I would like to suggest you watch the first three seconds of this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0S92Fs5gOg

How did this SEGA Genesis Game achieve the "Impossible"?

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@mcc i've always wondered why arpeggios with delay are universally synonymous with the imparting of factual information. you see it everywhere, in documentaries, video game scores, etc. maybe the repeating patterns are kinda like a clock signal for your brain to latch their infodump by

@jk @mcc

That sound reminds me of tv/radio news in the '60s and '70s (and later) where there was often some beeping staccato thing that had a telegraph newswire quality.

It's the sound of "here comes important information! "

@jamesbritt @mcc yeah! cf. wichita lineman