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

[TomUK]

They're just horrified at the clothes she used to wear back in the 80's, Leg warmers, lots of fluro tracksuits, that type of stuff.

Google horrible 80's fashion and you'll have the exact same look on your face as Maya.

When she was a 0-1 years old you mean?

 

[Lagunavii]

Yeah, though iam one of the people who whishes he would cut out some unnecessary stuff so we could get the episodes faster... but thats just not how DPC works. We have to deal with that, otherwise he wouldnt develop the game in the first place.

The peisode would be nearly the same if it would contain lets say... 5000 renders instead of 7000, which could be easy to obtain if he would just recylce more renders than he does... and of course he could do just, lets say... 300 animations instead of 400, and just like that, the DEV cycle would be shorter than 12 months. And nobody would relaly notice the difference to the peisode we see now, excpet... DPC himself. And thats the problem. DPCs doesnt want to "please" the audience, he wants to please himself with his work. Just read his last report on patreon and see how he "bloats" about the achievement of this episode and how proud he is of the way that lays behind him... thats everything he wants. Be proud of his work done. And thats his main motivation. So yeah... he will do just as he likes, and he likes to do all the stuff he does, even if we want to scream "fuck those 60 fps animation, 30 fps is totally fine" to him its not fine at all... he saw how 60 fps look compared to 30 fps, and to him its like day and night... so he wanted to create all the animations at 60 fps, and that was the main reaosn why he upgraded his rigs with RTX4090. So he could do those animations in a reasonable timeframe... not to please "us" just to please himself... thats how DPC ticks.

I said something similar to this the other day: I'd quite happily play the game without most of the animations, even though I do appreciate them and some of them are great. the cum dripping out of Josy or Mya for example, yeah was hot but not overly needed. would it get the game out any faster, the way DPC works who fucking knows but dropping some of the animations and reader count Id probably bet it would shave a few months off

 

[4Zero9Zero]

I said something similar to this the other day: I'd quite happily play the game without most of the animations, even though I do appreciate them and some of them are great. the cum dripping out of Josy or Mya for example, yeah was hot but not overly needed. would it get the game out any faster, the way DPC works who fucking knows but dropping some of the animations and reader count Id probably bet it would shave a few months off

How dare you not appreciate the preps walking by a brick wall

 

[TomUK]

Oh... C'mon... Amazing fashion... But Bella ain't that old. If she's around 36 and the game seems to take place in the late 2010s (2018?), she was born in the early 90's and a teen in the mid-to-later Y2Ks. Maybe it's this... She has a Britney Spears's sanctuary in that room.

By your numbers that would mean she was born in the early 80's, not the 90's.

 

[Lagunavii]

How dare you not appreciate the preps walking by a brick wall

Im just upset that DPC didn't mix that with the fine FPS game he was designing for Rionas date

 

[4Zero9Zero]

Im just upset that DPC didn't mix that with the fine FPS game he was designing for Rionas date

Let's not forget the emotionally powerful scene of Zoey running in the woods

 

[ZenoMod]

What save do I use to get the Madam scene and Elena scene?

To have the scene with Elena you have to NOT having had a BJ from Eather (and, of course, you have to positive answer to all the allusion made by both Elena and John Boy about it).
Or at least that's what I've read here. I still haven't had those scenes myself, so I still haven't inspected the code to look for all the involved variables.
EDIT: It's also necessary being on the "others" branch (branchAlone == True)

Think you have to accept the Pink Rose pass instead of using the money for it put towards fixing the mansion, and that's just to get the chance to meet Madame Rose.

Since the saves are with minigames on, I think that it's possible to both accept the Pink Rose VIP pass AND save Rusty's car if you succeed in the Mansion Restoration minigame thus making enough "mansion money".

Saving Rusty's car is needed to have a chance of a lewd scene with Quinn

 

[Lagunavii]

How dare you not appreciate the preps walking by a brick wall

You know I was thinking about the preps before, and while we have sorta made peace with the Jocks or at least Chad (we shall see if he can talk sense into them in regards to the blackmail letters) Im starting to think that not letting the preps into the party at Halloween may come back and bite us with the impending Frat war that's building

 

[Hahn1900]

Right. I understand that a 50% speedup in rendering time is not going to equate to a 50% shorter development cycle, because he's doing other dev work while the queue is running.
Rendering at 30fps would likely invert things such that HE is the bottleneck, which might lead to increased stress. However, it may also lead to the elimination of unnecessary development effort.

If he's just waiting on the queue, he might invent unnecessary work for himself just to feel "productive".

But yes, he is probably--by far--the most productive game dev, and his work is among the highest quality in terms of production. Even so, the stubbornness in sticking to 60fps RENDERING as opposed to 30fps rendering -> 60fps animations with AI interpolation is frankly absurd, given the quality comparisons I showed.

But he will do as he wills. I'm not a hater, I just wish we could experience more of his work, and I think the changing the strategy in animation rendering could be a solution.

Well, he changed the animation rendering strategy just as it is now after episode 8, because of the unhealthy work shedule and because he couldnt do stuff he wanted to do because of the stress he was getting into.

Of course its easy to say "well duh, take some breaks idiot" but DPC is not somebody who can do that i think. If there is work to do, he is working.

Before episode 8 he was constantly jumping around like the duracel-commercial-bunny. with a improvised workshedule that took about 12 hours a day. (he talked about it on discord WAAAAAAY back in the days). It took him some time to figure out that he needs a timekeeper like most people have at work, clock in at 8 in morning, clock out at 5 in the evening, and so on... and he figured out, his timekeeper could be the animationqueue... its running out? Pose more, while its running he can work on everything else like he wants to and can plan the work around that queue... it works for him now better than before episode 8.

And he found new fields of development he likes... creating music for example. His "change" of animation strategy gave him the space to do that, and he as fun creating music. So he will not give up in that, more like the opposite. More and more stuff was added to the game which DPC has fun creating. And more and more of that sutff look to us like unnecessary stuff... but DPC doesnt care as long as he has fun creating those things... for example, 60 fps animations, or minigames, or music and so on... is it needed? No. But its needed that DPC has fun creating his game, otherwise he wouldnt do it, and thats something everybody should understand at least. Could he have completed episode 11 in lets say... 9-11 months? Yep for sure... would it have been fun to him? Nope.

If we all could decide how to make our work "more" fun, we all would do it. He is in a position that he can do it... i cant blame him for that. BUT... i can decide to just pay for the release of the episode, not the whole procress until the release (or even get it for free here, but this time i payed, for episode 10 i didnt because episode 9 was not good in my book). And thats fine by me.

 

[TomUK]

To have the scene with Elena you have to NOT having had a BJ from Eather (and, of course, you have to positive answer to all the allusion made by both Elena and John Boy about it).
Or at least that's what I've read here. I still haven't had those scenes myself, so I still haven't inspected the code to look for all the involved variables.




Since the saves are with minigames on, I think that it's possible to both accept the Pink Rose VIP pass AND save Rusty's car if you succeed in the Mansion Restoration minigame thus making enough "mansion money".

Saving Rusty's car is needed to have a chance of a lewd scene with Quinn

Yeah, I can't be arsed to play with mini-games turned on, too repetitive and time consuming, each season already takes hours and hours to complete without the mini-games.

 

[osculim]

You know I was thinking about the preps before, and while we have sorta made peace with the Jocks or at least Chad (we shall see if he can talk sense into them in regards to the blackmail letters) Im starting to think that not letting the preps into the party at Halloween may come back and bite us with the impending Frat war that's building

Yeah agree about the preps thing. With all the reruns of my paths I am letting them in. The scene where one of them see Beth making out with another guy will play a roll. As it is basically forced on us. Whether we let them in or not.

 

[TomUK]

You know I was thinking about the preps before, and while we have sorta made peace with the Jocks or at least Chad (we shall see if he can talk sense into them in regards to the blackmail letters) Im starting to think that not letting the preps into the party at Halloween may come back and bite us with the impending Frat war that's building

Only Tybalt got a letter, the rest didn't so I doubt a truce or not with them will make a difference, I think people mainly hate the preps because of Tybalt, the others seem ok.

 

[osculim]

Only Tybalt got a letter, the rest didn't so I doubt a truce or not with them will make a difference, I think people mainly hate the preps because of Tybalt, the others seem ok.

The letters goes to the leaders or shall I say main characters of the Frats. So still might.

 

[4Zero9Zero]

You know I was thinking about the preps before, and while we have sorta made peace with the Jocks or at least Chad (we shall see if he can talk sense into them in regards to the blackmail letters) Im starting to think that not letting the preps into the party at Halloween may come back and bite us with the impending Frat war that's building

Yeah I think so as well, they clearly like seeing Tybalt's misfortunes and are disappointed in their mundane Frat, I tell the diks they're not so bad and take a bit of shit from them but it's for the greater good

I make amends with the dorm girls as well, I don't kick Penny and Kylie out, Penny seems to be over it and will probably convince Kylie as well, Tara is fully on board, who gives a shit about burger Beth and Avery

Most of the dorm girls like the DIKs and this whole thing has probably put an end to the walk of shame since nobody is doing it after the party

 

[BigTTiger]

I hope that there will come an episode where there's a huge fucking party with all the frats involved diks, preps, jocks, hots, and all the dormies and hell even the teachers make it one helluva blowout party.

 

[Hahn1900]

Yeah agree about the preps thing. With all he reruns of my paths I am letting them in. The scene where one of them see Beth making out with another guy will play a roll. As it is basically forced on us. Whether we let them in or not.

hm yeah i wondered about that scene too, its Oscar seeing Beth there...

The whole "mimimi the DIKs were mean to us so we post the pictures on each wall" is so.... i dont know... its just *rolleyes* especially Beth leading that. She is at every party with the DIKs and fucking around like a horny rabbit... *shrugs*

So Oscar seeing that, and considered that the preps dont have a role in this "frat war", or not that much of a role so far i should say, i think what Beth does will come back at her maybe through some preps too, and MAYBE, if you let them in and have a truce with them, that could help out the DIKs in the long run.

The cathy cluck was handled by Cathy alone, but it was mentioned that if she wouldnt have demanded to handle it alone, it would have been discussed in a councel (like the Chad incident in episode 3 or something like that)...

The things Beth and her witch-circle did could lead to a councel, and Oscar might play a role in that for example... like "woah Beth, you are one to talk about being humilated" or so.

 

[Better Cock Spock]

hm yeah i wondered about that scene too, its Oscar seeing Beth there...

The whole "mimimi the DIKs were mean to us so we post the pictures on each wall" is so.... i dont know... its just *rolleyes* especially Beth leading that. She is at every party with the DIKs and fucking around like a horny rabbit... *shrugs*

So Oscar seeing that, and considered that the preps dont have a role in this "frat war", or not that much of a role so far i should say, i think what Beth does will come back at her maybe through some preps too, and MAYBE, if you let them in and have a truce with them, that could help out the DIKs in the long run.

The cathy cluck was handled by Cathy alone, but it was mentioned that if she wouldnt have demanded to handle it alone, it would have been discussed in a councel (like the Chad incident in episode 3 or something like that)...

The things Beth and her witch-circle did could lead to a councel, and Oscar might play a role in that for example... like "woah Beth, you are one to talk about being humilated" or so.

Gordon is the prep who catches Beth making out with someone, not Oscar. Idk where you're getting Oscar from, unless you're mixing it up with Oscar making out with Gina earlier in the same room.

 

[The Dick]

By your numbers that would mean she was born in the early 80's, not the 90's.

Yeah... I'm dizzy today... My bad... But, even with my dizziness, she would be a teenager in the late 90s/early Y2Ks... Either a post-grunge or a Britney fan.

 

[BigTTiger]

Yeah the dude beth is making out with was the sunglass wearing flattop dude oscar is the boyfriend of the white haired chick that was the ghost at the party

 

[4Zero9Zero]

Gordon is the prep who catches Beth making out with someone, not Oscar. Idk where you're getting Oscar from, unless you're mixing it up with Oscar making out with Gina earlier in the same room.

Lucas is just about done with Tybalt's shit as well, steals his clothes and starts giving nods to MC in scenes