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After Dark: Rat Race

Jun 09, 2026

Can't I just bet that all of the rats have a really good time?

This is a very fun one to watch. It would be easy to make a game out of this with your friends, trying to predict which of the three rodents will win. Polymarket can't do shit to help you here.

There are dozens of funny rat names to watch out for as well. I’m very fond of “What? Me, Scurry?”

A special feature of this module is that if the first two rats cross the finish line within a second of each other, you'll be treated to a photograph finish to see who the winner is. Sadly, that never happened in the footage I captured for this one.

This features a "Race Track" checkbox that you can uncheck if you want the rats to race around a blank screen instead. The module will actually default to this after 90 minutes to prevent screen burn-in. The "Music" slider determines how many races will be accompanied by music (which in this case is a midi version of the William Tell Overture.) Sadly, it doesn't turn off the gunshot sound that starts the race which I think is too loud.

Finally, you can adjust the "Training" slider to determine how often the rats will stop, get distracted, or in some cases start running in the wrong direction. I like to set this one notch below the max. I don't want them to take too long per race, but it's nice to have a little bit of randomness in there to keep things interesting. However, given how long it can take the little rodents to make it across the finish line even on this setting, I'm not sure this slider actually does anything.