I. BEAT. AKINATOR!

glennmagusharvey

Target: Chomp (the main-character monster creature in Monster Tale)

20 questions: Pikmin
30 questions: Bartimaeus (Bartimaeus Trilogy)
40 questions: Creature (Spore)

Akinator, meet Chomp.

Stormtroper

What does beating him mean? Does it mean making him guess wrong once? Because if so, I beat him thinking of Sanae from Touhou (he guessed right the second time around).

Then guessed right on the first try on Quote.

Edit: On the French version you can play with things instead.

Edit edit: Well, now I know what does beating him mean. Not telling who I was thinking of, it's a bit of a shameful thing to know.

Wicked223

I just realized: Since you have to add the character to his database every time you win, and since he presumably logs all question answers, there could theoretically be a point at which Akinator is completely unbeatable*.

*not accounting for misleading anwers

inkblot

^ I think that's the point.

Nyktos

Only if he acquires knowledge at a faster rate than new fictional characters are invented.

DonZabu

Then we should start adding characters that haven't been invented yet! Get ahead of the game!

-goes to tell Akinator about a magical Labrador in a robe and wizard's hat named Heffy-

Stormtroper

This thing just answered, in ten questions, an obscure character I would've readily chosen had I thought about her (Madotsuki). Creepy.

Edit: And then he guessed in about 5 more questions the even more obscure character I was thinking of.

It's also the same character I had beaten him with on the French version, so they use a different database for each language (I didn't add the character).

glennmagusharvey

Even I've heard of Madotsuki.  She's from...that freeware game Yume Nikki, right?  Or maybe Higurashi.

glennmagusharvey

Let's try a really famous character.  See if I can get it in ten questions:

Objective: Fate Testarossa

Question #17: Is your character always dressed in black?  (my answer: probably/partially)
Question #19: Does your character use a scythe? (my answer: probably/partially)
Question #20: Is your character half-human? (my answer: I don't know)

after 20 questions: Konjiki no Yami (To Love-Ru)

FAIL

Question #24: Does your character wield electricity/lightning as a weapon?  (my answer: yes)

after 25 questions: Fate T. Harlaown (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha)

That took longer than I thought.  You disappoint me, Akinator.

Also, why is a figurine used as the picture for Fate.

Funny, he was expecting "no" for "Does your character have small breasts?".  I answered I don't know.  It depends on the season.

DonZabu

I beat him by using that one Robot Chicken sketch where the guy tells JK Rowling about a "magical raccoon; he has an afro, his name is Squiggles, and he shoots pixie dust out of his bumhole". Not sure so that's fair, really.

Somebody even made a picture of this raccoon:

http://tbustah.deviantart.com/art/Squiggles-the-Magical-Raccoon-45516839

Nyktos

@glennmagusharvey: Everyone knows StrikerS doesn't count.

All Nines

Lessee . . . I'm going to try a few with varying levels of obscurity.

He got Roy Greenhilt (Order of the Stick) after 27.

He got Takashi Kamiyama (Cromartie High School) after 20.

He got Eris (Asobi ni Iku yo!) after 39 (almost had him).

I beat him with Köinzell (Ubel Blatt), though I don't know for sure if I answered all the questions properly. And he was already in the database.

I also somehow got him with Pandaman (One Piece), though he was also in the database.

Stormtroper

^^^ I bet you know her because you're a troper. I've never seen Yume Nikki mentioned elsewhere except Nico Nico Douga.

glennmagusharvey

> @glennmagusharvey: Everyone knows StrikerS doesn't count.

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I beat him plenty of times, sometimes even with the same character that he already had in his database (Yuuki Kei from Moyashimon) which he kept answering with some weirdo from the tatami galaxy.

I still think his guessing a lot of the time is quite impressive though.

IanExMachina

Well done everyone for beating Akinator.

Clearly this is because the characters you pick are from shitty franchises so no one else likes them so they never get into Akinator's Database. 

/troll

Nyktos

TBH I haven't actually seen StrikerS.

On a related note, I stumped it with Arf.

All Nines

@IanExMachina: Ignoring for a second the fact that your post was a trollpost, he didn't get a character from One Piece. So nyeh. :P

Nyktos

That seems like it would be supporting his theory.

Stormtroper

I beat him with a character from Spongebob Squarepants. Guess which?

[The ugly barnacle]

All Nines

@Nyktos: He said "so no one else likes them". One Piece has a huge fanbase.

IanExMachina

He got the Paedofinder General.

I'm so glad of that.

DonZabu

Best way to beat Akinator, it seems: use characters that other people refer to, but are never actually seen on-screen.

glennmagusharvey

> That seems like it would be supporting his theory.

lol irony

Nyktos

@Everest: Clearly the answer is that One Piece fans don't count as people.

glennmagusharvey

...unfortunately I don't have a picture of an angry StrikerS-unique character.  Maybe I need to make a screencap of an angry Schach Nouera.

All Nines

@Nyktos:

@DonZabu: That makes sense.

DonZabu

Do the creepy feeder things that barnacles have count as tentacles?

Stormtroper

Beat him without thinking of something stupid. Bitches don't know about Wonderella.

glennmagusharvey

I can probably beat him with the Teen Girl Squad trolls.  As in, the ones who ask gloomykeyboardistlookikeephearingabout!so-and-so for her autograph, shortly before she obliges but is crushed by a d20 misidentified as a d12 immediately afterward.