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

[felicemastronzo]

Well arent you a ray of sunshine... halfway expected you to bash religion and sports too while you're at it.

Now lets go over what you said. The MC "thinking" about leaving college is not even remotely close to being stupid, its a thought process, we have about 35.000 of those a day, give or take a few. MC leaving college, now that wouldve been stupid.

Destiny...unless my search decieved me, that word doesnt appear once in the entire interlude. Destiny is an outcome independed of choice, and I, for the life of me, cant even fathom a guess how you arrived there, when the entire first 25% are about Zoey explaining that surfing has always been her DREAM, her grandma supported her DREAM, and she ends up making the choice to follow her DREAM. A concept which is cherrished by at least one country that I know of and fail or succeed, rarely considered to be stupid.

So dont be so negative bro, its all good !

I haven't condemned them to death. everyone does stupid things and everyone makes selfish gestures, human beings are like that. only I reject the supreme excuse of youth used as if it were a defect...


going back to the examples. Mc doesn't think about leaving, he goes way beyond that, he packs his bags and is ready to go, the coincidence of having found Derek and that Maya has decided to take him in saves him from doing a huge stupidity. have others done it too? it doesn't change anything

from my point of view I don't see much difference between dream and destiny, the dream is what one wants to do, the destiny is what one feels one has to do, but dream is fine, abandoning everything to take a great vacation, squandering the money of the inheritance and learning to surf let's say it is not among the dreams that make the world a better place


everything is fine, but stupid is who the stupid does

I see what you are saying, but I'm not sure that it's true. Everybody rationalizes and builds a narrative where they are the hero of their own story. This is what makes couple's therapy so challenging. Men and women alike are capable of redefining a relationship in their own mind and neglect to tell their partner. They are both likely to be confused when lines are blurry in a relationship. They both have a tendency to take their partner for granted at a certain point. And when things go wrong, they both find a way to make it someone else's fault.

on this I perfectly agree

in fact in the context of a porn game the best narrative is to see every female character as a victim of events to be forgiven and helped, and every male character as a threat or someone lucky beyond his merits

but of course it is not so

 

[sixart]

You can talk or take the phone, talk will give emma calm true. After you take the phone you can delete the post or get back, one of these options will give the emma cluck true. (not sure wich one but my guess is get back gives the Emma cluck true)
You might have posted her private pic's on her rooster before you flushed the phone.... Atleast Zoey did! What a B.... !

It's about the other cluck that is posted when Zoey grabs Emma's phone, runs to the bathroom, posts a nude picture of Emma (which we unfortunately do not see) and flushes her phone in the toilet

You both are right... dunno why but I would have not named it emma_cluck but revenge = True/False or something... coz I was thinking primarily on the released cluck BY emma and not the retaliation... anyhow thanks both of you to have cleared this up !

 

[Walter Victor]

It's about the other cluck that is posted when Zoey grabs Emma's phone, runs to the bathroom, posts a nude picture of Emma (which we unfortunately do not see) and flushes her phone in the toilet

Actually, I believe those are the photos of Emma that Zoey took on the beach. They vary by our choices in that scene.

 

[aarbei23]

All right, I just finished the interlude and... meh.

The good: Zoey turned out to be nicer than I expected her to be (smart move to let the player play as Zoey).

The bad: She's introduced into the story too late. Zoey was just some girl of the MC's past. After spending so much time with (and inside of ) Sage and Bella, I don't really care that much about Zoey. Especially since we already had to make a choice between the girls. It probably would've worked better if Zoey was always there in the background. She mentioned sending the MC some messages, but I don't really remember seeing any of them? Or maybe the interlude should've been released before BaD? I just don't think it really works at this time. Yes, the MC likes Zoey, but for me as the player I spent way more time with Maya as "the first girl".

Anyway, now we'll have to wait again . At least it was nice to see Sage making a small appearance in the story :

Spoiler: Sage's cameo

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[FatGiant]

Ok! Serious question time:

If you don't initiate Flirt with Jade is her path closed? How does that change the Chapter 8 ending? Is it indifferent, by that I mean, it will happen no matter what?

I want to be sure there's no problem with Sage, or, make sure Maya gets the money to be free from her dad, best way I could come up with was to don't have Jade being a issue. Does anyone know if (so far) it works?

Thanks in advance. (If there is a better way to ensure that, feel free to say)

 

[IcemanVincy85]

Now lets go over what you said. The MC "thinking" about leaving college is not even remotely close to being stupid, its a thought process, we have about 35.000 of those a day, give or take a few. MC leaving college, now that wouldve been stupid.

MC has just arrived in B&R: got bully by Jocks and DIK and Quinn play with him...it's understandable that he says "fuck this, i'm out." He did the same thing when Stanley threw out the Pink Rose, but he was drunk. It's his behavior, we could choose his path and major decisions but his attitude we can't change it. So MC it's not stupid, he always behave like this and he will keep doing it....

 

[vogelbeest]

Ok! Serious question time:

If you don't initiate Flirt with Jade is her path closed? How does that change the Chapter 8 ending? Is it indifferent, by that I mean, it will happen no matter what?

I want to be sure there's no problem with Sage, or, make sure Maya gets the money to be free from her dad, best way I could come up with was to don't have Jade being a issue. Does anyone know if (so far) it works?

Thanks in advance. (If there is a better way to ensure that, feel free to say)

If you refuse Jade she is gonna fume a bit and threaten to fail you, nothing much else happens in the rest of the story. Yeah she doesn't like you, but who cares? If her paths remain closed only the future can tell.

If you opened the Jade path, we can't tell if Jade will be a problem for Maya's tuition or if it would help, it might be just a problem for MC if he dumped her at the end of chapter 8, we just don't know...

Besides that the tuition from Burke can go everywhere, most optimistic he says yes and that's it, happy ending, but that's an anticlimax to the story so highly unlikely, so expect a no from Burke and either some blackmail from Jade for the MC or a Quinn that whispers Maya the suggestion she might get it afterall if she does the nasty with Burke...

Whatever happens it most likely will end in exposing Burke, that much seems logical.... But it may be at the end of season 4.

 

[lipe2410]

Ok! Serious question time:

If you don't initiate Flirt with Jade is her path closed? How does that change the Chapter 8 ending? Is it indifferent, by that I mean, it will happen no matter what?

I want to be sure there's no problem with Sage, or, make sure Maya gets the money to be free from her dad, best way I could come up with was to don't have Jade being a issue. Does anyone know if (so far) it works?

Thanks in advance. (If there is a better way to ensure that, feel free to say)

The "fuck fuck fuck" happens no matter your relationship with Jade. No one knows if have a affair with Jade will affect Sage or Maya's tuition

 

[felicemastronzo]

Back to the story: but how is Zoey supposed to get into BR?

ok she has solved the problem of high school, but she has no money and she was already complaining about how they didn't accept her in other colleges, the BR will surely be an institute with pretty low standards but why should they accept her in the middle of the year?

 

[AchedCroissant]

Back to the story: but how is Zoey supposed to get into BR?

ok she has solved the problem of high school, but she has no money and she was already complaining about how they didn't accept her in other colleges, the BR will surely be an institute with pretty low standards but why should they accept her in the middle of the year?

Money is the least of the problems because the parents are always there lol but what if she studies in the same place where Cathy is working?

 

[Cabin Fever]

Back to the story: but how is Zoey supposed to get into BR?

ok she has solved the problem of high school, but she has no money and she was already complaining about how they didn't accept her in other colleges, the BR will surely be an institute with pretty low standards but why should they accept her in the middle of the year?

But what makes you so sure that Zoey will be getting into B&R? What's stopping her from getting a job in the B&R town and therefore be around the MC?

Money is the least of the problems because the parents are always there lol but what if she studies in the same place where Cathy is working?

Zoey's parents didn't strike me as financially well off enough to pay for her college tuition.

 

[vogelbeest]

Back to the story: but how is Zoey supposed to get into BR?

ok she has solved the problem of high school, but she has no money and she was already complaining about how they didn't accept her in other colleges, the BR will surely be an institute with pretty low standards but why should they accept her in the middle of the year?

Option 1 : Mona's spot
Option 2 : Burke's scheme
Option 3 : Bella speaks for her

All 3 option's can be valid for some drama

 

[felicemastronzo]

Money is the least of the problems because the parents are always there lol but what if she studies in the same place where Cathy is working?

did not seem to me a family that sailed in gold.... the stepfather, in addition to not being a fan, is a truck driver

If she went to Cathe who would notice?

 

[SteveyP]

Back to the story: but how is Zoey supposed to get into BR?

ok she has solved the problem of high school, but she has no money and she was already complaining about how they didn't accept her in other colleges, the BR will surely be an institute with pretty low standards but why should they accept her in the middle of the year?

Assuming she's getting into B&R at all, they could just wait till the end of the semester and have her apply for the Spring semester. Although, I'm not sure if the school system is different in Sweden because I've never had a course be completed by midterm like they did with Gender Studies. So I suppose they could just accept her mid-semester anyways.

 

[felicemastronzo]

Option 1 : Mona's spot
Option 2 : Burke's scheme
Option 3 : Bella speaks for her

All 3 option's can be valid for some drama

the first two options could be in another game made by another developer....

the third one almost... Zoey's situation is more complicated than Maya's, Maya just lacks money, Zoey lacks that and a semester spent chasing the big dream

But what makes you so sure that Zoey will be getting into B&R? What's stopping her from getting a job in the B&R town and therefore be around the MC?


Zoey's parents didn't strike me as financially well off enough to pay for her college tuition.

Zoey shows interest in a perhaps non-academic path to graphic design, and bringing her to BR is the easiest way to get her to interact with the other characters

it seems really hard that somehow she won't get there

 

[Walter Victor]

Zoey was just some girl of the MC's past

I don't wish to argue with you about the merits of the Interlude, but 'just some girl of the MC's past'? Come on! She was THE girl of the MC's past. They had spent years as best friends (not weeks as with the girls at B&R), and had drifted into becoming fuck-buddies. In fact, since the MC was not very popular, Zoey may have been the only friend the MC had in high school. He has mentioned no other.

I'm not going to attempt to persuade you to like Zoey either; that's none of my business. But love her or despise her, she was important to the MC, and may become so again.

 

[Night Hacker]

I don't wish to argue with you about the merits of the Interlude, but 'just some girl of the MC's past'? Come on! She was THE girl of the MC's past. They had spent years as best friends (not weeks as with the girls at B&R), and had drifted into becoming fuck-buddies. In fact, since the MC was not very popular, Zoey may have been the only friend the MC had in high school. He has mentioned no other.

I'm not going to attempt to persuade you to like Zoey either; that's none of my business. But love her or despise her, she was important to the MC, and may become so again.

Yeah, calling Zoey just "some girl from his past" is like calling the MC's father, Neil, "just some guy from his past".

 

[felicemastronzo]

I don't wish to argue with you about the merits of the Interlude, but 'just some girl of the MC's past'? Come on! She was THE girl of the MC's past. They had spent years as best friends (not weeks as with the girls at B&R), and had drifted into becoming fuck-buddies. In fact, since the MC was not very popular, Zoey may have been the only friend the MC had in high school. He has mentioned no other.

I'm not going to attempt to persuade you to like Zoey either; that's none of my business. But love her or despise her, she was important to the MC, and may become so again.

Mc receiving news of a childhood friend


perfectly serene and detached

 

[gamingdevil800]

Mc receiving news of a childhood friend
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perfectly serene and detached

It's going to pretty hilarious when Zoey comes back and finds a DIK MC swimming in women. The interlude made it seem like the MC was more Chick/less confident back then

 

[vogelbeest]

Zoey's situation is more complicated than Maya's, Maya just lacks money, Zoey lacks that and a semester spent chasing the big dream

I don't see why she couldn't get a student loan, MC has one too, Maya has aswell but hers has been sold to her by an used car salesman so she thinks she's in trouble... Only problem seems to be acceptance this late but perhaps it's not impossible.
Most important would be staff that agree and offer the chance to take the missed tests later....