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

[(s)AINT]

Plot got worst in episode 8 imo, just going for shock value and drama. how tf you don’t even know your fuck buddy’s last name??

 

[Deleted member 4212304]

Plot got worst in episode 8 imo, just going for shock value and drama. how tf you don’t even know your fuck buddy’s last name??

To be fair this is a constant problem for the MC, he doesn't know his own mother's name even.

 

[wakkawalla]

To be fair this is a constant problem for the MC, he doesn't know his own mother's name even.

there's no proof he knows his own last name.

 

[hothkiller]

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Darwin-19.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
Ren'Py 7.4.10.2178

any help ?

 

[Arthoneceron]

To be fair this is a constant problem for the MC, he doesn't know his own mother's name even.

According to that photo, MC's mom could be a Royce or something near to them. Maybe Rusty is the uncle of MC or something, who knows.

 

[shazba]

as much as this game is high production as far as smut games go and as much as i like bella and sage, this game is boring as shit. absolutely nothing happens, quinn and tommy are fighting, oh em gee. someone cant find drugs or needs drugs, riveting. tybalt is making an ass out of himself again, wow. i mean, some of the dialogue from the girls is alright, but the actual writing and storytelling of this game is abysmal and seems to just get worse as the game progresses. if college irl was this boring, absolutely no one would bother going. whats even worse are the free roam and mini games. its just bad filler content that i loath every time one pops up. oh let me play brawler where i pick up down left right, incredible mechanics. im not sure whats worse, free roam or the task board. its just non stop filler with mediocre to bad storytelling and then a 6 month wait till the next update.

You should definitely cancel your subscription then.*

Maybe you should stop playing.

But whatever you do, stfu about it.


*lets be honest, people like you are never subscribers, only complainers. I bet your government assistance is too small too, right loser?

I think that’s an unfair response to a fair criticism.

This game is a slice of life of an over sexed, big dicked freshman at college. It’s got humor, drama and a light story. But it’s borderline the kinda novel a high school teenage girl would read, except the protagonist is a guy and there’s x-rated sex scenes.

Two years ago, if someone recommended this to me, or anything in the AVN genre, I’d have politely declined. It took COVID and a prolonged lockdown period for me to stumble in to this realm, and now, over a year later, I’m hooked on a story about relationships, pointless drama and computer generated images.

That said, it brings back memories for me, of a carefree time when girls were easy, consequences were few, and the dramas of life were mostly simple.

But if someone is looking for a porn game where it’s about advancing through sexual conquests with continuous fappable scenes, this is definitely not that game.

 

[madman11122]

A little bummed in the direction things are going. I ended up choosing the "others" path for my main playthrough. It's weird to force the MC to cut out all the side pieces in a porn game. I thought we would be at about the half way point in the game but maybe we are getting close to the end...?

 

[StopMeIfYouCan]

What's on top of the fake credential that Tommy gave the MC?

It depends on paths. Jill's photo, Sage's leaf and wines cork from Bella's 2nd date. If you choose others it will be removed.

 

[Deleted member 748346]

Plot got worst in episode 8 imo, just going for shock value and drama. how tf you don’t even know your fuck buddy’s last name??

while it is weird , well she is adopted and she rarely relies on her adopted parents, and kinda makes sense that the 3 fraternities were all made by people connected with the college directors. Sadly this is bad news for Maya if MC is in Jill and maybe Bella path as well. But if you are in DIK path choosing no girl or in Sage path or both, i think this might be good news for MC since 2 people from that family like him. If you are in Maya and Josy path guess its neutral who Saige adopted parents are.

 

[Deleted member 748346]

A little bummed in the direction things are going. I ended up choosing the "others" path for my main playthrough. It's weird to force the MC to cut out all the side pieces in a porn game. I thought we would be at about the half way point in the game but maybe we are getting close to the end...?

its not weird many "porn games" aren't just "porn games" the writers want to tell a story not all "porn games" have to be harem. Also this is more in " adult visual novel" rather than "porn game" cuz it have a story and a plot and characters which you have to choose between path , best thing to do is just making saves for all options

 

[johnnypanic420]

You should definitely cancel your subscription then.*

Maybe you should stop playing.

But whatever you do, stfu about it.


*lets be honest, people like you are never subscribers, only complainers. I bet your government assistance is too small too, right loser?

lmfao triggered. you gonna make me fruit? lets be honest, people like you are always subscribers, you'll always white knight so you dont feel stupid about shitting away money on a porn game. you know the truth deep down which is the exact reason youre this triggered. qq

 

[F22232425]

Episode 3: checked

Comment:
Josy & Maya: Lesbian couple who cheat around, so NOPE
Sage: Too slutty, so NOPE
Jill: Too naive, so NOPE
Isabella: Age difference, so NOPE

Conclusion:
Will wait untill other relationship routes appear.

 

[Gourls]

while it is weird , well she is adopted and she rarely relies on her adopted parents, and kinda makes sense that the 3 fraternities were all made by people connected with the college directors. Sadly this is bad news for Maya if MC is in Jill and maybe Bella path as well. But if you are in DIK path choosing no girl or in Sage path or both, i think this might be good news for MC since 2 people from that family like him. If you are in Maya and Josy path guess its neutral who Saige adopted parents are.

If you're on the Sage path, her parents both certainly do not like you, considering how the conversation with Jade went earlier.

"Fuck" seems like a pretty appropriate response from MC regardless of which path he's on.

 

[ename144]

First day of Sage as a girlfriend
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I liked the text messages with the chosen LIs in the final free roam. That was a nice touch that gives us some idea of how things might go in Season 3. I just wish the MC also got a little face-to-face time to sort things out, too. Jill gets that, which was awesome. Sage sorta gets that, and was pretty good. Bella's is sabotaged by the fact DPC isn't willing to spill the beans, so somehow their talk about elephants studiously ignores what the #$%@# happened to Bella's husband. (And is then upstaged by Jill catching them in the act). And poor Maya and Josy, despite being the first informal relationship in the game, get nothing whatsoever beyond those texts.

I think that's a big part of why the ending felt so jumbled and rushed. The content is very unevenly split among the paths, and some of the omissions are real head-scratchers.

It happened years ago man. At some point, ya gotta talk about it and just be real. Otherwise, it festers and eats at you from the inside (Hence Bella).

I think that's a wise outlook. Nonetheless, you you have my deepest sympathies.

Maybe Bella hasn't opened up to Jill about it. A few people assume the bedroom scene where Bella and Jill have a little spat is pertaining to something that happened between Bella, Jill and James but I think it may have been something that happened between Bella and Jill. I don't think Jill has any insight on what Bella is really going through because Bella is quiet and closed to everyone. She just shows she cares about Jill and now MC, however, she's the type that gives advice but doesn't want to open up about her own issues.

Given just how down Jill was on her own sexuality, I don't think anything happened between her and Bella and/or James. But it's hard to guess what DID happen in the face of so little evidence. What do we actually know about Bella and her marriage?

• We know Jill knows something about what happened, but she considers it private information that would be a breach of Bella's trust to share.
• Bella has a locked room in her house (and Jill knows nothing about it)
• We know from Bella's inner monologues that both she and James did something that could merit forgiveness.
• It's strongly implied that Bella was inappropriately intimate with a friend at one point, but put a stop to it
• We know that Bella hates adultery and almost freaks out when she first spends the night with the MC, but seems calmed when she realizes she feels more than just lust towards him; this implies that a) she sees adultery as purely driven by lust, b) she was not an adulterer before fooling around with the MC
• Bella was wild in her youth, but that apparently changed sometime after her wedding
• Young Bella only found one guy to fall for (but might pursued multiples if she'd found them)
• Modern day Bella clings to her marriage (until the MC wears her down) despite James being absent
• Bella wants the MC to commit to her before she's ready to become his lover for real

I don't see any plausible scenarios that can easily connect all those dots. My best guess at the moment is that Bella fooled around a lot in her youth, but she consciously put a lid on her libido. This strained and ultimately broke the marriage since James liked her uninhibited side. Bella regretted her inaction, but with James gone she had no choice but to bottle her up libido even further... until the MC came along.

That ties in with a lot of the points, but it doesn't explained the locked room and it's pure speculation that Bella's attitude towards sex would change so drastically after marriage. In the end, I'm just guessing wildly, and there are other theories that are just as good.

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Yeah, I cringed when I read that, and sure enough we're getting full frontal Zoey for Season 3.

I still think this twist is going to generate less drama and more frustration than DPC intends, because of the subtle differences between traditional stories and interactive narratives.

You end up Episode 8 with a permanent neutral affinity on condition that your decisions are perfectly balanced (do not have a difference of more than two decisions between Chick and DIK). There are specific dialogues for this permanent affinity.

As was mentioned, this is not correct. You will attain permanent Neutral Affinity if you have at least one box left on both the CHICK and DIK tracks after the 13 15 Major decision. Even if you had a massive imbalance, your Affinity will be permanently set to zero. As of Season 3, all MC have achieved one of the three permanent affinities.

yeah we talked a bit about the whole Bella thing... my theory is this...

she is suffering from a great trauma/loss, maybe her husband just left and is missing or he died, or even worse childloss, which is kind of the worst but the most plausible thing at this state... cause just look into her bathroom.
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the small mirror with the steps is for sure for a small child i would guess.

and in the starting scene from ep8 we witness a kind of flashback... but there are some strange things, for one, her Boss just sends her home, kind of concerned and dont react to the husband, after that Bella is talking to james outside and is strangely watched from a guy on a bench... like something seems off... conclusion, she just was hallucinating back than, talking to herslef, the boss was concerned and send her home, outside Bella was still talking to herself and imagening that James is by her side, so the guy on the bench is watching her strangely, cause Bella is just talking with herself... At the time of this flashback, James must have been already gone... and Bella got a mental illnes. Like being shizo.

in her locked room i would gues is a kind of refugium, maybe some things from her passed child, or things from the husband in it... she was married, but i think she lost her husband and a child and is heavily suffering from it.

A miscarriage is certainly a valid theory for what happened to Bella, but I'm reluctant to read too much into an art asset from Episode 2. That may have been part of the model DPC was using, since this was back before he took forever perfecting every little thing. Also, if that IS a stool for child, why isn't it in the locked room with all the other mementos?

To me, good twists should feel surprising, but inevitable, such that, you probably couldn't have predicted it before it comes, but when you look back, it couldn't have gone any other way. The

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twist doesn't feel like that to me, but maybe I'm just not remembering some little parts where hints get dropped and this gets setup. So, hivemind, was this set up beforehand, or was it just completely avoided?

I still think DPC cheated to misdirect us, but the twist is definitely foreshadowed.

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Can you be on Bella's path even if you're on Josy and Maya's path?

You could up until the breakfast scene in Episode 8. Now Maya/Josy and Bella are mutually exclusive (until and unless something else changes).

Perhaps it is not necessarily because of bad writing why this update and or game feels sour or bad to some, but more because of a culmination of our strong passion and personal investment for the game and its characters. I think that says a lot about how believable the characters are and how fleshed out they are. Being a lurker for so long watching the conversations, they are insanely colorful and entertaining with the many back and forth between defending LI's and theorizing. Whilst I personally think ename144's and shazba's perspectives on the current state of the game and its history is the best of the best when it comes to mainly negative and positive analyses respectively. It is such contrasting takes with similarities that makes me think this, it is wonderfully entreating at least, lol.

ename144's Post and shazba's Post (Give them a read, highly recommend it personally.)

There is certainly an argument to be made about how a lot of mishaps could have been prevented with more clear and concise writing, but some months back, I stated that I felt my personal mishaps came from looking at the game in the wrong perspective.

Being in a (crazily) small minority of the people who has legitimately failed all LI's, (except for Sage, it is VERY difficult to actually fail Sage. At least, that is how I feel) I find my playthrough to be somewhat unique, but not very exciting. I'm willing to share it nonetheless in short pieces for the sake of my point; the perspective of the game.

Thank you very much for the vote of confidence! I really liked reading the thought process behind your playthrough! I agree with a lot of your points and you raise several ideas I hadn't really though about before. I've already talked a lot about my opinions on Episode 8, so I just want to comment on one specific thing you said.

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Spoiler: Free Will Vs Destiny, AVN Style

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[Cabin Fever]

Spoiler: Bella

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Spoiler: So, completely new theory here based on all the new info in Ep8

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[phill_leotardo]

Sage is british then?

 

[fakitm8]

It would be funny if the girl with the glasses became a heroine next ep

 

[Lightaces]

I got a trophy for being the first person to get to turn 100 in Triple Tile on normal difficulty. It's the little colored tile next to the DIK hat. That's pretty cool.

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Yeah, I got one of those. I can also report they don't send one for getting to turn 200. I haven't tried to get to 500 or 1,000. I mean, that's hardly the reason I play the game.

 

[BeingADikDik]

Episode 3: checked

Comment:
Josy & Maya: Lesbian couple who cheat around, so NOPE
Sage: Too slutty, so NOPE
Jill: Too naive, so NOPE
Isabella: Age difference, so NOPE

Conclusion:
Will wait untill other relationship routes appear.

KRJ path in Season 3 confirmed!

 

[Lightaces]

Finally got a chance to start episode 8,didnt get to play alot tho sadly but approximately how long is this episode?I know it's supposed to be the biggest update yet so it must be pretty lengthy id assume.

The individual routes didn't seem particularly long to me, but the routes had more unique content than previously.