Effects of the RD loop + Beat Hazard

I tried the Rainbow Dash loop yesterday.  I was a bit distracted, however, so I had few effects for the first two hours.  It was at this point that somepony mentioned strobe lights helping them with trancing.  It makes sense; the strobe can be set to around the same frequency as the Binaural, so you are just triggering two senses to stimulate brain waves, rather than one.  (I'll to more research on this though)

Regardless, hearing that brought one idea to mind.  I HAD to play the RD file in the game Beat Hazard.

Beat Hazard is one of a genre of games which produce the game level based on a song.  The best known in that genre is Audiosurf (which I love).  Beat Hazard is a 2D shooter with a limited enemy list, but the visuals are even more likely to cause an epileptic fit than Audiosurf.

So I went ahead, turned the visuals up to 200%, the difficulty to Hardcore, and put on the RD hypnosis track.  Personally, a drum beat at the same frequency as the Binaural would have helped, but even so, it was quite an experience.  The competition aspect helped, and the rainbow colors knocked out any part of my head interested in thinking.  It was just me, and the game... me, and the game.

End result, quite a few mental effects but almost no physical (couldn't let hooves lover my score).  The competitiveness, desire to be recognized (I told everyone on IRC), desire to do even better... it was all there. No voice change, but I never have had any before.  Still, powerful mental effects.

I had to stop soon after however.  Upon reporting a score on the IRC, somepony (I don't remember who) said "That was average."  When I returned, unable to beat my previous record and feeling very down about it, said pony said "NOOB," along with many other things.

Let this be a lesson to you all.  Rainbow Dash plus the word Noob equals rage.  It took me 30 minutes to realize that I needed to stop obsessing over beating that time, and nother 2 hours after I stopped to get out of RD mindset and look at it rationally.  The Twi file helped a bit...

I'll try the RD file again next week, preferably away from video games.

Summary: Beat Hazard give awesome visuals, RD + video games = obsession, and be VERY careful to be kind on IRC.