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

[hakuna-matata]

I've said before that it's done intentionally. MC is just an observer. In fact 99% of the time he is manipulated by girls, friends, best friend, teachers, Burke's dog, Tybalt's watermelon. The only important and independent decision he made was at the beginning of episode 5 when he offered to do the repairs himselfThe decision to choose a girl was prompted by a strange conversation in the dining room morning. That's about it. I believe that if MC was a complex character it would be hard for players to associate themselves with him and besides, it would be easier to make games with such a vacuous character.

MC has acted like a retard numerous times. Anyways...... I chalk it up to DPC being a not-so-great writer. Writing is not DPC's strong suit.

- MC knows nothing about his mother's side. Never asked questions, did not do some research, etc...
- Maya's loan situation
- Jill's character change from season 1 to 2. She even looks different.
- The blackmail situation
- Sage and the Burkes
- MC acting like a pussy because Jill asked him to do an std test
- MC's other pussy moments
- Dawe not getting arrested or even more so, expelled for assaulting a Teacher. I'm still trying to wrap my brain around this.
- Bella's marriage situation. Comfortable or not, MC should have asked. What if James is some psycho killer waiting to be released on parole. James comes out of prison to see his wife banging some dude. MC needs to know if James is going to hit MC behind the head with a flower pot after exiting Bella's home.
- Maya and Josy. The Campus: Drug use, underage drinking, smoking cigs, engaging in prostitution, assault, cheating, having unprotected sex, engaging in threesomes, engaging in orgies, breaking into people's homes, vandalizing, blackmail, but we draw the line at lesbians....... because we have morals here.....


I'm probably missing more events, but these are the only ones that come to mind.

 

[Orgitas]

Well, to be fair, in most AVNs if the MC could use logical thought and put two and two together. Most plots, and stories, would have been solved in the first or second episodes lol. So it tends to be a writing anchor style to state that "The Protagonist is willfully blind" as to not point out the obvious. Which, in turn, carries the plot forward. Otherwise MC would have asked Jill about the photo and her relation to his own family a while ago - For example.

 

[hakuna-matata]

Well, to be fair, in most AVNs if the MC could use logical thought and put two and two together. Most plots, and stories, would have been should in the first or second episodes lol. So it tends to be a writing anchor style to state that "The Protagonist is willfully blind" as to not point out the obvious. Which, in turn, carries the plot forward. Otherwise MC would have asked Jill about the photo and her relation to his own family a while ago - For example.

I don't expect every book, movie, tv show, game and especially avn to be a masterpiece. My biggest gripe with DPC is he will ban you if you slightly criticize him. That's why I'm a bit harsher with his writing.

 

[Orgitas]

But what annoys me is that Fuckface does recognise the house, if he had left Fuckface being ignorant, as he only glimpsed the house on the picnic and then could have focussed on Jill and Lynette rather than the background of the photos then it would have been fine. Casual players could have congratulated themselves on spotting the clue themselves. The way it was written, he recognises it from the picnic but not Jill's photo is poor writing unfortunately.

Oh, deffo, with you on the poor writing on that part. Would have been better for MC to think "Wait a second..." then ask Jill about it to which, perhaps, she wouldn't know who MC's mother was. Then when you meet Jill's family (I assume is in ep 10 given some of the previews) the question would be raised. That would be a better way to do it imo.

 

[Darkwen]

MC acting like a pussy because Jill asked him to do an std test

In that case Mc might be justified but he only has himself to blame for fucking Jill

 

[Orgitas]

I mean, to be fair, if you are at University and have had multiple partners. You should get tested for an STD. Fortunately many campuses do it on site given Students screw like rabbits. Just pray it never comes back positive otherwise they might have to shove a tiny umbrella like device down your Urethra to scrap out all the bad stuff. It is not a nice sensation - at all. However, what I advise not doing is flashing the person assigned to your STD testing. I mean, you can. But you might end up on some sort of register outside of your seminar attendance sheets.

 

[Darkwen]

I mean, to be fair, if you are at University and have had multiple partners. You should get tested for an STD. Fortunately many campuses do it on site given Students screw like rabbits. Just pray it never comes back positive otherwise they might have to shove a tiny umbrella like device down your Urethra to scrap out all the bad stuff. It is not a nice sensation - at all. However, what I advise not doing is flashing the person assigned to your STD testing. I mean, you can. But you might end up on some sort of register outside of your seminar attendance sheets.

My dorm had a big ass sign saying don't catch them all it made it sound fun

 

[Orgitas]

My dorm had a big ass sign saying don't catch them all it made it sound fun

I was a "Student Warden" which, essentially, meant I helped the freshman out. Had to sit them all down and give them the "talk" or so to speak. Fire safety, what to do if some one collapses or is stupidly drunk. Make sure they knew where everything was and many other things. Most of the time they would come to me with "Itchy parts" and I had to point them the way. I didn't mind, really, as one of the perks was that I didn't have to pay student accommodation fees and my room was twice as large as the regular dorm rooms.

The most odd thing I saw was some one trying to cook a can of baked beans in the microwave (whilst still in the can). It wasn't like he was stupid or anything. The guy was working toward doing some form of theoretical physics degree. The mind boggles.

 

[Darkwen]

I was a "Student Warden" which, essentially, meant I helped the freshman out. Had to sit them all down and give them the "talk" or so to speak. Fire safety, what to do if some one collapses or is stupidly drunk. Make sure they knew where everything was and many other things. Most of the time they would come to me with "Itchy parts" and I had to point them the way. I didn't mind, really, as one of the perks was that I didn't have to pay student accommodation fees and my room was twice as large as the regular dorm rooms.

The most odd thing I saw was some one trying to cook a can of baked beans in the microwave (whilst still in the can). It wasn't like he was stupid or anything. The guy was working toward doing some form of theoretical physics degree. The mind boggles.

We had a Dawe that thought he needed to microwave ramen noodles with no water at 3AM

 

[murphy88]

Being a dik takes long time for update but the episode which they release are the goat

In my opinion I think this is a mistake, the chapters are getting longer and longer and in the end there will be a delay of 1 year between updates, it is true that the subroutes force to create many argumentative branches that force the need to increase the complexity of the development but you can always simply make shorter chapters, they don't have to last the same, if there are so many subroutes, the replayability itself will give you that extra time that a single game doesn't give you.

 

[funkymonkeyjedi]

In my opinion I think this is a mistake, the chapters are getting longer and longer and in the end there will be a delay of 1 year between updates, it is true that the subroutes force to create many argumentative branches that force the need to increase the complexity of the development but you can always simply make shorter chapters, they don't have to last the same, if there are so many subroutes, the replayability itself will give you that extra time that a single game doesn't give you.

In essence, I don't disagree with your sentiment. But you also have to consider that many don't even bother playing other routes than their preferred LI. That would make the story rather short for many. Thankfully I'm not such a person. I have explored almost all of the alternatives. Some choices I still haven't made because I did a piss poor job at labeling my saves LOL. Which made exploring options a tad confusing to put it mildly. LOL

But considering all of the possible content, I really don't mind the extra wait (Speaking for myself of course).

 

[Orgitas]

iirc DPC has said he wants each chapter to be "more advanced" than the one before it. His personal mission to be the best AVN creator there is. Despite the ego behind his statements it is hard to deny that he likely is the best. But, alas, it means long wait times due to the complexity of the coding and the sheer gargantuan amount of renders.

 

[funkymonkeyjedi]

iirc DPC has said he wants each chapter to be "more advanced" than the one before it. His personal mission to be the best AVN creator there is. Despite the ego behind his statements it is hard to deny that he likely is the best. But, alas, it means long wait times due to the complexity of the coding and the sheer gargantuan amount of renders.

On the technicality of creating a VN, I can't fault your statement. I would easily place him in the top tiers of the creators. But let's be honest though, story-wise there are a few other AWESOME story tellers out there that can give DPC a serious run for his money as far as immersive and 'chilling' stories. But this is all very personally subjective for each reader/player. Without naming specific titles that would be considered "off-topic" but there's "ilsproductions" that merits a serious look into, just to name 1 example. His stories aren't as complex as what DPC is delivering for us, that's for certain. But good stories don't necessarily have to revolve around complexity either.

Story planning for BaDIK must be a complete nightmare. And this shows DPC's dedication, this much cannot be disputed.

 

[hakuna-matata]

I mean, to be fair, if you are at University and have had multiple partners. You should get tested for an STD. Fortunately many campuses do it on site given Students screw like rabbits. Just pray it never comes back positive otherwise they might have to shove a tiny umbrella like device down your Urethra to scrap out all the bad stuff. It is not a nice sensation - at all. However, what I advise not doing is flashing the person assigned to your STD testing. I mean, you can. But you might end up on some sort of register outside of your seminar attendance sheets.

How many tests and remedies did you need?

 

[Orgitas]

On the technicality of creating a VN, I can't fault your statement. I would easily place him in the top tiers of the creators. But let's be honest though, story-wise there are a few other AWESOME story tellers out there that can give DPC a serious run for his money as far as immersive and 'chilling' stories. But this is all very personally subjective for each reader/player. Without naming specific titles that would be considered "off-topic" but there's "ilsproductions" that merits a serious look into, just to name 1 example. His stories aren't as complex as what DPC is delivering for us, that's for certain. But good stories don't necessarily have to revolve around complexity either.

Story planning for BaDIK must be a complete nightmare. And this shows DPC's dedication, this much cannot be disputed.

To look at things objectively (Though I guess it is actually subjective on my part) there are the three criteria to judge an AVN on - Renders (Animations inc.), Coding, Writing. If a AVN dev can tick those three adequately then they really are going places. Many tend to lean toward one of the three whilst being simplistic in the other two. My observations anyway. DPC ticks all three boxes nicely. Granted his writing isn't god tier. But neither is it low grade. Passable to good in my books. Better writers out there, for sure. Naturally not saying that if a Dev doesn't try as hard as DPC that they aren't worth it - Many are. SG and CoBD, for example, are decent games (though the writing in SG really does pain me real bad quite a lot due to the lack of continuity in personalities of the MC and Bella.).

But, you know, I am not any sort of authority on these matters. Just how I, typically, compartmentalize it all.

 

[Orgitas]

How many tests and remedies did you need?

I got monthly tests as default (sometimes had more) because we had shared bathrooms in the dorm. Not en suite. At the time I was terrified I might catch something aha. Fortunately I never did. But I know quite a few people who played pokemon with stds.

 

[Elduriel]

On the technicality of creating a VN, I can't fault your statement. I would easily place him in the top tiers of the creators. But let's be honest though, story-wise there are a few other AWESOME story tellers out there that can give DPC a serious run for his money as far as immersive and 'chilling' stories. But this is all very personally subjective for each reader/player. Without naming specific titles that would be considered "off-topic" but there's "ilsproductions" that merits a serious look into, just to name 1 example. His stories aren't as complex as what DPC is delivering for us, that's for certain. But good stories don't necessarily have to revolve around complexity either.

Story planning for BaDIK must be a complete nightmare. And this shows DPC's dedication, this much cannot be disputed.

I fucking love Now&Then, not gonna lie

 

[JaszMan]

Is there paranormal of any kind in this story?

 

[Orgitas]

Is there paranormal of any kind in this story?

The only paranormal thing about Being a Dik is how the MC doesn't, somehow, fall unconscious every time he gets an erection. Thing is a monster.

 

[soprano31]

Is there paranormal of any kind in this story?

Always check the tags if you want to know,
so no paranormal stuff in this game.