Description

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!)