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did you know i finished three routes in 3h? i speed run the hall ep9 so fastFor the variables like grab Bianca's ass or tell Josy you think about what could have been, I just put it false by default and use a save editor when it comes into play, it's honestly too much hassle to start all over again
just open auto clicker skip the dialog (i kinda played until i know every word so f6) then boof fighting with vinny scene the most thing takes my time was actully the plan party lool
I don't think simp is consider enough at this point
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btw on 8 dec at what time (time zone) new ep release? i tried using search i dint get the result i want....
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You sure are dedicated
Ep9 is the least replayable with all the freeroaming, I didn't have the patience
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Yeah because i tried my mod saves to work but nothing helps then i figured it was because scrappy mod was adjusting the lines of the code so he can add option like all paths or routes but this fucks everything in unmoded version i looped Jill and bella meeting for Halloweens party for everYou sure are dedicated
Ep9 is the least replayable with all the freeroaming, I didn't have the patience
so i had to all the game from the start
and it turns out nothing matters only the lines were kinda fucked my savings other than that editing variables true or false won't matter even bios (so far)
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Actually that's just one MILF, the other three are Cougars... but I reckon that's somewhat semantics for a DIK.
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She must be your favouriteNope. Bella/Burke... since I appreciate experience
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Gentlemen it's been honor to shitpost and discuss unhinged theories on how the story is likely to progress. When the release hits i expect most of us will focus on playing it and not looking at the forum to prevent spoilers.
I wish good luck to the mods trying to manage the storm of replies post update, and to the few of you willing to answer the same questions from people experiencing the game breaking when playing with mods on release.
May your parties get good scores, titties be plenty, and may God help us endure the sight of Maya's new hair. Amen.
I wish good luck to the mods trying to manage the storm of replies post update, and to the few of you willing to answer the same questions from people experiencing the game breaking when playing with mods on release.
May your parties get good scores, titties be plenty, and may God help us endure the sight of Maya's new hair. Amen.
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oh my good i forgot about this yeah sancho this one is for youShe must be your favourite
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Yeah Maya Hair god is soo fucking awful
i don't think Normal players will like it *normal doesn't include Joshy*
Oh no, women can solve their own problems, they can do something without men and they don’t need a white knight.
What a horror, what the world is coming to, NOOOOO!
This is not a criticism of the game from you, but a stream of the far-right bullshit of a typical 4chan user.
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Such a typical DIK move you did there. And that's not experience, that's fucking necrophillia bud!Similar - DIK Quinn first. Later Sage, Riona and DIK Josy. These are the most interesting ones for me.
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I will repeat it again to make my point as clear as possible. The efforts and approach that you applying for finding hidden meanings, secrets, "patterns" and so on is just too much. I would say that it's too much even for other games with a more deep story and plot than the teen drama with a comic relief based mostly on 2000s teen comedy cons. What makes this game A BIT serious, decent and competitive among AVN genre? That spoon of bitter drama that diluted in a barrel of a comedy and ... porn.
It's better to not see or recognize some pattern than to see them in almost anything that you see, hear or read through the screen.
By doing so, you are quite clearly assuming that there are absolutely interrelated things taking place. Things that cannot exist without each other or are simply meaningless if one of the parts does not exist. Looking for a hidden meaning in EVERY phrase, in every piece of the scene, you assume that all this makes sense and all this is LAID DOWN by the author of the game. At the same time, this really should be the case on the part of the DPC, i.e. he must put double or triple meanings into almost every phrase, add some secret clues to almost every render, and what is most interesting is not to lose the threads of all these clues, linkages, and so on. Considering how many theories you have already written and what else you have in your head and what else will appear (since we are only in the middle of the game), I'm even afraid to imagine WHAT you expect from a DPC while you developing all these theories and what you consider this game to be.
Sometimes you should just listen to what particular character tells you (to your MC) and... trust him or her... By searching the double bottoms in everything, even in innocent dialogues between characters you acting not as a normal loving person (the genre obliges), but as a kind of investigator or very suspicious person. Do you act the same way in real life?
And before you will say that it's stupid to trust everyone, that you need to check everything, that people often lie... hell yes, but more likely in 1% of cases out of 100 than the other way around. You like coincidences and hints so much, well... The EP3 title is "100%" - it's about trust and honesty. That 1% almost ruined MCs relationships with Josy and Maya. But you want more and more hints. More % of doubts and not trusting to characters around, etc. Your approach is such that, as if 99% of the information has some kind of double bottom or trick, everyone implies something, somehow hints at something, hides something very important and literally specifically gives you hints and food for the further thoughts from nowhere. Damn, it's just unrealistic and ridiculous because of a lot of reasons.
Don't you just want to enjoy the game? the plot, the development of characters and relationships with them, overcome difficulties and obstacles of being together with your LI(s), enjoy the consequences of your previous choices, ... check out naked tits and pussies, finally... because it's still an AVN.
Thanks GOD (or whatever else!) that you are not him
You like to use AL as an example, but dude, you haven't even played it. It was a more serious and tragic story, there were significantly fewer lewd scenes and porn as such. The emphasis was on the plot and the inevitable tragedy. BADIK... it compares favorably against competitors, especially in settings like college stories, but the number of lewd scenes and the emphasis on porn here is many times greater than in AL. This is a more fun and lighthearted story for many reasons (and DPC himself confirmed it, it's not my fantasy or imagination). Where the murders and cancer of the best friend were replaced by the broken hearts of innocent and loving girls. Where a crazy red-haired maniac bitch was replaced by a rich dude who gave the green light to prostitution in college, where he is a big shot and has weight. Where the rape attempt of MG were replaced with the "rape" of MC by a hot college bitch made in public. Well, Vinny <-> Peter... But Peter ended badly, not having a chance to imply a lot of damage and was a huge part of red herring. The greatest tragedy you can expect in BADIK is the death of the MC's father, which harmonizes very well with the opening parting words at the very beginning of the first episode regarding losing family and obtaining the new one. And probably some tragic story regarding Bella, Quinn and/or their past.
That is, you admit but deny - at the same time.
Just read/watch better and try to understand what do you see and reading and put your throughs in a healthy assumptions threads. But instead of doing this AND trying to find additional little clues and details sometimes, in a few scenes/renders you overwhelmengly search for the hidden stuff almost EVERYWHERE. That makes you doubt in everything you read and see. And exactly this aproach not allowing you to understand the simple facts, the simple words and phrases of characters. Simply, with trust, without subjecting them to constant doubts, checks and the search for secret signs. Of course, you should not trust absolutely everything and everyone (people periodically lie or hide something), but it is important to know the extent.
Your search for clues and little things, along with such a huge distrust and the search for a second bottom in absolutely everything, makes it impossible to you to understand quite simple and understandable things adequately. An example with Stephen and Mona...
You think about windows and how he can fuck her in that room not being a very stupid person, while MC himself can fuck 5 girls during this party in a places that is much more risky and public than that particular room where Mona was with Stephen. All this while being there illegally, dressed in someone else's clothes and with Tybalt nearby. That room have 2 windows... and what? Do you know where this windows gets into? Do you expect guests to lurk around and peep? Is that those kind of guests, who was at the party? And here we go. So, you allow MC to do stupid and risky things but deny it to person like Stephen? In world of BADIK everyone do a lot of very stupid and risky things. You are only making an assumptions of how it was risky to Stephen, but you can't be sure, because you are lack of a lot of information. And immediately after that, you make an assumption regarding "old people", that Mona said it not about Stephen, but probably about some really old guy, whom Stephen bringed in the room and with whom Mona was about to fuck with, right? Am I missed something? So, it's very risky to fuck 1 by 1 with Mona, but it's not that risky to bring some old dude, so he would fuck freshwoman, while Stephen standing near them. So, this is your throughts and theories, not mine. Btw... where the old dude dissapeared? Did he came out of window or hid under the bed? Because only 2 persons left this room - Stephen and Mona. And after they leave, we may investigate the room and we see nobody else there. Maybe there is a portal in the huge painting on the wall as it was in Dark Souls?
Perhaps this is the most interesting part of your post. I'm always interested in reading what made or led a particular person into this type of game, or what specifically hooked someone in BADIK.
I don't feel that now is the right time to take a similar step on my part, because it is difficult to briefly state the essence, and I am not ready for long posts about my past, and even more so on this topic at the moment.
In short. The Throuple and the way it implemented in BADIK catched me first. It's believable and very close to reality. In such age of the characters they don't realise how complicated such relationships are and how much work and effort it require to work out. Things gets much more complicated with the additional relationship between the girls. It's not a classic type of polyamory. While polyamory is rare thing in real life, the such type as it is in BADIK is the most rarest one. I won't explain more than this at the moment.
Exactly. Brain plays too well on some of them
It's not your advantage... it's lack of information and experience. Lack of ability to compare and relate to.
If you were played some other AVNs, some "average" ones, you would better understand the genre and WHAT you have to expect from it in general and from BADIK particularly. If you don't like the example with AVNs, ok - movies genres, etc.
That is, you've watched some good decent movie and are proud that you haven't watched others of this genre. This is not a very good example, but it conveys the essence. You watched something, you liked it, and without being able to compare it, you start making assumptions and opinions in general, based only on a small meager experience. Somebody brought you a good (really good) wine, you drank it, you liked it. But you didn't try crappy or just "average" ones to feel the difference and understand how good it was that you recently drank. It is impossible to become a film critic by watching only a couple of movies, it is impossible to become a wine taster by drinking only a couple of glasses. Should I continue?
MC is saying it as a warning regarding revealing the truth and the point, that sometimes you won't be happy to know such truth. That once he will said it - there is no way to undone it. Nothing more here. Sage lived a couple of years with hidden gay, who used her as a beard and because of her position in B&R and probably because of her family - like a trophy. What makes you think that DPC put here something more than just that? Why do you want and expect to see signs in such simple phrases and dialogues, at such simple situations? Not that type of the game, not that type of the genre, DPC is not that type of the author who will ever implement something like that. That's what I think about this example and tons of the similar ones. Oh, really?Well, first of all, waiting for any endings here is already a bold step on your part
I'm still very worried about DPCs ability to finalize this game. With updates taking 9+ months ... Well, I explained this previously. It's a 1-man project. If something significant happens with that man before the final episode - we're in the ass. In short.The second part... wtf am I read just now?
Are you one of those who thinks that if he doesn't see something, then it didn't happen and he's safe?
MC just doesn't become one of the clients, but she's still a prostitute and still fucks with half of the college regardless of this choice. It's implied and confirmed in dialogues and some scenes.
Well, look... imagine that your wife cheated on you, but she didn't tell you and you didn't find out. Does this change the essence? Not caught - not a thief?
Participating in this Quinn business even as a customer - that's what is bad. Not so bad in a sense of morality, but in regards to the Sage and a lot of other girls MC knows around. Bad regarding the potential consequences. You doesn't change Riona's behavior by not fucking her for money. You either way or another will be pushed to make a choice between her and Quinn. It's clear in EP9. Being a restaurant customer gives Quinn an additional "button" for MC as well. But you can bond with Riona quite well only if you are fucking her. Regardless for money or for free. It's the only way to help her with her stalker, etc. Why are you ever talking about it? Since you are probably always ending up with number "3" in the EP9 scene truth-dare-drink with J&M?
Riona is not participating in prostitution if MC doesn't become a restaurant customer? What? Did? I? Just? Read?
What about Camila? Or you came again with a suitable assumption for your theory, but decided not to mention some facts, that is ruining the basement of your theory ?
Yeah, came to pee-pee there, for sure. Replay the scenes, come to the bathroom, watch the scene, and click on the toilet stalls doors.
Hell, why I even have to drag all of this old stuff here? It's known for YEARS now. But you still doubt and come with theories around the absolutely IRON facts cemented in time.
Reread the Riona BIOS. Camila never agreed to sell or do drugs or participate in this part, she agreed only to fuck through glory holes and for "initiation" with Stephen. Quinn separated girls tasks, especially for ones which came last. While Sarah, Melanie and Riona also do or sell drugs, she offered Camila only a part of this. As well as to Mona.
So what about restaurant, playing all branches and other things? Or it's like:
"you don't understand, it's different" - so, peeping is something else.
"I never played other branches, but I watched all renders and scenes, as well as read all dialogues... but I haven't played them! so I'm safe, I even don't have a saves outside J&M path and branch. I swear!"
But you still WANT this content, because you know that you are lacked of huge parts of the game and knowledge. You're just constantly coming up with some weird excuses and reasons.
You are "preparing for the worst" by building all these theories? Most of which are more suitable for a psychological fantasy thriller than for a teen comedy drama? Play the AL then and treat it as a base for your "worst" expectations for BADIK. But since BADIK will not ever reach such levels of drama, you're safe. Voila... Now you can just start reading dialogues and watching scenes in a healthy way.
Regarding Stephen - you don't have to taste shit to admit and say that it was shit. Yes, but this dude is generally not bad, he's settled in pretty well
You're not able to make any decisions that change his behaviour. He is a canon antogonist, among with Vinny, Quinn and so on.I can't help myself, but:
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I will repeat it again to make my point as clear as possible. The efforts and approach that you applying for finding hidden meanings, secrets, "patterns" and so on is just too much. I would say that it's too much even for other games with a more deep story and plot than the teen drama with a comic relief based mostly on 2000s teen comedy cons. What makes this game A BIT serious, decent and competitive among AVN genre? That spoon of bitter drama that diluted in a barrel of a comedy and ... porn.
It's better to not see or recognize some pattern than to see them in almost anything that you see, hear or read through the screen.
By doing so, you are quite clearly assuming that there are absolutely interrelated things taking place. Things that cannot exist without each other or are simply meaningless if one of the parts does not exist. Looking for a hidden meaning in EVERY phrase, in every piece of the scene, you assume that all this makes sense and all this is LAID DOWN by the author of the game. At the same time, this really should be the case on the part of the DPC, i.e. he must put double or triple meanings into almost every phrase, add some secret clues to almost every render, and what is most interesting is not to lose the threads of all these clues, linkages, and so on. Considering how many theories you have already written and what else you have in your head and what else will appear (since we are only in the middle of the game), I'm even afraid to imagine WHAT you expect from a DPC while you developing all these theories and what you consider this game to be.
Sometimes you should just listen to what particular character tells you (to your MC) and... trust him or her... By searching the double bottoms in everything, even in innocent dialogues between characters you acting not as a normal loving person (the genre obliges), but as a kind of investigator or very suspicious person. Do you act the same way in real life?
And before you will say that it's stupid to trust everyone, that you need to check everything, that people often lie... hell yes, but more likely in 1% of cases out of 100 than the other way around. You like coincidences and hints so much, well... The EP3 title is "100%" - it's about trust and honesty. That 1% almost ruined MCs relationships with Josy and Maya. But you want more and more hints. More % of doubts and not trusting to characters around, etc. Your approach is such that, as if 99% of the information has some kind of double bottom or trick, everyone implies something, somehow hints at something, hides something very important and literally specifically gives you hints and food for the further thoughts from nowhere. Damn, it's just unrealistic and ridiculous because of a lot of reasons.
Don't you just want to enjoy the game? the plot, the development of characters and relationships with them, overcome difficulties and obstacles of being together with your LI(s), enjoy the consequences of your previous choices, ... check out naked tits and pussies, finally... because it's still an AVN.
Thanks GOD (or whatever else!) that you are not him
You like to use AL as an example, but dude, you haven't even played it. It was a more serious and tragic story, there were significantly fewer lewd scenes and porn as such. The emphasis was on the plot and the inevitable tragedy. BADIK... it compares favorably against competitors, especially in settings like college stories, but the number of lewd scenes and the emphasis on porn here is many times greater than in AL. This is a more fun and lighthearted story for many reasons (and DPC himself confirmed it, it's not my fantasy or imagination). Where the murders and cancer of the best friend were replaced by the broken hearts of innocent and loving girls. Where a crazy red-haired maniac bitch was replaced by a rich dude who gave the green light to prostitution in college, where he is a big shot and has weight. Where the rape attempt of MG were replaced with the "rape" of MC by a hot college bitch made in public. Well, Vinny <-> Peter... But Peter ended badly, not having a chance to imply a lot of damage and was a huge part of red herring. The greatest tragedy you can expect in BADIK is the death of the MC's father, which harmonizes very well with the opening parting words at the very beginning of the first episode regarding losing family and obtaining the new one. And probably some tragic story regarding Bella, Quinn and/or their past.
That is, you admit but deny - at the same time.
Just read/watch better and try to understand what do you see and reading and put your throughs in a healthy assumptions threads. But instead of doing this AND trying to find additional little clues and details sometimes, in a few scenes/renders you overwhelmengly search for the hidden stuff almost EVERYWHERE. That makes you doubt in everything you read and see. And exactly this aproach not allowing you to understand the simple facts, the simple words and phrases of characters. Simply, with trust, without subjecting them to constant doubts, checks and the search for secret signs. Of course, you should not trust absolutely everything and everyone (people periodically lie or hide something), but it is important to know the extent.
Your search for clues and little things, along with such a huge distrust and the search for a second bottom in absolutely everything, makes it impossible to you to understand quite simple and understandable things adequately. An example with Stephen and Mona...
You think about windows and how he can fuck her in that room not being a very stupid person, while MC himself can fuck 5 girls during this party in a places that is much more risky and public than that particular room where Mona was with Stephen. All this while being there illegally, dressed in someone else's clothes and with Tybalt nearby. That room have 2 windows... and what? Do you know where this windows gets into? Do you expect guests to lurk around and peep? Is that those kind of guests, who was at the party? And here we go. So, you allow MC to do stupid and risky things but deny it to person like Stephen? In world of BADIK everyone do a lot of very stupid and risky things. You are only making an assumptions of how it was risky to Stephen, but you can't be sure, because you are lack of a lot of information. And immediately after that, you make an assumption regarding "old people", that Mona said it not about Stephen, but probably about some really old guy, whom Stephen bringed in the room and with whom Mona was about to fuck with, right? Am I missed something? So, it's very risky to fuck 1 by 1 with Mona, but it's not that risky to bring some old dude, so he would fuck freshwoman, while Stephen standing near them. So, this is your throughts and theories, not mine. Btw... where the old dude dissapeared? Did he came out of window or hid under the bed? Because only 2 persons left this room - Stephen and Mona. And after they leave, we may investigate the room and we see nobody else there. Maybe there is a portal in the huge painting on the wall as it was in Dark Souls?
Perhaps this is the most interesting part of your post. I'm always interested in reading what made or led a particular person into this type of game, or what specifically hooked someone in BADIK.
I don't feel that now is the right time to take a similar step on my part, because it is difficult to briefly state the essence, and I am not ready for long posts about my past, and even more so on this topic at the moment.
In short. The Throuple and the way it implemented in BADIK catched me first. It's believable and very close to reality. In such age of the characters they don't realise how complicated such relationships are and how much work and effort it require to work out. Things gets much more complicated with the additional relationship between the girls. It's not a classic type of polyamory. While polyamory is rare thing in real life, the such type as it is in BADIK is the most rarest one. I won't explain more than this at the moment.
Exactly. Brain plays too well on some of them
It's not your advantage... it's lack of information and experience. Lack of ability to compare and relate to.
If you were played some other AVNs, some "average" ones, you would better understand the genre and WHAT you have to expect from it in general and from BADIK particularly. If you don't like the example with AVNs, ok - movies genres, etc.
That is, you've watched some good decent movie and are proud that you haven't watched others of this genre. This is not a very good example, but it conveys the essence. You watched something, you liked it, and without being able to compare it, you start making assumptions and opinions in general, based only on a small meager experience. Somebody brought you a good (really good) wine, you drank it, you liked it. But you didn't try crappy or just "average" ones to feel the difference and understand how good it was that you recently drank. It is impossible to become a film critic by watching only a couple of movies, it is impossible to become a wine taster by drinking only a couple of glasses. Should I continue?
Well, first of all, waiting for any endings here is already a bold step on your part
The second part... wtf am I read just now?
Are you one of those who thinks that if he doesn't see something, then it didn't happen and he's safe?
MC just doesn't become one of the clients, but she's still a prostitute and still fucks with half of the college regardless of this choice. It's implied and confirmed in dialogues and some scenes.
Well, look... imagine that your wife cheated on you, but she didn't tell you and you didn't find out. Does this change the essence? Not caught - not a thief?
Participating in this Quinn business even as a client - that's what is bad. Not so bad in a sense of morality, but in regards to the Sage and a lot of other girls MC knows around. Bad regarding the potential consequences. You doesn't change Riona's behavior by not fucking her for money. You either way or another will be pushed to make a choice between her and Quinn. It's clear in EP9. Being a restaurant customer gives Quinn an additional "button" for MC as well. But you can bond with Riona quite well only if you are fucking her. Regardless for money or for free. It's the only way to help her with her stalker, etc. Why are you ever talking about it? Since you are probably always ending up with number "3" in the EP9 scene truth-dare-drink with J&M?
Riona is not participating in prostitution if MC doesn't become a restaurant customer? What? Did? I? Just? Read?
What about Camila? Or you came again with a suitable assumption for your theory, but decided not to mention some facts, that is ruining the basement of your theory ?
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Yeah, came to pee-pee there, for sure. Replay the scenes, come to the bathroom, watch the scene, and click on the toilet stalls doors.
Hell, why I even have to drag all of this old stuff here? It's known for YEARS now. But you still doubt and come with theories around the absolutely IRON facts cemented in time.
Reread the Riona BIOS. Camila never agreed to sell or do drugs or participate in this part, she agreed only to fuck through glory holes and for "initiation" with Stephen. Quinn separated girls tasks, especially for ones which came last. While Sarah, Melanie and Riona also do or sell drugs, she offered Camila only a part of this. As well as to Mona.
So what about restaurant, playing all branches and other things? Or it's like:
"you don't understand, it's different" - so, peeping is something else.
"I never played other branches, but I watched all renders and scenes, as well as read all dialogues... but I haven't played them! so I'm safe, I even don't have a saves outside J&M path and branch. I swear!"
But you still WANT this content, because you know that you are lacked of huge parts of the game and knowledge. You're just constantly coming up with some weird excuses and reasons.
You are "preparing for the worst" by building all these theories? Most of which are more suitable for a psychological fantasy thriller than for a teen comedy drama? Play the AL then and treat it as a base for your "worst" expectations for BADIK. But since BADIK will not ever reach such levels of drama, you're safe. Voila... Now you can just start reading dialogues and watching scenes in a healthy way.
Regarding Stephen - you don't have to taste shit to admit and say that it was shit. Yes, but this dude is generally not bad, he's settled in pretty well
I can't help myself, but:
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Those are some big walls of text
I like to keep things simple
Me like Maya Me want bang Maya
I like to keep things simple
Me like Maya Me want bang Maya
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and all the texts before that was defending maya i believe was bigger than all Dalli theories combined (if we combined yours)
but hey i really like Dalli works but he just think DPC goes too deep in the story (like really way deep core of the earth deep)
it's not wrong though but we kinda know the limits DPC do have if Dalli theories right somehow we are facing a decade worth of waiting how to wrap everything will need at least 3 seasons or more alone
let alone the story progress