Maybe it’s just me, but Null’s playthrough really made me feelings towards the game sour even more. I hate this saccharine “teen spirit” nostalgia crap. I feel like the only audience for this stuff is either people who peaked in high school or people who feel like their teen years were somehow robbed from them.
I’m now in my 30’s and have lived almost double my ages from when I was in high school. Outside of being smarter, there’s practically no difference to my life in the areas that matter to me on a personal level. I still have all the same hobbies, I still know the majority of the same friends, and I still get up to the same shenanigans I always did. If anything, I just replaced being forced to go to school by the state with having a job to afford my life, which is so much infinitely better than being under my parent’s rule that I’d enter dream of going back to my teenage years. And unlike many of these people, I actually was a teenager in California who would occasionally make trips to Los Angeles.
Life after being a teenager is so much better than being a teenager that I’ll never understand the nostalgia. I get nostalgia for a time period, early internet was objectively better in ways but also worse in ways, but I don’t have nostalgia for my age at the time I used early internet. If anything I wish I was older to enjoy it better.
A coming of age story is supposed to be an examination of society and finding one’s role in the world, not a nostalgic wank fest about the type of person you wish you were. The best coming of age stories often take place in the decade they were written in, mainly because it keeps things current and avoids romanticizing the past in a cringe way. Garbage like mix tape is just wish fulfillment for people who lack a personality
I remember a set of Kevin and Perry sketches, along with many jokes from the 90s/early 00s which pointed out teenagers who were "Like this" loved Oasis and would listen to it a lot, there's a great line from the Kevin and Perry movie where his parents are singing wonder wall and he goes off on them for doing so because they're too old for it.
Again, it's people who never lived the 90s trying to go "We totally get the 90s so here's a playlist of obscure-ish 90s songs which teens would totally listen to" without understanding what making a mixtape entailed in the 90s.
It wasn't "Let me boot up the PC, download some pirated songs online and then mash them together onto this casette", it was finding a local radio station playing music and doing the true test of skill, patience and fortitude for every 90s teenager which was pressing 'Play / Record'. Now sure, maybe they listen to some obscure ass radio which plays this list of music noone has ever heard of, but I highly doubt it, they'd be full of popular constantly played songs on mainstream radio because guess what's reliably on 90s popular radio for you to sit around for hours on end trying to steal for your tape.
I used to borrow CDs of songs I liked, put them in a CD/tape/radio I had and record the songs to the tape from the CD, then I’d return the CD to the local American Pie records which had a rental service.
If I ever recorded a mixtape from the radio, I would set a tape to record the full show of a specific DJ I liked and then use a second tape recorder to record the songs I liked while timing it to cut out the radio chatter and any ad reads. No one I knew who made mix tapes ever recorded randomly from the radio because you’d always lose the beginning of the song, I did have one friend who would call in to request a song and then they’d record that though,
Though admittedly I was making mixtapes from 1999-2003. So it was probably a different time,
Saw someone find how many button presses are necessary to finish the game (150 if you're curious) and end the video with "Remember how The Walking Dead had consequences?" Unironically.
I want to say we're regressing but I wish modern video games was as good as the TWD was released.
What consequences? The end result of every choice in The Walking Dead is the exact same.
