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12:00 AM
@failbadp @GnomeSlice Don't worry, just follow the guide.
 
Bob
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Q: What to consider in a Video Card for big screen resolution?

user7881Hello people. I've a full HD 22' monitor. Resolution 1920x1080. I would like to get a video card that handle right this kind of big resolution. Of course i've not too much money. I'm looking for something in the range of: Nvidia Geforce Gts 450 1gb. Can you give me some advice please?? Thanks!

 
12:36 AM
What do you think of Magicka Vietnam? I always liked Vietnam; the people, the food. The people, the food. You know.
 
1:10 AM
By the Profund Spleen of the Ravaging Vishnu, Farewell.
 
Never played cp_degrootkeep?
 
1:56 AM
@Bob Nothing wrong with that question, at least the question title.
 
Congrats guys. You've gotten me hooked on desktop dungeons.
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2:42 AM
@failbadp Courtesy of @Mana of course.
 
 
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5:16 AM
In case you haven't seen it, here's the new Portal 2 trailer:
And now, sleep
Strangely, this trailer's not on Valve's own Youtube channel yet
 
5:44 AM
I really want to make an ad for this but I don't have a good image editor around. :/
 
Bob
6:24 AM
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Q: Black outlines in Borderlands

SejanusEvery model in borderlands has some sort of black contour lines around. Is there a way to turn them off? Couldn't find one in Options.

 
Bob
6:42 AM
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Q: In mid-battle leveling, does that mean you have to have revealed the whole map already?

corrodedI kinda get the point that what you simply do for say a level 10 boss is to: attack boss until his next hit will kill you. kill an enemy that will level you up(so you probably need to have 29/30 exp then kill a level 1 enemy) attack boss again etc I try this also but if you suddenly enter a s...

 
If you tried to get in touch with me in the last ~6 hours, try again
 
7:35 AM
@Powerlord Fun?
With science?
Monsters.
 
8:10 AM
I see Monday Night Combat is free this weekend on Steam. Anyone tried it?
 
 
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10:06 AM
bed intruder song comes to Rock Band.. with PRO KEYS!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5jpxlzv8r4
So you play absolutely perfectly with TAS-like precision and all you get is 3¼ stars?
 
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Q: Stack Exchange Rep Transferable for bounty purposes?

AdityaGameProgrammerCan the reputation earned on one stack Exchange site be used for hosting bounties in another?

 
10:50 AM
@failbadp Piracy funds terrorism? I thought piracy meant you got it for free, not pay for it.
 
@ArdaXi Well, to be completely honest, all tracker engines have ads.
 
Not the one I use.
 
I don't think they get enough enough to be in the positive however.
Private file sharing is more trouble than it's worth. Also, legally even murkier.
 
Why would I use BitTorrent?
It's not private. It's the most public form of filesharing. Predates even the Internet itself.
 
Because it blows the water off everything else I've tried when I need to download those Ubuntu ISOs?
 
10:55 AM
Try Usenet.
Constant speeds, whatever you're downloading.
 
I do notice that Usenet is kinda big in the NL area
All those ads for usenet on BT sites, however, just make it feel really really really murky.
 
@failbadp Brein (our copyright agency who think they're government) recently won a suit against the biggest Usenet community we had.
@failbadp That's UseNeXT. It's horrible.
 
Unlike regular public bittorrent, which is just really really murky.
 
All I know is I download at 11 MB/s with full 256-bit TLS encryption.
 
Sure, you don't know what is it you're downloading, but. you're sure getting it damn fast.
 
10:58 AM
That's the beauty, since we have a community for sharing files and locations.
Which is conveniently located on Usenet itself, so it can't be shut down.
 
So somebody volounteers to guinea pig for all the unverifiable shit that must be on there?
 
@failbadp Really, I don't think I've ever downloaded a bad NZB.
 
I mean, at least on BT, fake stuff isn't seeded and thus doesn't live for long.
 
All I know is that I've never downloaded a virus. Well, unless I go searching for the files on binsearch or something.
Whereas on BitTorrent it's quite a different question.
Plus, with torrents, if they're not seeded there's no way to get the content, whereas on Usenet, once it's posted it stays up there for about two years. (Making it also great for personal backups, assuming it's not confidential stuff)
 
11:40 AM
lol, I tried Frets on Fire with one of the (horrible) stock songs. After 2 minutes my score was still zero.
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Funny how message IDs in this room are almost sequential, regardless of how much time passes between messages.
 
Bob
12:14 PM
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Q: Is it possible to get the INT implant without leveling?

AndyIn trying for a perfect character everyone keeps going for 10 int but would it be possible to get the implant witout leveling? Can you go to the clinic and then return to goodsprings and start the quests? would it be possible to assemble 2000caps and go into vegas to get the remainder or would...

 
Bob
12:32 PM
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Q: Moving Fallout NV game saves between PS3s?

IainI'm at someone else's house for a week, and wanted to load my Fallout New Vegas saves on their PS3. I brought a few saves on a USB stick which I've copied with the 'Save Game Utility'. When I load the savefile in Fallout NV, I get: 'Warning: You are loading a save game that belongs to another us...

 
1:04 PM
@failbad > Can you re-pin the clickety message?
 
Anyone want a £10 EA online voucher?
 
@GnomeSlice I had to scavenge for it yesterday
 
I got it for my birthday off EA (which is tomorrow >.>) and i dont play games
 
Doesn't £10 buy anything on the store? You could start :)
 
@failbadp Well yeah but im on a mac and just dont have the time :)
 
1:05 PM
@failbadp ...Is that a yes?
 
Well here it is, a £10 EA online voucher for whoever gets there first: qa37ruyui :)
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Don't you have to have a UK credit-card in order to use those?
 
@ArdaXi no idea, i believe you can use paypal
 
@MylesGray Last time I tried to use a UK offer I had to have a friend in the UK buy it for me.
 
Oh i didnt know that, well there it is if you want it anyway :)
 
1:18 PM
insert bacon
...I keep seeing that starred, and hope it will do something...
 
Where's the option to receive it directly in my mouth?
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@SadlyNot ...Just a bit...
 
@GnomeSlice Just seeing if pps were still here :)
You saw nothing ... nothing!
 
@oraclecertifiedprofessional <late>Yes. It's kinda fun.</late>
 
1:27 PM
@SadlyNot I saw a suicidal pig.
 
MNC does have a bit of a learning curve, though... Play through the Tutorial before you try online mode.
 
hrm
how do you do an inline code block?
@ArdaXi Damn lol.
 
@SadlyNot 4 spaces in front. If you paste a considerable amount of code, it'll add a button next to send and upload that does it for you.
 
What if I want something like [this is my inline code] done?
 
It's Friday! (Not a link to that repulsive and awful song.)
 
1:39 PM
@Powerlord i've had a quick go on it, indeed it is kinda fun
 
@SadlyNot Oh, right. Backticks. `` `Like so.`
 
@ArdaXi ty :)
 
any chance MNC will be an option for a Saturday Game On?
 
lol
@LessPopMoreFizz NOOOOO IT'S NOT FRIDAY
 
@oraclecertifiedprofessional It'd be kinda short notice to change it.
 
1:47 PM
@SadlyNot EL LOOOOONGO LOOOOOOOOOOOOONGO WEEKEND
 
@Powerlord sorry I didn't mean this Saturday - i just meant on the list of possible games to choose for a game on
 
@oraclecertifiedprofessional Oh... maybe.
Lately we've been letting @badp run the show (GASP how could we!)
 
Tsk tsk
Someone thought that you couldn't modify graphics options because it's a part of the game.
 
@SadlyNot Do they come from a console background or something?
Speaking of graphics options and MNC, MNC reset my display to 4:3 when I started it last night, but claimed it was running in 16:10.
Made me switch graphics modes twice to fix it. :/
 
@Powerlord Options in borderlands.
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Q: Black outlines in Borderlands

SejanusEvery model in borderlands has some sort of black contour lines around. Is there a way to turn them off? Couldn't find one in Options.

 
1:52 PM
Specially, it told me it was running at 1920x1200 (which is my screen native resolution). No idea what it was actually running at to start.
 
Whoops, wrong link. Oh well.
 
www.zombo.com
You can do anything.
 
Exactly.
 
www.thinkwithportals.com <-- Portal 2 is only a month or so away! :D
 
www.timecube.com
EARTH HAS 4 CORNER

SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY

TIME CUBE

IN ONLY 24 HOUR ROTATION.

4 CORNER DAYS, CUBES 4 QUAD EARTH- No 1 Day God.
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1:55 PM
@SadlyNot ...lolwut?
 
@GnomeSlice GET WITH THE TIMES MAN. html5zombo.com
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@GnomeSlice Have you never seen TimeCube?
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Oh man.
@LessPop_MoreFizz Can't say so.
 
THE 12 HOUR OR 1/2 DAY CLOCK IS AN INTENDED EVIL AGAINST HUMANITY -

INDICTING EVERY HUMAN ON EARTH AS DUMB, EDUCATED STUPID AND EVIL -

FOR IMAGINARY CUBED EARTH HAS 4

DAYS WITHIN SIMULTANEOUS ROTATION.
I am schiz, schiz is me. I am schiz, wheee!
 
@SadlyNot Is this supposed to be in support of the 24-hour clock?
 
@GnomeSlice TimeCube is like... the Gold Standard for crazy man with a website.
 
1:58 PM
@GnomeSlice Honestly I don't know.
 
@GnomeSlice no. Very much no.
 
@GnomeSlice well @LessPopMoreFizz knows what I'm talking about.
 
"INDICTING EVERY HUMAN ON EARTH AS DUMB, EDUCATED STUPID AND EVIL - " ...
 
It's many novels worth of crazy.
 
That statement is countermanding itself.
 
1:58 PM
Like mind blowing.
And there's a link at the bottom, to another rant. Which also could fill a book shelf.
 
Oh wait, guess what it's called.
www.timecube.com/timecube2.html
 
Oh boy.
The Quicktime plugin was blocked because it is out of date.
 
@GnomeSlice Oh poop lol.
 
2:01 PM
Yvette's can't possibly be a real website.
 
That's the 'True Clock' according to Mr. Ray
 
But unfortunately, the 'artist' (WORLD FAMOUS SEAN TERRENCE BEST) who designed it is a real person.
So it would seem that it's legt.
See if you can find the map page on Yvettes. You'll shitbrix.
 
@LessPopMoreFizz Damn Harmonic analysts. They wouldn't be screwing so many things up if they had a real job.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz er... what's the number between 16 and 4?
 
@failbadp Eleventeen.
 
2:05 PM
makes sense
 
slevin maybe?
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Why does that give me an image not found graphic?
 
I'm off ttyall later.
 
Oh weird, that image is apparently blocked on me, but I don't get the usual block graphic.
 
@failbadp wat. Have you never seen a clock? 16=0.
 
2:09 PM
@LessPop_MoreFizz You're talking about TimeCube. Everything I know is wrong.
 
Has anyone managed to find the map on Yvette's yet?
 
You'd say 16 = 0 is natural?
@GnomeSlice I've seen it already, twice even, good enough for me =)
 
I can't believe how many pages of useless CRAP that the world famous artist Sean Terrence Best added onto the site.
There are pages of completely unrelated short stories, and other pages containing 'artworks' by the world famous artist Sean Terrence Best himself.
 
The bit I prefer of that page is «Began in 1997, and not 1 penny support.» What? Isn't 1 evil? Why would you want 1 penny?
 
Anyone here play Magicka?
^ The Town Grinder. (I've never played it myself, but a friend of mine uploaded this. :P)
 
2:13 PM
@GnomeSlice Yes.
 
I 'd.
 
@Powerlord Yeah, yeah.
 
2:23 PM
I'd forgotten about that video. :D
That's by the Autotune the News guys.
 
^ The Heavy is a Trololo!
 
@Powerlord What's funny is that Jimmy McMillian actually does write and perform his own campaign songs
 
Woo timecube
It's so ca-razy
 
Bob
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Q: Do dropped items in Minecraft decay, and if so how long?

spencervNew Minecraft player and I am trying to dump my wooden tools and rock tools now that I am smelting iron. My solution so far is to dig a hole away from my dwelling and dropping the items down in it. Do the items eventually decay?

 
2:38 PM
@GnomeSlice Man, a poem in Arial?
Give it some fancy pants Georgia love. Georgia italic love.
 
@failbadp Now all I need to do is go find some annoying-ass javascript, and put some on every page.
The prof is whack. She wants like flying stars, rubbery cursors, etc.
 
NOW WE KNOW WHY
@GnomeSlice you must do something for the greater good
 
@failbadp I'm not doing the js.
 
You must retag your professor, and apply the tag
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(NOT REALLY =_=)
 
Why can't people appreciate simplicity in their design?
 
2:41 PM
@YiJiang In all honesty, I'm not really sure what she appreciates.
 
dl.dropbox.com/u/1722364/Adjustment/adjustment.html would something like this work for the poem?
 
She spends a lot of time talking to us about the past-industry, and basically all we get out of it is that a bunch of stuff used to be done, and now we don't do it anymore.
@YiJiang You don't like Jabberwocky?
 
@YiJiang I think she's looking for unicorns and glittering gifs and bouncing text
 
@GnomeSlice I mean in terms of design
 
@YiJiang And it's supposed to be a children's story.
 
2:42 PM
and frames and blink and <new> icons
@GnomeSlice Comic Sans!
 
@failbadp Well then that's simple enough - CORNIFY!!!
 
@YiJiang It's supposed to have like 12 pages.
Mine doesn't have enough, but I don't care she's ridiculous.
 
@YiJiang You read my mind.
 
@GnomeSlice I suppose you'd never seen Google's 30 page online book?
 
@GnomeSlice You should try and redo what you have, all on the same page :)
 
2:43 PM
@failbadp It's supposed to have at least 10 separate pages.
:/
It doesn't even have enough as it is.
 
@GnomeSlice Use a template
 
@YiJiang I did. I used a Weebly template. :P
 
@GnomeSlice Why not?
 
For ten pages of text... well, it'll be at least 1000 words
 
@YiJiang There's the thing, it's supposed to be a children's story/nursery rhyme/ poem/ choose your own adventure
 
2:45 PM
@GnomeSlice I laughed when I saw the design... then go to puke in the toilet when I glanced at the source code
 
@GnomeSlice Cornify.
 
@YiJiang :(
 
Bob
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Q: Will the Mad Catz Portable Drum Kit pedal work with RB 3 drums?

Grasa TotalThe title kinda says it all-- I was thinking about getting a Portable Drum Kit for my Xbox, and was surprised to see lots of praise for the kick drum pedal that comes with it. If I get it, can I use that as a second pedal with my RB3 drums?

 
Choose your own adventure: Sarah Palin's Presidency Adventure!
 
@GnomeSlice I'll choose not to play. VICTORY!
 
2:46 PM
@Brant Now I get it.
Argh. Back to work.
 
@GnomeSlice Ars' April Fools CYOA last year: arstechnica.com/staff/nate/2010/04/tentacular-tentacular.ars
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@YiJiang You mean because of the size of the text, and scarcity of it, right?
 
Or you could add a Dickbar
 
@Brant ....Is that sfw?
 
@GnomeSlice Its entirely inappropriate for a children's site, though to be fair the poem isn't exactly for children either
 
2:47 PM
yeah, it's named after twitter's new CEO, not that other thing.
 
@YiJiang No, not really. I was going for simplicity.
 
I don't think she's going to like the poem. She hates "junk text". Anyone who uses lorem ipsum as a placeholder gets raged at.
 
@GnomeSlice: Use this.
 
@GnomeSlice Well then, I don't know what she wants. Rip Winnie the Pool or something similar off into a website format?
I did web application building in school two years ago... and decided make a SO clone :D
 
2:51 PM
@YiJiang Beats me. She's the resident crazy lady prof.
 
use fillerati.com - it takes text from actual dead trees
 
Nobody in the program has actually taught us any design yet. We've just been learning how to develop.
 
@GnomeSlice They're two different things, really. I barely know anything about design, but I develop for a living.
(in fact I should be now, but here I am on SE chat)
 
I do a lot of both
 
@Brant The program is called Interactive Multimedia Developer.
But I'm not very good at design.
:/
Or developing, for that matter.
 
2:53 PM
@GnomeSlice :|
 
I do well at flash animation, and my photography is alright.
But I can't design a website to save my life.
 
HTML is weird. You'll get the hang of it.
 
It really isn't that hard - markup is easy
 
HTML course was last semester, this semester's web-related code was Javascript, and now more advanced CSS than last year.
 
Shouldn't CSS come before JavaScript?
 
2:56 PM
Eh, doesn't matter too much
 
I'm terribad at design.
 
@YiJiang We did CSS last semester. This year we mostly focussed on JS, right now we're doing things like dropshadow, textshadow, and modifying CSS with JS.
 
Oh, and shameless plug - anyone want to read Adjustment Team, the short story that inspired The Adjustment Bureau? dl.dropbox.com/u/1722364/Adjustment/adjustment.html
 
@YiJiang Oh, is that what that was?
 
@GnomeSlice Hopefully border-radius, and not four layers of divs layered on top of each other to create that effect?
 
2:58 PM
@YiJiang Yes.
I'm in Actionscript class right now.
I'm probably going to fail. :/ I'm way behind.
 
@GnomeSlice Apparently the copyright on the story has expired, so I pulled the text from a link in the Wiki page and gave it some nice CSS to make it readable
 
In any case, my Jabberwocky isn't going to get a whole lot better than that. I'm probably already going to lose marks for not having enough pages.
 
3:20 PM
^ Deadly Premonition - 8 Bit Whistle Tune C64
 
Speaking of catchy music: youtube.com/watch?v=hPhFc6GqVdU
 
3:36 PM
So that free game backdoors question reminded me of something deep in my gray pizza-eating arcade-game-playing past. Do you do in here?
 
Bob
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Q: Dragon Age 2 Hawke dealing little to no damage

AVGThis is incredibly frustrating, but Hawke is no longer dealing damage. I'm towards the end of the game and don't want to start over. I've switched out weapons, armor, etc. everything I could think of. I tried using the cheat in the developer console to bring Hawke to a level 2 warrior and then us...

 
@MichaelMyers Yes, and on the site too
 
I have very little detail
 
@failbadp youtube.com/watch?v=ROM1Q3vzWlg one of my favourite
 
@MichaelMyers Well, is it better or worse than "Game from 1990 with MIDI music"?
Then we've seen worse.
 
3:38 PM
Hmm... Better, I think.
 
(We've closed better questions than that though... probably.)
Meh, what's there to lose? Ask away, worse that happens we'll use the question to ridicule you at every turn.
 
"What's the game at that pizza place... you know, the one I went to a lot... anyway, what's the game that one time malfunctioned and let everyone play it for free?"
 
@MichaelMyers Arkanoid.
 
GENIUS!
No.
 
:/
Well, some more detail perhaps?
 
3:40 PM
Western theme. Give me a minute and I'll write it up all proper-like.
Or at least the first level was. The second was hot air balloons and I was way too bad to even get that far most of the time.
 
@failbadp I suggest you not ridicule Michael Myers... I mean, you know what he did in Halloween, right? :)
theregister.co.uk/2011/03/18/rsa_breach_leaks_securid_data <-- OK, this isn't good... I have at least one SecureID token.
@failbadp: What was that? Speak up! I didn't hear you!
@MichaelMyers btw, I know that description was a joke, but most arcade machines have a switch inside to activate free play mode.
Usually inside the coinbox locked area.
 
@Powerlord How'd you insert credits then?
 
@failbadp I think you hit the 1p start button or such. I don't remember.
That makes me wonder, as it actually matters for some games, like Gauntlet where each credit gives you more life.
 
@Powerlord Well, apparently the employees didn't know this, because it was free for at least two or three weeks before they finally put an Out of Order sign on it.
 
Hmm, I think I'm bored enough to make a TF2 plugin that enforces a random rule change at the beginning of each round.
It'd be funny to have one round where gravity is suddenly really low.
and the next has normal gravity, but friendly fire is on.
or even more exotic effects... I'll have to see what fun things are in the SourceMod engine.
 
3:59 PM
@Powerlord So, a TF2 version of
Mao (also sometimes called Mü, Maw, Mile, 5-Card Mao, Chairman Mao, Chairman, The Chairman's Game, Dictator, Point of Order, Bjorn, Maul, Maal, Maui, Mauii, Peebo, Mau, King Mao, Meow, or Moneyclip) is a card game of the Shedding family, in which the aim is to get rid of all of the cards in hand without breaking certain unspoken rules. The game is from a subset of the Stops family, and is similar in structure to the card game Uno or Crazy Eights. The game forbids its players from explaining the rules, and new players are often told only "the only rule you may be told is this one." The ult...
 
@Powerlord Fun for snipers, you mean.
 
Bob
4:19 PM
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Q: Are there any inventory limits for equipment in DQ IX?

Chad BirchDo I need to worry about keeping my equipment collection in DQ9 below any sort of limit? I haven't seen any indication in-game that I'm running out of space, but I'm not sure if it's actually infinite or not, and I don't want to risk losing an item because I accidentally maxed out my inventory.

 
Hmm. I have a possible candidate for the game I was trying to think of, but Wikipedia only has a stub and all the references are blocked by our great firewall, even though it's lunchtime.
 
@failbadp "This round, 50% of sniper rifle damage is reflected back to the shooter"
Surprise, motherf***ers!
 
@MichaelMyers Well, maybe we can help you around that
 
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Q: Identify old (90s?) Western arcade game

mmyersThis question got me thinking about the only time I have personally seen an arcade game let people play for free. I think it was sometime in the early to mid 1990s. This game, at least the first level, was a Old West 2D shooter where the hero (or heroes, up to four players I think) walked down m...

 
Bob
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Q: Identify old (90s?) Western arcade game

mmyersThis question got me thinking about the only time I have personally seen an arcade game let people play for free. I think it was sometime in the early to mid 1990s. This game, at least the first level, was a Old West 2D shooter where the hero (or heroes, up to four players I think) walked down m...

 
4:29 PM
Yes, that one. I am beginning to suspect that this Bob character is actually a robot.
 
@MichaelMyers Bob won't even dignify that accusation with a response.
 
This requires a challenge.
 
I really still think we need to have a poll to determine a new name for the feedbot. bob is so lame.
Anyone?
 
@GnomeSlice My sentiments exactly. I mean, come on, the JavaScript room has kitteh, the name bob is so lame compared to that
 
4:34 PM
@YiJiang You want the kitteh?
you like the kitteh?
 
@bob should be @fishman.
 
Just backronym Bob awesomely. That's your challenge.
 
Of 'Pro Wrestling' Fame.
 
kitteh!
 
4:35 PM
Fishman.
 
Manfish
 
Honestly, I did try coming up with an awesome name, but you guys have really tiny monitors.
 
Is that supposed to be Lego?
 
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A: Identify old (90s?) Western arcade game

OzmahI'm not entirely sure, but I believe you're referring to Sunset Riders This game almost entirely fits your description, and it was in the early 90's :)

Wikipedia has zero screenshots and again, all the links are blocked (this isn't the one I thought it might be). Can somebody with a more forgiving filter rehost one or two on imgur?
 
4:46 PM
@MichaelMyers You can just copy the url and do that yourself, no? Regardless...
 
@MichaelMyers Assist ♪ (Note, I only rehosted it on imgur after seeing your chat message, mind you ♪)
 
Yeah, I didn't see Grace Note's addition until afterward.
Hmm... No, that doesn't look like it unless it's a screen from a much later level where they're given horses.
Wiki says they start out walking. Still, I don't think the characters look right.
 
Its the start screen of the game, isn't it? With the 'insert coin' at the top
 
I'd guess that's the auto play
Can someone look up Blood Bros. on GameFaqs? It looks like it might be the one, based on the screens from Cabal. (Edit: Grace Note did, and it isn't.)
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz I was thinking that the current rule would be announced.
Possibly having it mentioned periodically in the text.
It would be funny to enforce a melee-only round. :D
Or even better, make the rules cumulative, so each previous rounds' rules still apply.
 
4:56 PM
This is great. 8-bit games with realistic sound effects.
 

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