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Mnemolth Otaku

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Yes, its me again, with another jibe at OtakuBoards and the anime community in general. :)

This time I've made what I think is a pretty nifty quiz. Click [URL=http://falkor.anu.edu.au/~ely/animequiz/index.html]HERE[/URL] to try it out and come back with your results and I can then call on your parents and organize some kind of counselling session for you! :D

And no, this is [i]nothing[/i] at all like personality test. This is a half serious attempt at a 'real' quiz, with all the bells and whistles. And no, the questions are not [i]too[/i] hard. Its meant to be a fun game so don't cheat and go around trawling the Internet for answers! ;)

Go on and take it for a spin. Aww...go on...I took five hours to make it, surely you can take five minutes to play with it? No? Your time is too precious to waste? :bawling:

If you don't go and try it I'll pout. Yeah. That's what I'll do. And trust me, you wouldn't want to see a man pout! ;)

[b]Long Boring Bit[/b]
The trouble with many anime quizes is that they are simple multiple choice questions. You just pick one and that's it. And that's okay I suppose, but it always leaves me a little annoyed since I'm not a big fan of Multiple Choice testing. I figure its much harder when you have to type in the answers yourself. Of course the easiest way to code such a quiz is by comparing the responses with answers, letter by letter. So the computer is really strict. And some answers which may be considered 'right' could be marked wrong. If I have some time I'm sure I could come up with some basic algorithms to make it a little more lenient. As it is, with the quiz I've created, it is case-insensitive, so there is no problem with upper or lower case comparions. I've also put in a function to take away blank spaces at the beginning and end of a reply. But other than that, yes you have to answer it exactly, or otherwise the computer will spit the dummy, so to speak.

Anyway, I was bored, so I looked up Google to see what kind of anime quiz was available. I didn't find many to my liking at all. Most were of the multiple choice Javascript variety. That's great for personality tests (heheheh I used the same thing for my OB member personality test), but they suck when you are doing a half serious quiz. Then there were some with written answers but the questions were always the same. This kinda killed the replay value.

So I decided, wouldn't it be great if there was a quiz where the questions changed everytime you took the test? The easiest thing was for me to make one. So I did.

The script is a little buggy (considering I have no access to a database I thought it was kinda neat that I was able to do what I did), its the first time I've programmed in PHP, but if you play nice, and don't try to purposely go out to break it, the script works fine. :)

Another thing with an anime quiz is that it is often too static. Its the same quiz all the time. Or maybe its a different quiz but questions are manually chosen by the webmaster, or there are a zillion pop ups (grrr!!!). So I decided to create something simple, easy to use, and that may grow. My quiz allows me to easily include more questions and answers, and these can be supplied in simple text files (like those made from Notepad). The bigger the list of Q&A the more random the questions become, and this is probably where I need your help. If you are interested, go to the site, read the instructions and if you like what I've created, email me with some assistance. :D

If people contribute their questions, and these questions all have their names attached when they are shown in the quiz, they become involved in the process and this can only be better for the OtakuBoards community. :D

So take a dive, play the quiz, contribute questions, flame me about how you think my answers are wrong, enjoy yourselves and, most of all, have fun!
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Kinetic Senior Otaku

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I didn't take it, but being a true fan doesn't necessarily mean that you have to know all of these things. Being a true fan is just loving the anime you watch and nothing else. It's a good quiz, just had to point that out.
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Genkai Senior Otaku

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yeah, uh.. i ddnt fill much of it out...even the ones i kew the answers to.. i jjust wanted to see what it said..

but so what if i dun no the number of scout sailor moons? so what if i dont know what shidou means or whatever? doent mean all of my money doesnt have a magnetic attraction to the bestbuy anime section
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amiboshi Otaku

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[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by genkai [/i]
[B]yeah, uh.. i ddnt fill much of it out...even the ones i kew the answers to.. i jjust wanted to see what it said..

but so what if i dun no the number of scout sailor moons? so what if i dont know what shidou means or whatever? doent mean all of my money doesnt have a magnetic attraction to the bestbuy anime section [/B][/QUOTE]
lol. That's what I was thinking... Just because I haven't seen Patlabor and Macross and all that stuff....that means I'm not a true anime fan? Um...okay...:bluesweat Anyway, I only got 16 since I'm really only a shoujo fan...lol. I could only answer the Sailor Moon, MKR, and that Tenchi question...:cross:
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Mnemolth Otaku

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Hi guys. Thanks for taking the time to take the quiz. :)

Just as a tip, when you get a result, you can just copy and paste the text below your picture to post your result for all to see. Like this. :)


The Ultimate Test of Your Anime Obssession

[EDIT]Gah!! OtakuBoards no longer accepts HTML?? :(
Just copy and paste the gif then I suppose....*sighs*

[url=http://falkor.anu.edu.au/~ely/animequiz/][IMG]http://falkor.anu.edu.au/~ely/animequiz/otaku.gif[/IMG][/URL]
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Solo Tremaine Senior Otaku

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Pfft. I got 2-

[IMG]http://falkor.anu.edu.au/~ely/animequiz/otaku_parent.gif[/IMG]

Bleargh! I watch Evangelion, Digimon, Zoids, Nadesico, Mononoke, and I'd like to watch Lost Universe, Generator Gawl and various others. Most of the others I've never seen in my life, and probably never will- Akira's not one I particularly want to see. I like anime lots, so I'd call myself a fan, but I just don't know all the nitty-gritty about it. So there. It was quite good fun, though.
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Dan L Senior Otaku

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WOOHOO!!! I got a 2!!!

I'm an otaku parent too..

Um... dude.. thatere's a glitch, I think.. I didn't answer any questions, the second time round, and I got:

Your score is 58

[img]http://falkor.anu.edu.au/~ely/animequiz/og2.gif[/img]
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... Um, I couldn't take it. O_O Its only because I've never seen any of those animes for the questions... So um, your quiz is screwed up because its based on a few animes and not a broad amount, plus Ninja Scroll wasn't even a good movie... But I have seen Akira and DBZ and all of the other questions that didn't pertain to El Harazard, Ninja Scroll, Macross, or Tekkaman.... x_x
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Mnemolth Otaku

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I do believe someone cheated. Of course I can't be a 100% sure but I did set up that trap so I think I may be right. Not gonna say who, that'd be impolite! But kudos to you for knowing your way around a site! ;)

For those of you complaining that the quiz is not accurate enough. I apologise. The questions are kinda dated. I wrote them up about 4 years ago when I was trying to work out how to use an IRC bot. Basically the quiz is a translation from the IRC 'platform' to web-based browser 'platform'. Its harder than you think to program because I refused to use databases and cookies.

Anyways, if you would like to make up questions and answers about your own favorite series and such, feel free to PM or email me (if you want to make my life easier, put the questions and answers, all ONE lines without blank lines in between, in two SEPARATE text files; text files can easily be created and edited using Notepad; and don't forget to include your name at the end of the question so you can get the credit when it shows up!).

And as for the bug. Sorry. Still working on that. As long as you follow the basic rules (load page, answers questions, click on Submit, and click on link to play again), the it should work fine. Its just when people start reloading/refreshing pages without clicking on Submit OR they reload/refresh the 'results' page, then all weird things happen. But play nice, play fair, don't cheat and all is well. :)

[b]Help needed. IMPORTANT!! Don't skip! :p[/b]
This site is in a VERY rudimentary state. I'd like to develop it further with some help from other people. Immediately, there is an urgent need for more questions. There are about 110 and the quiz takes 30, so some questions are repeated. Plus as I said the quiz is dated and only reflects what I've seen or read.

But beyond that, I'd like different sections for different quizzes with different names, running off the same basic script (don't worry I'll iron out the very few bugs there are soon enough :p). Maybe one that is really hard, one for Digimon, one for DBZ, one for any of your favourite series. It'd be like an ultimate quiz website for anime.

Maybe there's one around somewhere but I haven't seen it. I've run across a few lame ones, using Javascript and basic multiple choice, but not ones that automatically pick different questions each time you play, and where you actually have to type in your answers! (kinda removes the impact of luck).

And...*glances at Adams and James*...maybe something that is associated or connected with OtakuBoards? I saw somewhere that Adam wanted theOtaku.com visitors to have some new places to go? ;)

Just a thought...
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Deedlit Senior Otaku

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[color=009966]I was an Otaku Friend, and I got that every time, no matter how many times I took it. I know I know a decent amount of anime, but most of that knowledge is for other animes that weren't listed there. oh well. I got all the MKR questions right, though.[/color]
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Bug where if you reload/refresh the answers page without answering any questions, and the quiz gives you a high score is now fixed. Thanks Deus for bringing it to my attention. :) Now if you stuff up the quiz in any way, it will always give you a zero. :D
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Deedlit, I know hwo you feel. I got Otaku Wannabe. If you had put questions about Serial Experiments Lain, Cardcaptor Sakura, more Tenchi, Sailor Moon (uncut), Yu-Gi-Oh (uncut), or Utena, I could have gotten them, but I haven't seen Ninja Scroll, Macross, Magic Knight Rayearth, and most of those other ones.
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