VN Ren'Py Being a DIK [v0.10.1] [Dr PinkCake]

[Ir0n Ma1den]

This is a game that you can't really rate badly and you need to admit its quality, but it's also one that I just can't bring myself to play anymore, used to be way more engaging when the mini games weren't as frequent and when the routes were more forgiving. I understand that this is objectively one of the best games out there and is a blockbuster title AVN wise. But at least for me, is not as fun and engaging anymore and lost the charm it had in s1&2. Wondering if anyone else feeling the same since this was geniuenly one of my favorites back in 2022 but ever since s3 I feel over it.

can't share your setiment, I believe this episode was really balanced with mini games are harkens to the early parts of the game.

I do agree about episode 9, all in all it was pretty short and didn't feel like a full episode, but not the case with this one/

 

[doovel]

you're just pointing out whatever we've seen in 10 without justification of DPC's writing choice. "Stephen at least tried" when?
Jade and him have terrible communication for two grown ass adults. Obviously reflected by her throwing the sink at you if you reject her and also second guessing every gesture by her husband.

What facts are you referring to? That he went to see a therapist? That's literally only one side of it. It takes two to fuck a marriage up. You seemed to miss the point here, we're talking about writing not which character has grounds to be fucked up.

Considering this is the first time we get anything from the perspective of Stephen, yes I have literally nothing else to appeal to. He "tried" by giving in to things he did not want, for her. Something she has shown no interest in, at least in how far we are aware.

Two people can be terrible in communicating to one another, that does not mean it was always so. Even if the blame is on both parties, that does not mean the blame is on both parties equally.

We had up to episode 10, only seen the result of their relationship falling apart. Now we get a peek into what caused the downfall.

Jade's entire arc from 1-9 has been my husband doesn't give me love.
She cheats with you because he's busy sleeping with college girls knowing his wife knows.
Now DPC does a smooth brain decision into giving justification for Stephen.
This just assassinates whatever basis Jade as a character has. It is not good writing or 'realistic' writing. Its just making things unnecessarily confusing so someone glazing DPC would be going "what DPC is trying to do here is make things grey.."

This is the same guy that thinks people will sympathize with Maya.

That's how she justifies her behaviour and her cheating to herself. This does not mean her husband was the cause. Stephen brought it up to his therapist years ago, Jade has been dealing with it for a much shorter time. Meaning what he told his therapist is most likely true. He stopped trying to show her love much more recently than she did.

His cheating (or his attempts at) seems to also be much more recent, I at least don't think it predates Quinn and her restaurant.

There is nothing smooth brain at showing the past that led up to the current state of affairs. He doesn't assassinate Jade in any way, you just had a completely one sided view of Jade as a completely innocent angel in all of this. This is generally how toxic relationships in real life fall apart as well.

People generally sympathize with Maya, due to her circumstances. It is her personality that removes the empathy that most people would feel.

 

[Ir0n Ma1den]

Ep 10 ends with quite a cliff hanger. I have felt from the start that the situation was unstable because of the university environ where people graduate and move away, and Zoey's experience is really a foreboding of things to come. So does Captain Marvel fall off a 20 story building after being shot by Sinistra McEvil? Tune in next time when... Well maybe he does. And Zoey goes back to calif, and Patrick & Helen's situation worsens, and Quinn sez, "I don't know why I kissed you", and Sage is troubled by her parent's divorce, and Riona (one of the sweetest cuties around) is kidnapped by Vinnie who has become a serious criminal, and Bella glosses over her situation relative to having sex with a student. Etc. And the next installment is a year away. End of season 3 is 2 years away, and then possible seasons 4 & 5...

In this pace I see the game ending in episode 6 or maybe 7, since I feel that DPC will give the epiloge at least 2-3 episodes.

 

[Kaelric]

Can someone help me?
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there's a tutorial option near the ITEM word. It's not difficult

 

[jd8097619]

My money would be on Tommy being the traitor, even if unintentionally. That guy is a loose cannon who has pissed off countless people, who have grounds to get back at the DIKs, without giving a toss about consequences (until you fuck Josey). I find it highly unlikely the Tri-Alphas are behind anything outside of bull in a China shop destruction given they're clearly incapable of planning.

At this point we don't actually know who or when the camera was installed, just that given the Alphas trashed the place they've assumed it's them. It could all be down to Vinny (the game has clearly been foreshadowing something made him leave the DIKs) but I still think a lot of it will be down to Quinn or underlings thereof given the fact she's clearly manipulating the HOTs who she views as weak and has shown multiple times now that she likes to play the frats off against each other. Her installing the camera (and having Mona or someone else access the laptop) would play into what we know of her.

 

[Ir0n Ma1den]

there's a tutorial option near the ITEM word. It's not difficult

Yet it feels so random, When I did episode 9 I basiclly did the same thing yet got diffrent results.

 

[ZenoMod]

Don't know if Someone keeping track of these, or if it will help some people but here my tries for the Halloween party, pretty sure most are S ranked

Is S-rank the maximum rank?

What are, in order from better to worse the other marks in the scale?

 

[Kaelric]

This is a game that you can't really rate badly and you need to admit its quality, but it's also one that I just can't bring myself to play anymore, used to be way more engaging when the mini games weren't as frequent and when the routes were more forgiving. I understand that this is objectively one of the best games out there and is a blockbuster title AVN wise. But at least for me, is not as fun and engaging anymore and lost the charm it had in s1&2. Wondering if anyone else feeling the same since this was geniuenly one of my favorites back in 2022 but ever since s3 I feel over it.

well the ep10 is not only short but we are drowned with minigames who are tedious and not amusing. And with the story who go down a dark path, there's less humour that we saw in earlier chapter.

Another thing who disturb me is : a whole year for that ? FFs! c'mon ! less minigames and more porn. Drpinkcake must understand it's a porn game not Mario party !

 

[JiiEf]

there is a lot of that in the game ( love it too )

I think DPC has already done the same "revealed " the bright blue eye girl mystery girl we met in ep 9, during ep 10 too.

She was in the dorm girl Halloween photo, i cant recall if we get a shot of her with them during the party.

The dorm girls have been seen throughout the game . Some we recognise together in the dorm party, some are at the hot party ( jacob is fucking one of them) . There is a bright blue eyed blonde we haven't spoken too or been featured much if at all as a background character but she is with the dorm girl group in the yoga class in ep 10.

Could be wrong though and im mis-remembering but thats what DPC likes to do with subtle showing and not telling with background/foreground characters . Gets us thinking/discussing

Also in the science class. Is also very, very hot easily mg+zoey level.

 

[exsomon]

is there a compressed version?
i searched the thread but found none

 

[noahsombrero]

Dark path... I guess we need to see this relative to Acting Lessons. Yeh, DPK loves his drama, and doesn't flinch at tough endings.

 

[c0gnomen]

Wtf are those tasks?

 

[NebulousShooter]

Wtf are those tasks?

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stop doing drugs

 

[PeopleCallMeSmile]

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[PeopleCallMeSmile]

Wtf are those tasks?

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Hang on, who are the Unicorn, the village idiot, the druid and the white-haired maiden?

 

[ZenoMod]

If you don't read dialogue sure, but if you actually read and pay attention each routes takes much more than 30 mins, even with minigames off.

I would be more motivated to carefully read the dialogues if my boner hadn't been killed by find-the-diamond test and take-care-of-fish chore...

Anyway what I meant is that keeping the player engaged for a minute with dialogues and rendering requires _at_least_ an hour of development time (probably more), while once a minigame is developed it can be reused several times with little extra development effort and each time in keeps the player engaged from several minutes to half an hour (depending on the minigame and on the player, of course).

So, basically, minigames save developer's time while wasting player's time.

They are the equivalent of vocal messages on WhatsApp. We all have that dork friend that "I send you a vocal message because I can't be arsed to type. My time is precious. Let's waste yours."

 

[ZenoMod]

Wtf are those tasks?

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You did eat shrooms, didn't you?

If you had had shrooms in real life, that tasks would not seem so strange to you

 

[ZenoMod]

Hang on, who are the Unicorn, the village idiot, the druid and the white-haired maiden?

I would guess that the white-haired maiden is Quinn or Sally (probably Sally).

Anyway, take those tasks as: roam around and click on every clickable character and object.

(Like all free roams...)

 

[Hahn1900]

agree with the Sage route "bitch move" from Jossy xD, i was like wth, girl u are gonna get me in trouble! now, not to be that guy, but come on dude, take some responsability for ur decisions, for this to happen u HAVE to keep pushing for Jossy in some way, specially cause this "chat" with Jossy is an option, u can just go and talk with Maya instead, u are basically pursuing Jossy while in a relationship with Sage, and about her reaction to breaking up with M/J i didnt even know that was an option xD, but what a bitch move from MC, u need some serious commitment to go into a relationship let alone a FFM, the girls have to really be up for it, and then MC fk them like duno how many times only to dump their asses ? xD i mean, sure there is a mean bitch in all this drama, but is not Jossy xD, if DPC is consistent with his story some very nasty shit is coming for any MC who choose that path, even worse, u are in the CHIK path, and pull this massive dik move? just wow xD, as for Jossy reaction to this manwhore move, very childish but it makes sense, her first real boyfriend that she even share with her girlfriend, and u basically builded a sand castle with her life only to piss all over it, it speak volumes about how "mature" she is, but nothing else, at least for me.

About Josy... so let me get that straight...

He were are playing a chick route, build up a relationship with 2 girls, which is not a ordinary thing... they must trust him a lot for that, and besides he fucked mulitple other girls and decide... "ahh hey Josy And M... i want to fuck another girls, bye bye, but lets be friends yeah?" sure buddy.... and in his head the most natural reaction would be an group hug after?

Josys reaction is one of the most natural reaction in the whole game here. It still bothers me that MC is friends with them if they reject him for the throuple. 99% of the people on this planet would NOT stay friends after that and certainly not after the dick move of an chick-allin route and breaking up with them, no way in hell... maybe geralt is unique in that regard, but certainly not "average"

I have a chick-allin route too, just out of curiosity, but i really dont like it, cause it feels like shit. But interesting things can come out of it, like the Jill reaction if you choose Bella... Which surprised me a lot, but otherwise, we told her from the start that we are dating others and she was fine with it... so yeah, she accepts the battle.

Other than that... there should have been consequences for the MC a lot earlier i think. To throw everything on the table in episode 8 or in J&M cases at ep 9 was just to late. There should have been options to come clean a lot earlier... and if you dont take them, shit will hit the fan and it gets messy.

And about Sage... i will never get the obsession with her, but it speaks volumes that she is only a big favorite on f95 not so much on other media. She is very judgemental, without even knowing Jill she assumes so many bad things about her... and this is just one example, the list is endless. A little slutty to, mabye thats why F95 fans like her... porn and so. Its pretty much a fantasy of many guys to get into the pnaties of such girl hm? But a relationship with her? Or even living a family life later on? Get out of here. She has to change a lot for that... but i admit, if MC is together with her.. she starts changing.

Josy is for sure not perfect, but her reaction to be mad at the MC is absolutely reasonable and natural. But nontheless, not final anyways... remember, MC was hurt and mad at them for an entire episode too. And then everything got peachy again. That will be the case for Josy too... iam sure... but that she is furious at MC if you go down that route? Absolutley normal reaction. Any other reaction would have thrown me off.

 

[Mad_Man]

I installed the "complete 0.10.0" (i.e not the patch) and I tried to load my savegame from the end of episode 9, but serveral different errormessages (this is the first one.) What to do?

Many thanks!