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[wierd]

I win again with Squee, from Johnny the homicidal maniac.

[ChairmanPoo]

I won with Sergei Kirov

PD: Won again with Alexius I Komnenos

[Harry Baldman]

Couldn't pick up on Ned Pointsman from Gravity's Rainbow, although amusingly it did have Tyrone Slothrop on one of the character lists.

[McTraveller]

Never heard of Akinator.  Every time I try to use it, after I click the first question (gender), it just gets stuck.

WTF, web programmers.

[George_Chickens]

Never heard of Akinator.  Every time I try to use it, after I click the first question (gender), it just gets stuck.

WTF, web programmers.

It's a problem with certain cookies. Clear your cookies and flash cookies, then run it in private browsing. After the first 3-4 times, it will correct its self.

[scriver]

I managed to beat it twice! Once with King Bore, King of Winter, and once with Tuvstarr, the main character in a fairy tale. It's pretty freaky how fast it jumps to the right conclusion when it get it's right though. It took Birger Jarl and Magnus "Barn-Lock", a historical Swedish statesman/politician and a king, after almost no questions.

It's also funny how when it doesn't know what you think it starts acting as if you've picked the wrong answer on a previous question. Like, when my character was Red Worm (a literary character from an in viking story with red hair) and I answered the question "is he brown haired" with no, yet it kept guessing brown haired characters three times before it guessed Red Worm correctly.

When I had the artist Björk it didn't even get to ask me if it was an artist, singer or musician before it knew. It just asked me three times in a row if it was an Icelandic person xD

[McTraveller]

Never heard of Akinator.  Every time I try to use it, after I click the first question (gender), it just gets stuck.

WTF, web programmers.

It's a problem with certain cookies. Clear your cookies and flash cookies, then run it in private browsing. After the first 3-4 times, it will correct its self.

Exactly.  A problem with web programmers.

(If you have to rely on your users taking meta-actions like clearing cookies, changing browsing mode, etc. you're doing it wrong.)

[Parsely]

Never heard of Akinator.  Every time I try to use it, after I click the first question (gender), it just gets stuck.

WTF, web programmers.

It's a problem with certain cookies. Clear your cookies and flash cookies, then run it in private browsing. After the first 3-4 times, it will correct its self.

Exactly.  A problem with web programmers.

(If you have to rely on your users taking meta-actions like clearing cookies, changing browsing mode, etc. you're doing it wrong.)

That's only part of the problem.

You mean troubleshooting? A basic skill that one needs to develop if they want to solve problems (and use computers)?

Lack of troubleshooting skills are part of why there are compatibility issues, because users who recognize problems don't report issues or solutions accurately or sometimes not at all. Expecting web programmers to anticipate every issue that may arise is unrealistic, that's why on larger projects there are teams dedicated to QA who have to confirm the issue and then report it in a way that allows programmers to quickly resolve it. There are usually a small team of programmers and significantly larger base of users who all have different setups, your expectations are unfair.

[hector13]

Beat him twice, once with John Robertson (famous soccer player from Scotland, top scorer for Heart of Midlothian) and Craig Levein (famous soccer player from Scotland, current manager for Heart of Midlothian)

He did get someone associated with the Hearts job though.

[TamerVirus]

Akinator is all about that nerd cred; how niche and obscure can you go

[martinuzz]

Your eye, or the skin around it?
Always be extra careful when carrying sharp or pointy tools. Be glad you hit your eye with the handle and not the teeth of the saw.

[MrRoboto75]

GOG was practically giving away the original Empire Earth for like two bucks.  Its a fun little time sink but the I've forgotten how ridiculous the AI can be.  Its incredibly unintelligent at times and basically ignores the resource system, making a lot of what you do to it rather pointless.  There were times I'd destroy an outpost only for it to be entirely back in a matter of minutes.

[Eric Blank]

It is highly amusing to mess with though. Theyll send citizens by the hundreds in long single file lines to build shit behind your borders, and you can just have them all murdered.

[Akura]

I've seen them spawn entire armies from the fog-of-war, even in places were there cannot conceivably be any troop production buildings. Also what they do with nuclear bombers is utter and total bullshit.

[A Thing]

My WTF is that Akinator managed to find Grimith's youtube channel but was unable to find out Jia Bao-yu. I guess I got him tripped up with Three Kingdoms characters or something?