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.

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

"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.

This video is 2% horror, 1% Sanpei being mad, and 97% Markiplier being a frankly amazing barista

Wow, the beginning of “Being a Woman” simulator is looking great.

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.

"When a demon walks into your cafeteria and orders a latte you get the demon a goddamn latte" — Markiplier 2022

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.

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!

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.

"I didn't think I'd have to do this whole barista thing"

Neither did I, Mark, NEITHER DID I
gross sobbing

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.😭

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.

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.

Best part of this game's existence imo is that it's finally gonna teach some people that "senpai" doesn't mean "crush".

Markiplier sees a stalker outside waiting to get inside.
Markiplier's choice: going outside.

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.

“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

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.

I love Mark's reactions to customers. "Oh god, you're staying". Big mood.