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From what I recall, the first time I saw ‘rainbow capitalism’ from a big brand was this image from Oreo in 2012.

It created a lot of controversy. Calls for boycotts and such. But Oreo didn’t take it down. They were unapologetic and didn’t try to appease the homophobes or backtrack.

And I know this sounds weird, but it was like a shift. Proof that public opinion or acceptance of queerness was widespread enough for a company to consider it profitable.

At Kohl’s we got a corporate email that said if we get complaints about our Pride merchandise to tell the customer a cheap ‘thanks for your suggestion’, which I really enjoy, because that’s the closest the company has ever come to telling customers to eat it.

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You can tell it's a proper indie horror RPGMaker game because the menu confirmation sound is moist.

> the developer laughs > “It’s a good UI, sir”

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Other essential features of the indie horror RPGMaker audio identity include, but are not limited to:

  1. downtempo solo piano
  2. sound effect that's like "shoof shoof shoof" used for multiple unrelated purposes
  3. fucked up circus music
  4. fade to black followed by macaroni noises, then when it fades back in everything is all gross
  5. tension-building soundtrack piece where the violins are playing backwards
  6. combat engine where the sound effects for the attacks consistently lag ever so slightly behind their animations
  7. late-game boss fight where the "music" is atmospheric drone and the menu noises get really loud
  8. that one specific royalty-free sound of a switch being flipped, you know the one
  9. public domain recording of 1920s pop music digitally pitch-shifted into a minor key
  10. recurring motif that's just an extremely bitcrushed clip of a dude going "weh"

I thought I'd try to give this another go! I still think the one from 2016 is nice, but it's been 7 years so I thought it might be time to try it again ;P

also a bonus gayer one:

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