ffive

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WE have 2 Seasons of established characters with a lot of conflict potential. We have the drug stuff, We have BEklla and Jill, Maya and family and so on. Who really is intersted in another girl that was potrayed as narcisttic selfish and egoisticial and only comes back because she fucked up
I'm interested. So, there. You'll have to live with the knowledge an episode of porn game is getting released later because DPC has catered to my interests over yours. :whistle:
 

Pendrell

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Every year around this time, I review my Patreon page and make changes to my tiers. This year, I have no changes to any tiers below $75, but I've made a tough decision regarding the $75, $100, and $150 tiers.

If you're not pledging or planning to pledge those tiers, there's no relevant information below.

I have decided to discontinue the monthly Custom render reward starting January 2023. This means that the orders requested in November will be created and posted in December, and that will be the end of this reward.

The changes will be reflected as follows:

DIK Vice President (and above)
  • Added: This is an additional support tier for those who would like to contribute extra.
  • Rewards from previous tiers
  • Removed: Access to recent Custom renders
  • Removed: Each month, participate in entering suggestions for custom renders. 4 out of all entries are handpicked and produced for the following month. There's a chance that the produced renders will appear in the game.
  • DIK Vice President role on the DrPinkCake Discord server.

To further explain my reasoning behind this decision, creating 12-16 high-quality renders per month has become a considerable task.

Creating new environments for one-time use, buying assets, posing the renders, rendering, and distribution are eating up 7-10% of development time every month.

36 months of custom orders have yielded 513 unique custom renders, meaning I have way more than enough Custom renders to last the remaining Pack Quests of Being a DIK.

Going forward, I want to put that time back into game development.

I hope that those affected understand my reasoning behind this decision.

I understand if any Vice President or DIK President tier 1/2 would now want to lower their pledge unless you feel you still want to contribute extra to the game development.

The final chance to order Custom renders for December is t; I'll treat this last order with even more respect than usual. If you're sitting on ideas that are too good not to be made, throw them in there now. Since it's the last time, you may submit more than one request.

Thank you to everyone who has submitted an order in these tiers during these last three years, and I hope you have enjoyed the custom renders.

All the best

Dr PinkCake
Credit where it's due, canning the customs is a sensible move. They're great for those that get them every month, I'm sure, but clearly in the nice to have category (except for the Quinn ones, which are of course essential;)).

That he's looking for ways to free up more of his time to focus on the meat of game development is definitely encouraging. It hints at someone who's probably been a tad more bothered by the length of the development cycle this time than his "it takes as long as it takes" comments have sometimes suggested. I hope he goes further and really asks himself some tough questions about time and resources in episode 10, but for now this is a step in the right direction.
 

qdfe

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I'm glad Zoey is back. I'm not interested in any of the main girls, so if it wasn't for her, I'd just fuck every side girl I like for the entire game. And with her, at least there's a choice. There are side girls with relationship potential like Quinn and Lily, but it's unclear if anything serious will come of it.
 
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Alphaeboy

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I'm glad Zoey is back. I'm not interested in any of the main girls, so if it wasn't for her, I'd just fuck every side girl I like for the entire game. And with her, at least there's a choice. There are side girls with relationship potential like Quinn and Lily, but it's unclear if anything serious will come of it.
I can kind of see a relationship potential with Riona for a couple reasons:
Talking to her at HOT place on Sage path in Ep.4
Telling her about DIK Cathy drama if you tell her the truth, in ep.5 she will tell that the truth about Quinn needing money.
Helping out her with money
trusting MC with her being followed
Kissing him after helping her out
Hell, I can see her maybe telling him about Quinn's side business in the future if she trusts you.

Then the funny moments when MC teases her for having thing in order and then her getting back at MC at the end of #8 was fucking funny.
 
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ename144

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I know you've explained it several times, you go on and on about it like a broken record. There are hours and hours of things to talk about in this game, some great, some less so, but you are so fixated on 3 little words.

What's wrong with him reacting the same?. If I stub my toe, I go, "Fuck!". If I forget my mobile and have to turn the car around and get it, I go, "Fuck!". If a car rear ends me while I'm waiting to turn a corner, I go, "Fuck!" If I go outside the lines in the BaDIK drinking game for the third time in a row, I go, "Fuck!"

See what I mean about the versitility of that one word? Now the mc, like many people, is more dramatic than me, so when he's panicking, he goes, "Fuck. Fuck. Fuck." regardless of the severity of the situation. Big. Fucking. Deal. Get the fuck over it. "Fuck!"
You may manage to cow Felice with your linguistical mastery, but I'm not so easily mollified and assure you I can complain about the ending just as loudly.

First, because you're wrong. The MC gives no less than 6 fucks in a row in that sequence. That's not the way the word is used to express surprise or relief, which are the responses an MC who ignored Jade *should* have in this situation. That's the response to a Very Bad Situation(tm), which this is nowhere close to being.

Second, because as we inexplicably need to keep saying, the MC's response doesn't change *AT ALL* when he just dumped Jade to date her daughter. You say "fuck" is a versatile word, but that versatility is supposed to be accompanied by a change in tone or emphasis. DPC has already demonstrated he's capable of conveying that sort of nuance in this game so he could have done that here. Instead he thought everyone would be so wowed by his shocking twist [sic] that they wouldn't notice him cutting corners (no doubt to save time for that extra Madame animation). Well fuck that noise: I noticed.

Incidentally, I'm afraid I'm going to have to revoke your fuck license until you can brush up on the basics. :p





Every year around this time, I review my Patreon page and make changes to my tiers. This year, I have no changes to any tiers below $75, but I've made a tough decision regarding the $75, $100, and $150 tiers.

If you're not pledging or planning to pledge those tiers, there's no relevant information below.

I have decided to discontinue the monthly Custom render reward starting January 2023. This means that the orders requested in November will be created and posted in December, and that will be the end of this reward.

The changes will be reflected as follows:

DIK Vice President (and above)
  • Added: This is an additional support tier for those who would like to contribute extra.
  • Rewards from previous tiers
  • Removed: Access to recent Custom renders
  • Removed: Each month, participate in entering suggestions for custom renders. 4 out of all entries are handpicked and produced for the following month. There's a chance that the produced renders will appear in the game.
  • DIK Vice President role on the DrPinkCake Discord server.

To further explain my reasoning behind this decision, creating 12-16 high-quality renders per month has become a considerable task.

Creating new environments for one-time use, buying assets, posing the renders, rendering, and distribution are eating up 7-10% of development time every month.

36 months of custom orders have yielded 513 unique custom renders, meaning I have way more than enough Custom renders to last the remaining Pack Quests of Being a DIK.

Going forward, I want to put that time back into game development.

I hope that those affected understand my reasoning behind this decision.

I understand if any Vice President or DIK President tier 1/2 would now want to lower their pledge unless you feel you still want to contribute extra to the game development.

The final chance to order Custom renders for December is t; I'll treat this last order with even more respect than usual. If you're sitting on ideas that are too good not to be made, throw them in there now. Since it's the last time, you may submit more than one request.

Thank you to everyone who has submitted an order in these tiers during these last three years, and I hope you have enjoyed the custom renders.

All the best

Dr PinkCake
Not really a major change, but count me in the camp that approves of any indication DPC is trying to trim the fat from the production process. It's just a shame this couldn't happen before the King got banned. :cry:


Is Riona getting a pass just because shes not in charge? Or just because she is more fuckable? :Kappa:
Yes.
 

DarkKiller

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You may manage to cow Felice with your linguistical mastery, but I'm not so easily mollified and assure you I can complain about the ending just as loudly.

First, because you're wrong. The MC gives no less than 6 fucks in a row in that sequence. That's not the way the word is used to express surprise or relief, which are the responses an MC who ignored Jade *should* have in this situation. That's the response to a Very Bad Situation(tm), which this is nowhere close to being.

Second, because as we inexplicably need to keep saying, the MC's response doesn't change *AT ALL* when he just dumped Jade to date her daughter. You say "fuck" is a versatile word, but that versatility is supposed to be accompanied by a change in tone or emphasis. DPC has already demonstrated he's capable of conveying that sort of nuance in this game so he could have done that here.
He did put a bit of nuance in that mirror scene of the Interlude though, maybe because he realized he fucked up a little.
And it's not like DPC can't write himself out of the situation, yeah all those fucks are a bit exagerated in the context of certain playthroughs, but even in one where you avoid Jade like the plague it will still be an akward encounter regardless, the woman literally touches MC's dick before he rejects her. And now he's about to ask her to help his friend :HideThePain:
 

shazba

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You may manage to cow Felice with your linguistical mastery, but I'm not so easily mollified and assure you I can complain about the ending just as loudly.

First, because you're wrong. The MC gives no less than 6 fucks in a row in that sequence. That's not the way the word is used to express surprise or relief, which are the responses an MC who ignored Jade *should* have in this situation. That's the response to a Very Bad Situation(tm), which this is nowhere close to being.

Second, because as we inexplicably need to keep saying, the MC's response doesn't change *AT ALL* when he just dumped Jade to date her daughter. You say "fuck" is a versatile word, but that versatility is supposed to be accompanied by a change in tone or emphasis. DPC has already demonstrated he's capable of conveying that sort of nuance in this game so he could have done that here. Instead he thought everyone would be so wowed by his shocking twist [sic] that they wouldn't notice him cutting corners (no doubt to save time for that extra Madame animation). Well fuck that noise: I noticed.

Incidentally, I'm afraid I'm going to have to revoke your fuck license until you can brush up on the basics. :p



Not really a major change, but count me in the camp that approves of any indication DPC is trying to trim the fat from the production process. It's just a shame this couldn't happen before the King got banned. :cry:



Yes.
Ok, it looks like it’s time to take this to the next level. I didn’t want to do this, but you’ve forced my hand… :eek:

These two mc’s exist in alternate timelines. They do not have all the same experiences (although many may overlap), and so they would never gauge their response on an alternate version of themself under different circumstances.

The mc that goes into the meeting having fucked both Jade and Sage, and just finished dumping Jade over text (definitely the cowards way out!) while deciding to choose Sage (debatably the most dangerous combination), is not the same guy who is just friends with Sage and turned down Jade’s highly unprofessional advances from the beginning.

You’re looking at it from the perspective of a person who is confronted with both (or multiple) outcomes, whereas the mc, in the play through where he was unwantedly molested by Jade, never experienced the whole mother/daughter fuckfest.

When the mc walks into the apartment, he has a sense of foreboding, and it is realised in the presentation of the family photos.

The innocent mc has done no wrong, his focus is to help Maya and this meeting is very important, Maya’s problems have been present since the day they met. Suddenly the mc realised the very person he is going to be asking help from is a woman who sexually assaulted him and threatened him when he did not accept her advances. This is very bad news. This could jeopardise the entire meeting. His presence is endangering the mission! “Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.”

The fuckboy mc also wants to help Maya, but when he realises who the person he’s looking to get help from is, his “Fuck. Fuck. Fuck” panic is all about himself. He’s about to walk into an ambush. He just dumped this woman, and now he’s gonna ask her for help, all while Sage may innocently disclose that they are a couple now! He is “Fuck. Fuck. Fucked!”

Two different mc’s reacting the same way on completely different tangents because that’s who they are at the time. One who sees the meeting as fucked, the other who sees himself as fucked.

Two unrelated focuses that can acceptably warrant the same response.

Also, at no point am I suggested the mc is just surprised, or relieved. Relief would come if he was presented two doors:

“Behind one of these doors is a woman who you’ve fucked, and you’re fucking her daughter, and you’ve just dumped her! Behind the other door is a woman who sexually assaulted you. Now make your choice!”

When the mc opens the door to find the lesser of two evils, he may be relieved.

But that’s not what this is.

Your expectations are biased because you consider one outcome worse than the other, but the mc only knows the outcome that he’s living, and he panics regardless.

In the mc’s universe, whatever scenario he is living, he’s not weighing up other scenarios, he’s just shitting himself thinking about what’s to come.

And to compound things, no matter the scenario, in all cases, the people he’s hoping for Maya to get help from are Tybalt’s parents. That just makes matters worse.

In all cases, not being there sounds like a good idea. Time to run the the bathroom, where the gravity of the situation sinks in more…
 

ename144

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Ok, it looks like it’s time to take this to the next level. I didn’t want to do this, but you’ve forced my hand… :eek:

These two mc’s exist in alternate timelines. They do not have all the same experiences (although many may overlap), and so they would never gauge their response on an alternate version of themself under different circumstances.

The mc that goes into the meeting having fucked both Jade and Sage, and just finished dumping Jade over text (definitely the cowards way out!) while deciding to choose Sage (debatably the most dangerous combination), is not the same guy who is just friends with Sage and turned down Jade’s highly unprofessional advances from the beginning.

You’re looking at it from the perspective of a person who is confronted with both (or multiple) outcomes, whereas the mc, in the play through where he was unwantedly molested by Jade, never experienced the whole mother/daughter fuckfest.
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When the mc walks into the apartment, he has a sense of foreboding, and it is realised in the presentation of the family photos.

The innocent mc has done no wrong, his focus is to help Maya and this meeting is very important, Maya’s problems have been present since the day they met. Suddenly the mc realised the very person he is going to be asking help from is a woman who sexually assaulted him and threatened him when he did not accept her advances. This is very bad news. This could jeopardise the entire meeting. His presence is endangering the mission! “Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.”
How? How is he endangering the mission?

Jade is obviously not going to bring the topic up directly, and if she wanted to make *him* suffer she could easily have done that at the Prep party 4 episodes ago when the snub was still raw. She didn't give a shit about seeing the MC sneak into her son's big party back then, why the fuck would she decide to take her frustrations out on *Maya* now??

Moreover, I completely reject your premise. Sure, the MC hasn't seen the alternative branches where he fucks Jade and/or Sage, but even a bulb as dim as the MC can extrapolate that fucking Jade might have resulted if he didn't reject her. So yeah, the pure CHICK, irrationally-worried-about-Jade-hating-Maya-through-him MC should still realize the situation could be substantially worse.

And it's not like these two supposedly disparate incarnations of the MCs are in the same delicate lockstep the rest of the time. The MC who turned down the throuple won't awkwardly blurt out "Study!" during the Episode 6 library scene, despite not having experienced how much more awkward the situation *could* have been. Yet somehow no one commented on such a "glaring" omission at the time. It's almost like we expected the MC to be mostly the same guy reacting to his different circumstances. :rolleyes:

Were I inclined to be generous, I might accept a single 'Fuck." as a summation of the curious mix of surprise, concern and relief our chaste MC might be feeling. But DPC got greedy and tried to slip another 5 fucks past us. So my generosity is gone. I'm limiting the Jade/Sage-less encounter to a single "Well... shit." at most.

The fuckboy mc also wants to help Maya, but when he realises who the person he’s looking to get help from is, his “Fuck. Fuck. Fuck” panic is all about himself. He’s about to walk into an ambush. He just dumped this woman, and now he’s gonna ask her for help, all while Sage may innocently disclose that they are a couple now! He is “Fuck. Fuck. Fucked!”

Two different mc’s reacting the same way on completely different tangents because that’s who they are at the time. One who sees the meeting as fucked, the other who sees himself as fucked.

Two unrelated focuses that can acceptably warrant the same response.

Also, at no point am I suggested the mc is just surprised, or relieved. Relief would come if he was presented two doors:

“Behind one of these doors is a woman who you’ve fucked, and you’re fucking her daughter, and you’ve just dumped her! Behind the other door is a woman who sexually assaulted you. Now make your choice!”

When the mc opens the door to find the lesser of two evils, he may be relieved.

But that’s not what this is.

Your expectations are biased because you consider one outcome worse than the other, but the mc only knows the outcome that he’s living, and he panics regardless.

In the mc’s universe, whatever scenario he is living, he’s not weighing up other scenarios, he’s just shitting himself thinking about what’s to come.

And to compound things, no matter the scenario, in all cases, the people he’s hoping for Maya to get help from are Tybalt’s parents. That just makes matters worse.

In all cases, not being there sounds like a good idea. Time to run the the bathroom, where the gravity of the situation sinks in more…
Sheesh, with the bullets he's sweating in your head, you'd think the MC was the one who'd assaulted a student.

You keep asserting that the MC is terrified because Jade came on to him and her turned her down, but the game has never hinted at such a thing. Hell, even in that moronic ending the game doesn't actually offer an explanation; the idea that his meltdown is justified is pure headcanon, and increasingly threadbare heeadcanon at that.

Again, in the actual game Jade had a chance to extract a pound of flesh from the MC only to shrug and walked away. The MC spent Episode 6 trying to brush up on Gender Studies with Maya and never had a single inner monologue thinking about how all this work might be meaningless if his professor felt scorned. It's almost as if the concern never occurred to him... because it hadn't, any more than it had occurred to us in the last 2 years.

DPC prioritized hyping a lame twist over reflecting our "important" choices in his season cliffhanger. It's okay to admit it and criticize him for it. He's never going to grow out of these bad habits if we won't hold his feet to the fire.
 

Jayfcsp

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We have reached the final status update for episode 9.
The render queue is now down to a single digit.
9 animations remain, meaning that private beta testing, with my team of testers, can start within the next 1-2 weeks.
I have started preparing for the release, and the final preview will be posted next week.
It looks like it will be Halloween in December for every DIK and HOT.
Stay tuned for the release date announcement.

Have a nice weekend
Dr PinkCake
Halloween. <3
 

ename144

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Halloween. <3
Not exactly overflowing with numbers, but this is probably the best news we could get nonetheless. DPC completed at least 10 animations this week. He maintains his overall average of ~7.7 animations per week since the Interlude launched. More importantly, it also brings the final 9 animations within striking range by next week - at least theoretically. Still no word on additional statics, but that's unlikely to make a difference to the bottom line at this point. Here are the charts:
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The good news is that we're on pace to begin beta testing by next Friday, then potentially release the game a week or two after that. The bad news is that's pretty much the best case scenario; if anything unexpected happens, it will almost certainly push back the release. And it won't take much pushing to crash into the holidays and then into next year. So it's rather precarious good news.

Still, we might as well indulge in a little optimism this week. We're almost there. :)
 

anonnyscouse

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Jade is obviously not going to bring the topic up directly, and if she wanted to make *him* suffer she could easily have done that at the Prep party 4 episodes ago when the snub was still raw. She didn't give a shit about seeing the MC sneak into her son's big party back then, why the fuck would she decide to take her frustrations out on *Maya* now??
I'll let Shazba answer this in full, don't want to take away his enjoyment, however just on this point, which you have raised a few times in this debate: We see that Jade sees Fuckface at the party and see her reaction but does Fuckface?
 
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Bubba McSmith

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Credit where it's due, canning the customs is a sensible move. They're great for those that get them every month, I'm sure, but clearly in the nice to have category (except for the Quinn ones, which are of course essential;)).

That he's looking for ways to free up more of his time to focus on the meat of game development is definitely encouraging. It hints at someone who's probably been a tad more bothered by the length of the development cycle this time than his "it takes as long as it takes" comments have sometimes suggested. I hope he goes further and really asks himself some tough questions about time and resources in episode 10, but for now this is a step in the right direction.
I think it also shows that he's making enough money that he doesn't need to bother with custom renders anymore. DPC picked up over 1000 new patrons this month without even releasing episode 9 (from 12000 to 13000). I assume they joined expecting the episode to drop this month.

There have been changes to DPC's attitude over the years. Look at the very first post in this thread, where he was happy for people just to play and spread the game, only to later disown F95 for "ruining his business model". A few weeks ago he said in an update to stop supporting him if people didn't like the long wait times, to this update where he basically stopped giving any benefit to his whale backers. He's getting frustrated, or cocky.

There was someone in this thread a while ago (I forget who), who said DPC was only going to do 2 more episodes and then quit. I thought he was trolling and he probably was, but the more I think about it I'm concerned DPC isn't going to make it to 16 episodes. I remember when DPC used to talk about the game he was going to make after BaDIK, but now he said recently that he might not make anything after BaDIK. I'm sure him and his wife are crunching the numbers to figure out how long this game needs to go on for them to retire.

Whatever happens, the episodes need to come out faster. We have 7 more episodes to go. They can't take a year each. DPC won't make it that long.
 
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