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To be fair to Mixtape, I understand that the protagonist is a huge music nerd, and the game is about her last day in her hometown before driving across the country to give her mixtape to some music producer to try to get a job. As someone who had even less interest in music in the 90s than I do now, I don't know how much that would make her knowledge of obscure and 80s bands more justifiable, though. The point that no teenager in the 90s had nostalgia for the 80s strikes me as very very true, though.
With respect to the rewinding a tape via pencil scene, one important aspect of it is that she specifically spins the wrong hole to rewind the tape. One doesn't need to have first-hand experience to know this: basic understanding of physics should tell anyone that you have to spin the reel that has less tape around it, and spin it such it "pulls" the exposed part of the tape towards that side. In the game, she sticks the pencil into the one that has more tape, somehow "pushing" the tape into the other reel instead of out of the cassette, as would actually happen. Perhaps it's a bug that will be patched, but it's fascinating to me that this obvious physical error got through. Reminds me of the Wonder Woman film where she blatantly doesn't protect her feet while rushing some foxholes during WW1.
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