DEBIAN ODDYSSEY (part two!)...so I went to the i386 version of 8.04 LTS instead, which wasn't bad, but the brightness control didn't work no matter how hard I tried, which severely limited its usage as a portable computer. That I couldn't have, and after transferring all the files from my old laptop for the second time I was getting bored, so I decided to take the downtime I had to mess around with some different Linux distros that I hadn't tried before.
So, because I like apt and all, I wanted to stay with Debian-based stuff, so obviously I tried Debian 5. It was pretty nice, and even though it didn't have some of the stuff I liked, I could obviously add it later on. In fact, the only thing I didn't really like was having to go though ndiswrapper to get my wireless card working again, which isn't really a headache, but I figured I'd save Debian for later, maybe in a desktop installation.
From there I tried Linux Mint, which is just sort of an optimized Ubuntu variant. I suppose it's nice enough if you can't just go "sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras" on your own, but I was exploring now, so I figured I'd give it a shot. And honestly, I didn't think so much of it once I'd gotten into it: the GUI for the program installer was pretty inefficient, and actually locked up a couple times, and I wasn't impressed by the default configuration of GNOME. It sort of felt like a quasi-KDE environment... which is fine, I suppose, but I use GNOME because I don't care for KDE. Skipped over Mint pretty quickly, actually...
...and then just went to the i386 version of Ubuntu 9.04. Now everything is stable, all my programs have been transferred over, and everything is working well. Feels Good ManTM.
And I found a copy of Rez at a local Gamestop, which was totally awesome! It's really very cool. I think that if you own a PS2 you should at least see it.
Egghead
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And it's all different colors, and it pulsates and changes color and the controller vibrates with the music, so if you really just concentrate on the game for a while you actually start to feel the effects.
Well, I did, at least. I was listening to the soundtrack a day later in my car, and I was getting fairly strong mental images of colors and shapes in time with the music. So it either really does induce synthesia - to a limited extent - or it's just really strong image association.
But yeah, see if you can find it used somewhere. It might cost a bit, because it was an early PS2 title and it got a reputation for being one of those really good out-there games. I paid $20 for it at Gamestop, so be prepared.
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