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

[Deleted member 1949178]

I’ve been in the hospital for two weeks unable to check the thread. Can anybody tell me if beta testing has started? Also any images I’ve missed. Please/Thank You

 

[DavDR]

"People really need to stop acting like DPC is a literary genius." - No they don't. The attention to detail to all the facets of the game is outstanding.

"It's not a masterpiece. It's not even competent really." - It's one of the most continuously entertaining games on this site. That's been achieved, among other things, due to the excellent literary style used throughout. I would go so far as to suggest it is an extremely competent creation.

"Why is Jill comically naïve beyond the point of plausibility? Because she was written that way, not because somebody would be a junior in college and be that way." - All characters in a story are created to service the plot. Jill is a sheltered, naïve woman. The seemingly obvious reason behind her sheltered upbringing was the untimely death of her rebellious sister.

"Why does she have no friends except Bella?" - Most of the girls at the college are total sluts. Not really Jill's kinda people. She befriends Josy quite easily. Nowhere has it been identified that she's painfully shy.

"Why does she live in the rich kid frat? Seriously, actually why does she? It makes no sense." - She's an honoured female guest in the frat. As a family member of the college's founders, it would make sense for the preps to invite her there to bolster their egos.

"Why is the fact that her family is rich and presumably big donors to the school some dark secret? For drama!" - It's not a secret. It's just that Jill realised the mc didn't know she was a Royce, it made her happy to know he liked her for her, and not because she was filthy rich.

"Why is Bella so mysterious about her past and where her husband is? For the intrigue." - That's kinda how you do intrigue; you don't tell the reader everything... Not sure how this can be an issue with the game.

"Why does Maya need a cosigner for student loans?" - She doesn't. Her dad tricked her into thinking she was locked into a loan so he could control her. It doesn't have to make sense to us, it's only require that Maya thinks she's over a barrel.

"Why is she a lesbian? Well she's not really, seeing as in the first month of college she potentially hooked up with this dude. Thus proving her dad right that if she was separated from Josy she'd not be gay. Don't think DPC thought that out all the way." - She's a bisexual girl who never had strong feeling with a guy before so she thought she was simply gay. Turns out the "girly" mc appeals to her. We know that because she discussed it with him.

Even though the dad's approach had the desired impact (from the dad's perspective), it doesn't mean the dad was right.

"Why is Josy dating Maya?" - It was an unexpected twist in the story. Lots of stories do that, it helps keep them interesting.

"Why do people cook up elaborate stories about how Josy and Tommy actually had sex or whatever..." - Hardly anyone is saying that. And most comments regarding incest are that there will be none in this game.

Seriously, all the answers to everything you're querying is in the game (except the Maya loan one).

Excuses, excuses, excuses

 

[Tserriednich'sNen]

I’ve been in the hospital for two weeks unable to check the thread. Can anybody tell me if beta testing has started? Also any images I’ve missed. Please/Thank You

https://f95zone.to/threads/being-a-dik-v0-7-2-dr-pinkcake.25332/post-6875641

 

[DavDR]

Now, I'm no rocket surgeon, but I'm pretty sure she wasn't punished for having dinner with a boy. The much more probable outcome is that it was because she basically got caught fuckin' in her parents bed.

Which, all things being equal, is not unreasonable.

Try playing the scene again, even if MC chooses NOT to stay with Josy after dinner she still winds up grounded with her phone taken away.

 

[Deleted member 1784858]

I don't have a problem with BADIk being what it is, cheap fun schlock, but people need to recognize that it is what it is. DPC doesn't claim that it's high art, or some kind of tight narrative. It's objective is to coherently string together a series of increasingly debatched sexual encounters, which it does well enough.

You say that like 40-50% at least of the sexual events in this game are not the MC engaging in some kind of foreplay and all the times you have been given the option to 'check her out?' I seriously doubt is for boys. You are not the author and are in NO position to dictate to me or anyone for that matter what this story is about or what the authors objective in regards to their work. Also this is still art and art is highly subjective, Shakespeare wasn't a genius because he matched a standard he was considered a genius because the queen liked her angry little man and he was good at entertaining people (which isn't even hard by the way.) so if some one here or anywhere thinks that the author of this story is a genius then you cannot say that they are wrong without looking like an uneducated jackass.

 

[Deleted member 4212304]

You say that like 40-50% at least of the sexual events in this game are not the MC engaging in some kind of foreplay and all the times you have been given the option to 'check her out?' I seriously doubt is for boys. You are not the author and are in NO position to dictate to me or anyone for that matter what this story is about or what the authors objective in regards to their work. Also this is still art and art is highly subjective, Shakespeare wasn't a genius because he matched a standard he was considered a genius because the queen liked her angry little man and he was good at entertaining people (which isn't even hard by the way.) so if some one here or anywhere thinks that the author of this story is a genius then you cannot say that they are wrong without looking like an uneducated jackass.

LAMO, this stuff isn't Shakespeare man, though he was considered lowbrow for his time. It's interactive American Pie.

Shakespeare's work stands on its own merits, and has for a long time. Elizabeth I has been dead for a long time too. Him being one of her court favorites, not the only one btw, has little to do with his popularity. You couldn't name another playwright from that time, only him. This is not a product of Early Modern petty court politics.

And art isn't subjective, no serious artist will say this, though no serious artist will spend their time insisting neoclassical realism is the only legitimate form of artistic expression either. Quite frankly it's insulting to say that because art is "subjective" DPC and William Shakespeare are potentially literary equals.

 

[anonymoussposter]

If there's no update patch, I'm not gonna be able to download it. 19G is way too much for me to download in one file. Mega would die after 10g... Nopy is dead, all other sites are trash with 6 hour download times for a 1g file. Hopefully someone releases a compressed version fairly quickly

Does mediafire has limit ?

if not then it is as good as nopy

 

[FAP369ZONE]

If there's no update patch, I'm not gonna be able to download it. 19G is way too much for me to download in one file. Mega would die after 10g... Nopy is dead, all other sites are trash with 6 hour download times for a 1g file. Hopefully someone releases a compressed version fairly quickly

Uploaders should try these...
Workupload is good and big files can be split in 2GB parts
Pixeldrain is good and big files can be split in 5GB parts
MediaFire is good and big files can be split in 10GB parts
Letsupload is good and big files can be split in 11GB parts

... and for single file download there are these two...
Gofile is good and has 30GB
FileMail is good and has 50GB

Good file hosts are there, they just need to be used more... hope they get more popular for OP links but yeah replacing nopy will be hard but not impossible, besides they might come back some day and throw a surprise party .

 

[anonymoussposter]

Uploaders should try these...
Workupload is good and big files can be split in 2GB parts
Pixeldrain is good and big files can be split in 5GB parts
MediaFire is good and big files can be split in 10GB parts
Letsupload is good and big files can be split in 11GB parts

... and for single file download there are these two...
Gofile is good and has 30GB
FileMail is good and has 50GB

Good file hosts are there, they just need to be used more... hope they get more popular for OP links but yeah replacing nopy will be hard but not impossible, besides they might come back some day and throw a surprise party .

Does limit works if we use IDM to download from these sites ??

 

[FAP369ZONE]

Does limit works if we use IDM to download from these sites ??

Uff i did not use idm in a long time so honestly i don't know what features it has now... and what do you mean by limit? You mean like mega limiting 5GB per 24h or something else?

 

[anonymoussposter]

Uff i did not use idm in a long time so honestly i don't know what features it has now... and what do you mean by limit? You mean like mega limiting 5GB per 24h or something else?

Yes limit like mega has , but you cannot use idm with mega

idm takes over the download process when you are downloading with nopy or mediafire etc.

 

[ename144]

Sadly (for me, happy for you), no way we are getting a harem ending. DPC just doesn't roll that way. One of his favourite things to do is seduce you with candy and then rip it away. Here is university full of all different kinds of woman and you want to at least sample them if not collect them all. At first DPC lets you do it and that's the insidious nature of it. Once you get a taste for it, then he begins to throw in consequences and closes off routes when you have your fingers in too many honey pots whereas in rl no one would care if you sleep around (men or women) at first year university. It's the one time and age you're "supposed" to do it.

I like the replayability...to a point. There are a lot of women in this game and I don't like having to create a new save for every one of them just to see all of the best content and lewds. Especially when you consider how long this game will be and how choices in ep. X can result in unforeseen problems in ep. X + 4. I dread the day I have to start over yet another new game and fast forward through 16 episodes because one little thing I did in ep. 10 fucked me over. It wasn't so bad when there were 4 episodes, but it's becoming a chore to play through some of the less desirable game moments (ex. D&G, english tests, Jill's meth face, rebound guy, Lynette diary mammaries memories, etc.) that you have seen countless times. I gave up. I'm riding out my manwhore save for as long as possible until attrition ultimately claims every girl. I assume at the end I'll be left with only Arieth. She is probably the only one DPC won't have throw a hissy fit when you refuse the exclusivity ultimatum that every girl will eventually throw at you.

To me, the fundamental problem with Harem endings is that the always feel artificial, like the writer just glued all the individual girls' paths together into a single superset. For a harem to really work, each girl's path to the harem would need to feel different than it would to pursue her individually. Even if all the girls have a personality that would accept a harem (already a limiting feature), there's still a big difference between a monogamous relationship and being part of a crowd (even more so if she's involved with some of the other girls, too).

Of course the problem with that is that it vastly increases the amount of work for the dev. It also makes a harem ending feel sort of bittersweet. Everyone can be happy with the new arrangement, but there's always going to be that nagging sense of what might have been if only the MC had picked one girl alone. To me, that's what would make the whole experience worthwhile. But I suspect it wouldn't sit well with others who just want the happily ever after in a very large bed ending.

As for the problems of replayability, I see your point but I don't think I can agree. I've played a lot of these games with branching content, but I don't always have much desire to every branch. Heavy Five, for example, has zillions of possible options to explore, but I just lost interest in all of them because despite liking the premise I couldn't get invested invested in the plot or the characters. But in BaDIK, even content I'm not particularly interested in (like Bella) still feels worth seeking out.

I think the idea of branching options is necessary to make our decisions meaningful. Ideally those options should have enough contextual clues to give you some idea of the likely outcomes. I think BaDIK generally succeeds with that - witness the very fact you're pessimistic about getting a harem ending - but in the end that's always going to be a bit subjective.

I can totally understand the frustration of liking some of the game's content while still disliking large portions of its gameplay, but I don't think there's a simple solution. Even the best mods suffer because its trying to fundamentally alter the the core of the game. A mod that lets you swap variable easily is probably the best option; it's a huge time saver for those interested, but I feel like the accessibility is inevitably going to diminish the fun of seeing the different outcomes. A more ambitious mods that try to splice all the disparate paths together strike me as akin to re-cutting "Finding Nemo" into a police procedural: a skilled editor might be able to pull it off, but the end result is still going to be a wildly different experience.

If you respond to an extreme position with an extreme one, you are not doing yourself a good service.

are all sluts at BR? is this really your answer to the fact that Jill has friendship only with a teacher? and that she makes friends on the fly with the only girl (who would also answer to the generic identikit of slut... but in the positive sense) towards whom she knows the only boy she has ever been interested in has feelings?

BADIk is an extremely light story, with no particular clockwork mechanism that makes people cry out for a miracle, where almost every situation is handled according to emotional outbursts that justify any outcome (they all run away for the least believable reasons ..)

but there is only one point on which I don't agree with you at all: the fact that there is this extreme attention to detail, DPC takes great care in creating "verisimilitude" especially in the dialogues, where he tries to take into account everything that happened, but then blatantly ignores certain situations, which would have their own importance, but would complicate his work.

so we have Chad's shoes in Troy's room (how many times did it happen to you to leave your shoes at the house of a girl with whom you had a clandestine relationship? did you come back barefoot?), and at the same time Josy is punished by her parents for having dinner with a boy (if Mc stays it makes sense, otherwise not at all. or do you want to tell me that Josy's beloved father is more bigoted than Maya's father?) and many other intersections that for simplicity DPC has decided simply not to handle

BADIK is an exceptional entertainment, which is light years from the average of the games of this genre (mainly because of the very low average), and probably will also have a positive effect as an example on other productions. but it is a soap opera, a telenovelas, not the Murder on the Orient Express

Hang on, why isn't BaDIK similar to Murder on the Orient Express? I'm a fan of classic murder mysteries, but there are plenty of people who would consider them relatively low brow entertainment. If AVNs ever go mainstream, BaDIK seems like a good candidate to be one of the classics in 40 years time.

As for verisimilitude, that's always going to be a bit subjective. The real world operates largely at random, so it's not like a world without coincidences would feel particularly realistic. It's always going to be incumbent on an author to structure the 'external' events of the story in such a way that they support and reinforce it. That's what makes a story different than just a collection of things that happen, after all.

The art is in making the 'random' events that happen in support the story feel grounded within the story rather than purely at the behest of the author. We can try to come up with objective criteria for that, and they can be helpful in extreme cases: Bella vaporizing Tybalt with her heat ray vision after being dosed with radiation from the unexploded atomic bomb in her locked room, while potentially very satisfying, does seem inconsistent with the world as presented. But for less outlandish cases, in the end it's often going to boil down to two things when a potentially implausible event occurs: do the characters' reactions to it ring true, and are the consequences of that event and/or the various reactions interesting to observe?

On those counts I would say BaDIK has far more successes than failures. There have certainly been failures: I don't like the way the Jill blackmail subplot has been handled; I felt the resolution to the Maya/Josy crisis in Episode 4 did not fit the events that caused the crisis; I don't understand why Sage's fuckbuddy would automatically worry about being a rebound guy after she breaks up. These are problems with the story that do diminish my enjoyment of it. But there are a lot of other parts of the story, and they work far, far better. As a result, on the whole I consider BaDIK a strong net positive.

No one is required to share that opinion, and if the game is much less of a success for you, that's fine.

But I think that's a far cry from saying the game is poorly written or thought out. On the contrary, I see a very well written game. Characters have consistent dialog that does not feel stilted. There are very few grammatical errors (or programming bugs). The concepts and characters of importance are established before they begin driving the plot. Even the outlandish twists are always foreshadowed in retrospect (and sometimes in foresight, as with the Chad/Troy twist).

To the extent that I can make objective judgements about the craftsmanship of this game, I'd have to call it very high. The fact that there are practical limits on player choices, or that some choices combine ancillary outcomes, is not a mark against the game, it's a necessary nod to reality.

 

[FAP369ZONE]

Yes limit like mega has , but you cannot use idm with mega

idm takes over the download process when you are downloading with nopy or mediafire etc.

I might be wrong but as far as i know none of them have such a limit or at least i have never encountered it with the downloads... tbh my net is slow and 20GB would probably take me about 12 hours (aka about 2-3 days real time) to download so i might not even hit whatever limits they (IF) have .

 

[anonymoussposter]

I might be wrong but as far as i know none of them have such a limit or at least i have never encountered it with the downloads... tbh my net is slow and 20GB would probably take me about 12 hours (aka about 2-3 days real time) to download so i might not even hit whatever limits they (IF) have .

Use idm while downloading with these sites
Your downloading speed will improve

 

[FAP369ZONE]

Use idm while downloading with these sites
Your downloading speed will improve

Oh i bet it will... that is why i use

You must be registered to see the links

when i ran out of ram memory, its super useful and easy...

Hehehe sry could not resist

 

[ename144]

the point is exactly that

if Mc stays over to "sleep" at Josy's, it makes sense for the parents to punish her, but they do it anyway, even if MC leaves right after dinner, which doesn't make much sense, but Josy MUST be punished, otherwise she would have the phone

Yes, you are correct that Josy is punished even if she isn't caught in bed with the MC. But there are two things to consider here. First, she did still invite someone into the house (and serve him alcohol) without her parent's permission. Second, we know her "dad got to hear an earful about Monica" (which happens in both scenarios).

Given Josy's contentious relationship with her stepmom, I don't think grounding her and confiscating her phone for a couple days is an implausible outcome.

I probably didn't explain myself well...

I mentioned "murder on the orient express," as an example of a very neat plot, like the mechanism of a clock. BADIk is not and does not want to be, and I do not need to see how it will continue, because it is clear that this is not its goal.

the themes it deals with (homosexuality, difficult families) have nothing to do with what i have said

you are the one who gives a strange and negative meaning to the term soap opera, in them everything happens, people die, get sick, change sex, and everything revolves around the sentimental events, which are the pivot of the plot

I'm not sure how you can say that when BaDIK isn't finished yet and there ARE a lot of "clockwork" events at play in BaDIK.

Hell, as much as I dislike the Jill blackmail subplot, structurally it was fairly well set up in the story. Jill sees the MC getting into lots of trouble and doing several stupid things, and knows he has no money or safety net. Tybalt's wealth, pettiness, and animosity to the MC are clearly established. The game even makes a big point about how reckless the MC has been during Hell Week. It makes sense that Jill would agree to humor Tybalt in exchange for him going easy on the MC after he and Derek wreck the mansion.

The glaring flaw isn't that this event came out of nowhere, it's that in the next episode Jill seems surprised by the terms she agreed to and suddenly needs Bella's help. (Well, that and the fact that watching Tybalt bore Jill to tears isn't interesting, but that's what I classified as subjective.) I think the idea was that Jill expected Tybalt to be less persistent and realizes she needs reinforcements, but DPC overplayed the scene, IMHO.

I've been a Quinn fan since day 1. I think you misunderstood what I said. I don't want Quinn to change how she is to everyone else... I could give a fuck if she slaps Riona's whole head off...or forces Maya to leave college...or continues her prostitution ring and selling drugs. I don't care about any of that shit. What I want to happen with her is those walls shes got built up to come down for MC and MC alone. That's it. When I said the softening of her eyes verses how she is in other interactions, note that she was LOOKING AT MC during that scene. That's the shit I dig. I don't care about her interactions with anyone else.

I'd say my feelings on Quinn are well known at this point, so I won't rehash them here.

What I will say is that while I largely agree with your goal, I think you're still getting ahead of where Quinn is. I don't think she's softened to the MC all that much. If she is she could somehow solve her money problems in Episode 8 at the expense of the MC, I think she would do it with minimal hesitation and acceptable levels of regret. And like with Tommy, she would bitterly defend her decision if the MC called her out on it.

To me, that's what Quinn's "redemption" arc will likely be about when we finally get there. She won't become a "good" person. She'll just be willing to let someone like the MC into her life as more than a toy. In short, she'll still be an abrasive jerk who likes to fuck with people, but she'll not longer be a toxic, abrasive jerk who likes to fuck with people.

But that's not going to happen until she hits rock bottom. I don't think she's there yet; I'm not even sure she's all that close. And it would not surprise me if she winds up betraying the MC at least once along the way. So my advice for Quinn fans is to plan for the long haul.

I’ve been in the hospital for two weeks unable to check the thread. Can anybody tell me if beta testing has started? Also any images I’ve missed. Please/Thank You

Yes, beta testing began last week. We're speculating a release somewhere in the 19-26 range if things go well, but that's just a guess. All we know for sure is that DPC *hopes* to release the episode in November but doesn't think that's guaranteed.

 

[Warscared]

Mississippi is worse than Alabama. Marriage age without parental consent is 15.

HEY, NO! WE ALL AGREED ALABAMA WAS THE PLACE TO MAKE FUN SO NOT HITTING THE BREAKS AND DIVERTING THE ATTENTION, ITS ALABAMA IT WAS ALABAMA AND IT WILL FOREVER BE ALABAMA! Got it?

Now, I'm no rocket surgeon, but I'm pretty sure she wasn't punished for having dinner with a boy. The much more probable outcome is that it was because she basically got caught fuckin' in her parents bed.

Which, all things being equal, is not unreasonable.

the point is exactly that
if Mc stays over to "sleep" at Josy's, it makes sense for the parents to punish her, but they do it anyway, even if MC leaves right after dinner, which doesn't make much sense, but Josy MUST be punished, otherwise she would have the phone

actually... she burned the kitchen and she could have burned down the house! thats the real reason she was irresponsable with the responsability of taking care of the house when she decided to cook!

the other option would be her father and Monica tasted her food... let me tell you even ChipLecsap orders from ubereats and he loves Josy!

Yeah but that's the Alabama of Europe.

some cantoons in northern Switzerland let me tell you... but they are germans so it still counts!

Just before this conversation gets deleted.

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Actually that’s Spain. Jesus.

ok someone should nuke Yemen ffs what is wrong with people? also how can it be called age of consent if the consent is being given by the great grandfather? either reexamine the concept or change the defenition to age of consent decided by the family!

 

[Lostanddamned]

Yes, beta testing began last week. We're speculating a release somewhere in the 19-26 range if things go well, but that's just a guess. All we know for sure is that DPC *hopes* to release the episode in November but doesn't think that's guaranteed.

What are the chances of us getting the update next Friday, which is what I'm really hoping for?

 

[Ilhares]

19GB file, no update patch because of what DPC said, and nopy is dead.

Mega would die after 10g... Nopy is dead, all other sites are trash with 6 hour download times for a 1g file. Hopefully someone releases a compressed version fairly quickly

Workupload is good and big files can be split in 2GB parts
Pixeldrain is good and big files can be split in 5GB parts
MediaFire is good and big files can be split in 10GB parts
Letsupload is good and big files can be split in 11GB parts

... and for single file download there are these two...
Gofile is good and has 30GB
FileMail is good and has 50GB

I am disappointed in each and every one of you for consistently overlooking the torrent option. Get one good seed going and everybody will be able to get a taste. My biggest problem is uplink speed. I can download fast, but my local UL is slow, so even getting it piped up to my server would take forever - but if we have a torrent, I could load it up there and just leave it running for the next six months.

What are the chances of us getting the update next Friday, which is what I'm really hoping for?

Extremely slim, but I won't go so far as to call ti impossible. I just think it might be. 19th seems much more reasonable considering when the actual beta period started.

 

[Lightaces]

No not really. US is one of these few countries that would but most western countries are fine with it. it. In germany for example it is pretty normal when a 16 year old dates a 22 year old. They get to introtuced to their parents etc.

Even in the US, it depends on the state.

The real problem is Vatican City, where the age of consent is 12. Not kidding.