I worked at a Subway in a small town from ages 16 to 19, the owners and manager always made sure we had two closers and asked us to make sure each of us got to our cars safely after closing. Often the manager would visit around closing just to make double sure we were okay. I didn't realize how lucky we were to have people looking out for us as kids. It's horrible how common these kinds of crimes are.
I was 15 and they let me close by myself. I had some traumatizing interactions waiting outside in the dark on the concert because I wasn’t allowed to wait inside.
Most of the restaurants I worked had a policy where you couldn’t take out the trash/leave out the back door at night for safety, we just put the garbage next to the front doors for morning shift to throw out, and I’ve never had to close alone at night they always had two closers one of them usually being a manager or at least a shift lead.
You're very lucky. I once called out my old manager for having two 16 yrs old girls closing by themselves and how horribly unsafe that was, and she fired me for it. 🫠
no one underage should be closing stores, much less on their own, 16yos are still kids, even someone at 18 should have someone older/more experienced with them. Going to take this a step further and say underaged workers shouldn't work alone ever.
imo, this is less about luck or privilege, and more about it being a travesty that most people don't have that safety. it should be mandatory to protect and check in on your employees like this.
42:56 For Mark, and anyone else who didn't know, the guy who turned around on the bus wasn't looking at the girl. He was looking at the stalker sitting behind her.
The barista element is a clever way to accentuate the fear. There's nothing _scary_ about it, but it's designed to require a lot of your attention, so your brain gets distracted with that and any horror elements thus stick out like a sore, uncanny thumb. Great design: give the player something to occupy their mind and give them a "normal" so that the weird stuff is weird _to the game itself,_ not just to what we'd expect from real life.
I absolutely loved the one section where the schoolgirls were talking in the background while the two fellows up front were talking about their order. It's rare to see thought given to a sort of red herring moment and also gives that scene a lot of life. We all have moments when we overhear something that we aren't necessarily supposed to be focused on, but focus on anyways. It was such a small but powerful way to reinforce the atmosphere and the threat of the stalker.
This game is brilliant. While it also provides horror elements, it also raises awareness to how women are harassed so frequently. I don’t usually enjoy horror games however this one is very well designed.
The interaction with the woman at 45:34 was such a wholesome breath of fresh air tbh. Even though the bracelets were a scam, she gave something she believed was genuine.
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@@Kait07_ some ppl rlly do believe in it. i think having faith in something (religious or not) is nice, but the real problem is those who take advantage of that belief imo
58:10 Mark is the ONLY person so far that I've seen play this game that put two and two together that the woman was pushing an empty stroller and sniffling. She's clearly in denial and grieving.
@@Mant111 You clearly didn't pay attention to what he just said, when she comes into the shop later, the baby is not in the pram, so it stands to reason that the child died of hypothermia based on the previous encounter that you just mentioned. The sniffling explains why she has the empty pram, denial.
Things Mark has to deal with in this game: weirdass customers getting insulted getting creeped on constant condescension always working alone unreasonable work expectations customers complaining about price weirdass drink orders & people who don't know the name of the drink they want Going into denial "I'm fine with this." Whoever made this game has worked in food service before.
What's the unreasonable work expectation? The barista seems to be pretty slow before closing so the girl is able to accomplish all her necessary tasks in a timely manner, and she's not being asked to do anything you're average cashier doesn't do.
Or in retail. I've had to deal with all of these things working in retail granted I do work in food service in a retail store but our cashiers and floor workers also have to as well.
There’s the horror aspect of having a stalker after you but there’s elements of psychological horror related to dealing with creepy costumers, a fast paced job and a boss that doesn’t care about your well being at all.
@@n4t39 Yeah man. Everytime a customer went in the building. I thought bro your scary. But then we see on the train ride, the guy looking back. He is not the stalker. He was was looking at the real stalker. Who was behind the girl. Which we can get a glimpse of if we turn back to look at him after the bus ride through the window as it drives away. Giving more fear of people are creepy. But really their hiding the real creepy ones. Which makes a perfect mix for a horror element and game. It's so real.
@@DrDolan2000 someone else should get permission from him and actually do that haha mark's too busy with movies and stuff to do that sort of thing i think
as a starbucks barista this game really hits hard because we deal with creeps so often. its our job to be overly nice and a lot of customers misread that as flirting. i currently have a customer im about to report to my manager because he will not stop harassing me. its gotten to the point where he gets upset if anyone else but me takes his order. this game is so scary because its so so unfortunately realistic and i hate that this is the reality we live in where this is an actual possibility
i feel you. i used to work at a starbucks, i had proof of someone harassing and stalking me even at work, and management said they couldn’t do anything because he hadn’t laid a hand on me or said it in the store when they were around. it truly is the scariest feeling, someone watching you constantly. i wish you the best of luck
some men can get so lonely, any kindness shown from the opposite sex is amplified due to their high sensitivity from not having received any female attention. if they're mentally ill and obsessive it can turn them into threatening stalkers. *loneliness and mental illnesses go in hand.* not worth the risk at all, unfortunately you must learn the slight differences in your vocal tone and facial expressions. avoid eye contact, seem a bit aloof yet still attentive enough to receive orders without disrespect, etc. in other words, don't overly be welcoming to the man. imo all women should carry forms of self-defense, it boggles my mind how in some countries like the UK, a mere pepper spray is illegal.
"Am I in danger or am I just gonna be annoyed?" is pretty much THE experience of working any type of customer service especially in late evenings and nights.
I don't miss delivering to the ghetto at 2 AM with no porch lights on or house numbers for blocks. I also don't miss people trying to get in my car while I'm pulling away from a house, or sitting at a stop sign.
Spoilers: for people that didnt notice, there is actually two different "stalkers". the first stalker is the long tall guy with the creepy face, who we are introduced with at the beginning that we helped return his phone. we see him after we get off the bus, and also when he comes into the coffee shop once and doesnt buy anything and just sits the whole time and then leaves. the second stalker is the man in the hoodie. he is the one that creepily stands outside the store windows as we talk with the old man at the register. he also then comes in and orders pastries and a bunch of milk, and sits in the blind spot of the store and leaves the photo of us on the table. it is then revealed that HE is the one who has been living in the back of the store. so in conclusion to clear things up, the phone guy stalker, is the one that actually physically tries to attack us and depending on what ending you get, murders us; and the second stalker, hoodie dude, is the milk guy that was snapping pics of us and living in the store, but doesnt actually physically harm us. you can tell they are two different men bc 1. their faces are very different (hoodie guy is much younger looking and generally has a nicer looking face) 2. phone stalker guy and also the one that jumpsacres us at the closing sign (and eventually attacks us) is like 6'6" whereas hoodie milk guy is only around 5'6". you can tell the height difference by comparing when each walk into the cafe and walk past the bookcases by the door! 3. their clothes Anyways-just thought i'd share this since i dont think i've watched one lets player who actually came to this realization that there were two different stalkers!
I thought the hoodie guy was actually just a red herring, or working with the scary stalker, I didn't consider that there could be two... maybe it was him that took the bodies?
Yeah, is very interesting how there were two stalker following the MC, but there's other men being creepy too, like the "nice" guy that ask for MC's phone number and the one that stares at you in the bus (42:56). I feel this game was made with the idea that male players can understand how dangerous the world is for a woman that is on her own, the paranoia that every man could a potencial r*pist and murderer
I think the worst part is at 1:04:18 due to what happened, like its not explicity stated but you can tell by the dmg effect and nois ewhat the man is doing to the woman, it fucking terrifys me.
The thing that makes this feel like a horror game are how easily the game strips you of comfort. I always check the back of my car before I get in, I don't walk around after dark unless at least two people know where I'm at, and I make sure all the doors I can lock are locked. I've worked terrible fast food jobs where I've been harassed by coworkers, and I've been yelled at by a customer until my manager had to get involved. That's the reality of working night shift as a woman in a customer service job. That's why this game is so disarming; the danger compounds with the high-pressure environment and uncomfortable situations. You can't just quit. You can't just run away. You're forced to work alone, unprotected, while people stare creepily at you from across the lobby. You can't always take safety precautions if you want to keep your job.
goddamn... job first, safety later?? That sucks. People need to get priorities straight and protect their staff, this should be illegal. Can't they provide you with some sort of weapon for self-defense? Or just not have people do solo closing-shifts? Honestly, regardless of gender, nobody should solo close-shift for danger reasons and accountability reasons, it's honestly just so bullshit what people have to go through to keep their job and get paid. I'm so sorry. All we can do is tough it out and fight for our safety it used to be (and someplaces still is) women's rights now ig it's women's safety! jeez
Thank you! I knew that this game felt familiar, that explains it. I’ve never worked as a barista but I have worked later at night at an archery range. And it got uh… uncomfy at times. Especially since sometimes I was the only one presenting female.
This is what and why I tell other people or ladies the advice I try to give when I can. Never give up or let someone take your feeling of safety away. There are always options or opportunities you can do or take to prevent these situations. If people give up too soon, then that dreadful thing will happen. I've been there and I know what it's like but I told myself never again. I got a different job if the one I had wasn't working, I took safety precautions, I got protection either by weapon or by people, and I put myself in the mindset even though the world is more dangerous for someone like me. I wouldn't let that stop me from living a normal life and not in fear. Even when I've had a few scary moments. I put on my determine, crazy aura that you better leve me be or one of us is dying today and it ain't gonna be me! That right there works everytime if nothing else because you are letting the person know you don't fear them. Even if something happens, you won't let them take that fight out of you! This is my advice and advice everyone should give no matter what! There are always options, never let anyone or anything make you feel otherwise.
@@KaySaly to add to one of your points, making somewhat of a scene can also have the benefit of making you seem like more trouble than it's worth, instead of an easy target, and it seems like sometimes that's good enough for someone to leave you alone
Imagine being such a dedicated barista that all the lights go out and scary demon people come in to your store while you're all alone, and you just continue to make latte after latte like an absolute champ
@@tpd1864blake It was definitely supposed to be a nightmare. The clock outside the window is the same as the alarm clock when the character wakes up in their bed afterwards.
That’s always the annoying part of watching mark play horror games…it’s sometimes like he physically can’t get invested unless it’s a FNaF game or a game with an obvious and active threat…and even then he has an annoying habit of antagonizing said threat
Fr, I had a coworker tell me that in the past, customers have threatened to shoot cashiers over really small things. She never said they had a gun, so I don't know if they had anything, but like that's just so INSANE! Once it was because the cashier didn't put bags in a cart like what??
As strange/amusing as it is when Mark yells random threats such as "I'LL EAT YOUR SPLEEN!!", it's actually a pretty good survival tactic. If you can convince people around you that you're batshit crazy, 9 times out of 10 they'll leave you alone, even if they were interested in you before.
This actually isn't true - statistics prove that mentally ill people are much more likely to be harassed, attacked, or killed compared to people who aren't mentally ill, and people assumed to be mentally ill / behavior associated with mental illness is often seen as threatening and criminalized (as many mentally ill people risk having the police called on them for visibly exhibiting symptoms). The rhetoric that "acting crazy" will get people you leave you alone is blatantly untrue if you look into actual studies into violence and mental health, and is based in bigoted stereotypes; in reality, it typically puts you in more danger to be perceived as mentally ill.
This game is so terrifyingly accurate in capturing the feeling that so many women get at work, or even just going to their car. I switched to a mid shift at work and now that it gets dark by 4pm, I stay near a camera when I'm outside on my break, and I walk to my car with my keys between my fingers--Wolverine style. Where I work we get a lot of creepy guys, and due to multiple interactions with multiple of these types, I often find myself thinking of exit routes in the store. "How fast can I get to the break room? Will anyone be in there to help? What about the Manager's office, or the utility room? If I need to, I can hide behind these large boxes in this shelf..." The managers don't do anything about these customers, because a sale is a sale...
That’s fucking awful, I’m a 4’9 Latina girl so I’m always watching my back because I know I’m clearly an easy target since I’m so small. I’m considering getting one of those extendable batons for protection because I’m just personally uncomfortable with potentially having a taser or g*n. Plus, those things can still do a lot of damage and decent whack would probably make someone think twice about messing with me.
@@gabbykabins4333 you should reconsider atleast the taser, it's better to have something that doesn't take alot if force to use, and you can still use it as long as both your arms aren't constrained, even if you are grabbed, or something like a knife that can break the skin and cause more damge easily
If owning and open or concealed carrying a gun is legal in your state, I highly recommend getting one. It's worst case scenario, but if something does happen then you'll have a much better chance of deterring someone from attacking, or stopping an active attacker. A taser is better if you aren't comfortable with guns or the idea of shooting someone, and *most* people will be incapacitated when they get tased. Pepper spray is also effective, although its less desirable since the attacker could be wearing goggles or a mask of some sort that would make pepper spray much less effective.
NEVER assume the killer is dead, he is more likely knocked out. Tie him up after checking that he isn't dead, then you can call the cops. Just make sure he can't escape easily.
Honestly. I work as a barista and we had a customer who ordered her drink, we told her the price at the window, she kinda shrugged it off and then drove to the second window. Handed the drink out and she goes "$7 for this?" And basically just refused to take it or pay for it. It's sometimes frustrating because our company is not known for making inexpensive drinks in the slightest, but people still get mad at the baristas about it.
@@aimeemonnett2293 Like even the cheap caramel Frappuccino at McDonald’s is better than Starbucks XD. It’s sweeter and has more of a shake consistency which makes it even better
@@NuggieIsMissing Yeah but half the time they can't find even though its in front of them. I used to work for Dollar General and boy some of the people there would either one try to discribe what they wanted but end up discribing something else and two would be pissy about why we didn't have that perticular item in stock or three get absoutly mad at you for no reason what so ever even with refunds.
1:07:34 I felt sick to my stomach right here, when I immediately realized that Mark didn’t check the back seat. I knew in that moment what was most likely about to happen to him.😭
My husband once asked me why I lock the car doors if I’m going to be back in a few minutes and nothing is in the car. I was just like… so someone doesn’t hide in the backseat! He’d never ever thought about it
It truly depends where your place of business may be. For example: may you tend to a McDonald's establishment, you would be more than correct. The McDonald's worker will likely be doomed to many last-minute calls for "mY SoN WaNtS a HaPpPy MeAl!!" Whilst if you were to tend to higher-end clothing line, it would be no diffrent to a middle-day shift, perhaps even lesser so. Granted this serenity would be interrupted by the occasional last-minute purchase, still lesser to McDonald's.
Whenever Mark said "Senpai" I could only think of Yandere Simulator. And whenever he said "bussin" my mind went straight back to Bussin' by AK-69 (a japanese rapper, which kind of fits with the game).
Omg the fear of taking the trash out alone at night- especially after you just had a creepy interaction so you’re on edge/high alert- literally a feeling I haven’t felt in a minute and it was as an absolute gut-punch to remember how terrifying it is.
“How did you make it through childhood without someone caving in your skull?” - Mark said what we all want to say to an arsehole boss, and it was beautiful
he is not a boss, he is another worker that was working there just more time than main character, that is why he is senpai. And I kinda can understand his frustration, every minute she is late at work equals a minute that he has to work overtime without getting paid for it. I would be frustrated too.
@@timkalier I mean, in all fairness, Mark did say this after the senpai belittled and insulted her in response to being presented with the idea that she may be in danger. So, given the circumstances, he well deserved that questioning.
Worked at Burger King. Had an armed criminal escape and be in the area. "In the area" means cops were searching the building beside us and the woods surrounding our location....... still had to finish closing duties before my manager and I left.
Once began bleeding out of my nose due to exhaustion, I was put to rest for a few minutes on a dirty piece of cardboard then was asked to go back to work and finish the rest of the shit Also spent Christmas covering for EVERYONE ELSE'S SHIFT because everyone there knows each other, and they just decided to not come to work that day with no warning or permission whatsoever and as far as I know they were never punished meanwhile I was BEGGED to stay and cover the entire day when I was ready to leave, and literally depressed I couldn't spend the day with my family because of these assholes Also sleeping inside the job only to wake up the next day and work again was a regular occurrence that they tried REALLY HARD to convince me was nothing to worry about and that I should totally do it to save time When I quit my job in order to commit to art and making commissions for money, on top of the fact I was developing an allergic reaction to the sanitizer I was asked to spray every day, and were only given a pair of gloves to prevent, which did NOT WORK My family would go on to tell me I'm a lazy fuck who doesn't know the luck I have for having a job, and that they have had it way worse than me in every conceivable way no matter what I told them, so that meant I was a little bitch for leaving I hate retail and I hate people who refuse to recognize it's fucking inhumane
I work at a popular coffee shop that I won’t disclose the name of, and the coffee grinder malfunctioned and fell on our former shift’s arm when she tried to fix it, which injured her considerably so we left. She got fired shortly after. She was also a sucky worker to begin with but that close was a tipping point for sure
@@Jack_Woods sounds like you need to ditch your "family". Blood relation doesn't make a family, so many people put up with some heinous bullshit because they're "family". If they treat you like shit, ditch them and don't look back.
yes... the animalistic noises make it QUITE clear in a truly sick and scary way. The scene always makes me mad/fearful. Its well done, the game's laser focus on how damn scary it is to just try and live your simple daily life when you are seen as something to prey upon.
It kind of felt like the 'jankiness' just added to the unsettling nature of this game in general. Gave such chills to what's being depicted as you continue through. Creepy. I'd say the creators definitely conveyed their aim and mood they wanted to portray. Wew.
Nah that's just a poor excuse for an unpolished product. If anything the game becomes comical with they way all the characters look and move. It's much better for a horror game to get progressively unsettling as things actually start to get weird, instead of everything being buggy and everyone giving the sense of the uncanny valley, even if there isn't supposed to be anything off with them.
Immediately reminded me of a part in an Invader Zim episode where a fast food manager is arguing with a customer who clearly has his order in front of him. "I want my slaw!" "You have your slaw, sir!" "I. WANT. MY. SLAW!" "YOU HAVE YOUR SLAW, SIR!" This goes on for like a minute in the background. lol
I want someone to animate this with Mark doing the entire "take this take this take this" bit he had when making some of the drinks for him to be handing one person a bunch of random things
The most horrific aspect is that this game gives such a familiar fear being a girl walking to her car. Most people being so dismissive and the rest creepy. That truly lonely feeling where you know you only got yourself.
with my first ex, whenever we would go anywhere, i created this new fear for myself with like, NEEDING to protect her at all costs, meaning like, whenever we’d come back from the grocery store, or get into my truck late at night, i would ALWAYS, check the backseat before we both got in. it was just a habit
The scariest part ab this for me is that I've had people stalk me at job before so I know the fear it brings to not know what their angle is. Obv I know it to a lesser extent than this and the dude got arrested in my case but it's definitely a unique and terrible feeling that situation can inspire
I definitely get where you're coming from too. Im glad you're okay. one time when I was working 3rd shift at a previous job (thankfully we always have 2 people on a shift) a gentleman came in around 2am from out of town and he... wasn't in his right mind. he kept hitting on me. asking me extremely personal questions. my coworker thought it was hilarious, she was in the office giggling up a storm. I was polite and denied his advances but he was persistent. he kept saying he wanted kids. wanted me to go with him. then he legit got down on one knee and proposed to me. I shit you not. I was freaking out but scared he would come around around counter and hurt me. after almost 45 minutes he finally left. I was super scared and freaked out. thankfully I never saw him again. was too scared to call the police out of fear of not being taken seriously...
@@lemonywater2979 I am! Some coworkers helped me and told him to leave and when that didn't work my manager kicked him out and got police involved. I heard he was creepy to a few other employees too, I'm just glad he's gone. I start to panic whenever I see certain kinds of leather jackets now though lmao. I'm a cashier so he always came through my line, eventually with like one item week after week. Then one time he cornered me in my aisle and put his hands on me and I don't rlly remember much after that, just what my friend told me after. Still remember the nauseating mint smell tho. They told him to fuck off and eventually spoke up for me when he didn't leave me alone. Hope he rots.
Just recently when I was still in high school this guy from another class had apparently been stalking me for two years. He knew I have a dog that I take out on walks, he knew I have an elder brother who took my dog in the evenings, and he knew I didn’t come out much in the evenings. That was something not even close friends knew as some sort of fact. Only probably one or two people apart from my family knew about me not wanting to be out in the evenings for any reason or the other. And I live in a pretty guarded area. So this guy one day waited for me outside for like 2 hours in the afternoon on a very hot day- easily above 40°C, while I was at my friend’s house and waited till I was alone to approach me. I’d seen him loitering around when we were going to her house and also to mine to get my dog. We were concerned about the guy when we had seen him and were even considering to approach him to ask whether he was okay. Not only that, I had a feeling we were being watched, and lo and behold that guy was a bit away from us with his phone pointed to our, and when I pointed him out to my friends he acted as if he were taking a video of the scenery around. Anyways, he approaches me and introduces himself as a friend of a friend saying that he had told him about me and he’d been wanted to talk to me for a while now. Then he tells me how I don’t get out in the evenings, and that he’d waited 7 hours on another occasion to meet me. Then he proudly tells me how he had seen me 2 years ago, describing my outfit and that my dog had barked at him, “probably because he didn’t like the way I was looking at his owner”. There was no one around, and I was tired and just wanted to go home, not to mention how hot it was. I couldn’t have run away or fought him, I didn’t know what his intentions were, and my dog is rather big and he was too tired so I couldn’t run with him in that state too. So i asked for his Instagram and got hold of his name, but then I noticed this guy had liked a couple posts of mine a few days ago. It was really creepy. I’m okay now, thankfully I told my brother and he took care of everything, although I’m afraid we didn’t report him to the school authorities, thanks to certain prior experiences we’ve had with them to know they won’t do anything and blame me instead. My parents also got me some pepper spray because this was just too much, and I wasn’t to leave the house without a friend. God only knows what all he knew about me and what he could do next. I’m glad to say that quite a bit of time has passed since then and I’m completely safe :)
36:32 370 yen is about $2.60 in USD. Save everyone the goog Also this scene is iconic- you’re listening to other girls your age to see if they have the same concerns as you. One person appears to be “over concerned” about the situation and the other is “downplaying” the situation. So you don’t know where your opinion should lie. On top of trying to do your job. On top on trying to evaluate the situation- is the “creepy appearing” awkward man the stalker? Is it the guy who was hanging out in the background but then becomes super nice by buying someone else’s drink? Whoever made this game was a woman or got amazing women team members for feed back. Because this is perfect representation of what cycling thoughts of fears and justification are inside your head 24/7.
As someone who has both been a barista, and had a super creepy stalker, this is so accurate. There was something oddly comforting about seeing Mark reacting the same way as I have to these things in real life. From checking the back seat of the car, to being afraid to leave work, or even take out the trash, and looking for some kind of weapon. I really appreciated it, even as I squirmed uncontrollably with discomfort while watching it.
A Glock 17 would’ve fixed the entire problem though. Stay strapped stay safe. Guns are equalizers specifically because a 5’4” rail thin woman can still defend herself against a 6’3” 250 pound block of muscle. Most of the time, cops can’t help with stalkers when they try to, because they don’t have Star Trek transporters yet, and in this game the cops aren’t even trying. Life is a struggle, this world is unsafe, and there are plenty of evil people in it. Your defense is, unfortunately your responsibility if only because only you can actually control it. Fortunately, ever since colt invented the 1911, you have nearly complete control over your safety.
@@feartheghus I don't disagree. I'm from Arizona, and have known how to handle guns since I was about 11. I always have a 9mm locked away in my car when driving for work, but I also have two young kids, so I have to walk the safety line very carefully. They haven't handled guns yet, but my husband and I have been teaching them gun safety with their toy weapons (bows and arrows and pretend star wars blasters) since they could talk. We have both our daughters enrolled in Kung Fu as well, and I've learned a number of self defence tactics from my uncle, who's a marine vet. People are crazy. I agree, it's best to be prepared, so long as you do it safely and intelligently.
God, I love this game. The ending of coming back home, without your phone, the night of your attack by a stalker who got away: never, ever do that. Plus the lack of support the whole game, her horrible boss, the private investigator discouraging the police, the weird and disturbing customers who could have also become a stalker. The feeling of dread knowing that it will go horribly wrong, while still wanting to finish your shift and to find a safe space, amazing.
A Glock 17 would’ve fixed the entire problem though. Stay strapped stay safe. Guns are equalizers specifically because a 5’4” rail thin woman can still defend herself against a 6’3” 250 pound block of muscle. Most of the time, cops can’t help with stalkers when they try to, because they don’t have Star Trek transporters yet, and in this game the cops aren’t even trying. Life is a struggle, this world is unsafe, and there are plenty of evil people in it. Your defense is, unfortunately your responsibility if only because only you can actually control it. Fortunately, ever since colt invented the 1911, you have nearly complete control over your safety.
the first 10-15 minutes of this was absolute terror because it was so real. Scariest moments are when you're on a new service job and you haven't been properly trained and you're expected to work without help and a bunch of customers come in thinking you know what you're doing.
and then the customers are condescending and like "are you neww?" and you're like yes! i am! and my trainer showed me how to do this one time before taking a thirty minute smoke break!
Yeah, that part was too real. I actually got kind of stressed when he looked at the training tapes. Trying to remember where everything was and in which order to do all the tasks, just... Vietnam flashbacks of the highest order ensued :)
Exactly! My gosh yes. Older people looove to make it a generational thing too, like "Oh you don't know what you're doing because you're either not paying attention or you just don't give a shit." Meanwhile it's THEIR generation that's not teaching us properly, throwing us to the wolves like Senpai in the game. They're the ones that don't give a shit, who dont have a clue what good work ethic is and refuse to have the sympathy or even the patience to teach. You'd think they'd want efficiency as bad as the customers expect it pft.
Dude I relate so much. This is my second summer working at a retail store, and I still feel like a deer caught in headlights when a customer asks me where literally anything is
You'd be surprised at how scarily accurate a lot of the interactions can be. Part of the horror IS the barista element. Even as a dude, I've dealt with the weird people coming in mostly naked or on drugs or both, or the people who just say what they want with no other words and then they just STARE at everything you do while you make their shit. The people who come in and are overly friendly and willing to share about their day and life when you have social anxiety/ don't want to talk/ are just trying to do your job. People talking and talking and talking while they should be ordering and holding everything up by not having their orders ready/ money figured out, and of course, actually robbery. Now we can get into the fact that the company I was at for 7 years (left as a manager) I saw more times than I could count, super creepy interactions that girls I worked with had to go through generally because the manager is the one dealing with this shit on shift I did personally, the guy in this game didn't gaf which would be shitty. in 2 extreme cases they literally were stalked at work and, one culminated in her beating the dudes ass because he followed her home, and the other one the police were called and a restraining order was filed because the guy refused to leave the store so she could safely walk to her car. I would say the reason this game is scary is that fact that this IS real life. This game is the reality of things
as a barista i’ve been subject to men being hella inappropriate, making me feel uncomfortable and even sexually harassing me at one point. while i’m like…sir, it’s in my job description to be nice.
I love how 80% of this is just a barista simulator and 20% is horror game, yet it still manages to creep the hell out of the players. I mean, you just know something bad is gonna happen, and the tension builds up everyday, each time the shop closes for the night. Great game! Also, Mark's reactions are very on point 💀
@@alekpo2000 God this is so weird. I had already read your comment halfway through the video so I don't know why this happened. But I scrolled down to the comment section at the end of the video and for some reason my brain read Japanese as jalapeno.
58:12 the fact that she came in all dressed in black, no baby in the carriage, and sniffling without saying a word just tells a whole other tragic side story that I'm pretty sure Mark picked up on real fast...
@@agermanpotato6009 i read someone’s comment about how the stalker might’ve seen the altercation and “punished” the woman for messing (maybe not the right word?? but you get what i mean) with the MC. it’s not a common behavior but it does happen in some cases :]
It's scary because being in a scenario like this CAN happen in real life. It's not like a horror game with a fictional monster in a scenario that wouldn't happen. Instead, it shows just how scary it is for employees when working at night shifts alone and how uneasy it feels to get customers late at night. A lot of people may not realize it, but stalkers are terrifying, and this game proves. They might not sound as terrifying as a monster, but they certainly are a monster at best.
When delusion takes over a human mind, it transforms people into something inhuman. Stalkers lose their humanity very quickly as their delusions take over.
I’m impressed that Mark managed to get all the endings. Also, I wouldn’t be too surprised if this game was based off a true story. It’s terrible that these kinds of things do happen in real life.
@@corahtheskeleton8062 one guy said it on a video can't remember it it's name but the story is. There was a women who was a barista like in the game the stalker had been following her for years and ended up killing her
Mark: "I don't know who'd be getting coffee this late.." Me: *Casually sipping coffee at 3:30am while binge-watching all his videos* "How very dare you.."
24:37 i ugly laughed and replayed this so many times i swear Marks just over here like "WAFFLE 🧇 FRIES 🍟APPLE 🍎 PIES🥧 AMERICAN 🇺🇲 SCONE CARAMEL TO-TOFFEE" "MACHA 🍵 CAKE 🎂 PUMPKIN 🎃 CAKE 🎂 🤠" "GREEN BEAN CASSeRoLe and Strawberry 🍓SWEet crEAm RoLl 🍰" "BREAD 🍞 BEANS" "BUTTER 🧈 BEANS" "RED 🟥 BREAD 🍞 AND BUTTER 🧈 BREAD 🍞" 💀
I have to agree Mark. The response to "I'm being stalked" is NOT incredulous and rude remarks. That Senpai was probably only saved by the fact that Japanese society tends to be pressured towards behaving, not making a scene. That said, this person's attitude would've still gotten them beaten up in school.
That's one thing I can't stand about modern Japanese society, the way people in situations like this, especially women and girls, are expected to shut up and take it and not bother anyone else with their problems, sometimes even including the police. It's worst for girls and women who get groped on crowded trains--a girl it happens to usually expected to just let it happen, and if she cries out for help and "makes a scene", as their society likes to put it, all she'll typically get is disapproving stares from the other passengers, as if being silently told to stop bothering everyone. And then if she reports it to the police, they'll all too often dismiss it because, get this, *it's too embarrassing a matter for them to deal with.* And this is in spite of such molestation literally being addressed as a CRIME on signs at train stations in major cities!
@@gobalbucs Argue with one pothead at 11:30 at night over a $5 pizza, and tell me the food service industry isn't horrible, am I right? XD Pizza was a horrible job, despite how good the tips were.
@@kanyaahjanesorden7448 It really doesn't. Wasn't upset at all when I left that job. Service in general is an awful job type. People forget so easily that it's a PERSON behind the counter. They just treat you like everything is your fault all the time. Had a friend who used to work at a certain store that was... Very technological. Won't specify the name. The job drove him to attempt 'un-alive'. Luckily, he didn't do a very good job of it, because I'd have hated to lose a friend to such a horrible circumstance, but he has PTSD from working there. He can't even walk into one of their stores or he shuts down. Seeing that shit? It really hurts.
I'm SO glad that more people are playing Chilla's Art games. They've been a favorite of mine for a while, so it's nice to see all the RUclipsrs I follow get into them.
This game is two things: 1. Bored, Annoyed, Underpaid, Underappreciated, Frequently Insulted Customer Service Employee Simulator 2. Small Non-Combatant Woman Simulator Thank you, Chilla's Art. The world's downtrodden now feel a little bit more understood and less alone.
Jumpscares n' stuff: 3:50 kinda mean edit 10:35 Boop boop (not scary) 20:14 Door 20:45 Power turns off 21:29 another door 22:30 haunted milk 22:46 white noise 30:50 white noise coming back 31:27 sonic-woman (worst one yet) 40:35 didn't like that one (glitch) 42:42 actual glitch 49:50 power cuts off again/timer 51:48 timer runs out 53:10 da eyes 1:03:19 Guy at the door (hell nah this is too much) 1:03:54 redemption of the monkey man?! (Another bad one) --Door thing repeats 1:06:26 knocking at the door 1:07:50 Yes Mark you checked absolutely nothing 1:08:09 there he is -- a lot repeats Despite the ending itself I'm done at this point! Disclaimer: I shouldn't have forgot anything but if you happen to find something I'll immediately correct it! Personal Comment: I've seen the whole thing by Jacksepticeye already and it's incredibly scary and unsettling every single time I watch it. I really hope every girl/woman but also guy that finds himself in a situation like this, gets help and finds a way to get out of the whole thing. At this point, it's just crazy that humans are capable of not being a human anymore...
45:42 Anyone who has ever worked in service has had at least one of these customers. The kind that just makes your day. A friend of mine has finished taking an order and just gone "i wanna give that person a smooch" because they're just really nice! It's the little things. Be nice to your service workers, everyone.
as a starbucks barista that is mainly a closer this is terrifying and im thankful that it’s illegal to be in the building alone. also, aside from not using espresso, these recipes were pretty accurate!
as a former Starbucks barista myself who worked at multiple different locations, this game ESPECIALLY hit home. Throughout the stores I worked at, each of the closing managers still wanted trash taken out after dark despite it being against the rules and I just... this game really highlights why that SHOULDN'T have been a thing. -Stuff like that is why I quit.-
Farmers market goes late, during the later part of the season they make me close up during dark. Fucking spooky man. I've bought a stun gun just in case.
Lixian really is amazing at editing, i hope he never leaves Mark’s side they complement each other so well Edit: i said compliment instead of complement… lmao
I’ve never seen the escape through vent scene cuz everyone usually figures out how to drop the brick but ofc Mark with his HUGE brain somehow figures out how to use the screwdriver 💀
I thought Jack was going to do that in his play-through because I’m pretty sure he found the vent after he died on his first try, but he ended up also using the brick, and I was always wondering what the other ending was.
As a barista at starbucks, the anxiety you got from the group of men that came in at the beginning is so relatable bc sometimes we get a 40 item order and its usually just 3 of us actually making the order
ESPECIALLY the 9pm rush when there’s only two people working and for some reason 12 people come in and order two drinks each. half of our shit is in the dishwasher cause we already started closing 🫠
@@burnt-croissants Not a Barista but holy fuck do I hate it when a bunch of people somehow decide the best time to come in/call is near closing time. You had *all* day mate
So real Just my luck that i get off work after sunday peak rush, come home to draw and use youtube as bg noise, turn on this vid and its literally my goddamn job
bro i was waiting for someone to comment this. i’m a barista at starbucks as well and it always feels like i’m having a thousand teachers staring at me while i do multiple exams- none of which i prepared for as much as i thought.
To be fair, a mad dash for the car might've been more doable if the stalker didn't move so unrealistically fast. Not at all a safe option but if you just want /out/ of a terrifying situation it's not a weird one to pick, especially since the stalker doesn't move from the other end of the building 'til after you can't see him.
So I really like this game and I would definitely rewatch it but really quick I want to stamp a trigger warning at 1:03:30 cause I just found the noises in this part very disturbing. It could be just me but if any other girlies want to be forewarned, this game is about a girl being stalked, Mark gets the girl caught at this point, she is attacked, and the noises from the attack are just awful. You could skip about 20 secs. It’s just a heads up just in case. Please enjoy the video and have a nice day ♡
I watched another youtuber play it and either she didn’t get this ending or I didn’t realize but… when I saw people warn abt it then saw it it’s very obvious and tramatic… and of course mark didn’t get it. Cuz. Well. He doesn’t have to particularly worry abt such a situation as much as the common woman.
The "chilla" in Chilla's Coffee comes from "chinchilla". That's what those weird purple things are, and that's what is in the logo for the cafe as well.
@@poisontippedsword3457 chilla's art tends to feature chinchillas in almost all their games (at least as for all the ones I've seen played so far), so both you and op are correct
same. this was the first game that I had to stop watching because it was too disturbing. had to come back later when I was prepared to immediately skip the scene q_q
I was really confused with the sounds it made when mark got caught and thought he was stabbing her. Then I rewatched the video like a week later and was completely mortified
I love how this game’s actual coffee shop mechanics make you forget so easily that this is actually a horror game. Great job to the developers because literally every time the coffee shop section happened I forgot it was a horror game and got scared lol
yup, i think the overwhelming number of tasks and steps are made to make you almost forget it's a horror game and that someone's watching you. when you have a stalker that's usually how it is; very often people don't notice their stalkers bc they're sneaky and over time they get bolder and bolder (like the nutcase in the game getting closer to the protag) they learn their victim's routine and habits so that they don't look suspicious. it's incredibly relatable and well made
As a current batista that had an issue with stalking in my first few months of work, I can confidently say that this is almost exactly what it's like. Now granted Mark is right that no real coffee store would be open at horrendously late hours of the night but given my coffeeshop runs till 7pm (in which some part of the year are dark at this point of the day) I can say it can feel as such. This definitely hit the right strings for that fear factor and despite the obvious flaws, this is a very well made game! Well done
It's weird how common stalking is among baristas. Like, I work as a barista as well, and at my old work, there was a gal that was being stalked by a man. They actually had to ban him from the store, and walk her to her car every day.
The coffee shop at my workplace is open till 12am some nights, but it's not quite the same because it's inside a club, so they have the protection of club security and extensive CCTV.
Same here, I had a guy come in VERY often, who was more than 10 years older then me and barely knew me, and he gave me the kind of compliments that a high schooler gives to their girlfriend. Needless to say, I felt very uncomfy. Thankfully they didn’t take it outside of my work place
@@unicorn69 It has a few different meanings. The most common one (and the reason it comes up so often in high school dramas) is "upper classman". That is, someone in the grade above your own. So if you're a senior, you don't have any senpai.
Me, a barista: "Ugh today sucked. Well at least I'm at home and I can watch videos and not think about work for a while-" *Mark, playing a game as a barista:* "OH FUCKING DAMN IT-"
This. When I saw him stare at the coffee menu with no comprehension and I thought 'ah, he has never had to deal with this. I always wondered what that feeling is like."
@@riseandroot4530 When he asked "Who would get JUST milk??" I wanted to cry because I have had people get MUCH dumber drinks. I still can't get over the time someone asked for a redbull drink with shots of espresso in it.
as someone who’s worked many closing shifts alone in coffee shops i can say this hits the nail on the head with the primal fear that comes with the job. the sheer terror of people ordering cups of cold milk at 9pm is unlike any other
It’s very shocking to me that businesses allow one person go close. I’ve worked in hardware store and you’re never allowed to close by yourself. I can’t imagine how scary it is
@@elizabethgarcia-qy1vp it’s weird as hell! i dont think they should allow it, and yet ive been threatened being fired for asking to not close on my own bc it’s “part of the job”. so you kinda have to deal :/
@@levaineasher5656 literally same. i was expected to work alone closing shifts even when i was just in training and wasn’t even making minimum wage yet AND i was a teenager at the time. it led to me quitting which i’m still sad about because i genuinely really liked the job and my coworkers but i couldn’t deal with the anxiety and the knowledge that i was being exploited. plus i was just generally unsafe.
@@wompwompana If it were me, I'd explicitly call them out and report them. Maybe it wasn't an option for you, but I just don't see myself tolerating that horseshit.
@@jokairou489 trust me it was reported and brought to several peoples’ attention and even my coworkers tried to get something done about it but unfortunately because it was food service we were the ones who got in trouble, because “this kind of stuff comes with the job” and we needed to “thicken our skin”. lots of my friends have very similar experiences and it’s just extremely disturbing and disappointing that this can happen even in areas considered more safe or liberal, especially since i’m a well known individual in my community and have been targeted anonymously by my neighbors several times as an lgbt person. i’ve never been granted any additional protection or anything despite just trying to mind my business. it really really sucks and i’ve had to basically stop all activism since then. i miss it and i miss working in cafes. :(
This game really shows how and why most women feel unsafe at night due to creeps. The developer seems to have nailed the feeling of uncomfortable dread.
@@RomanSimkins Because people nowadays are supposed to believe men are only ever aggressors and perpetrators and women are meant to live in constant fear even when they have no real reason to.
Love how Mark hyped himself up to fight the stalker when he first comes in the store, as a woman who has dealt with creepy customers I have definitely ran over a similar script in my head to get the Fight reaction in "Fight or Flight".
Same, I'm a cashier but I also work stock before the store opens so I always have my box cutter on me. Certain repeat offenders that come into the store mentally send me straight into the "Try some shit with me or my coworkers if you want to, fucker" category, lmao. Thankfully I have a security guard and general manager in my store that actually listen to us when we have issues with people that come in to creep or be unnecessarily aggressive. It's not a super safe neighborhood to begin with, so they know not to brush us off when we point unsafe activity out. We have a lot of friendly regulars that speak up for us too, so it's rare for us to have to call the cops, but some people just will NOT back off.
@@HappyElsen Oh, I'm so glad you actually have people who listen and have a fucking head on right! Also the boxcutter, very smart choice. Any creepy mf lays a hand on you, they won't have it in 10 seconds lmao! i hope everyone here stays safe and has a good day/night!
@@HappyElsen oh, that's great that there are people who listen to you! /gen where i used to work, there was this girl sending me d3ath threats just bc her boyfriend was being friendly with me (we were just good friends, nothing more). i told my immediate supervisor and my higher manager, and stopped going to work for a while. they didn't do anything about it and kept forcing me to go to work knowing there was someone threatening me. i ended up quitting that job.
This game is a perfect example why women are scared to do anything alone. The manager didn’t believe her about a stalker, the others girls witnessed him didn’t say anything, and even the other women told mark (barista) to be careful being by herself
@@jokairou489 Especially when that video game is thematically and narratively written to relate to a real life situation! With that hot take, books, movies, and art are not rooted in reality either. All a video game is, is a blend of all the other forms of media with an interactive aspect. So if you think that there's nothing that human beings create that can relate to real life, then perhaps you are the one living in a fantasy world.
This game was incredibly well done. And I appreciate Mark's incredible ability to be so sarcastic and humourous the whole time while also not making light of how awful the subject matter is. When stuff gets real, he takes it seriously. And that is probably the scariest and saddest thing that stuck with me the whole video; that this is just a horror video game for Mark and for many of us, but it is a genuinely real horror for many people in the world. Thinking about the fact that people in the real world have to live with the fear this game instilled in us makes me feel sick. Amazing game and an amazing video. I am very grateful this exists.
It's really great how the Stalker's design is juuuust generic enough while still looking creepy. His features are very vague, he looks like he could literally be *anyone*. That moment where he's panting at the door and swiveling his head at you is borderline traumatizing.
This game chilled me to the bone, mostly due to how realistically scary it was. I was curled up in a ball slightly because I was so nervous! This was really well done
If it's your first time seeing this game: The convo Mark missed between the women (about hearing someone breathing) was that there was a creeper on the bus and they had to get off the bus early, and who knows what would have happened to them if they hadn't.
A Glock 17 would’ve fixed the entire problem though. Stay strapped stay safe. Guns are equalizers specifically because a 5’4” rail thin woman can still defend herself against a 6’3” 250 pound block of muscle. Most of the time, cops can’t help with stalkers when they try to, because they don’t have Star Trek transporters yet, and in this game the cops aren’t even trying. Life is a struggle, this world is unsafe, and there are plenty of evil people in it. Your defense is, unfortunately your responsibility if only because only you can actually control it. Fortunately, ever since colt invented the 1911, you have nearly complete control over your safety.
@@j02killahz13 Indeed. Specially if you are untrained with it. Even an equalizer isn't so good if you can't operate it properly. Stalker could just rip it out of your hand in this scenario.
@@feartheghus Guns still need to be regulated. Note: NOT removed but manage who can get them better. We shouldn't live in a country where mass shootings are commonplace.
the best part about this game, are the irl effects of it. watching people like mark and dantdm play this game, feeling completely normal at the start- then starting to get progressively more paranoid. they start questioning themselves irl, and become more alert in the game. its crazy how a game can have such a prominent psychological effect in real life.
I worked at a Subway in a small town from ages 16 to 19, the owners and manager always made sure we had two closers and asked us to make sure each of us got to our cars safely after closing. Often the manager would visit around closing just to make double sure we were okay. I didn't realize how lucky we were to have people looking out for us as kids. It's horrible how common these kinds of crimes are.
I was 15 and they let me close by myself. I had some traumatizing interactions waiting outside in the dark on the concert because I wasn’t allowed to wait inside.
Most of the restaurants I worked had a policy where you couldn’t take out the trash/leave out the back door at night for safety, we just put the garbage next to the front doors for morning shift to throw out, and I’ve never had to close alone at night they always had two closers one of them usually being a manager or at least a shift lead.
You're very lucky. I once called out my old manager for having two 16 yrs old girls closing by themselves and how horribly unsafe that was, and she fired me for it. 🫠
no one underage should be closing stores, much less on their own, 16yos are still kids, even someone at 18 should have someone older/more experienced with them.
Going to take this a step further and say underaged workers shouldn't work alone ever.
imo, this is less about luck or privilege, and more about it being a travesty that most people don't have that safety. it should be mandatory to protect and check in on your employees like this.
42:56 For Mark, and anyone else who didn't know, the guy who turned around on the bus wasn't looking at the girl. He was looking at the stalker sitting behind her.
omg.
yeah, and when you get out of the bus you can see that the stalker is staring into your soul as the bus rides away
oh my god NOOOOOOOO I DIDN'T SEE THAT
Bro.. Im gonna play that and see for myself that is scary as hell
I didnt notice!!!! I feel like most scary things went over my head cause i was too afraid of whats gonna happen next
The barista element is a clever way to accentuate the fear. There's nothing _scary_ about it, but it's designed to require a lot of your attention, so your brain gets distracted with that and any horror elements thus stick out like a sore, uncanny thumb. Great design: give the player something to occupy their mind and give them a "normal" so that the weird stuff is weird _to the game itself,_ not just to what we'd expect from real life.
I absolutely loved the one section where the schoolgirls were talking in the background while the two fellows up front were talking about their order. It's rare to see thought given to a sort of red herring moment and also gives that scene a lot of life. We all have moments when we overhear something that we aren't necessarily supposed to be focused on, but focus on anyways. It was such a small but powerful way to reinforce the atmosphere and the threat of the stalker.
I was thinking the SAME EXACT thing while watching this video
happy's humble burger farm has something similar going on
I read “the game” in italics and realized I’d just lost
This game is brilliant. While it also provides horror elements, it also raises awareness to how women are harassed so frequently. I don’t usually enjoy horror games however this one is very well designed.
The interaction with the woman at 45:34 was such a wholesome breath of fresh air tbh. Even though the bracelets were a scam, she gave something she believed was genuine.
Çoğu bileklik asla aldatmaca değildir bazıları gerçekten insanları koruyor ve kolluyor bu hepsi için geçerli değildir lütfen bir dahakine önyargılı davranmayalım thankssss
@@selinzeynep9090 Bir bileklik seni koruyamaz 💀
@@selinzeynep9090 sure
@@Kait07_ some ppl rlly do believe in it. i think having faith in something (religious or not) is nice, but the real problem is those who take advantage of that belief imo
58:10 Mark is the ONLY person so far that I've seen play this game that put two and two together that the woman was pushing an empty stroller and sniffling. She's clearly in denial and grieving.
..........*REALIZATION*
The baby was there the first time you meet her when she jumpscares you though.
@@Mant111 Yeah, but almost naked, at night, in winter.
coryxkenshin did aswell
@@Mant111 You clearly didn't pay attention to what he just said, when she comes into the shop later, the baby is not in the pram, so it stands to reason that the child died of hypothermia based on the previous encounter that you just mentioned. The sniffling explains why she has the empty pram, denial.
Things Mark has to deal with in this game:
weirdass customers
getting insulted
getting creeped on
constant condescension
always working alone
unreasonable work expectations
customers complaining about price
weirdass drink orders & people who don't know the name of the drink they want
Going into denial "I'm fine with this."
Whoever made this game has worked in food service before.
As a McDonald's employee I can confidently say, this is the story of my life!
The fact that the recipes reminded me of my stbx days 🥴
What's the unreasonable work expectation? The barista seems to be pretty slow before closing so the girl is able to accomplish all her necessary tasks in a timely manner, and she's not being asked to do anything you're average cashier doesn't do.
Or in retail. I've had to deal with all of these things working in retail granted I do work in food service in a retail store but our cashiers and floor workers also have to as well.
Don’t forget his tootsies of steel. The magic of them probably gave him the motivation to do this.
There’s the horror aspect of having a stalker after you but there’s elements of psychological horror related to dealing with creepy costumers, a fast paced job and a boss that doesn’t care about your well being at all.
Exactly. There were multiple people that you thought could be the "bad guy". But, they're just another creep.
my mind skipped the word "creepy" in that sentence and I fully agreed regardless XD
That's me in general towards almost everyone I don't know.
OMG ME!
@@n4t39 Yeah man. Everytime a customer went in the building. I thought bro your scary.
But then we see on the train ride, the guy looking back.
He is not the stalker. He was was looking at the real stalker. Who was behind the girl.
Which we can get a glimpse of if we turn back to look at him after the bus ride through the window as it drives away.
Giving more fear of people are creepy. But really their hiding the real creepy ones. Which makes a perfect mix for a horror element and game. It's so real.
This video is 2% horror, 1% Sanpei being mad, and 97% Markiplier being a frankly amazing barista
Latte latte latte latte
He should have his own coffee shop. Put his coffee in cups with pink mustaches on them. Sell pastries shaped like M's. I'd go there
@@DrDolan2000 someone else should get permission from him and actually do that haha
mark's too busy with movies and stuff to do that sort of thing i think
@@asthinecrowflieslatte or milk?
"sanpei" 😂
as a starbucks barista this game really hits hard because we deal with creeps so often. its our job to be overly nice and a lot of customers misread that as flirting. i currently have a customer im about to report to my manager because he will not stop harassing me. its gotten to the point where he gets upset if anyone else but me takes his order. this game is so scary because its so so unfortunately realistic and i hate that this is the reality we live in where this is an actual possibility
I'm really sorry you have to go through something like this, and I really hope the creep will get taken care of and no harm comes to you
i feel you. i used to work at a starbucks, i had proof of someone harassing and stalking me even at work, and management said they couldn’t do anything because he hadn’t laid a hand on me or said it in the store when they were around. it truly is the scariest feeling, someone watching you constantly. i wish you the best of luck
@@leelu2753 damn, that sux that you even have that idea. Shame no one can talk to these guys 🤛 😈
My old boss always let us conceal carry.
Get a gun.
If you are too young, or in a state that makes it difficult to carry a gun, carry a knife.
some men can get so lonely, any kindness shown from the opposite sex is amplified due to their high sensitivity from not having received any female attention.
if they're mentally ill and obsessive it can turn them into threatening stalkers. *loneliness and mental illnesses go in hand.*
not worth the risk at all, unfortunately you must learn the slight differences in your vocal tone and facial expressions. avoid eye contact, seem a bit aloof yet still attentive enough to receive orders without disrespect, etc.
in other words, don't overly be welcoming to the man.
imo all women should carry forms of self-defense, it boggles my mind how in some countries like the UK, a mere pepper spray is illegal.
"Am I in danger or am I just gonna be annoyed?" is pretty much THE experience of working any type of customer service especially in late evenings and nights.
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I don't miss delivering to the ghetto at 2 AM with no porch lights on or house numbers for blocks. I also don't miss people trying to get in my car while I'm pulling away from a house, or sitting at a stop sign.
Is this gonna be an asshole or someone tryna sell me something? 😂
i laughed so hard a this
4-6 AM in a Safeway subsidiary’s eCommerce department was chill. Because we weren’t open yet.
Spoilers:
for people that didnt notice, there is actually two different "stalkers".
the first stalker is the long tall guy with the creepy face, who we are introduced with at the beginning that we helped return his phone. we see him after we get off the bus, and also when he comes into the coffee shop once and doesnt buy anything and just sits the whole time and then leaves.
the second stalker is the man in the hoodie. he is the one that creepily stands outside the store windows as we talk with the old man at the register. he also then comes in and orders pastries and a bunch of milk, and sits in the blind spot of the store and leaves the photo of us on the table. it is then revealed that HE is the one who has been living in the back of the store.
so in conclusion to clear things up, the phone guy stalker, is the one that actually physically tries to attack us and depending on what ending you get, murders us; and the second stalker, hoodie dude, is the milk guy that was snapping pics of us and living in the store, but doesnt actually physically harm us.
you can tell they are two different men bc 1. their faces are very different (hoodie guy is much younger looking and generally has a nicer looking face) 2. phone stalker guy and also the one that jumpsacres us at the closing sign (and eventually attacks us) is like 6'6" whereas hoodie milk guy is only around 5'6". you can tell the height difference by comparing when each walk into the cafe and walk past the bookcases by the door! 3. their clothes
Anyways-just thought i'd share this since i dont think i've watched one lets player who actually came to this realization that there were two different stalkers!
I did notice that! Glad I wasn't imaging things 😅
I thought the hoodie guy was actually just a red herring, or working with the scary stalker, I didn't consider that there could be two... maybe it was him that took the bodies?
Wait, what's the other ending?
oh wow i never realized that
Yeah, is very interesting how there were two stalker following the MC, but there's other men being creepy too, like the "nice" guy that ask for MC's phone number and the one that stares at you in the bus (42:56). I feel this game was made with the idea that male players can understand how dangerous the world is for a woman that is on her own, the paranoia that every man could a potencial r*pist and murderer
I think the worst part is at 1:04:18 due to what happened, like its not explicity stated but you can tell by the dmg effect and nois ewhat the man is doing to the woman, it fucking terrifys me.
Me too man, I feel like you’re the only person who’s said that so far
I hated that....
I noticed that too
I don’t get it?
@@ao_sssan she’s being ra-ed. It actually started at 1:04:00
The thing that makes this feel like a horror game are how easily the game strips you of comfort. I always check the back of my car before I get in, I don't walk around after dark unless at least two people know where I'm at, and I make sure all the doors I can lock are locked. I've worked terrible fast food jobs where I've been harassed by coworkers, and I've been yelled at by a customer until my manager had to get involved. That's the reality of working night shift as a woman in a customer service job.
That's why this game is so disarming; the danger compounds with the high-pressure environment and uncomfortable situations. You can't just quit. You can't just run away. You're forced to work alone, unprotected, while people stare creepily at you from across the lobby. You can't always take safety precautions if you want to keep your job.
goddamn... job first, safety later?? That sucks. People need to get priorities straight and protect their staff, this should be illegal. Can't they provide you with some sort of weapon for self-defense? Or just not have people do solo closing-shifts? Honestly, regardless of gender, nobody should solo close-shift for danger reasons and accountability reasons, it's honestly just so bullshit what people have to go through to keep their job and get paid. I'm so sorry. All we can do is tough it out and fight for our safety
it used to be (and someplaces still is) women's rights now ig it's women's safety!
jeez
Thank you!
I knew that this game felt familiar, that explains it. I’ve never worked as a barista but I have worked later at night at an archery range. And it got uh… uncomfy at times.
Especially since sometimes I was the only one presenting female.
Another reason I don't work.
This is what and why I tell other people or ladies the advice I try to give when I can. Never give up or let someone take your feeling of safety away. There are always options or opportunities you can do or take to prevent these situations. If people give up too soon, then that dreadful thing will happen. I've been there and I know what it's like but I told myself never again. I got a different job if the one I had wasn't working, I took safety precautions, I got protection either by weapon or by people, and I put myself in the mindset even though the world is more dangerous for someone like me. I wouldn't let that stop me from living a normal life and not in fear. Even when I've had a few scary moments. I put on my determine, crazy aura that you better leve me be or one of us is dying today and it ain't gonna be me! That right there works everytime if nothing else because you are letting the person know you don't fear them. Even if something happens, you won't let them take that fight out of you! This is my advice and advice everyone should give no matter what! There are always options, never let anyone or anything make you feel otherwise.
@@KaySaly to add to one of your points, making somewhat of a scene can also have the benefit of making you seem like more trouble than it's worth, instead of an easy target, and it seems like sometimes that's good enough for someone to leave you alone
Imagine being such a dedicated barista that all the lights go out and scary demon people come in to your store while you're all alone, and you just continue to make latte after latte like an absolute champ
Gigachad move
That’s honestly what it feels like in the coffee industry
I think that was a nightmare
@@tpd1864blake It was definitely supposed to be a nightmare. The clock outside the window is the same as the alarm clock when the character wakes up in their bed afterwards.
"Demons appearing in the restaurant is no excuse to shuck your jobs. We serve pretty and scary customers."
"I didn't think I'd have to do this whole barista thing"
Neither did I, Mark, NEITHER DID I
*gross sobbing*
Ohhhhhh....I felt that in my soul *grosser sobbing*
The atoms and molecules that make up my very soul vibrated at the same frequency as the sentiment behind your comment... basically, I feel u
I felt this on a spiritual level…my heart goes out to you
My barista was picking up a Bible after various shit posts.
@@MadeOfConfusion I think we can all agree the true reality horror of this game is the mundane dystopia of high-stress, low-pay customer service
26:45 gave me vibes of:
"Instead of running away, you're coming right at me?"
"I can't beat the shit out of you without getting closer."
Hou, mukatte kuru no ka? Nige zuni kono dio ni chikazuite kuru no ka?
i knew this part is similar vibe to dio's lol
That’s always the annoying part of watching mark play horror games…it’s sometimes like he physically can’t get invested unless it’s a FNaF game or a game with an obvious and active threat…and even then he has an annoying habit of antagonizing said threat
Almost like...that was the joke he was making...
YES I HEARD THAT IMMEDIATELY
"Am I in danger or am I just gonna be annoyed?" That is the true question of customer service
oh also, the sound you heard around your flat was actually a child jumping around.
No the true question is where is coffee shops Senpai lol XD 👀🤔😂😅💀☠
Fr, I had a coworker tell me that in the past, customers have threatened to shoot cashiers over really small things. She never said they had a gun, so I don't know if they had anything, but like that's just so INSANE!
Once it was because the cashier didn't put bags in a cart like what??
agreed happens all the time at the starbucks i work at
Especially if your a woman or there is a Karen in your store.
As strange/amusing as it is when Mark yells random threats such as "I'LL EAT YOUR SPLEEN!!", it's actually a pretty good survival tactic. If you can convince people around you that you're batshit crazy, 9 times out of 10 they'll leave you alone, even if they were interested in you before.
This actually isn't true - statistics prove that mentally ill people are much more likely to be harassed, attacked, or killed compared to people who aren't mentally ill, and people assumed to be mentally ill / behavior associated with mental illness is often seen as threatening and criminalized (as many mentally ill people risk having the police called on them for visibly exhibiting symptoms). The rhetoric that "acting crazy" will get people you leave you alone is blatantly untrue if you look into actual studies into violence and mental health, and is based in bigoted stereotypes; in reality, it typically puts you in more danger to be perceived as mentally ill.
Survival Tips 101 : When confronted with a psycho, be them
@@kzkaa. be more than them
@@sharktenko267 be more than them AND you
Do you know this from experience?
the fear in marks voice when he realized he didn’t check the backseat JUST as it was too late felt so real and terrified me
I can hear his heart sink
1:07:40
I've never typed a 3 time timestamp (like 3 columns/ places idk what to call them)
Anyways hope anyone finds this useful.
•Sid•The•Serotonin•Kid• hi guys
@@random_bullet hello
@@familyk9443 yes, thanks!
This game is so terrifyingly accurate in capturing the feeling that so many women get at work, or even just going to their car. I switched to a mid shift at work and now that it gets dark by 4pm, I stay near a camera when I'm outside on my break, and I walk to my car with my keys between my fingers--Wolverine style. Where I work we get a lot of creepy guys, and due to multiple interactions with multiple of these types, I often find myself thinking of exit routes in the store. "How fast can I get to the break room? Will anyone be in there to help? What about the Manager's office, or the utility room? If I need to, I can hide behind these large boxes in this shelf..." The managers don't do anything about these customers, because a sale is a sale...
That’s fucking awful, I’m a 4’9 Latina girl so I’m always watching my back because I know I’m clearly an easy target since I’m so small. I’m considering getting one of those extendable batons for protection because I’m just personally uncomfortable with potentially having a taser or g*n. Plus, those things can still do a lot of damage and decent whack would probably make someone think twice about messing with me.
@@gabbykabins4333 you should reconsider atleast the taser, it's better to have something that doesn't take alot if force to use, and you can still use it as long as both your arms aren't constrained, even if you are grabbed, or something like a knife that can break the skin and cause more damge easily
Boo hoo
Can you carry in your state?
If owning and open or concealed carrying a gun is legal in your state, I highly recommend getting one. It's worst case scenario, but if something does happen then you'll have a much better chance of deterring someone from attacking, or stopping an active attacker. A taser is better if you aren't comfortable with guns or the idea of shooting someone, and *most* people will be incapacitated when they get tased. Pepper spray is also effective, although its less desirable since the attacker could be wearing goggles or a mask of some sort that would make pepper spray much less effective.
NEVER assume the killer is dead, he is more likely knocked out. Tie him up after checking that he isn't dead, then you can call the cops. Just make sure he can't escape easily.
Even if they seem dead after checking tie them up just in case.
Drop another brick
@@lordrifjig8354 my man 😂😂😂😂 you’d survive a horror movie
@@lordrifjig8354 my thoughts exactly. drop all of the bricks.
@@lordrifjig8354 good ol’ fashioned double-tap
I love Mark's reactions to customers. "Oh god, you're staying". Big mood.
Yeah like I'm a barista and seeing those types of customers stay it's like a Total mood
@@ニャー-d3z same tbh
My staying what?
@@jameswent48 I've fixed it.
ahahaha
8:45 "I don't set the prices, sir! I don't set them!" 90% of customer interaction, right there.
Honestly. I work as a barista and we had a customer who ordered her drink, we told her the price at the window, she kinda shrugged it off and then drove to the second window. Handed the drink out and she goes "$7 for this?" And basically just refused to take it or pay for it. It's sometimes frustrating because our company is not known for making inexpensive drinks in the slightest, but people still get mad at the baristas about it.
@@aimeemonnett2293 Sometimes the inexpensive drinks taste better than the expensive ones imo
@@NuggieIsMissing oh absolutely! I feel like the biggest thing about it is the brand name- people will pay out the ass for a popular brand.
@@aimeemonnett2293 Like even the cheap caramel Frappuccino at McDonald’s is better than Starbucks XD. It’s sweeter and has more of a shake consistency which makes it even better
@@NuggieIsMissing Yeah but half the time they can't find even though its in front of them. I used to work for Dollar General and boy some of the people there would either one try to discribe what they wanted but end up discribing something else and two would be pissy about why we didn't have that perticular item in stock or three get absoutly mad at you for no reason what so ever even with refunds.
1:07:34 I felt sick to my stomach right here, when I immediately realized that Mark didn’t check the back seat. I knew in that moment what was most likely about to happen to him.😭
My husband once asked me why I lock the car doors if I’m going to be back in a few minutes and nothing is in the car. I was just like… so someone doesn’t hide in the backseat! He’d never ever thought about it
Mark: "Welcome to Chilla's Coffee"
Game: "Did you say *Chilla's Coffee* ?"
Mark: *intense fear*
pls i need the time stamp
nvm i found it, 8:12
@@dominikadomjan2780 obob
That also scared the LIVING SHIT out of me
Wtf
Only slightly more terrifying than actual closing shift.
I am happy to never had to do closing shift.
And I am living in a peaceful town...
*Half as terrifiying
It truly depends where your place of business may be. For example: may you tend to a McDonald's establishment, you would be more than correct. The McDonald's worker will likely be doomed to many last-minute calls for "mY SoN WaNtS a HaPpPy MeAl!!" Whilst if you were to tend to higher-end clothing line, it would be no diffrent to a middle-day shift, perhaps even lesser so. Granted this serenity would be interrupted by the occasional last-minute purchase, still lesser to McDonald's.
i have a closing shift in a few minutes but im not scared bc it is always busy
Eyy would you happen to be a fellow goat enjoyer
I didn’t think I’d hear Mark say “senpai” and “bussin’” within 2 minutes of each other but here we are
Ikr, Lmao
oh the lengths that humanity has taken for those fine words to be told
Whenever Mark said "Senpai" I could only think of Yandere Simulator. And whenever he said "bussin" my mind went straight back to Bussin' by AK-69 (a japanese rapper, which kind of fits with the game).
LMAO YEAH
Where are we? I missed the "bussin" and I definitely need to know
Omg the fear of taking the trash out alone at night- especially after you just had a creepy interaction so you’re on edge/high alert- literally a feeling I haven’t felt in a minute and it was as an absolute gut-punch to remember how terrifying it is.
Especially when homeless tend to dig through it. I would run in and out.
Mark: “Oh, you’re approaching me?”
Rando: _“I can’t creep the shit out of you without getting closer.”_
LMAO my thoughts exactly! XD
Is that a Jojo reference?
My thoughts exactly!
this is my favorite comment
oh ho mukatte kuru no ka?
“How did you make it through childhood without someone caving in your skull?” - Mark said what we all want to say to an arsehole boss, and it was beautiful
Literally read this just as he said it lmao
he is not a boss, he is another worker that was working there just more time than main character, that is why he is senpai. And I kinda can understand his frustration, every minute she is late at work equals a minute that he has to work overtime without getting paid for it. I would be frustrated too.
@@timkalier still funny tho
@@timkalier I mean, in all fairness, Mark did say this after the senpai belittled and insulted her in response to being presented with the idea that she may be in danger. So, given the circumstances, he well deserved that questioning.
@@kexard Wrong
As someone who's trying to escape Retail Hell, I can confirm that you'd be expected to put the store's closing procedures above your own safety!
Worked at Burger King. Had an armed criminal escape and be in the area. "In the area" means cops were searching the building beside us and the woods surrounding our location....... still had to finish closing duties before my manager and I left.
Once began bleeding out of my nose due to exhaustion, I was put to rest for a few minutes on a dirty piece of cardboard then was asked to go back to work and finish the rest of the shit
Also spent Christmas covering for EVERYONE ELSE'S SHIFT because everyone there knows each other, and they just decided to not come to work that day with no warning or permission whatsoever and as far as I know they were never punished
meanwhile I was BEGGED to stay and cover the entire day when I was ready to leave, and literally depressed I couldn't spend the day with my family because of these assholes
Also sleeping inside the job only to wake up the next day and work again was a regular occurrence that they tried REALLY HARD to convince me was nothing to worry about and that I should totally do it to save time
When I quit my job in order to commit to art and making commissions for money, on top of the fact I was developing an allergic reaction to the sanitizer I was asked to spray every day, and were only given a pair of gloves to prevent, which did NOT WORK
My family would go on to tell me I'm a lazy fuck who doesn't know the luck I have for having a job, and that they have had it way worse than me in every conceivable way no matter what I told them, so that meant I was a little bitch for leaving
I hate retail and I hate people who refuse to recognize it's fucking inhumane
@@Jack_Woods Wow... wth... I'm so sorry you had to go through that and worse your family then calling you lazy .-.
I work at a popular coffee shop that I won’t disclose the name of, and the coffee grinder malfunctioned and fell on our former shift’s arm when she tried to fix it, which injured her considerably so we left. She got fired shortly after. She was also a sucky worker to begin with but that close was a tipping point for sure
@@Jack_Woods sounds like you need to ditch your "family". Blood relation doesn't make a family, so many people put up with some heinous bullshit because they're "family". If they treat you like shit, ditch them and don't look back.
Jesus christ that rape scene at 1:03:55 was just horrible. I haven't seen anyone mention that in the comments besides the fact that it's a jumpscare.
yes... the animalistic noises make it QUITE clear in a truly sick and scary way. The scene always makes me mad/fearful.
Its well done, the game's laser focus on how damn scary it is to just try and live your simple daily life when you are seen as something to prey upon.
i never realized thats what that was... holy shit...
it sounds like a flippin rubber duck
or when she goes unconscious in the store, we hear the backroom lights buzzing, but she still wakes up in her home. absolutely terrifying.
THAT WAS A RAPE SCENE???
It kind of felt like the 'jankiness' just added to the unsettling nature of this game in general. Gave such chills to what's being depicted as you continue through. Creepy.
I'd say the creators definitely conveyed their aim and mood they wanted to portray. Wew.
oh you're funny I get it, chill chillaz
True. I love your hermitcraft videos by the way. Keep up the good work
Pearl watches Markiplier, this is like a super mini one sided collab
Nah that's just a poor excuse for an unpolished product. If anything the game becomes comical with they way all the characters look and move. It's much better for a horror game to get progressively unsettling as things actually start to get weird, instead of everything being buggy and everyone giving the sense of the uncanny valley, even if there isn't supposed to be anything off with them.
Peearll!!
_"When a demon walks into your cafeteria and orders a latte you get the demon a goddamn latte"_ - Markiplier 2022
Honestly, after working as a barista in Disney World during peak…that’s a motto of the service industry
Caferateria lol -
@@glasstatue ?
@@ComradeNicky it's how he pronounced it that's what made it so funny to me
@@glasstatue oh okay lmao
Customer: “Anyway, the drink, please.”
Mark: “It’s in your hand.”
And there we have customer service summed up perfectly in two sentences
Please, just yesterday a customer said to me "I have 4 drinks on me, kid. Look at it" like he wasn't the one ordering it
Immediately reminded me of a part in an Invader Zim episode where a fast food manager is arguing with a customer who clearly has his order in front of him.
"I want my slaw!"
"You have your slaw, sir!"
"I. WANT. MY. SLAW!"
"YOU HAVE YOUR SLAW, SIR!"
This goes on for like a minute in the background. lol
Yes
👌
🤣
I want someone to animate this with Mark doing the entire "take this take this take this" bit he had when making some of the drinks for him to be handing one person a bunch of random things
LOLLL
The most horrific aspect is that this game gives such a familiar fear being a girl walking to her car. Most people being so dismissive and the rest creepy. That truly lonely feeling where you know you only got yourself.
with my first ex, whenever we would go anywhere, i created this new fear for myself with like, NEEDING to protect her at all costs, meaning like, whenever we’d come back from the grocery store, or get into my truck late at night, i would ALWAYS, check the backseat before we both got in. it was just a habit
Yes! Checking my backseat and then quickly locking the doors afterward is second nature now
@@mangocrisp24 That habit resembles OCD. Do you perhaps have OCD?
@@masoncrowley9379 i have AD, but i don’t think i have ocd
@@mangocrisp24 Okay. To be clear, I was not saying you had it, I think you understand that though.
42:48 Mark: "Why did you let a demon on the bus?"
Well, you see, Mark, times are tough. Even demons need to save money where they can.
Anthony J Crowley: Excuse me
Not even demons can afford gas nowdays, that's a cold hard truth
The scariest part ab this for me is that I've had people stalk me at job before so I know the fear it brings to not know what their angle is. Obv I know it to a lesser extent than this and the dude got arrested in my case but it's definitely a unique and terrible feeling that situation can inspire
Hi
I hope you're safe now!
I definitely get where you're coming from too. Im glad you're okay. one time when I was working 3rd shift at a previous job (thankfully we always have 2 people on a shift) a gentleman came in around 2am from out of town and he... wasn't in his right mind. he kept hitting on me. asking me extremely personal questions. my coworker thought it was hilarious, she was in the office giggling up a storm. I was polite and denied his advances but he was persistent. he kept saying he wanted kids. wanted me to go with him. then he legit got down on one knee and proposed to me. I shit you not. I was freaking out but scared he would come around around counter and hurt me. after almost 45 minutes he finally left. I was super scared and freaked out. thankfully I never saw him again. was too scared to call the police out of fear of not being taken seriously...
@@lemonywater2979 I am! Some coworkers helped me and told him to leave and when that didn't work my manager kicked him out and got police involved. I heard he was creepy to a few other employees too, I'm just glad he's gone. I start to panic whenever I see certain kinds of leather jackets now though lmao. I'm a cashier so he always came through my line, eventually with like one item week after week. Then one time he cornered me in my aisle and put his hands on me and I don't rlly remember much after that, just what my friend told me after. Still remember the nauseating mint smell tho. They told him to fuck off and eventually spoke up for me when he didn't leave me alone. Hope he rots.
Just recently when I was still in high school this guy from another class had apparently been stalking me for two years. He knew I have a dog that I take out on walks, he knew I have an elder brother who took my dog in the evenings, and he knew I didn’t come out much in the evenings. That was something not even close friends knew as some sort of fact. Only probably one or two people apart from my family knew about me not wanting to be out in the evenings for any reason or the other. And I live in a pretty guarded area. So this guy one day waited for me outside for like 2 hours in the afternoon on a very hot day- easily above 40°C, while I was at my friend’s house and waited till I was alone to approach me. I’d seen him loitering around when we were going to her house and also to mine to get my dog. We were concerned about the guy when we had seen him and were even considering to approach him to ask whether he was okay. Not only that, I had a feeling we were being watched, and lo and behold that guy was a bit away from us with his phone pointed to our, and when I pointed him out to my friends he acted as if he were taking a video of the scenery around. Anyways, he approaches me and introduces himself as a friend of a friend saying that he had told him about me and he’d been wanted to talk to me for a while now. Then he tells me how I don’t get out in the evenings, and that he’d waited 7 hours on another occasion to meet me. Then he proudly tells me how he had seen me 2 years ago, describing my outfit and that my dog had barked at him, “probably because he didn’t like the way I was looking at his owner”. There was no one around, and I was tired and just wanted to go home, not to mention how hot it was. I couldn’t have run away or fought him, I didn’t know what his intentions were, and my dog is rather big and he was too tired so I couldn’t run with him in that state too. So i asked for his Instagram and got hold of his name, but then I noticed this guy had liked a couple posts of mine a few days ago. It was really creepy. I’m okay now, thankfully I told my brother and he took care of everything, although I’m afraid we didn’t report him to the school authorities, thanks to certain prior experiences we’ve had with them to know they won’t do anything and blame me instead. My parents also got me some pepper spray because this was just too much, and I wasn’t to leave the house without a friend. God only knows what all he knew about me and what he could do next. I’m glad to say that quite a bit of time has passed since then and I’m completely safe :)
36:32
370 yen is about $2.60 in USD. Save everyone the goog
Also this scene is iconic- you’re listening to other girls your age to see if they have the same concerns as you. One person appears to be “over concerned” about the situation and the other is “downplaying” the situation. So you don’t know where your opinion should lie. On top of trying to do your job. On top on trying to evaluate the situation- is the “creepy appearing” awkward man the stalker? Is it the guy who was hanging out in the background but then becomes super nice by buying someone else’s drink?
Whoever made this game was a woman or got amazing women team members for feed back. Because this is perfect representation of what cycling thoughts of fears and justification are inside your head 24/7.
As someone who has both been a barista, and had a super creepy stalker, this is so accurate. There was something oddly comforting about seeing Mark reacting the same way as I have to these things in real life. From checking the back seat of the car, to being afraid to leave work, or even take out the trash, and looking for some kind of weapon. I really appreciated it, even as I squirmed uncontrollably with discomfort while watching it.
Not gonna lie, read that as "As someone who has both been a barista and a super creepy stalker, this is so accurate"
@@TheActualRealDrPepper 🤣 Thy brain doth love to tricketh thee.
A Glock 17 would’ve fixed the entire problem though. Stay strapped stay safe. Guns are equalizers specifically because a 5’4” rail thin woman can still defend herself against a 6’3” 250 pound block of muscle. Most of the time, cops can’t help with stalkers when they try to, because they don’t have Star Trek transporters yet, and in this game the cops aren’t even trying. Life is a struggle, this world is unsafe, and there are plenty of evil people in it. Your defense is, unfortunately your responsibility if only because only you can actually control it. Fortunately, ever since colt invented the 1911, you have nearly complete control over your safety.
@@feartheghus I don't disagree. I'm from Arizona, and have known how to handle guns since I was about 11. I always have a 9mm locked away in my car when driving for work, but I also have two young kids, so I have to walk the safety line very carefully. They haven't handled guns yet, but my husband and I have been teaching them gun safety with their toy weapons (bows and arrows and pretend star wars blasters) since they could talk. We have both our daughters enrolled in Kung Fu as well, and I've learned a number of self defence tactics from my uncle, who's a marine vet. People are crazy. I agree, it's best to be prepared, so long as you do it safely and intelligently.
@@feartheghus it japan btw
God, I love this game. The ending of coming back home, without your phone, the night of your attack by a stalker who got away: never, ever do that. Plus the lack of support the whole game, her horrible boss, the private investigator discouraging the police, the weird and disturbing customers who could have also become a stalker. The feeling of dread knowing that it will go horribly wrong, while still wanting to finish your shift and to find a safe space, amazing.
I didn't really find those customers weird but agree with everything else (aside from shoyra)
A Glock 17 would’ve fixed the entire problem though. Stay strapped stay safe. Guns are equalizers specifically because a 5’4” rail thin woman can still defend herself against a 6’3” 250 pound block of muscle. Most of the time, cops can’t help with stalkers when they try to, because they don’t have Star Trek transporters yet, and in this game the cops aren’t even trying. Life is a struggle, this world is unsafe, and there are plenty of evil people in it. Your defense is, unfortunately your responsibility if only because only you can actually control it. Fortunately, ever since colt invented the 1911, you have nearly complete control over your safety.
@@feartheghus ok troll, time to go back to reddit
@@feartheghus guns aren't the only solution, they're a cause of problems.
I feel like the only normal ones were the group of boys, the trio of girls, the poor person & the dude who payed for his drink. they were most normal.
the first 10-15 minutes of this was absolute terror because it was so real. Scariest moments are when you're on a new service job and you haven't been properly trained and you're expected to work without help and a bunch of customers come in thinking you know what you're doing.
and then the customers are condescending and like "are you neww?" and you're like yes! i am! and my trainer showed me how to do this one time before taking a thirty minute smoke break!
Yeah, that part was too real. I actually got kind of stressed when he looked at the training tapes. Trying to remember where everything was and in which order to do all the tasks, just... Vietnam flashbacks of the highest order ensued :)
Exactly! My gosh yes. Older people looove to make it a generational thing too, like "Oh you don't know what you're doing because you're either not paying attention or you just don't give a shit." Meanwhile it's THEIR generation that's not teaching us properly, throwing us to the wolves like Senpai in the game. They're the ones that don't give a shit, who dont have a clue what good work ethic is and refuse to have the sympathy or even the patience to teach. You'd think they'd want efficiency as bad as the customers expect it pft.
Dude I relate so much. This is my second summer working at a retail store, and I still feel like a deer caught in headlights when a customer asks me where literally anything is
3:57
“Your face sent shivers down my spine.. and it’s not because I’m in love😇”
-Markiplier 2022
You'd be surprised at how scarily accurate a lot of the interactions can be. Part of the horror IS the barista element. Even as a dude, I've dealt with the weird people coming in mostly naked or on drugs or both, or the people who just say what they want with no other words and then they just STARE at everything you do while you make their shit. The people who come in and are overly friendly and willing to share about their day and life when you have social anxiety/ don't want to talk/ are just trying to do your job. People talking and talking and talking while they should be ordering and holding everything up by not having their orders ready/ money figured out, and of course, actually robbery.
Now we can get into the fact that the company I was at for 7 years (left as a manager) I saw more times than I could count, super creepy interactions that girls I worked with had to go through generally because the manager is the one dealing with this shit on shift I did personally, the guy in this game didn't gaf which would be shitty. in 2 extreme cases they literally were stalked at work and, one culminated in her beating the dudes ass because he followed her home, and the other one the police were called and a restraining order was filed because the guy refused to leave the store so she could safely walk to her car. I would say the reason this game is scary is that fact that this IS real life. This game is the reality of things
I ain't reading allat
@@bigjake1978able why admit youre lazy when you can just scroll past
@@klltsun_2576 I actually did read it all I was just playing around
as a barista i’ve been subject to men being hella inappropriate, making me feel uncomfortable and even sexually harassing me at one point. while i’m like…sir, it’s in my job description to be nice.
How come she "beat a dude's ass", sounds weird to me.
I love how 80% of this is just a barista simulator and 20% is horror game, yet it still manages to creep the hell out of the players.
I mean, you just know something bad is gonna happen, and the tension builds up everyday, each time the shop closes for the night. Great game! Also, Mark's reactions are very on point 💀
japanese horror is like that, lots of build-up to a great payoff
It's minimum wage work simulator it's 100% horror lol
@@BEX5397 with abusive co-worker, harassment from customers. It just hits way too close
@@warrust yea 😭
@@alekpo2000 God this is so weird. I had already read your comment halfway through the video so I don't know why this happened. But I scrolled down to the comment section at the end of the video and for some reason my brain read Japanese as jalapeno.
58:12 the fact that she came in all dressed in black, no baby in the carriage, and sniffling without saying a word just tells a whole other tragic side story that I'm pretty sure Mark picked up on real fast...
like what? :0
@@cinnamon3497 the baby dies
@@cinnamon3497 the baby most likely passed, maybe she was wearing black because she’d come straight from the funeral :,[
No wonder it died. It was very cold outside :(
Or the demons killed it
@@agermanpotato6009 i read someone’s comment about how the stalker might’ve seen the altercation and “punished” the woman for messing (maybe not the right word?? but you get what i mean) with the MC. it’s not a common behavior but it does happen in some cases :]
It's scary because being in a scenario like this CAN happen in real life. It's not like a horror game with a fictional monster in a scenario that wouldn't happen. Instead, it shows just how scary it is for employees when working at night shifts alone and how uneasy it feels to get customers late at night. A lot of people may not realize it, but stalkers are terrifying, and this game proves. They might not sound as terrifying as a monster, but they certainly are a monster at best.
Did you mean real life monsters? Because that's what stalkers are--real life monsters.
When delusion takes over a human mind, it transforms people into something inhuman. Stalkers lose their humanity very quickly as their delusions take over.
I’m impressed that Mark managed to get all the endings. Also, I wouldn’t be too surprised if this game was based off a true story. It’s terrible that these kinds of things do happen in real life.
It was
I myself actually kind of lived through this at my last job as a barista. I don’t work there anymore.
@@jamalquequeonesliceofpizza7718 sauce?
@@corahtheskeleton8062 one guy said it on a video can't remember it it's name but the story is. There was a women who was a barista like in the game the stalker had been following her for years and ended up killing her
@@jamalquequeonesliceofpizza7718 poor woman
Mark: "I don't know who'd be getting coffee this late.."
Me: *Casually sipping coffee at 3:30am while binge-watching all his videos* "How very dare you.."
*laughs in night shift
Based
That is the exact time I wake up for my shift at, you guessed it, a coffee shop.
02:30 here. Fork this.
@@ascendednightingale2456 off for real, I’d do c r i m e s to have SOMETHING other than Taco Bell available when it’s lunchtime
Mark: "Oh, you're approaching me?"
Random person coming into the store: "I can't order from your store without getting closer"
IS THAT A JOJO REFRENCE?
SUHRBAHBHAAHHAHA
I really ought to watch JoJo...
ゴゴゴゴゴ
@@Zeracan bro u need to it’s so amazing
24:37 i ugly laughed and replayed this so many times i swear Marks just over here like "WAFFLE 🧇 FRIES 🍟APPLE 🍎 PIES🥧 AMERICAN 🇺🇲 SCONE CARAMEL TO-TOFFEE" "MACHA 🍵 CAKE 🎂 PUMPKIN 🎃 CAKE 🎂 🤠" "GREEN BEAN CASSeRoLe and Strawberry 🍓SWEet crEAm RoLl 🍰"
"BREAD 🍞 BEANS"
"BUTTER 🧈 BEANS"
"RED 🟥 BREAD 🍞 AND BUTTER 🧈 BREAD 🍞" 💀
i come back to this video every now and then just for that part
Bro same
Love the emojis 😂
Then later on and he goes SWEET BEANS BUTTER BEANS
My reaction was to laugh and just think " Mark is going insane "
I have to agree Mark. The response to "I'm being stalked" is NOT incredulous and rude remarks. That Senpai was probably only saved by the fact that Japanese society tends to be pressured towards behaving, not making a scene. That said, this person's attitude would've still gotten them beaten up in school.
In my experience people like these save their bullying and shitty authoritative attitudes for when they reach positions of power.
That's one thing I can't stand about modern Japanese society, the way people in situations like this, especially women and girls, are expected to shut up and take it and not bother anyone else with their problems, sometimes even including the police. It's worst for girls and women who get groped on crowded trains--a girl it happens to usually expected to just let it happen, and if she cries out for help and "makes a scene", as their society likes to put it, all she'll typically get is disapproving stares from the other passengers, as if being silently told to stop bothering everyone. And then if she reports it to the police, they'll all too often dismiss it because, get this, *it's too embarrassing a matter for them to deal with.* And this is in spite of such molestation literally being addressed as a CRIME on signs at train stations in major cities!
"I don't set the prices sir!"
As some who worked retail and food service for over 12 years, I felt that in what's left of my soul
"What's left" hit me in the stomach. Oof. I felt that.
@@AdeptusCaeiusIII Oh god yeah x_x
@@gobalbucs Argue with one pothead at 11:30 at night over a $5 pizza, and tell me the food service industry isn't horrible, am I right? XD Pizza was a horrible job, despite how good the tips were.
@@AdeptusCaeiusIII Money does not replace the soul in my opinion.
@@kanyaahjanesorden7448 It really doesn't. Wasn't upset at all when I left that job. Service in general is an awful job type. People forget so easily that it's a PERSON behind the counter. They just treat you like everything is your fault all the time. Had a friend who used to work at a certain store that was... Very technological. Won't specify the name.
The job drove him to attempt 'un-alive'. Luckily, he didn't do a very good job of it, because I'd have hated to lose a friend to such a horrible circumstance, but he has PTSD from working there. He can't even walk into one of their stores or he shuts down. Seeing that shit? It really hurts.
I'm SO glad that more people are playing Chilla's Art games. They've been a favorite of mine for a while, so it's nice to see all the RUclipsrs I follow get into them.
@26 Mic no
Chilla’s Art is beyond amazing on all levels
The new big horror indie studio fr
Chilla's art make some of the best horror games in awhile
Bro u know who else who makes videos that are also entertaining ? Mine just like Markiplier hundred percent u will die of laughter bro
“They went back to the scene & there was no one there”
Not even the dead PI? Damn, stalker woke up & immediately went ‘time to hide some bodies’
Alternatively, PI got up and HE went "time to hide some bodies' /j
There’s something so comforting about watching Mark make coffee. Even though he’s screaming the entire time.
This game is two things:
1. Bored, Annoyed, Underpaid, Underappreciated, Frequently Insulted Customer Service Employee Simulator
2. Small Non-Combatant Woman Simulator
Thank you, Chilla's Art. The world's downtrodden now feel a little bit more understood and less alone.
My work is like this. Thankfully no stalker (yet)
Literally I’m a barista this like validated all my work complaining tbh
You end up doing more to the stalker than the investigator, so I wouldn't say completely non-combatant xd
That’s always been my one mission In life to understand my fellow humans, that and get Taco Bell every Tuesday
@@victoriamarie1474 you don’t need validation tho, we are always seeking it but don’t have it within ourselves.
Jumpscares n' stuff:
3:50 kinda mean edit
10:35 Boop boop (not scary)
20:14 Door
20:45 Power turns off
21:29 another door
22:30 haunted milk
22:46 white noise
30:50 white noise coming back
31:27 sonic-woman (worst one yet)
40:35 didn't like that one (glitch)
42:42 actual glitch
49:50 power cuts off again/timer
51:48 timer runs out
53:10 da eyes
1:03:19 Guy at the door (hell nah this is too much)
1:03:54 redemption of the monkey man?! (Another bad one)
--Door thing repeats
1:06:26 knocking at the door
1:07:50 Yes Mark you checked absolutely nothing
1:08:09 there he is
-- a lot repeats
Despite the ending itself I'm done at this point!
Disclaimer: I shouldn't have forgot anything but if you happen to find something I'll immediately correct it!
Personal Comment: I've seen the whole thing by Jacksepticeye already and it's incredibly scary and unsettling every single time I watch it. I really hope every girl/woman but also guy that finds himself in a situation like this, gets help and finds a way to get out of the whole thing. At this point, it's just crazy that humans are capable of not being a human anymore...
Bless your soul
I LOVE YOU!!!!!!
thank you so much!!!!!
Yay
No problem y'all, someone has to go through it 🤣
45:42 Anyone who has ever worked in service has had at least one of these customers. The kind that just makes your day. A friend of mine has finished taking an order and just gone "i wanna give that person a smooch" because they're just really nice! It's the little things. Be nice to your service workers, everyone.
as a starbucks barista that is mainly a closer this is terrifying and im thankful that it’s illegal to be in the building alone. also, aside from not using espresso, these recipes were pretty accurate!
it kinda made me mad that the caramel macchiato used caramel syrup instead of vanilla lmao
as a former Starbucks barista myself who worked at multiple different locations, this game ESPECIALLY hit home. Throughout the stores I worked at, each of the closing managers still wanted trash taken out after dark despite it being against the rules and I just... this game really highlights why that SHOULDN'T have been a thing.
-Stuff like that is why I quit.-
Farmers market goes late, during the later part of the season they make me close up during dark. Fucking spooky man. I've bought a stun gun just in case.
@@bumblebea420 It also made me mad that the coffee went in before the milk.
Well....you wouldn't be alone if there was a stalker O.O
The size of your inventory is the scariest thing. I just imagine a very stressed barista holding all of those things at once and trying their best.
Nah she's holding them gta style
They fine
Lixian really is amazing at editing, i hope he never leaves Mark’s side they complement each other so well
Edit: i said compliment instead of complement… lmao
The video is 1 hour long and u already commenting about editing after a few minutes of upload?
@@twotimefan did you watch the beginning of the video when he talks to Lixian… as well as the many years of editing that Lixian has done for Mark
Lixian is great
Its honestly sad that Mark's other 2 editors....one even edited this too, never get any credit.
@@Spawn-Point they did?
Seeing mark struggle to use the brick correctly was a really high IQ moment
I’ve never seen the escape through vent scene cuz everyone usually figures out how to drop the brick but ofc Mark with his HUGE brain somehow figures out how to use the screwdriver 💀
I had no idea that was even an option! I hadn’t seen anyone else do tha
dude ifkr
Does that count as an ending even though it goes to a game over retry screen
I was curious to see what happens if u use the screw driver in the vent. Glad mark figured out
I thought Jack was going to do that in his play-through because I’m pretty sure he found the vent after he died on his first try, but he ended up also using the brick, and I was always wondering what the other ending was.
Markiplier: Tries to make coffee
Also Mark: “Milk is always the hardest thing to throw away.”
Not for the stalker...
*Hnngn...I love milk...*
XD
@Don't Read My Profile Photo k
I’m shaking and crying over the spilled milk rn
As a barista at starbucks, the anxiety you got from the group of men that came in at the beginning is so relatable bc sometimes we get a 40 item order and its usually just 3 of us actually making the order
ESPECIALLY the 9pm rush when there’s only two people working and for some reason 12 people come in and order two drinks each. half of our shit is in the dishwasher cause we already started closing 🫠
@@burnt-croissants Not a Barista but holy fuck do I hate it when a bunch of people somehow decide the best time to come in/call is near closing time. You had *all* day mate
So real
Just my luck that i get off work after sunday peak rush, come home to draw and use youtube as bg noise, turn on this vid
and its literally my goddamn job
@@XhyRobtic not if you're busy at the afternoon. and alot of people are.
bro i was waiting for someone to comment this. i’m a barista at starbucks as well and it always feels like i’m having a thousand teachers staring at me while i do multiple exams- none of which i prepared for as much as i thought.
Love how Mark is progressively getting better at making coffee in a horror game
Mark: "Why do I have the feeling someone's watching me?"
33 million people: 😳
3 million*
@@NippyNep no it's 32.9 million
@@andreamccully9035 4million *
just cuz they subscribed dont mean they watchin'
@@gallavichstrss how does that change the fact how many subscribers he has. Oh wait it doesn't.
Markiplier sees a stalker outside waiting to get inside.
Markiplier's choice: *going outside.*
To be fair, a mad dash for the car might've been more doable if the stalker didn't move so unrealistically fast. Not at all a safe option but if you just want /out/ of a terrifying situation it's not a weird one to pick, especially since the stalker doesn't move from the other end of the building 'til after you can't see him.
"When a demon walks into your cafe - cafeteria and orders a latte, you give that demon a goddamn latte" - life tips with Mark. love it, made me laugh
Lmao same here
I would give them a latte and a high-five
So I really like this game and I would definitely rewatch it but really quick I want to stamp a trigger warning at 1:03:30 cause I just found the noises in this part very disturbing. It could be just me but if any other girlies want to be forewarned, this game is about a girl being stalked, Mark gets the girl caught at this point, she is attacked, and the noises from the attack are just awful. You could skip about 20 secs. It’s just a heads up just in case. Please enjoy the video and have a nice day ♡
Thanks for the warning x
yep basically a grape scene
I watched another youtuber play it and either she didn’t get this ending or I didn’t realize but… when I saw people warn abt it then saw it it’s very obvious and tramatic… and of course mark didn’t get it. Cuz. Well. He doesn’t have to particularly worry abt such a situation as much as the common woman.
this should be pinned!
"I was too latt-ate" is my favorite off the cuff Mark joke in a long time
52:16
@@funnymariobrosthe3rd239 i appreciate you, and so must a lot of people.
@@familyk9443 I do too
Man, Lixian is such a good editor. When he can make it scarier for me than Mark that's a big W for him, just sayin
big facts
@@kikoasnowz weeb
Eh! It’s you the ARK guy isn’t it?
@@nooblrd1234 yup its him
@@kikoasnowz weeb
The "chilla" in Chilla's Coffee comes from "chinchilla". That's what those weird purple things are, and that's what is in the logo for the cafe as well.
I think it might be because it was Chilla’s Art that made the game.
@@poisontippedsword3457 chilla's art tends to feature chinchillas in almost all their games (at least as for all the ones I've seen played so far), so both you and op are correct
@@spacegay6030 Ah, I didn’t know that, that’s cool.
I thought they looked like chinchillas!! So cute 😄
Ohhhh now I understand Chillapuccino
1:03:58 terrified me so bad because with the predatory sounds, i don't think he was only killing the girl but doing something else too:( i'm sick.
same. this was the first game that I had to stop watching because it was too disturbing. had to come back later when I was prepared to immediately skip the scene q_q
I was really confused with the sounds it made when mark got caught and thought he was stabbing her. Then I rewatched the video like a week later and was completely mortified
Yeaaa that was 'that scene'😓😓
I think it was r@p£? Idk tho
I was not expecting to get a ptsd attack by a markiplier video
I love how this game’s actual coffee shop mechanics make you forget so easily that this is actually a horror game. Great job to the developers because literally every time the coffee shop section happened I forgot it was a horror game and got scared lol
yup, i think the overwhelming number of tasks and steps are made to make you almost forget it's a horror game and that someone's watching you. when you have a stalker that's usually how it is; very often people don't notice their stalkers bc they're sneaky and over time they get bolder and bolder (like the nutcase in the game getting closer to the protag) they learn their victim's routine and habits so that they don't look suspicious. it's incredibly relatable and well made
“i should be riding on the top of - MY *LEGS!* MY *TOOTSIE ROLLS!”*
Omg, it's great to see you here OT! Fellow Mark fan
One topicy wopicy~~ god i watch too much click
OT??!?!?!!! this is the last place i'd expect u to be
It omg hiii
Hey OT, nice to see you here
As a current batista that had an issue with stalking in my first few months of work, I can confidently say that this is almost exactly what it's like. Now granted Mark is right that no real coffee store would be open at horrendously late hours of the night but given my coffeeshop runs till 7pm (in which some part of the year are dark at this point of the day) I can say it can feel as such. This definitely hit the right strings for that fear factor and despite the obvious flaws, this is a very well made game! Well done
Here in Oregon we actually have a 24 hour coffee place for some odd reason.
@@taylornowa8252 ah yes, the Oregon Insomniacs, from morning till dusk
It's weird how common stalking is among baristas. Like, I work as a barista as well, and at my old work, there was a gal that was being stalked by a man. They actually had to ban him from the store, and walk her to her car every day.
The coffee shop at my workplace is open till 12am some nights, but it's not quite the same because it's inside a club, so they have the protection of club security and extensive CCTV.
Same here, I had a guy come in VERY often, who was more than 10 years older then me and barely knew me, and he gave me the kind of compliments that a high schooler gives to their girlfriend. Needless to say, I felt very uncomfy. Thankfully they didn’t take it outside of my work place
Best part of this game's existence imo is that it's finally gonna teach some people that "senpai" doesn't mean "crush".
It means like “mentor”, right?
@@unicorn69 It has a few different meanings. The most common one (and the reason it comes up so often in high school dramas) is "upper classman". That is, someone in the grade above your own. So if you're a senior, you don't have any senpai.
The real horror of this game: You're working a shift without anyone else in the building
The real horror is knowing that YOU AREN’T ALONE
Me, a barista: "Ugh today sucked. Well at least I'm at home and I can watch videos and not think about work for a while-"
*Mark, playing a game as a barista:*
"OH FUCKING DAMN IT-"
This. When I saw him stare at the coffee menu with no comprehension and I thought 'ah, he has never had to deal with this. I always wondered what that feeling is like."
@@riseandroot4530 When he asked "Who would get JUST milk??" I wanted to cry because I have had people get MUCH dumber drinks. I still can't get over the time someone asked for a redbull drink with shots of espresso in it.
@@Ehh97 what the fuck 🤣
idk how to feel about that lmao
@@Ehh97 WHAT 😭
@@Ehh97 isn't that kinda... dangerous? mixing alcohol with energy drinks xD
The fact that mark checked the back seat tells me he’s fairly familiar with the tactics a lot of us who’ve had stalkers have to employ for safety.
Or just literally anyone who has ever watched a horror film, lol
honestly with how popular he is i wouldnt be surprised if hes had one (or more) :/
@@Dougretseverything no i dont do much on twt
uh yeah hes a youtuber
You mean women, men will never understand what women do fo feel safe
The scary thing is how accurate it is. People always like to say "you were probably leading them on" literally just being polite is all it takes.
Mark: "Welcome to Chilla's coffee!"
Customer: "Did you say Chilla's coffee?"
Mark: 👁️👄👁️ "I did-"
That sounds little strange
🧐 How he knows what mark says 🤷♂️
FBI OPEN UP!
8:14
It was so eerie that he knew what Mark said even though there was no dialogue on screen!
as someone who’s worked many closing shifts alone in coffee shops i can say this hits the nail on the head with the primal fear that comes with the job. the sheer terror of people ordering cups of cold milk at 9pm is unlike any other
It’s very shocking to me that businesses allow one person go close. I’ve worked in hardware store and you’re never allowed to close by yourself. I can’t imagine how scary it is
@@elizabethgarcia-qy1vp it’s weird as hell! i dont think they should allow it, and yet ive been threatened being fired for asking to not close on my own bc it’s “part of the job”. so you kinda have to deal :/
@@levaineasher5656 literally same. i was expected to work alone closing shifts even when i was just in training and wasn’t even making minimum wage yet AND i was a teenager at the time. it led to me quitting which i’m still sad about because i genuinely really liked the job and my coworkers but i couldn’t deal with the anxiety and the knowledge that i was being exploited. plus i was just generally unsafe.
@@wompwompana If it were me, I'd explicitly call them out and report them. Maybe it wasn't an option for you, but I just don't see myself tolerating that horseshit.
@@jokairou489 trust me it was reported and brought to several peoples’ attention and even my coworkers tried to get something done about it but unfortunately because it was food service we were the ones who got in trouble, because “this kind of stuff comes with the job” and we needed to “thicken our skin”. lots of my friends have very similar experiences and it’s just extremely disturbing and disappointing that this can happen even in areas considered more safe or liberal, especially since i’m a well known individual in my community and have been targeted anonymously by my neighbors several times as an lgbt person. i’ve never been granted any additional protection or anything despite just trying to mind my business. it really really sucks and i’ve had to basically stop all activism since then. i miss it and i miss working in cafes. :(
Mark: "Oh you're approaching me!"
Customer: "I can't place my order unless I come closer."
Mark: "OH HO, THEN COME AS CLOSE AS YOU LIKE!"
Lixian is such a good editor for changing the text to match Mark's words.
This game really shows how and why most women feel unsafe at night due to creeps. The developer seems to have nailed the feeling of uncomfortable dread.
Fr the eery feeling and paranoia is really well executed in this
Fr
I mean, depending on where you live, a lot of guys feel unsafe at night too, albeit usually for different reasons.
Why do people think only girls are in danger at night? Boys are much more likely to be the victims of robbery and car theft.
@@RomanSimkins Because people nowadays are supposed to believe men are only ever aggressors and perpetrators and women are meant to live in constant fear even when they have no real reason to.
Love how Mark hyped himself up to fight the stalker when he first comes in the store, as a woman who has dealt with creepy customers I have definitely ran over a similar script in my head to get the Fight reaction in "Fight or Flight".
I’m sorry to hear that
Same, I'm a cashier but I also work stock before the store opens so I always have my box cutter on me. Certain repeat offenders that come into the store mentally send me straight into the "Try some shit with me or my coworkers if you want to, fucker" category, lmao. Thankfully I have a security guard and general manager in my store that actually listen to us when we have issues with people that come in to creep or be unnecessarily aggressive. It's not a super safe neighborhood to begin with, so they know not to brush us off when we point unsafe activity out. We have a lot of friendly regulars that speak up for us too, so it's rare for us to have to call the cops, but some people just will NOT back off.
@@HappyElsen Oh, I'm so glad you actually have people who listen and have a fucking head on right! Also the boxcutter, very smart choice. Any creepy mf lays a hand on you, they won't have it in 10 seconds lmao! i hope everyone here stays safe and has a good day/night!
@@HappyElsen oh, that's great that there are people who listen to you! /gen
where i used to work, there was this girl sending me d3ath threats just bc her boyfriend was being friendly with me (we were just good friends, nothing more). i told my immediate supervisor and my higher manager, and stopped going to work for a while. they didn't do anything about it and kept forcing me to go to work knowing there was someone threatening me. i ended up quitting that job.
@aether ☪️ That sucks, that they would treat you like that. I hope you found a better job
This game is a perfect example why women are scared to do anything alone. The manager didn’t believe her about a stalker, the others girls witnessed him didn’t say anything, and even the other women told mark (barista) to be careful being by herself
And one was even kind enough to give her an evil-warding bracelet
@@jokairou489 what 😶
@@jokairou489 Especially when that video game is thematically and narratively written to relate to a real life situation!
With that hot take, books, movies, and art are not rooted in reality either. All a video game is, is a blend of all the other forms of media with an interactive aspect. So if you think that there's nothing that human beings create that can relate to real life, then perhaps you are the one living in a fantasy world.
@@jokairou489 What kind of downplay technique did you just pull? Stuff like this literally happens irl 🤦🏾
@@haunai7140 lol literally, there’s a handful of comments like this.
The sounds of when the stalker catches you is so unsettling.
It honestly sounds like a chimpanzee attack. The random huffing and screaming also makes it seem like necrophilia was involved.
I think...it was a sexual attack...
I think so too
@@harunz.alnaji585 Me too. Felt horrible.
I think it should symbolize that you have been raped and it's deliberately meant to come across as very uncomfortable.
This game was incredibly well done. And I appreciate Mark's incredible ability to be so sarcastic and humourous the whole time while also not making light of how awful the subject matter is. When stuff gets real, he takes it seriously.
And that is probably the scariest and saddest thing that stuck with me the whole video; that this is just a horror video game for Mark and for many of us, but it is a genuinely real horror for many people in the world. Thinking about the fact that people in the real world have to live with the fear this game instilled in us makes me feel sick.
Amazing game and an amazing video. I am very grateful this exists.
It's really great how the Stalker's design is juuuust generic enough while still looking creepy. His features are very vague, he looks like he could literally be *anyone*. That moment where he's panting at the door and swiveling his head at you is borderline traumatizing.
22:25 I hate that “~ooo~ it’s a haunted milk~” made me ugly laugh so hard
This game chilled me to the bone, mostly due to how realistically scary it was. I was curled up in a ball slightly because I was so nervous! This was really well done
Did it chill you because it's Chilla?
I know, I had flashbacks from being a barestia at dunken donuts.
me too :(
The interactions between Lixian and Ol’ Mr. Iplier are always so heartwarming.
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Mr. Iplier lol
it's actually really cool finally seeing someone else that calls him Mr. Iplier
If it's your first time seeing this game: The convo Mark missed between the women (about hearing someone breathing) was that there was a creeper on the bus and they had to get off the bus early, and who knows what would have happened to them if they hadn't.
A Glock 17 would’ve fixed the entire problem though. Stay strapped stay safe. Guns are equalizers specifically because a 5’4” rail thin woman can still defend herself against a 6’3” 250 pound block of muscle. Most of the time, cops can’t help with stalkers when they try to, because they don’t have Star Trek transporters yet, and in this game the cops aren’t even trying. Life is a struggle, this world is unsafe, and there are plenty of evil people in it. Your defense is, unfortunately your responsibility if only because only you can actually control it. Fortunately, ever since colt invented the 1911, you have nearly complete control over your safety.
@@feartheghus Yes. Absolutely. Guns are the solution to everything. Nothing bad ever happens when guns are around.
@@feartheghus As much as guns are good for self defense, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be useful in a stalker situation.
@@j02killahz13 Indeed. Specially if you are untrained with it. Even an equalizer isn't so good if you can't operate it properly. Stalker could just rip it out of your hand in this scenario.
@@feartheghus Guns still need to be regulated. Note: NOT removed but manage who can get them better. We shouldn't live in a country where mass shootings are commonplace.
the best part about this game, are the irl effects of it. watching people like mark and dantdm play this game, feeling completely normal at the start- then starting to get progressively more paranoid. they start questioning themselves irl, and become more alert in the game. its crazy how a game can have such a prominent psychological effect in real life.
This is like an unsettling, frustrating dream where everything is too dark & nothing goes the way you want it too
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