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New comment by simpetre in "Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2"

simpetre — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:46:42 +0000

Meh to each their own - I haven't played it for a while but I quite like TP's style/music/atmosphere, and the surrealness/metaness was a feature not a bug for me. I played SoMI2 with my friends telling me that the ending was super weird, so I didn't feel completely cheated when I got to that one and I think TP's ending is very Ron Gilbert.

Agree that some moon logic is present/inevitable but I think the Gilbert games are friendlier than most in this respect.

New comment by simpetre in "After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death"

simpetre — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:47:52 +0000

He's also been creating absurdist controversial endings to adventure games for a long time before Return to Monkey Island (SoMI2, Thimbleweed Park)...

New comment by simpetre in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

simpetre — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:30:05 +0000

My experience with GPT-5.1 so far is definitely an improvement on 5 - I asked GPT-5 a relatively basic question the other day and it said "Beautiful question — and exactly the kind of subtlety that shows you’re really getting into the math of MDPs." and I threw up a little bit - 5.1 on the other hand is really frank, and straight down to business. Maybe it's better at following my system prompt (I say don't be a sycophant or something similar in mine), but I still quite like it.