VN Ren'Py Being a DIK [v0.11.1] [DrPinkCake]

[Hahn1900]

Another one bites the dust(30$ a month). I just found this on Reddit. Poor guy/girl. lol

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Yeah well, what should i say, iam one of those "victims". Posted on discord some walkthrough for episode 7 shortly after release, cause the official one wasnt made back than. But it wasnt the official one... so, yeah... boot met ass, and thats it. (at least thats the reason for the ban i think... DPC doesnt give you a reason, so dunno exactly)

DPC sure has a very short fuse kicking sups out of patreon... mention anything DPC has not done himself? Obviously a bad thing. Talking about other sites to get maybe other download links than the one from patreon, even if you are a sup, bad thing... and so on. Sometimes i think, the effort he put behind it to kick many people for something like that should be more used due to development... but, yeah... being a dik is a great game, DPC is making a really good job developing this game. But as a person... i think... well, he is a dik ^^

but i have a second patreon account, he lost me as a sup during development though. dont like this kind of short fuse and behaivior, whats the point? There wasnt any harm done? Dont get him sometimes *shrug*. Now i just pledge when a update is coming out and cancel again after downloading it. To be fair, i didnt do that for the interlude, cause it wasnt worth it.

For the user in the reddit posting. Well, obviously DPC doesnt care for the money (he has more than enough income anyways) luckily there are sites like F95... its not like that DPC can prevent others to play his game by just shut them out of patreon, he should know that... the only thing happening? DPC loses some money. But nevermind... DPC sure is a strange fellow as a person, no doubt about that.

 

[TheRobotDevil]

Finally, I could see the reaction of jade when she heard that mc was Sage's new boyfriend ( step-daughter). And, the previous situation was that the relationship between Jade and MC was break up partially, which makes her upset. So there is a possible opportunity for Jade to convince Sage to allow her to be included into the relationship between Sage and MC.

I'm in the same boat. I really hated how MC handled breaking up with Jade via phone (felt too out of character). While I'd love the threesome option, I'm pretty sure Jade will use the awkwardness of the situation to get with the MC one last time or possibly through some stat convo checks, you might be able to do some damage control.

Either way, you know she's gonna put her hands on MC during that dinner and make a 'son' joke to mess with his head.

 

[constanline]

Super excited!Can't wait to play it

 

[Astrid Hofferson]

Nothing special

Chick affinity
Go to Jill's picnic

And I assume that CHICK affinity will not let me fuck Quinn in that case, am I right?

 

[shazba]

And I assume that CHICK affinity will not let me fuck Quinn in that case, am I right?

You get one free ride, on the DIK mansion roof. If the mc smokes with them, you can choose to fuck Quinn no matter what's happened prior to that. Of course smoking weed is a DIK affinity choice, but you can still keep your Chick affinity if this was the only deviation. But after that, Quinn won't be interested in the mc if he's not a DIK.

 

[felicemastronzo]

And I assume that CHICK affinity will not let me fuck Quinn in that case, am I right?

Both Maya&Josy and Jill effectively exclude Quinn, so affinity is not the issue

 

[Ukghar]

Sage has a clear anger issue that I need to resolve. Jill is someone I wouldn't take with because her personality reminds me of an ex... Nicole is more mature woman and knows where she stands clearly and she has a child doesn't bother me, I want one too... Someday but not now

Reasonable justification for all 3 of them.

It’s a noble thing to take care of someone else's child.

What I fear is that MC may hurt a kid.

He sometimes behaves as an experienced middle-age man, sometimes like 18yo and sometimes like 5 yo. I didn’t find a pattern in what areas he’s developed, underdeveloped and overdeveloped. From my perspective it’s quite random and mentaly 5yo person is not fit to take care of a child imo. I’m sure I don’t want to risk seeing MC hurting a kid.

But if you’re mentaly prepared for it I can only aplaude your noble choice.

Isn't Lily just buying weed in the game? There was maybe one scene with a syringe but that was Tommy and Quinn. I mean, yea weed is still a drug but I don't think it's enough to consider someone a druggie. They'd have to be doing some pretty hardcore shit to make me think that.

If sb needs a constant supply of large amounts of drugs, then in my opinion she is a druggie. Be it a weed or anything else.

Why do I think that is a constant and large amount?

Constant - It looks like there was no break between Lily getting drugs from the old supplier and the new supplier (Quinn).

Large amount - If irc Lily offers 500 $ to buy drugs. Vip pass for Pink Rose Club is 10 $ and Diks behave as if it is a large amount. Lap dance is 1 $. Diks can work for 1-4 $ per day (Walkthrough says 1-5, but I never saw 5 $ per day offer ig). It’s obvious that 1 $ ig is worth much more than irl.

Both Quinn and Lily are aware that 500 $ (or any amount offered by Lily, if I’m mistaken) is a lot of money and lots of drugs can be bought. So Lily is likely buying a lot for the girls.

PS. I think that Quinn took advantage of Rich and got from him much more than the order was worth. If not, narcotics are very expensive in the game universe compared to everything else that could be bought till now. Or simply prices in this game are very fucked up.

 

[BorgiaBou]

i thought about doing a fresh playthrough before the new episode, as i thought it would be fun to see everything fresh again. but damn there is almost too much to actually get through lol (even with minigames off). i just got through the CUM-petition and im not thrilled about how much more i'll have to go through just to make the limited major decisions that influence future content.

i kinda wish DPC would implement something like Genesis in Mass Effect 2 did where you are given a template where you can choose all the major decisions your MC made previously and just jump ahead in the story gameplay wise. like how much more convenient would that be?

i already have my save files ready so i dont need to actually finish this new playthrough, but im kinda surprised how tedious it is starting from the beginning. decades from now when the game is 100% complete, i cant imagine plaything from the very beginning. its honestly almost too much stuff to get through if you are actually interested in the story itself

Yeah i'm with you on this one, imo this game has no replayability at all... i have one playthrough with a neutral/chick path i guess (damn it been so long i played this game i can't even remember) tho i know for sure its a Bella path... so i tryed to play another path a while ago with minigames off, a dick path so i can choose another LI but my God i couldn't go through so much content especially so much joint content that pretty much brings you to the same conclusion with a let's say a small reward that you have to choose another LI... that's it, no other story twists if you choose another path no nothing...

I guess i will have to ask someone for some saves cuz having just the Bella path my God this update will be a short one for me...

 

[TimHawk]

i definitely dont have it in me to do all that lol again. i definitely agree the writing is good and i do enjoy the world he has made, but i just kinda wish there were some available shortcuts for people who would want to see all outcomes (or just dip their feet back into the world without diving all the way into the deep end) without literally replaying the entire game from scratch when the game is just so massive.

i genuinely cant imagine playing it from the start with the intention of seeing everything the game has to offer after another few years of content. id only have that kind of time if i was back in highschool or college with no other real responsibilities or obligations lmao. i wouldnt want it to take months on end for me to get through what amounts to a well realized porn game; it would be like watching American Pie for 5 min per week until its over and thinking it was overall a good way to experience that kind of story

Now it's not really a shortcut, but you should try out URM , it works with every renpy game. It doesnt change any files, but gives you an Overlay that captures all choices and paths in real time. On choices you can see what they do, and if they lead to different scenes, you can click those, automatically enter Renpy Replay mode and after you have seen the scene, you get teleported back to that choice. On paths you can enter scenes even though your stats or prior decisions don't qualify you for them, you would again enter replay mode and then get send back.

So it would allow you to see all scenes in just 1 playthrough, it also gets updated quite regularly and adds QoL improvements.

 

[Tremonia]

Now it's not really a shortcut, but you should try out URM , it works with every renpy game.

In my opinion URM is the best tool. I can highly recommend this.

 

[allanl9020142]

Reasonable justification for all 3 of them.

It’s a noble thing to take care of someone else's child.

What I fear is that MC may hurt a kid.

He sometimes behaves as an experienced middle-age man, sometimes like 18yo and sometimes like 5 yo. I didn’t find a pattern in what areas he’s developed, underdeveloped and overdeveloped. From my perspective it’s quite random and mentaly 5yo person is not fit to take care of a child imo. I’m sure I don’t want to risk seeing MC hurting a kid.

But if you’re mentaly prepared for it I can only aplaude your noble choice.




If sb needs a constant supply of large amounts of drugs, then in my opinion she is a druggie. Be it a weed or anything else.

Why do I think that is a constant and large amount?

Constant - It looks like there was no break between Lily getting drugs from the old supplier and the new supplier (Quinn).

Large amount - If irc Lily offers 500 $ to buy drugs. Vip pass for Pink Rose Club is 10 $ and Diks behave as if it is a large amount. Lap dance is 1 $. Diks can work for 1-4 $ per day (Walkthrough says 1-5, but I never saw 5 $ per day offer ig). It’s obvious that 1 $ ig is worth much more than irl.

Both Quinn and Lily are aware that 500 $ (or any amount offered by Lily, if I’m mistaken) is a lot of money and lots of drugs can be bought. So Lily is likely buying a lot for the girls.

PS. I think that Quinn took advantage of Rich and got from him much more than the order was worth. If not, narcotics are very expensive in the game universe compared to everything else that could be bought till now. Or simply prices in this game are very fucked up.

Who is sb?

Uh ... I guess I can kind of see your train of thought. It'd be like saying someone who is constantly drinking is indeed an alcoholic. I guess it's the connotation of the word "druggie" that made me think of a meth head belting out bloodcurdling screams at 3AM on a Thursday that made me think Nicole is in no way like a druggie.
The thing is, most potheads are just lazy as fuck and it's more of a mental addiction than a physical one. They don't really show any major behavioral problems like hyper aggression and don't really suffer from withdrawal symptoms like with everything else besides maybe mild irritation. Also kind of hard or even impossible to OD on it from what I've seen or heard.
I mean I can kind of see your point but I still think my opinion is also valid on not necessarily labeling Nicole as a druggie. Pothead? Yes. It'd be like saying an alcoholic is a druggie. Although technically true, it just sounds weird.

Also about the money system in BADIK. I think DPC himself has said not to put too much weight on the money system as it's just a simplified way of keeping track of money spent and gained. It's all pretty out of whack and I've seen some users attempt to "decode" it to no avail. I don't think even DPC has any real concrete figures on how much money that is in real life but I think that's part of the point. It's just supposed to be a simple way of comparing either a small amount or large amount of money with no exact figures or keeping track of personal money. Just "A" is less money than "B" or "Y" is A LOT more money than "X". There's just not that much importance placed in how much anything is, it's just supposed to mean "a lot" or "a little" and it's better than saying "$0.50" or "a billion apples" or something random like that. Like a placeholder for when money is referenced I guess.
So, I think you're right that it's probably a large supply since even repairing windows cost only $65 and half a semester's tuition for a small, private university would cost around 5K. Though, it's still pretty hard to tell numbers even in the ballpark since the pricing for everything definitely is really weird. It's kind of like all those instances of money being mentioned are mutually exclusive but ... not at the same time. Yea, super weird.

 

[Astrid Hofferson]

You get one free ride, on the DIK mansion roof. If the mc smokes with them, you can choose to fuck Quinn no matter what's happened prior to that. Of course smoking weed is a DIK affinity choice, but you can still keep your Chick affinity if this was the only deviation. But after that, Quinn won't be interested in the mc if he's not a DIK.

Both Maya&Josy and Jill effectively exclude Quinn, so affinity is not the issue

Unlucky...

 

[Astrid Hofferson]

But it was cool having fun with Quinn

 

[felicemastronzo]

Usually on the release of a new chapter I have always made, or remade, a new run. This time I really wouldn't know what to do, the decision of the eighth takes the sense out of many possible runs. In the end I guess I'll have to make the always threatened but never realised "everyone hates Derek" a reality

 

[TimHawk]

In my opinion URM is the best tool. I can highly recommend this.

Amen brother, as long as the game is renpy, there is no need for a dedicated mod or anything else.

 

[Ukghar]

Who is sb?

Uh ... I guess I can kind of see your train of thought. It'd be like saying someone who is constantly drinking is indeed an alcoholic. I guess it's the connotation of the word "druggie" that made me think of a meth head belting out bloodcurdling screams at 3AM on a Thursday that made me think Nicole is in no way like a druggie.
The thing is, most potheads are just lazy as fuck and it's more of a mental addiction than a physical one. They don't really show any major behavioral problems like hyper aggression and don't really suffer from withdrawal symptoms like with everything else besides maybe mild irritation. Also kind of hard or even impossible to OD on it from what I've seen or heard.
I mean I can kind of see your point but I still think my opinion is also valid on not necessarily labeling Nicole as a druggie. Pothead? Yes. It'd be like saying an alcoholic is a druggie. Although technically true, it just sounds weird.

Also about the money system in BADIK. I think DPC himself has said not to put too much weight on the money system as it's just a simplified way of keeping track of money spent and gained. It's all pretty out of whack and I've seen some users attempt to "decode" it to no avail. I don't think even DPC has any real concrete figures on how much money that is in real life but I think that's part of the point. It's just supposed to be a simple way of comparing either a small amount or large amount of money with no exact figures or keeping track of personal money. Just "A" is less money than "B" or "Y" is A LOT more money than "X". There's just not that much importance placed in how much anything is, it's just supposed to mean "a lot" or "a little" and it's better than saying "$0.50" or "a billion apples" or something random like that. Like a placeholder for when money is referenced I guess.
So, I think you're right that it's probably a large supply since even repairing windows cost only $65 and half a semester's tuition for a small, private university would cost around 5K. Though, it's still pretty hard to tell numbers even in the ballpark since the pricing for everything definitely is really weird. It's kind of like all those instances of money being mentioned are mutually exclusive but ... not at the same time. Yea, super weird.

"sb" (somebody) is anybody as it is my overall opinion, but in this case "sb"=Envy. I may have not use a correct word in english ("druggie"). Maybe "drug addict" would be better. I was also unware of how weed works, tx for that.

About the money system in BADIK - Yeap. Prices are weird, fucked up or very fucked up there. Not sure which one it is.

 

[Incognymous]

In my opinion URM is the best tool. I can highly recommend this.

Even better than Scrappy's Mod?

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

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It is my absolute pleasure to announce the Patreon release dates for:
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Being a DIK - Episode 9: Vixens (v0.9.0)

• Huge DIK ($25+) tiers: Friday, December 16th
• DIK ($10+) tiers: Monday, December 19th
• Mini DIK ($5) tier: Friday, December 30th (Patch only, needs Season 3 base game to play)

Beta testers are currently testing the new version and are working hard to ensure that the release is a smooth experience for every player. And my proofreader is combatting typos in the episode.

There will be a patch with a file size of ~4.95 GB.

And there will be a full version, including the Interlude, with a file size of ~7.26 GB.

If you don't know how to patch your game, I recommend downloading the full version.

There will be clear instructions in the .zip file telling you how to patch your game.

Due to this highly anticipated release, my time to aid with installations and issues will be extremely limited.

Please, join my Discord server to get faster help with any problems during the release.

Make sure you treat Season 3 as a stand-alone game and don't merge it with Season 1 or Season 2 data.

Merging the game with Seasons 1 and 2 will corrupt both games.

I will not assist with errors and re-downloads due to faulty patching.

So, please make backup copies of your games before you attempt to patch them.

This is the preliminary changelog for v0.9.0.

Changelog v0.9.0
Added Episode 9, which includes:

• 5036 renders
• 303 animations
• 12 2D-art pieces
• 5 2D-art animations
• 30 songs
• 13 sound effects
• Fixed an issue where the setting to only show the close button in the rewards app when hovering caused a traceback error.
• Corrected typos
• Added Rollback Side option to Dialogue tab in Preferences.
• Removed 6 songs due to a band's wishes. Favorite lists are reset as a result.
• Overhauled the main menu music player

Let the countdown begin.

Love

Dr PinkCake

Finally! That was a long, crazy and dramatic road, but we are here. We made it. Congratulations, DIKs!

 

[always86]

Usually on the release of a new chapter I have always made, or remade, a new run. This time I really wouldn't know what to do, the decision of the eighth takes the sense out of many possible runs. In the end I guess I'll have to make the always threatened but never realised "everyone hates Derek" a reality

I know what you mean, I decided to redo my episode 7 saves, as there were a couple of choices I wanted to change. As I was running through I realised the number of saves you will really need to unlock everything is ridiculous.

Bella
Sage
Maya+Josy
Maya
Josy (presume the thrupple won’t last and therefore you’ll need a separate run to see their scenes in later episodes)
Jill
Others which will need a specific run for Nicole & Lily (as hey have mutually exclusive scenes).

I also think we’ll need a make Jill jealous run, where you choose Bella, because I think a threesome with those two is inevitable.

 

[CircaAD]

Even better than Scrappy's Mod?

Fully compatible and complimentary to Scrappy's Mod, and it works with any Ren'Py game, even when Scrappy's Mod isn't available. DPC doesn't want MC to date all the girls? Tough. Between URM and Scrappy, MC is still making all the girls happy at the end of season 8, with no conflicts.