Thimbleweed Park
- Author
- Mike and Ting
- Published
- Tue 23 Jul 2019
- Episode Link
- https://lostlevels.club/post/186497655606/thimbleweed-park-mike-and-ting-talk-about
Mike and Ting talk about Thimbleweed Park.
Contains SPOILERS for Thimbleweed Park!
The “book club” game is: 中国式家长 / Chinese Parents.
Pre-Chat
- Apex Legends Season 2
- Daniel with the unexpected win (Twitch)
- Reddit with old layout and “hot” sorting
- Thinking Fast and Slow
What is Thimbleweed Park?
- Thimbleweed Park: A New Classic Point & Click Adventure!
- Maniac Mansion
- Boris was actually voiced by a German person (@DasGunniversum)
- Ransome the *Beeping* Clown
- Meet Delores
- Modernizing
- Dust Hoarder Achievement
- Top 10 Lists: The Top 10 Dead Ends In Sierra Games (Spoilers)
The Puzzles
- Thimbleweed Park gets in-game hint hotline
- Do scientists know what is happening inside artificial neural networks?
- 5 Baffling 80s Trends (Explained by Rare Mental Disorders)
- Thimbleweed Park Wiki Guide - Part Three: The Arrest
Highlights / Observations
- Fox Mulder and Dana Scully
- Maniac Mansion/ Monkey Island References in Thimbleweed Park
- Less In-Jokes, More Everything Else!
- The “Annoying In-jokes” option
- Let's Play Thimbleweed Park #26 Magic Mushrooms (YouTube)
- List of Backer Items
- Ransome *unbeeped* DLC
- Who is the guy with the shovel?
- Thimbleweed Park Podcast #67 @4:54 (explanation of Doug)
- Thimbleweed Park Controls
Overall Thoughts
- Theory of mind
- The Betamax tape is a cruel red herring
- Blazing Saddles (1974)
- Blazing Saddles Ending Scene (YouTube)
- Red herrings - which ones did you enjoy?
- Cutting
- Undertale
- Thimbleweed Park Podcast #67
- Thimbleweed Park's Plot Hole Problem
Post-Chat
- New game Chinese Parents makes you the child of a tiger mom
- Jonathan Blow
- @GameDevHH - Hello Hong Kong developers! We’re excited to say that we’ll be meeting @Jonathan_Blow for dinner tomorrow (Friday, July 19th!)
