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

[felicemastronzo]

I´m talking about plausibility. The dev can write that the MC has wings and can fly, but that's not plausible. Any boy in real life would be badly hurt if were treated like Maya, Josy and Sage treats the MC at the beginning of the game. And would forget and forgive only if there were feelings involved, but not just because "friendship".

Sage´s blackmail? Well, Sage´s boyfriends and/or her pals have stolen the MC´s guitar, a gift from his beloved father. And Sage says to him "if you want it again, you have to spy my boyfriend, that probably is going to beat you badly if he discovers you. Or, at least, you have to promise that you will do". That´s blackmail, in my books. If the MC doesn´t see it like blackmail it´s because bad writing. There are only two reasons a boy would forgive those things to a girl that he barely knows: love and/or lust. If the MC follows Sage´s path, it´s plausible that he eventually falls in love with Sage, because she shows that actually cares about him. But only if he follows that path.

Maya and Josy's annoyance? Well the MC has to pretend that he´s kind of the boyfriend of Maya in front of her father, and Josy ask for his help with her father too... I don´t know about you, but if a girl that I like and seems to like me, suddenly says to me "I´m actually a lesbian and into a relationship with another girl (that you like too, and seemed to like you), and now, please, let´s be friends and help me with my problems with my family and my girlfriend..." I would say "no, thanks, no. Good luck with your problems, but no". But... yeah, the MC is a saint.

Maya could have her problems solved just being discrete with her father about her relationship. But she´s a drama queen... Well, at least Quinn, Riona, Camila or the best of them, Lily, have the guts to take care of their own problems, even if that means to do really nasty things. And don´t take advantage of the MC´s good faith. As far as we know, those girls don´t have access to daddy´s money, but only if... They just don´t have any daddy´s money. So they have to take care of their own money problems, the best way they know. How do you think Maya would react if she would have to listen old drunk guys say to her "whore, show me your tits" every night at work, like Lily?

however when DPC talks about a guy that anyone wants to have sex with you are fine with the plausibility....

yours is a pretty biased reading....

Chad gives Sage a guitar, MC says it's his, Sage has no reason to believe him, in fact absolutely why would she doubt her boyfriend in favor of a stranger?
at that point she asks for his help for something she couldn't do, to spy on Chad and find out with whom Chad is cheating on her.
MC accepts actually doesn't find out anything specific, but to Sage this is enough to give him back his guitar.
to me it doesn't look like blackmail, but an exchange of undue favors.

then fuckbuddy's story is morally questionable, but it's up to us to accept it or not

MC is not true that he pretends to be Maya's boyfriend, that would have been a cruelty, he pretends to be her roommate, there is no subtext in what they are saying (even if it were, it would have been his idea, no one forced him to do it).

then I have already said that the speed with which MC accepts the refusal of the two girls makes the scene very bad, however it is not like you say

the three of them clarify what happened in the meantime, and that is that each of them has done what he thought, not considering the other party, and at that point an MC too butterfly is considered too unreliable to keep up this clandestine relationship, and then from 3 they find themselves in 2

however that is a scene too coarse to be explained properly, I do not like the mechanism of affinity, just at the level of the story I do not understand the sense of this choice from ALL IN
DPC made it so

I still don't understand what's behind the famous loan with double signature of Maya and her father, so it's hard for me to understand what she should have done (certainly not to believe in divine providence). the way Maya tells it, it's not a problem she could solve by herself, but not even with MC and Josy. to work and earn some money is too late, not only she would lose a year of college, but she would remain insolvent with respect to the loan (I know it doesn't make sense, but that's how they told it for now)

 

[PashafromRussia]

It seems to me that Sage's solo path will not differ much from the path of Others if you had group sex with Quinn. Obviously, Sage has some kind of list of crazy things and she will repeat MС group sex with other girls several times. Another question is what will be Quinn's role on the way. It seemed to me that Quinn is a little in love with her, lol. Even though she felt guilty after that in the park. As if she felt superfluous in a relationship. I wonder if the official triangle will be twisted in the style of Josie and Maya?
When they were discussing plans to plan the party, I thought that DPC could make a new mechanic out of it. MC will have to buy alcohol (you need to get money), jewelry and so on. I will not rule out that if the Halloween at all stretches for the entire season 3, lol.

 

[DavDR]

however when DPC talks about a guy that anyone wants to have sex with you are fine with the plausibility....

yours is a pretty biased reading....

Chad gives Sage a guitar, MC says it's his, Sage has no reason to believe him, in fact absolutely why would she doubt her boyfriend in favor of a stranger?
at that point she asks for his help for something she couldn't do, to spy on Chad and find out with whom Chad is cheating on her.
MC accepts actually doesn't find out anything specific, but to Sage this is enough to give him back his guitar.
to me it doesn't look like blackmail, but an exchange of undue favors.

then fuckbuddy's story is morally questionable, but it's up to us to accept it or not

MC is not true that he pretends to be Maya's boyfriend, that would have been a cruelty, he pretends to be her roommate, there is no subtext in what they are saying (even if it were, it would have been his idea, no one forced him to do it).

then I have already said that the speed with which MC accepts the refusal of the two girls makes the scene very bad, however it is not like you say

the three of them clarify what happened in the meantime, and that is that each of them has done what he thought, not considering the other party, and at that point an MC too butterfly is considered too unreliable to keep up this clandestine relationship, and then from 3 they find themselves in 2

comuqnue that is a scene too coarse to be explained properly, I do not like the mechanism of affinity, just at the level of the story I do not understand the sense of this choice from ALL IN
DPC made it so

I still don't understand what's behind the famous loan with double signature of Maya and her father, so it's hard for me to understand what she should have done (certainly not to believe in divine providence). the way Maya tells it, it's not a problem she could solve by herself, but not even with MC and Josy. to work and earn some money is too late, not only she would lose a year of college, but she would remain insolvent with respect to the loan (I know it doesn't make sense, but that's how they told it for now)

Oh the loan and the lawsuit, on top of the horrible ep4 scene, pretty much killed the game for me. The MC might have grown wings after that, it couldn't be any more unbelievable.

 

[DirtyMario]

It seemed to me that Quinn is a little in love with her, lol. Even though she felt guilty after that in the park. As if she felt superfluous in a relationship. I wonder if the official triangle will be twisted in the style of Josie and Maya?
When they were discussing plans to plan the party, I thought that DPC could make a new mechanic out of it. MC will have to buy alcohol (you need to get money), jewelry and so on. I will not rule out that if the Halloween at all stretches for the entire season 3, lol.

Not everything about his writing is cohesive, there can be oversights.
My MC hasn't even talked to Quinn in like 3 chapters and hasn't ordered from her "restaurant" at all, and still after the threesome with Sage he went out to Quinn and she rested her head on his shoulders as if they were best friends. I mean it's cute and all, it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Also I guess the mansion repair style minigame will be a recurring thing. Rusty said that he will want MCs help for planning and economy. I'm personally not a big fan of all these minigames in general but I get it, it stretches the playtime for comparatively little effort, so whatever.

 

[wholef'nshow]

Totally liked this post as a debate as to what is good about the current turn of events.

Bottom line, if nothing changes, how can the story progress?

Your questions have been answered already, but:

• LI: Love Interest. Typically the 5 main girls (Bella, Jill , Josy, Maya & Sage) are referred to as the "main LIs".
• AL (not "AI"): Is "Acting Lessons". That's Dr PinkCake's (DPC's) previous and only other Adult Visual Novel (AVN) to date. It had a horrible twist that put a lot of players into the foetal position for a while, and everyone is scared he's gonna do the same again.
• That picture: It's the cocaine that Quinn tried to sell to Rich but he changed his mind. There is decent speculation that her dad died from a cocaine overdose (we know her dad used the stuff):
  
  Spoiler

  You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.
  Hence her reluctance to deal it in the past, and Buddy's surprise when she asked for an 8-ball (an eighth of an ounce). It's also why the camera pans in on the baggie at the end of the episode: Cocaine killed her dad (speculation), she's never dealt with it before, now because of a fucked up deal, she's left with some coke in her room.

Elena has been slowly asserting herself into the story since the HOTs party I think. Swapping shots with her at the Dorm Party was probably meaningless, but then spit-roasting her with JB would probably fall into that same category of meaningless for that couple too.

Thanks bro! <3

Spoiler: Find someone who looks at you like she looks at MC

You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.

Now that we've opened Pandora's-TheLook-Box...here are two notable ones...

Spoiler: One

You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.

Spoiler: Two

You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.

And the second one is, IMHO, the Real Love Look.
Absolutely adorable.

 

[AchedCroissant]

If you remember, there was a pretty big introduction to episode 5 about the history of the Dik brotherhood. It seems to me that the Interlude will be about the same volume, but it will already be separated from the main story. That is, DPC can work on 9 episode and just release the prologue as a special issue. That would make sense. I'm sure everyone missed the intro to episode 5, it's boring and long.

Introduction, flashback, interlude are 3 different things


For example I put it this way

The introduction appears at the beginning of a song and lasts from 5 to 15 seconds, in it you can use the melody, harmony or a phrase, and the objective is to capture the attention of the listener and go into the song.

Instead the interlude is a musical bridge. This can be a very useful extra element in songs, because it links two parts of the song, building a harmony between the two and with it you can generate the maximum climax of the song.

Flashback narrative technique used in cinema and literature that consists of inserting sequences referring to a past time in the linear development of the action.

 

[Kronicza7x]

I kind of skimmed through this gameplay. Does anyone know who may be pregnant?

 

[Gh0st_Harambe]

I kind of skimmed through this gameplay. Does anyone know who may be pregnant?

Ashley, Heather, Elena, Sally or Wendy.

 

[Kronicza7x]

The way MC cuts off Jade made me think of a woman Scorned.

 

[AchedCroissant]

I've try it, and it seems that it doesn't work at all

It's a shame that I can't help you much, I play it from two different OS W10 64bit and Ubuntu 20.04 64bit and it works fine on both OS

 

[horusxcaen82]

So...Sage and Maya look like they are headed for a major falling out in Season 3:

Spoiler

You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.

hmmm heres how I think it will go down:

Spoiler

You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.

 

[DavDR]

I kind of skimmed through this gameplay. Does anyone know who may be pregnant?

No one knows for sure. We do know that it isn't the MC's, barring any immaculate conception that is written in, cause some have done playthru's where the MC doesn't have sex at all and the image still appears.

All other theories are speculation at this point. Personally I'm guessing it's Heather. When she and Tommy are bickering at the breakfast table, she seemed to react when he mentions her period. Granted, this is the thinnest of straws to grasp at but I'm going with this as a working theory until more information is revealed.

 

[Bruno3]

I kind of skimmed through this gameplay. Does anyone know who may be pregnant?

My guess would be Jammie's feminist gf. Since they were together again at the party and he was so worried last time if she got pregnant. This may be it this time, just the more reasons for them to be stuck together now, unfortunately, i feel bad for him.

 

[Hermith]

No one knows for sure. We do know that it isn't the MC's, barring any immaculate conception that is written in, cause some have done playthru's where the MC doesn't have sex at all and the image still appears.

All other theories are speculation at this point. Personally I'm guessing it's Heather. When she and Tommy are bickering at the breakfast table, she seemed to react when he mentions her period. Granted, this is the thinnest of straws to grasp at but I'm going with this as a working theory until more information is revealed.

Yeah, that's exactly why I thought it was Heather. It seems like DPC put the Heather-Tommy drama in a spotlight so it kinda makes sense, but I also read another interesting idea here that it'll be a part of another flashback with the MC's family, so it could be his mom's.

 

[Bay7]

I am very ignorant in this subject, but were there pregnancy tests commercialized 20years ago, because that test kit looks very modern to me?

 

[PashafromRussia]

Also I guess the mansion repair style minigame will be a recurring thing. Rusty said that he will want MCs help for planning and economy. I'm personally not a big fan of all these minigames in general but I get it, it stretches the playtime for comparatively little effort, so whatever.

The mini-game in the mansion was interesting, but it will need to be redone so that it does not get bored. As I remember, DPC in discord said that the mini-game will be in episode 9.

 

[BeingADikDik]

Re: pregnant candidates

Ashley, Heather, Elena, Sally or Wendy.

Arieth?

 

[Gh0st_Harambe]

Arieth?

Could be, the question is who is the father ?

 

[AchedCroissant]

I am very ignorant in this subject, but were there pregnancy tests commercialized 20years ago, because that test kit looks very modern to me?

The designs change according to the manufacturer, I do not think it has changed much

 

[PashafromRussia]

Introduction, flashback, interlude are 3 different things


For example I put it this way

The introduction appears at the beginning of a song and lasts from 5 to 15 seconds, in it you can use the melody, harmony or a phrase, and the objective is to capture the attention of the listener and go into the song.

Instead the interlude is a musical bridge. This can be a very useful extra element in songs, because it links two parts of the song, building a harmony between the two and with it you can generate the maximum climax of the song.

Flashback narrative technique used in cinema and literature that consists of inserting sequences referring to a past time in the linear development of the action.

I still don't think that the Interlude will be so big that it will somehow affect the development. Moreover, I think it will be released this year or in January. It will be a linear and simple story with a couple of simple animations and scenes.