Lord Error Prone

@JRPG_me @DanielOlimac @bnd_studio I'm gonna have to rewrite so much shit if it's on 1999...

@DanielOlimac @bnd_studio It felt very 1999, so I hope that’s correct.

Btw, Mixtape seems to be set in '99. That's according to the date on the CD sticker in the pause menu. I see a lot of people discussing and wondering when is the game set exactly... Right @bnd_studio ?

@xoBaeTrishox I may of may not be writing a fic specifically about that trait

In my head, Stacey & Cass really do care for one another! Not only does she put her head on Stacey's shoulder in the car sequence, Cassandra also states Stacey's love for music made her like her & she finds people that have passion "hot" XD #Mixtape #Annapurna #PS5Pro #PS5Share

It's always funny watching people run the "This is why we don't share 🏴‍☠️ site names 😌" gimmick over comic sites. Motherfucker they named it READ COMICS FOR FREE ONLINE.

@Ancapta @synthetican1mal @DGDtheSequel Give me vim bindings for Google docs and we are golden

@synthetican1mal @DGDtheSequel text editor for people who love keyboards more than they love themselves

any piece of writing that needs footnotes is far too serious to write in fucking Google Docs

@d4nnytye I thought that was the dad from Mixtape for half a second. I may need to be euthanized.

they’re selling ww1 YA gay romance at the imperial war museum. woke victory

@xoBaeTrishox Try putting Hey by Pixies somewhere

Another Mixtape song insert! So...while this isn't exactly a 90's song, when Stacey was floating backwards? All I thought in my head was "The Scientist" song from Coldplay xD had a little laugh while recording this <3 #Mixtape #Annapurna #BeethovenandDinosaur #Coldplay #PS5Share

@GenePark @TheCartelDel As someone who ''came of age" during Covid, I enjoyed Mixtape as a way of loving an experience I didn't really get to have. I would love art capturing the feeling of having all my expectations shattered like that and having to just keep going.

@TheCartelDel like i’m old af. i already know these vibes natively. im actually VERY curious how coming of age feels in the early 2000s! i would play the hell out of that

Great point. It's lovely to enjoy the nostalgia of Stranger Things, Arcade Paradise, and Mixtape. But the 80/90s made movies about the 80/90s, and the 2000s made games about being in the 2000s. Is it safe to request some game titles about about living in the 2020s without making this a Waffles vs Pancakes discourse?

@GenePark I think for this game it would kinda be momentum killing to stop and replay a section.

i will defend mixtape: that clip going around of the no fail state running? imo it actually shows multiple fail states. sometimes the point of a linear narrative is to act out ie “play” the scene so it feels right. not controlling and letting stacey crash looks bad! failure!

EVERYONE!!!! GET THE BOOZE!!!!WE'RE LEAVING THIS TOWN NOW!!! WHAT??!?! IMPOSIBLE!!! THIS ISN"T MY SKATEBOARD!!! OH NO!!!!! CD PLAYER!!!

@StrungShort Is Cass's favorite song on there? I forget what she said.

I used a let's play to put these in order. Im gonna make a YouTube version too since there are 6 tracks missing on Spotify. Also, I removed "Dare" since I wasn't sure if/where that is, and the "tongue" song since it's not on her tape. #Mixtapegame open.spotify.com/playlist/1ejt1…

@MoiDawg stories we hear about what that time of life is like affect our expectations of it. I graduated during Covid so I didn't do any of the stuff in the game. Even if there hadn't been a pandemic I couldn't have. It's still real tho, standing in the edge of the rest of your life

I feel like this is an odd take. Why does it matter where you were or what you look like? The mix of technology and ability to disappear with your friends is why this time was so special. It's what Mixtape distills down for you. I grew up in Dubai, went to a one-room school house in Busan, attended a Catholic school in Japan, and then graduated high school in Singapore. But I was a 90s kid. You have things like a CD player, but you need to thoughtfully make a playlist and burn it for your boyfriend/girlfriend way ahead of time. You can access high-end tech at your school, but you can also discover a tiny little hidden drinking spot to chill and be away from literally everyone without phones or internet. Did you not sneak out at night and just lay with your friends out on the sidewalk or behind some random parking lot and stare at the night sky chatting about nothing? I don't play this and put myself in Stacy's shoes. I play this and enjoy her story for what it is, but what's more powerful is how the game let's you relive all the moments that you had when you were her age. The game let's you linger with the memories. It let's you explore your own past as she's exploring hers. When you're allowed to mix your own memories with hers is when this really hits. If it doesn't hit for you, it doesn't hit. But I don't think you need to be a music nerd from NorCal to enjoy this game.

@Damac1214 "games are art" often means "take me and my hobby seriously"

“Games are art” until you see (not play) a clip of a game doing something slightly off the beaten path

@hyxkkimxru @bnd_studio Does this include the songs that ended up not getting played like Cass's favorite song?

I MADE IT, might not be in order but i tried my best (ill probably update it once i replay the game tonight) #Mixtape

@CosmicEntityTV @Cade_Onder Yeah, and it rules! The game already toes the line with reality. The imagined scene in the parking lot where Tracey remembers the man on the roof before that happens, then we get to see it happen for real in the hazy video recording.

Idk where i read it but someone said something like “it feels like a someone born in 2003 trying to memorialize their older siblings with half remembered stories and what they wished it was like” and my first thought was “yeah it felt like my little brother telling me about 97” lol 😂

I’ve really enjoyed playing Mixtape. Love the atmosphere, the story, and the music. I get the critiques of the gameplay (or lack thereof) and think that’s valid… but the rest of the reaction to the game is the most overblown, absurd response I’ve seen to a game in a while.

@CosmicEntityTV @Cade_Onder Its using the shape of the 90s, but in my opinion, its using this to paint a very universal feeling story.

@CosmicEntityTV @Cade_Onder I think there's an interesting point about the lack of authenticity. I don't think it's really trying to be accurate to the 90s. This isn't a bad thing to me. I'm graduating college this week and the game felt true to me, even though I'm so far divorced from the setting.

@CosmicEntityTV @Cade_Onder Not a very serious idea in my part, I more so think that there's not as much framework for discussing the more "art-games" as much as there is the other.

@CosmicEntityTV @Cade_Onder I don't mean it as a negative. I think there's might be a line between "video game" as in an example of an interactive piece of art on a computer and the idea of a "game" which as existed for millennia.

@vexrook @chlo3punk I interpreted Slater and Stacey's relationship as them maybe having had minor crushes on each other at separate times. But oh man, the final hand holding scene is heartbreaking to me. Its such a strong moment and its amplified by how you as Tracey have to make the choice to end.

@LordErrorProne @chlo3punk Dunno, looked pretty split between both. Both get some hand holding and meaningful private moments. Last scene with hand holding is Slater too. I dunno, it's just how I saw it.

Are they gay👀

@CosmicEntityTV @Cade_Onder The average gamer has a very rules-based view of how games should be, and I think that plays into this. A game needs to have difficulty settings; a game needs to offer the option to run at whatever resolution the player wishes it to run at.

I agree for the most part, I think "art game" is the perfect descriptor. The "its not a game" argument seems to be the surface level of the critical response to the game. The same as it was with Stanley parable, Gone Home or Edith Finch. "this is just a movie" was said about FFXIII as well, haha. from what i've seen, At least on this site, Certain types of people just hate sincerity in art, or wholesome displays of emotion from people who enjoy things. It's fine, they can just go play demon souls.