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

[sixart]

What blew my mind was when @dalli_x came out and said he'd only played the M&J route.

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[PashafromRussia]

Just for comparison, episode 4.
You wake up in Sage's house.

1) You go to the shower and fuck Melanie and Sarah
2) You take pictures of Camilla and Mona's asses
3) Quinn jerks off to you
4) Sage do a titjob
5) You lick Ashley's pussy and Lily rubs against your dick
6) The end of the evening - you fuck Sage

You wake up in Bella's house.

You're looking for which flowers to water to please Bella.

 

[shazba]

for now it really hasn't, and after the famous crossroad it seems to me even more difficult for there to be any real consequences

take just the example you gave, M&J know about Jill, and barring severe attention deficits even the other way around, MC eventually chooses one of the two options what should ever happen?

different the issue of the side girls, there could be other traps there, like Jade and Quinn for Sage, or Becky for M&J or further on Bianca for Jill

the way the eighth chapter was constructed it becomes hard to even believe in a game over with Jill and Bella

then clear, that a faithful path is safer

It's not too surprising if the main LIs are locked out of future romance. You gotta move forward at some point, it's ridiculous to think all the girls are just on hold for you to pick up where you left off at any given time.

Once you've chosen your girlfriend, you should move on with that. Note that the mc even calls things off with Jade when he's made his decision (assuming he chooses someone), so it tells me the "playing the field" time is over.

That's why I keep saying the remainder of the game will be less about relationship building (other than the one the mc is in) and more about the plot.

 

[godkingxerxes]

Just for comparison, episode 4.
You wake up in Sage's house.

1) You go to the shower and fuck Melanie and Sarah
2) You take pictures of Camilla and Mona's asses
3) Quinn jerks off to you
4) Sage do a titjob
5) You lick Ashley's pussy and Lily rubs against your dick
6) You get a slap in the face from hot Sally
7) The end of the evening - you fuck Sage

You wake up in Bella's house.

You're looking for which flowers to water to please Bella.

Sally is from a later date at the HOT house.

What happens in the HOT house though, makes it hard to chose Derek.

 

[godkingxerxes]

It's not too surprising if the main LIs are locked out of future romance. You gotta move forward at some point, it's ridiculous to think all the girls are just on hold for you to pick up where you left off at any given time.

Once you've chosen your girlfriend, you should move on with that. Note that the mc even calls things off with Jade when he's made his decision (assuming he chooses someone), so it tells me the "playing the field" time is over.

That's why I keep saying the remainder of the game will be less about relationship building (other than the one the mc is in) and more about the plot.

The only reason we dump Jade is for the drama. It's also the only reason we don't dump Josy/Maya before the meeting. Gotta up that drama for the Burke Family Dinner.

I would be surprisingly shocked if while on a Main Girl path we don't get any side sex in remaining chapters.

 

[felicemastronzo]

It's not too surprising if the main LIs are locked out of future romance. You gotta move forward at some point, it's ridiculous to think all the girls are just on hold for you to pick up where you left off at any given time.

Once you've chosen your girlfriend, you should move on with that. Note that the mc even calls things off with Jade when he's made his decision (assuming he chooses someone), so it tells me the "playing the field" time is over.

That's why I keep saying the remainder of the game will be less about relationship building (other than the one the mc is in) and more about the plot.

LIs will not always be available, but I also don't think they are already precluded forever.

Will only Sage give a second chance? I don't think so

also there is only Maya's and Josy's routes to deal with, which by necessity will conflict with other situations

and then there is always Zoey, who something will have to do

the plot? wich plot?

 

[dalli_x]

As someone with a college degree in engineering and natural science, I can politely object: there is an objective reality, there are stable constants in the universe, and the facts are real.
We all have different opinions, that's the way people are, but there are undeniable things in the world.
What Derek and Sarah say is hard to argue with. Derek has a position in biology, Sarah uses it too, but in a financial manner. She'll make a million dollars in a year on Onlyfans and it will be a strong argument against Maya's words that "women shouldn't use their bodies". Don't take the last words personally, I like Maya too)
Moreover, Sarah is right that these gender lessons are just chatter that does not solve anything. For example, how will they help Maya? Maya is facing a real injustice - she is being persecuted by her crazy homophobic father. How can gender lessons help here? No way.
Here the jurisprudence can really solve this problem. Because Patrick has done a whole criminal case. Blackmail, credit fraud, stalking, abusive relationship with daughter. For this he can be put in jail for a long time. Just need some financial help from Burke to get a cover and then a good lawyer.

Maya's words "women shouldn't use their bodies" imply that this is her subjective opinion. But Maya tolerates the girls who do because she sees feminism for what it really is. The equality of all people. So she sees the prostitutes objectively as human beings.

For Sarah, the gender studies discussion is really just chatter, and for the MC, too. Why, really? Because most students misunderstand feminism. They only discuss women's rights and their personal problems. The MC was able to arrange to have a discussion with Maya in EP6. She wanted to talk to the MC about a chapter in the textbook, but the MC didn't study. So she couldn't talk to the MC about it and immediately tickled his balls a bit as punishment. But she asks the MC to let them study for it in pairs, which they do in EP6. In this, you can read Maya's attitude well while she helps the MC study for the gender study.

 

[znar25]

Only if you want to spend a night in jail or end up with a toy car up your ass

Hey, just because your party with them ended up that way doesn't mean we will.

 

[znar25]

It's good to see Sarah's getting some love, Warscared would be pleased.

Initially I liked Sarah, then it started to piss me off that she was always asking for money for sex (of course it's part of her role in Quinn's restaurant, but even so...).

But her exchange at the dorm party, if you tell Quinn you'd like to fuck Sarah and you also chose hers as the best ass, was interesting:

Sarah: "By the way, what did you tell Quinn about me?"​

mc: "Hm... Refresh my memory."​

Sarah: "She told me not to charge you the next time. If you catch my drift..."​

mc: "Oh. Well, she asked me which one of you I liked the most and, naturally, it is you."​

Sarah: "It's not the first time you've told girls you like me."​

Sarah: "Dammit, Fuckface. You shouldn't... I'm not the kind of girl to be serious with a dude."​

mc: "Never say never. I like you."​

Sarah: "Are you not ashamed to admit that?"​

mc: "Why would I be? You're super-hot, Sarah."​

​

I kinda get the impression that's the game telling you there will never be anything between the mc and Sarah. She enjoys his big dick, but she has no feelings for him.

I always preferred Melanie over Sarah's though. I like how the two of them are a duo, but they do have different personalities. Quinn's likes them both (hence why she brings them over to watch Maya grind the mc before she tasers him), but Melanie's personality seems a little softer.

But I feel, other than being a meaningless side fuck from time-to-time, and Melanie being part of the Chad/Troy drama, I don't think much will come of these two.

I think it could go both ways. Sarah mentioned something at the pool once of why she doesn't date guys or something. One possibility could be she was and/or could be hurt bad and thus avoids it. Maybe, maybe not but there could be something distant down the road for a Sarah side-path much like Lily or Nicole? It at least leaves an option for DPC incase he wants to take that further.

 

[znar25]

I can't help but feel flabbergasted when I see people say "I haven't played X route, nor plan to" why would you willingly choose to not view scenes you've never seen before simply cause you aren't interested in that girl or nor their specific route? The completionist in me can't understand not wanting to view every scene especially where there's significant enough branching. That's just me though. No knock on anyone who only plays through these games once without change.

This is absurd.... I will only be loyal to Jill. No need for any other path!!!!! Jill is the one for me!!!

 

[sixart]

Sarah is a bitch and likes to be one ! Mystery solved...

 

[Ottoeight]

I think it could go both ways. Sarah mentioned something at the pool once of why she doesn't date guys or something. One possibility could be she was and/or could be hurt bad and thus avoids it. Maybe, maybe not but there could be something distant down the road for a Sarah side-path much like Lily or Nicole? It at least leaves an option for DPC incase he wants to take that further.

Wondering what DPC has in store for Sarah?

Man, I've just replayed a brand new Sage (as main LI) DIK route from scratch: I think that Sarah and Mel sent those pictures to Chad and Dawe and posted Cathy's nude pic on DIK's cluck. It was them.

 

[znar25]

Sometimes it is the little things about this game. I do like all the LIs and Sides even if I may poke fun at them.

I could be critical of Maya because of her lack of industry. But, there are many sweet moments too.

At the end of Ep8, (Josy/Maya path no other sides or LIs), we have this at the very end of a text. It is as if you know, that she knows, what absolute trust and loyalty is (after all of the previous drama). Again, very sweet and endearing.

 

[DrSoong]

she sees feminism for what it really is. The equality of all people

Haha, good one!

Wait, you mean this serious? Feminism is, like Derek said, only picking raisins from the cake. Or have you ever heard from any feminist that there should be equality at the dirty jobs (such als mine workers, trash collectors or other one with risks for life)? No, only high rates positions as at the top of big companies.

To compare:
equality: Everybody (not only by sex but also by orgin, skin color, religion ...) should have the same chance. Skills should be the biggest factor
equation: a female should get the same high class job as a man, no matter that she isn't qualified, if there are already more women, no problem, she has to get it anyway cause it's positive (discrimination)

Equality improves the company cause the best will get their chance, Equation lowers the quality cause persons (i won't say only females) get into a position to make decisions without proper knowledge. I, for my personal favor, would prefer Equality.

 

[DrSoong]

You're looking for which flowers to water to please Bella.

Hey, if you walking for days through the dessert Sahara, you would kill for water, no matter how many hot girls are around you trying to fuck you.

 

[AchedCroissant]

Hey man, can you upload preview 8 - Lily

Here

Ok, so I'll upload the preview in this post to have them in order and when someone comes to ask about them, I won't have to search all these pages because later they get lost
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Thanks to all those patreons for risking their membership for our sins

 

[PashafromRussia]

So after Jill stopped being the queen of blue balls, which of the girls is now causing you blue balls? Just don't call Bianca, she appeared in one scene and then on Jill's way.
My candidate is Heather. This bitch has been teasing MC for so long that I hope my man will make Tommy a cuckold.

 

[ChipLecsap]

So after Jill stopped being the queen of blue balls, which of the girls is now causing you blue balls? Just don't call Bianca, she appeared in one scene and then on Jill's way.
My candidate is Heather. This bitch has been teasing MC for so long that I hope my man will make Tommy a cuckold.

KRJ and Sally

 

[Ottoeight]

Just for comparison, episode 4.
You wake up in Sage's house.

1) You go to the shower and fuck Melanie and Sarah
2) You take pictures of Camilla and Mona's asses
3) Quinn jerks off to you
4) Sage do a titjob
5) You lick Ashley's pussy and Lily rubs against your dick
6) The end of the evening - you fuck Sage

You wake up in Bella's house.

You're looking for which flowers to water to please Bella.

ONLY if you're following the DIK path.

 

[ename144]

I will reply to this, not cause you wrote it, i saw this so often now, but never talked about it...

I for one think most people doesnt really understand this "throuple" and its dynamics.

First of all, everybody needs to understand that Josy and Maya love each other very deep. They dont want to lose each other, no matter what... yeah they have a big issues in the realtionship during the time we are witnessing, but its easy to see that they love each other very much... i mean, Josy came right through the door, the shit hits the fan and just some minutes later, they both are getting together again.

So, if you decide to go just for one girl mainly, and kinda left the other out... the throuple will start cause neither of the girls want to lose the other.

In my case i mainly picked Josy over Maya in most playthroughs, so Maya kinda "rolls" with it to test things out but mainly to stay with Josy. The problems with the HOTs and Mayas Dad are just "hickups" nothing that really can be dangerous for the realtionship between Maya and Josy i think... The only thing that is dangerous for this relationship, is the MC himself. Cause he can make one girl fall deep in love with him, while the other isnt. If youre not in a equal realtionship with them.

So i think... if you "mistread" one of the girls, she choosed to go in the throuple just to not loose the other girl, thats it... in the dilaogue in the dik-house in episode 4, where you can start the throuple, the whole dialogue is about "not losing the other" thats the motivation for Maya or Josy to go in the throuple when not both of them are falling for the MC.

Of course, in the long run this will not work out... its very clear, if you dont want to stay in the throuple and dont treat both of them equaliy, there will be a point where one girl will leave the throuple heartbroken, no doubt about it.

but for now, if you go only for Josy only for example... Maya joins the throuple just to stay close to Josy, maybe with an option to get closer to the MC, but the main reason is just... she doesnt want to lose Josy and the other way around the same.

I partially agree, but I don't think it's about fear per se. IMHO the throuple is something of a desperation ploy to keep each leg of the triangle together because none of the other options will work.

As we saw in in Season 1 (and again in Episode7) Maya and Josy do love each other, but they react very differently to adversity; worse, those differences can easily exacerbate the the stress they feel, driving them even further apart. Meanwhile each of the girls has very strong feelings for the MC, and from what we've seen his approach to adversity is a bit more compatible with theirs... unless of course their relationship itself is the cause of said adversity.

This leads to a dilemma, at least when the MC isn't willing to friendzone the girls. Without him their existing relationship is fragile. But the relationship between the MC and each of the girls is strong enough that it could overwhelm their own relationship if circumstances prevent them from being together. By the same token, it's unlikely the MC could spend a lot of time supporting the girls without forming some sort of close bond with one or both of them of them. (I expect this will eventually happen if the MC isn't on their path but still has feelings for one of the girls.)

Hence the throuple. It's not about group sex opportunities, it's an attempt to balance the needs of all three against each other. That's the reason they want to take it slow, to figure out how to make each individual relationship work without overstressing the other two. It's not clear if that's possible, especially when they need to keep the whole thing secret, but they know none of the other options will work so they are committed to trying this.

Granted, this doesn't make a lot of sense if the MC tries for something more and they reject him (he should cut ties with them completely on that case), but that's been a longstanding complaint for ages. It's also unclear how the MC can just walk away from the throuple at the crossroads, but DPC ducked out of showing us that so far.

An important note about this game is (unless you install a mod) you can't get all the girls in one play through. You're not meant to. At one point in the game, if you've been stringing along a bunch of girls, you actually have to decide which one you'd like to be with, and break it off with the others, or you can even break it off with all of them.

Whilst anyone with the harem mentality will be frustrated by this, it does open the game up for multiple playthroughs with multiple playing styles.

After the first play through you've already kinda got the impression from all the girls, and it isn't too hard to work out how to chase one girl or another. It's pretty clear Maya or Jill wouldn't go for an asshole kinda character, and since Josy's lumped in with Maya, she doesn't get a say (story of Josy's life), Bella and Sage are a lot easier.

The only problem is it's a very long game by now (I don't know exactly how long a full playthrough without getting bogged down in pixel hunts and render searches would take), and I get that not everyone is thrilled with the idea of playing the game all over again.

But given there's roughly 5-6 months between episodes, there's plenty of time to sneak another playthrough in before a new episode comes along.

In my experience, forced branching only adds to replay value if the individual branches flow naturally from the story and each branch plays out very differently from the others. Otherwise all it does is encourage players to skip a lot of the less interesting (to them) content. Or worse, it feels like an artificial constraint purely to lengthen game time.

BaDIK hasn't done a great job with this so far. Some of the paths worked well, but for the most part the game played out the same way if you opted out of scenes or not. And I'm sure I've ranted about how forced the crossroads was to make my feelings clear on that. But Season 3 is when we should get the real payoff to this branching, so we'll have to see how DPC handles it going forward.