Who am I?

[fajrdrako]

Someone's remark on one of my mailing lists got me into playing The Akinator.

I first tried Philippa Somerville, which the genie did not get. Then Henry II, which took him a while, but he did it. Then Wolverine; a cinch for him. Then Nightwing, whom he guessed from remarkably few clues and questions. Ditto Black Widow. Then Hamlet, which took him no time at all. When I tried for Aragorn, the Akinator guessed Ali Baba, and then Ged of Earthsea, but eventually got to Aragorn.

Methos took a while longer for Akinator to guess.

Comments

[ceruleancat]

Ooh. fun game.
However, they changed the programming since last week. It was better last week. It still repeated questions, but it reached conclusions better.
I did all sorts of characters that it recognised and a lot that it didn't know at all. Eliza's dad and Mrs. Pierce from My Fair Lady, Anthony Blanche from Brideshead, Anne of Cleves, Chuck Bartowski's dad, Wo Fat (Hawaii 5-0)...
I think it knows if you have tabs open. I had wiki open on Chuck, and kept offering me Chuck characters, which were not the right answer.

[fajrdrako]

That's spooky - but also kind of fun. Maybe it looks at one's browsing history?

Experimentally, with a Torchwood tab open, I went for Captain Jack Harknes, and Akinator got it in no time. But Amalasuntha, Queen of the Lombards? It guessed at Queen Victoria, then King Jadwig - gave up before guessing Amalasuntha. Then it guessed Catullus in no time at all. And then Jubilee, from the X-Men.

Then I was going after Eugene Wrayburn, and it gave me James Potter... Not very close at all.

This is more fun than it had any business being!

[ceruleancat]

Well, it can't guess a name that isn't already entered in its database.
It obviously doesn't take names off the web, but it does use your open tags as part of its clues. Pity it doesn't use its own questions better. It keeps covering the same tracks again and again. And it really guessed better last week. Oooh, but you can click details and see all the answers and what it expected. Pity it doesn't allow you to correct the wrong answers.

btw, do you know that your dw style puts the icon over the first line, so you can't read it properly?

[fajrdrako]

No, I didn't know my dw style did that - it looks okay on my monitor. I changed the style - how does it look now?

[baronjanus]

Ooh, I can read comments without having to do style=light :)
Thank you also from Cat, who is sitting next to me.

[fajrdrako]

Well, thanks to both of you for alerting me to the problem, and confirming that it's okay now.

[baronjanus]

I liked the colours and such of the previous style just fine, it was just the first line of each comment.

How you doing? :)

[fajrdrako]

I may change the colours back to the ones I had before. Or not. No rush.

I'm doing well: went to a medieval joust today. That was fun. Plan to talk about it in here.

[baronjanus]

Jousting is cool. Just saw a cartoon about jousting, the Black Knight and his Hounds of Heck. Yes.


Also read an article, or really read a few lines out of an article, about fanfic and fan communities. Specifically, it started with the words "young teens" and continued badly.

[fajrdrako]

Those articles... they have no sense of the way things are sometimes.

I need more jousting in my life. Hmm.