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

[Oliver Wendell Homely]

Same here, I used one of these links a few minutes ago to report and now it gives 404, so they took action

That's good news. I just saw the redirect here:

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[ChipLecsap]

Obviously, DPC would surely prefer every player of BaD to buy the game on Steam, GOG, or be a patron. Having said that, while this is a pirate site and many people here play the game for free, having someone else sell your game is more galling because it means those players were willing and able to pay money for the game but the money went to someone who did absolutely nothing. That would piss me off a lot more than F95, too. DPC is a bit of a victim of his own success and discovering that whenever a lot of money is involved, there will always be someone trying to steal from you. Hopefully, he'll learn to cope more effectively, as unfortunately this problem will never go away completely. I mean, look at what has happened to the music, film, game, and porn video businesses. They ALL deal with piracy constantly and have for many years. It's simply a part of doing business anymore.

Thank you, someone actually gets it. The interesting part, is immediately some of this retard show up, who only post once in a while, to immediately side against DPC. Says alot about them,
seem like most people also don't even seem to understand the difference, how much this can be more morally demoralizing that Someone selling you stuff and makes money out of it.

the simple piracy ,what everyone even the biggest company are have to deal with, is a different story.
What's going on here in this case is Fraud. also breaks more law than actually piracy, which is why mere pirates never doing it in the first place.

 

[N7]

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EDIT. Thank you, brothers and sisters, for reporting him to the point that his links are removed. I don't know if it's permanent or just an automatic response to the reports, and I still want answers from

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about this. His main page (gender assuming at its finest) is still up, and you can report that too. I didn't even get the time to post a public tweet about it before the links were gone. You guys are the best.

you guys aint playing lol dont mess with horny badik fanboys

 

[RonWeasleyJr]

Whine some more.

I will, thank you.

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

Guys, it looks like it's dead! We finished off this scum, I think the massive reaction from both the discord community there and the F95 pirates did their job. All that's left of the scammer's page.

All he needed was to immediately ask for help from the Internet Legion. This is the fastest cleanup ever.

 

[AchedCroissant]

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EDIT. Thank you, brothers and sisters, for reporting him to the point that his links are removed. I don't know if it's permanent or just an automatic response to the reports, and I still want answers from

You must be registered to see the links

about this. His main page (gender assuming at its finest) is still up, and you can report that too. I didn't even get the time to post a public tweet about it before the links were gone. You guys are the best.

you guys aint playing lol dont mess with horny badik fanboys

He doesn't love us...Only love his 30$ s tier patreon or prove me wrong with a 1vs1 irl

 

[Aratorn]

 

[Darkwen]

Same thing for me, actually, I'm here for how invested people are in the game.

But I know we're not in the majority, I wouldn't know any of the games I play (and I support 5 of those artists in Patreon, no expensive hobbies, helps) if I didn't get them here beforehand.

Now, people getting it for free, that's publicity for DPC, he knows that, what I think angers him, is people making money on his name. That's a POS move, and I understand him.

Honestly Its a good thing that what happen angers DPC it shows he cares about his art /game. I don't know what kind of delay if any this will have the most important thing is that what ever is rendering is still rendering

 

[N7]

He doesn't love us...Only love his $30 s tier patreon or prove me wrong with a 1vs1 irl

how anyone can love a zoey simp tho?

That's good news. I just saw the redirect here:

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thats the legit one just fyi the others are not pink

 

[Sasanid]

Honestly Its a good thing that what happen angers DPC it shows he cares about his art /game. I don't know what kind of delay if any this will have the most important thing is that what ever is rendering is still rendering

Absolutely.

I mean, unless he's just purposely crazy, I don't think he'd just stop his computers from rendering because of that, he just wasn't focusing on the rest, that's it.

And yeah, artists who don't give a fuck about their art/source of income, don't last long.

 

[N7]

from discord

Enjoy this wallpaper of Sage as my best way to thank you in my sleep-deprived state. Good night!

 

[Heycock]

10 minutes to be full aware of what happened. 15-30 minutes for contacting Itcho and doing what you can do. 30 more minutes to blow off steam. That's it.

Stopping development is inexcusable.

I wonder what excuse is going to be next: depression? illness? divorce? house on fire? dead pet?

Otto, you are the boss that noone wants.
Depression was the reason he did it. But we can give the guy a pass couse we know that he works consistently in his proyect.

 

[ChipLecsap]

Wow, AchedCroissant , N7 , Himself Burned you , I dont even remember seeing him posting anything beside his usual, Status update post, or Renders, or updates. That's a Big deal, I'm envy of your privilege, the power of being a Zoey simp, huh?

 

[inevitableandinfinity8]

how anyone can love a zoey simp tho?

OOH my god you did it raw.

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

Just a reminder to you "facepalmers": I'm not unhappy because He GOT MAD. I'm unhappy because he halted the game's development.

Dude, I don't want to offend, but... imagine that you are busy with your life's work and someone steals your work, passes it off as their own and sells it. You can also understand us, ordinary pirates - many of us here are not from the richest countries and simply do not have the opportunity to pay for Patreon, for someone $30 a week's earnings are possible. But we do not resell someone else's work, passing it off as our creation. Every developer reacts differently to this and the DPC seems to be impulsive like Tommy - when something bad happens, he can't control himself. You also reacted impulsively, starting to insult him, forgetting that the DPC is not a robot, but a living person and can react in different ways, depending on his character. Let's be a little more tolerant...

And let's focus on the good. The scammer is banned and let's hope that the DPC will quickly recover and actively return to work.
Peace

10 minutes to be full aware of what happened. 15-30 minutes for contacting Itcho and doing what you can do. 30 more minutes to blow off steam. That's it.

Stopping development is inexcusable.

I wonder what excuse is going to be next: depression? illness? divorce? house on fire? dead pet?

A dead pet is definitely a cause for depression. You can trust me.

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

You must be registered to see the links

EDIT. Thank you, brothers and sisters, for reporting him to the point that his links are removed. I don't know if it's permanent or just an automatic response to the reports, and I still want answers from

You must be registered to see the links

about this. His main page (gender assuming at its finest) is still up, and you can report that too. I didn't even get the time to post a public tweet about it before the links were gone. You guys are the best.

you guys aint playing lol dont mess with horny badik fanboys

Maybe we are pirates here, (not all), but we are ready to cover up our favorite game and developer.

DIKs send their regards reports to itch.io

 

[OFT]

And let's focus on the good.

Way ahead of you.

 

[Sasanid]

from discord

Enjoy this wallpaper of Sage as my best way to thank you in my sleep-deprived state. Good night!

So now we got a relieved DPC.

 

[ename144]

Although a lot of us jump to the conclusion that Zoey is coming back for the mc, it's not explicitly stated. She talks about home blindness or whatever the fuck, but it's ambiguous as fuck.

My guess is that it leaves things open for different possibilities when she reunites with the mc. We don't know what she's expecting or intending on her return, and I'm fairly confident she'll be weaved into the plot, but whether she just looking to go back home where life was good, or whether she's got feelings for the mc, it could be either or both.

I do recall you could make the mc all sad and shit in his responses to Zoey, or make him enthusiastic for her experiences. Not sure if the responses factor in to anything.

We have no control over the MC's texts in the Interlude (nor anything else MC-related for that matter), we can only determine whether Zoey calls attention to his short answers or remains oblivious to the potential problem.

I agree DPC was probably trying to leave it ambiguous so as not to hamstring the actual game, but that's precisely why the Interlude should never have happened: it can't address any actual plot points so it's forced to spend all its time on meaningless fluff - with the unfortunate implication that said fluff matters more to Zoey than the plot points. DPC should have scrapped the whole idea if he wasn't willing to commit to making the Interlude plot-bearing, but he's just not willing to kill his darlings.

And I totally agree here. Beside the older LI in the game, the older students are 20-21 (like Sage, Heather, Rusty, Tommy, ambiguous for Lily, etc.), while most are between 18 and 20.

I'm -way- older than that, but I remember that I didn't know what I wanted when I was that age.

And I think that's one of the points of BaDIK, they don't know what they're doing...

Zoey was the first best friend the MC ever had, and I think it was likewise for Zoey, they discovered their puberty and sexuality together, for a span between 4 to 6 years, they were each other's LI, but they didn't know what they were doing... before she left cause she didn't know what to do with her life, she wanted the MC to come with her, because she couldn't see it otherwise. The MC didn't know how to react, but he wanted to finish school, so he stayed behind... you can see in Interlude how Zoey thought she had it all figured, going to chase her dream, while in reality she didn't know what she was doing at all, moreover, she left the one she finally figured she loved behind, and they even cut their contacts... while the MC 'got over it' and tried for something else instead.

They didn't know what they were doing, of course, they were 18 when Zoey left.

Same pattern comes back with the throuple, Josy got a crush on the MC because she didn't know how to repair the gap between her and Maya, and the MC made her feel good again. Maya developed feelings for the MC, but didn't understand why cause she thought she was lesbian (just to clarify, a real lesbian couldn't fuck a man without help, in Ep8 she doesn't need that help, beside alcool, at the dorm, my little brother is gay and before he admitted it when he was 18, he tried a couple times with girls, never worked) and went on because the MC made her feel good. And then when the MC and Maya/Josy choose to try something, they admittedly don't know what they're doing, but they try it anyway.

Sage was scared to date the MC because she doesn't know what a real relationship is and didn't want to lose him. Her family is fucked up and she doesn't know how to deal with her feelings.

Jill doesn't know what dating is at all, and never had any sexual experience. She was always imposed things, she never really decided on her own, for her own life.

Quinn (bla bla bla I hate her bla bla bla, get over it thanks) doesn't know what healthy feelings are at all, fucked up upbringing, dead father, wrecked mother who doesn't recognize her anymore... she doesn't know anything about dating, at all either.

Derek seems to have an answer to everything, but the rare occasions where he isn't goofing around, you see he doesn't have a clue about what he's supposed to do, his feelings for Ashley being the first major thing.

And so on and on and on...

They're between 18-22 for the most part, of course they don't know.

One thing though, brought that aspect a couple times already, but the MC is an introvert, the way he process information, the way he's pretty much always listening and in his head more than talking and being the center of attention. Maya is an introvert, Sage also is (yeah she's partying without problems, but most of the time, she's alone), Bella is, too. I'm an introvert, I'm sure there are introverts here, heck I'm sure DPC is an introvert himself, an extrovert can't really know how an introvert works inside (not a knock on extrovert, just to be sure).

Where I'm going with that, is what Zoey represents to the MC. When he told his backstory to Bella, while I wasn't bullied like he was nor was as dirt poor, I understood what he went through. When someone, like Zoey, comes into your life as a youngster, and manages to get you out of your bubble, that person suddenly becomes -very- meaningful.

She meant the world to him.

I wouldn't even be surprised if Zoey is a reference to one of DPCs own childhood friend/crush, that he went through something similar the MC lived. He worked way too much on her for her to just be an afterthought in the MCs life.

That's why he had an existential crisis on that bench, when she left.

That's also why he had an existential crisis when Neil called him at the end of the Interlude.

He just made a choice, but the 'love of his life', who left about 6 months ago, is coming back, a recent past which hurt him (because of a huge misunderstanding), but someone he just can't brush off, even with the choice he made.

Cause let's be honest, as its been said since the start, teens don't know what they're doing.

Zoey will be the test of his young life so far.

But you can't have it both ways. If the characters are just young and immature then their actions make sense, but the 'love' between the MC and Zoey is every bit the trivial crush it appears to be; if the MC and Zoey are mature enough for their relationship to carry genuine weight, then their behavior makes no sense.

This is made worse by the way we've seen the MC's relationship with the other girls develop into something that is approaching maturity. His conversations with Maya/Josy, Jill, Sage, Bella and even Quinn are only small steps toward sorting out the difference between an infatuation and genuine love, but they're lightyears beyond anything Zoey has attempted.

I know I keep harping on it, but that's the crux of my problem with Zoey's handling here. Her relationship with the MC is woefully underdeveloped, yet it's being forced to compete against well developed relationships that *we* personally have been nurturing for literal years. It's like presenting a professional cyclist with his old childhood bicycle (complete with training wheels!) and expecting him to angst over whether or not to stick with the bike he just bought in his next race. No one's saying the old bike wouldn't be important to the cyclist, but it just can't hold a candle to the real thing (unless the player happens to dislike all the bikes in the showroom, I suppose).

Zoey is being thrust into a role she's ill-prepared for and that's going to suck for everyone involved.

Note, this is purely optional -- Zoey learns it only if she can handle the situation calmly. If she doesn't she never realizes Emma's intentions and feelings, nor that Brett's advice was stupid and based on false reading of the overall situation. So it's very easy to have Zoey who's still stuck in the mindset of "helping the MC by cutting him off" and only grow generally homesick as time goes, only very late realizing what (or whom) she's really been missing.

Zoey only gets it spelled out for her if she talks Emma down, that's true. But it doesn't exactly take a rocket scientist to work out why Emma went off like that, which still demonstrates that Bret's advice was not all it was cracked up to be. Plus the angry path makes it even more of a stretch that Zoey'd want to stay in San Diego for months when her tiny circle of friends now has a jagged hole in it.

Now, see, while i can agree that this can make relationship between Zoey and MC look shallow, the important part is that it appears to support the idea that Zoey didn't in fact sits for months on realization the MC was such a precious person to her after all and just "couldn't be bothered" to do something about it. So she can't be accused of that.

I also don't think her looking first at the photo of her grandma and reconnecting with her mother instead of being all MC MC MC is something to hold against her, or somehow proving her relationship with the MC is weak. I mean, seriously, should she push her mother away and instead go "where's Fuuuuuuckface, i miss him sooooo much" entering her house? That's pure narcissism. The MC might be a close friend and potential boyfriend, but her mother is the only real family she has left. And her thoughts do turn to the MC as soon as she's done with basic greetings, and she goes to see him on that very night. You really think that's something a person without any real attachment does? I don't.

That's a false dilemma. What we should have seen was Zoey calling the MC on the train (if not sooner); we already know she won't get through, but that would at least establish that her relationship the MC is very much on her mind. Instead, it comes across as the sketch reminding Zoey that the MC exists - and she still doesn't reach out to him until she's settled in back home. It's just bad writing.

It doesn't matter that her mother is her only family because this isn't reality, it's a story and Zoey's mom isn't even a character in that story: she's just a foil for Zoey. Alison is there to help reveal who Zoey is and what makes her tick. Unfortunately, what she reveals is that Zoey has reprioritized her mom over the MC - both in Zoey's earlier narration and again when she hugs her mom before reaching out to the MC. That not only fails to support the notion that Zoey has come to realize how important the MC was to her, it actually demonstrates the opposite: the MC is even less important to Zoey than when she left.

All of these problems could have been solved if DPC was willing to commit to Zoey actually coming to terms with her feelings for the MC, but as Shazba said, DPC clearly did not want to go there. So we got this mess instead.

 

[Darkwen]

how anyone can love a zoey simp tho?

straight up savage, does Ached need some ointment for that