groucho 07-05-11 11:45 AM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
There is a randomizer, so depending on which questions it leads with it can get to the correct character faster.

Some of the questions bug me, like "Is this character still alive?" for a fictional character. How do you answer that?

Ash Ketchum 07-05-11 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Groucho (Post 10842130)

Some of the questions bug me, like "Is this character still alive?" for a fictional character. How do you answer that?

I just assume that's asking if the character is still alive at the end of whatever it is you're talking about (book, movie, TV show, etc.), so you just say "yes." E.g., Maria's still alive at the end of that famous musical, but Tony, Riff and Bernardo aren't.

Mondo Kane 07-05-11 12:19 PM

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Stumped him with:
http://www.grindhousedatabase.com/im..._song_1971.jpg

Thought "Does your character's name appear in the title?" would've narrowed it down easily, but at least he came up with Dolemite and Boss Ni99er.

tommyp007 07-05-11 12:42 PM

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Just watched "Murder By Death" again last night so I tried Sam Diamond..in memory of Peter Falk. Totally stumped it.

foofighters7 07-05-11 12:59 PM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
amazingly couldn't get Lon Chaney at all.
Got Tom Waits in 20 and Dave Grohl in 20, I quit at around 35 with it trying to get Luis Bunuel, it kept picking people around him but not him.

CloverClover 07-05-11 03:13 PM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
crazy that it has to know so many facts about so many people. but since every question is narrowing the pool by 50 - 90 % it makes sense. like double the penny every day and you end up with millions within a month

Lokimok 07-05-11 03:14 PM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
Zuzu in 19.

Couldn't guess Tom Reagan from Miller's Crossing. (Guesses included Hitman & Harry Lime.)

Groucho 07-05-11 03:16 PM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 

Originally Posted by CloverClover (Post 10842484)
like double the penny every day and you end up with millions within a month

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/4...x5m1qzmslo.jpg

Lokimok 07-05-11 03:20 PM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
Hmm. It got Harvey, but asked if the character had long ears after asking if it was a rabbit. If Akinator were on Wheel of Fortune, it would buy all the vowels.

Lokimok 07-05-11 03:26 PM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
Nice. 13th & final question: Has your character played in a movie directed by Woody Allen?

My character, of course, was Woody Allen.

I think I'm done for now.

Nick Martin 07-05-11 03:35 PM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
Took almost 65 guesses and stumped it on Tom Mullen (Mel Gibson's character from "Ransom")

Took 15 vague questions to reach what I knew was going to be the right answer, and the 16th question I had was "Has your character played in Titanic". Yes. Then to narrow it down, "is your character rich". No. Bingo: Jack Dawson.

25 questions for Jake Sully ("Avatar") and some were "is your character blue", "does your character have more than one body" and "is your character disabled".

Dammit! :)

Mabuse 07-05-11 04:11 PM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
It got Dave Bowman in 20
But it took 24 to get Frank Poole

SuckaMC 07-05-11 04:57 PM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
Stumped it with Roger Mortis from Dead Heat. I think I'm the only person who likes that movie, so it was no surprise :)

Trout 07-05-11 06:02 PM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
RJ MacReady in 29

Rockmjd23 07-05-11 06:08 PM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
26 questions to get Lionel Cosgrove from Braindead

It didn't get any characters from Fulci films, but I added quite a few now.

SethDLH 07-05-11 06:48 PM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
Coffin Joe in 61

Mabuse 07-05-11 07:23 PM

Re: Try this character guessing application out......
 
It took it 28 to get Ace Rothstein from Casino.

The thing is weird. It will often waste it's guesses. It will ask "Is your character the main character in his movie?" and then ask "has your character ever been in a movie?"


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