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

[Cornetuelo]

Cheap drama, nuff said.

If DPC has shown us one thing in BaDIK, it is that he has no idea how to integrate dramas well into the story.

Well said. Being a DIK is a GREAT game. This game is the AAA of H-games. Lovable characters, witty dialogues, amazing music... But it has a lot of flaws in terms of writing. For example, it has all the clichés of H-games (MC´s magic cock, all women are bi and either nymphomaniacs or prudes, unnatural, overexaggerated female bodies...), a lot of holes in the plot, and scenes that can fit well into a given path, but are totally out of the place if you follow a different path. For example, the familiarity of the MC with the HOTs only make sense if the MC stayed with Sage several days in the HOT´s mansion and had the opportunity to bond with some of them. If not, the MC and the HOTs would be just acquaintances at best. Or Sage being so close with the MC and asking him for help in several occasions even if the MC rejects to help her with Chad, to teach her to play the guitar and don´t want to be "fuck buddy" with her. There are a lot of things that are not well integrated into the plot, not only drama. And the drama parts seems to be inspired by some cheap soap opera.

But people here tends to be blind to the flaws of BDIK and talk about the writing of game as if it were a masterpiece. Well, it´s a masterpiece compared with the rest of the H-games, that are amateur at best, or just plain crap. Its really refreshing to read a comment that dares to point a flaw in the writing of this game. Kudos for that.

 

[shazba]

I do not know where you got this from, but it contradicts not only the words of DPC, but also common sense. Reread his last message. I haven't seen him so excited and emotional for a long time. He literally talks about some exciting news, that it will be fun and he will share these news in the near future. If you think logically, it could be
1) hiring additional employees, which will be a new experience for DPC as a developer (can't see him doing this, he's a perfectionist, they never rely on other people to do important things)
2) he completed several courses and improved his skills (well, not the news we want to hear). (Hardly exciting news, he's been learning new techniques all along and makes mention of them from time-to-time)
3) Buying new hardware for rendering (The hardware hasn't been the bottleneck for a while, so I don't see this being an exciting event)
4) The decision to release shorter updates (He's only been getting bigger because he can't help himself, he wants to enhance the experience each time, to reduce it would be counter to his personality)
5) Its sales in steam are very good (we already knew that) (It's a 1-liner in a release, not something to hype up as an exciting development, he's gotta be making way more money from Patreon than Steam will ever rake in)
6) The announcement of the creation of a new game (unlikely, given that he said he had already started work on season 3) (It's too early for a new game announcement, it'd send shockwaves and mass speculation that BaDIK is going to be rushed or abandoned etc.)
7) Announcement of the exact number of chapters (That would be nice, but it undermines his flexibility. He could suggest we're about halfway through or something like that though, but keep it vague)
I can't think of anything else. He also stated that he wanted to celebrate 17,000 patrons with a special gift. The release of the Interlude? (It'll just be some render series based on a bunch of polls from the patrons, nothing to get excited about. Maybe the Madam is going to have full blown sex with the mc, the patrons would be beside themselves with that news...)

I dunno dude, his enthusiasm is just marketing hype to me. "Exciting" and "Fun" are just words that get thrown around to make shit sound great.

When he said he has some exiting news, he then went to list what that shit was about:

• What I'm working on
• The upcoming Steam release
• Season 2 patch information
• The episode 8 walkthrough
• Information about the Interlude
• Patron milestone celebration
• A new Q&A post where you can submit questions
• Patreon tier changes

It's not really that exciting, it's just business as usual, but like any business, you gotta keep the hype up. Everything you listed is just a wish list (and I've commented on each item in red above), nothing to do with anything he actually said.

So really, what I wrote doesn't contradict anything. Sure, it's total speculation, but it definitely doesn't lack good sense: He's gonna release the "Interlude" (which will be probably shorter, cause interlude are typically shorter by definition), and after that he's gonna release episode 9. Hopefully we'll see episode 9 before this time next year and he can label it a Halloween Special.

 

[FusiFranse]

It's not MC's baby. You can do a run where MC doesn't have sex and still the pregnancy test appears.

you were going through the programmed novel, right?
In my opinion, especially such a playthrough couldn't be expected by anyone and therefore no "specialists" storyline would have be written nor render time wasted... (which is appreciated by most of the readers for an earlier update... well, obviously not by the "specialists")

 

[JamieSadistic]

is it possible to be on jill route if ur on dik/neutral route? I got jill flashback but no option

AFAICR it's not possible to have a successful Jill route if you're on any path except for CHICK.

the pregnancy conspirators:
well, I don't know your playstyle but I was raw inside all of the girls possible.
MC seems never had sexuality lessons in school classes, nor has he heard of condoms or an invention made and used in almost each G20 country which is the pill.
He also doesn't care about the pill after nor is he confronted with by his encounters.

But, the vaginal creampie option, that's somehow true, is for one or the other of the 2 routes.

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as it's a novel, no one is really pregnant and for that you could state, it's a "conspiracy" about pregnancy.

The conspiracy would be who isn't at the risk of being pregnant if MC is fertile.

As much as I'd love the plot-twist an unexpected pregnancy by MC would add, it's been proven that it isn't MC's baby. There are runs you could do where you literally have sex with no one at all (with the exception of Quinn during the CUMpetition, even still...no cum) and the pregnancy test still shows. Unless it's a massive flaw in the writing, which I doubt but it's possible, I'd say it's probably either Heather/Tommy, Derek/Wendy or JB/Elena. It could also possibly be from Lynette's diary showing her pregnancy test when she found out she was pregnant with the MC.

Edit: It could ALSO be between Ashley/Anthony (for some added drama) or Ashley/Derek

How many paths are there going into s3? Thanks guys ive only done jill and isabella

Josy/Maya path
Jill path
Bella path (??)
Sage path
and Others path (Basically Quinn's path. Could also include Riona, Camila, Zoey..)

 

[KarloB1990]

• M&J's branch is blocked by:
  • Not being on their path (choosing friendship or being rejected in the library scene in ep5).

OK, it's maybe not a big deal, but the party at the DIKs and the library scene was in Ep 4.

But for everything you posted - I agree.

 

[KarloB1990]

Now I just have to wait for the Official Walkthrough to come out to replay the main route so that my MC has all the perfect classes
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Someone already posted the answers for all the classes for the last Episode. If you want I can give it to you I copied it so I won't had to search for them again.

 

[shazba]

OK, it's maybe not a big deal, but the party at the DIKs and the library scene was in Ep 4.

But for everything you posted - I agree.

Thanks dude, I got lazy and just guessed rather than checked it out. I'll fix it up.

How many paths are there going into s3? Thanks guys ive only done jill and isabella

Five.

• Bella,
• Jill,
• Maya & Josy,
• Sage; and
• Others.

Others is has two possibilities. Quinn-centric, or just no one in particular.

 

[JamieSadistic]

Someone already posted the answers for all the classes for the last Episode. If you want I can give it to you I copied it so I won't had to search for them again.

You newbs and your need for answers to class tests. (before anyone gets mad, I'm joking)

 

[HoneyLibido]

AFAICR it's not possible to have a successful Jill route if you're on any path except for CHICK.

I just finished my run but you can do Jill as long as you don't have a DIK affinity, so you can have a Neutral one and will be good to go since that's where my affinity ended.

 

[JamieSadistic]

I just finished my run but you can do Jill as long as you don't have a DIK affinity, so you can have a Neutral one and will be good to go since that's where my affinity ended.

That's good information to have because I really hate the full CHICK path. Makes me feel like a spinless jellyfish.

 

[KarloB1990]

Thanks dude, I got lazy and just guessed rather than checked it out. I'll fix it up.

Hey, no problem We all make mistakes, we can't remember everything in this game, it's just to much of it

 

[HoneyLibido]

That's good information to have because I really hate the full CHICK path. Makes me feel like a spinless jellyfish.

Yeah I think normally you can easily gain a lot of DIK points in the early chapters like massively I was a Big DIK but I think after joining successfully the DIK frat depending on your playstyle you can slide back to neutral if you become a bit more tame in choices.

I think the main factors are doing well in your classes that help balance it at least by the time this chapter concludes.

 

[KarloB1990]

You newbs and your need for answers to class tests. (before anyone gets mad, I'm joking)

Well, already asked fot the answers for the English test, cause English isn't my native language (and once again looking for the words on a page with possible words in Scrabble words can be annoying .

And well, I' admit, with the English test someone already posted in the reply for me the other test result, so... screw it, I'm not gonna pretend that I didn't seen it (even if the first Math test in Ep. 8 I passed perfecty without the walkthrough)

 

[IkarusWestwood]

you were going through the programmed novel, right?
In my opinion, especially such a playthrough couldn't be expected by anyone and therefore no "specialists" storyline would have be written nor render time wasted... (which is appreciated by most of the readers for an earlier update... well, obviously not by the "specialists")

It's simple, dude: It's not MC's baby.

 

[Fun Shaundi]

how tf did u get this ending and how do you help Jill get over here fear

Okay, VEEEERY LONG REPLY incoming:

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[felicemastronzo]

a consideration only on the final scene, the "FUCK" scene .

it's not such a bad scene, it's basically a reaction of surprise, but you have to focus on the only real danger, which in MC's eyes, as far as MC knows, is solely Tybalt.

Tybalt despises MC and despises him in any scenario, in fact I would say that thanks to Jill he has never hated him so much (regardless of whether MC is with Jill or not)

if MC is having an affair with Jade, the surprise is understandable but it is not a danger, in fact it would be an extra ally. even in the hypothesis that he is having an affair with Sage as well, it would certainly not emerge in that meeting, Sage will certainly not present him as her boyfriend, and in the same way Jade will not do anything to expose him. at the limit it will become a problem to be dealt with later, but this situation is still very peculiar.

Mc at the moment doesn't know anything about Burke, so he has no reason to be afraid of him (even if there was a movie, Mc doesn't know it, so he can't be afraid of something he doesn't know). apart from that I see it very unlikely that Burke will take advantage of Maya's situation, she already walks on thin ice, to play with someone that her daughter is trying to help would be a quite suicidal choice (to those who imagine strange blackmails I remember that James, Bella's husband, in the flashback doesn't even kiss her...)

It's simple, dude: It's not MC's baby.

in my memory the only mandatory sex for MC is cumpetition

But I agree with you, I think the main suspect is Derek directly or indirectly (Ashley pregnant with Anthony?).

 

[FDrebin89]

So...Sage and Maya look like they are headed for a major falling out in Season 3:

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[JamieSadistic]

Okay, VEEEERY LONG REPLY incoming:

I could have swore that there was a way to reject Sage on the bench. However, I use Scrappy's mod.
You can also give Quinn Vodka/Cranberries.

 

[Lightaces]

So I finished my Sage-path episode 8 playthrough (loved it) and got back to my fresh Maya+Josy playthrough and noticed something eerie. I don't know if it has been discussed before but it seems that something is going to happen to Riona. There is this blue truck that seems to follow her. In the first picture you can even see someone's legs before disappearing when Quinn arrives. The same truck can be seen again at the end of episode 8 passing by Riona and she notices it. That got me thinking: there were more than one people that followed Riona when she said that she feels like she's being watched. One is the stalker which we got rid off and the other are the people in the truck (probably Vinny or someone that works for him?). So yeah, I expect something fucked up to happen to Riona in the future.

Yeah, I noticed that. She's still being followed, no doubt. Probably by the cops.

 

[Hermith]

a consideration only on the final scene, the "FUCK" scene .

it's not such a bad scene, it's basically a reaction of surprise, but you have to focus on the only real danger, which in MC's eyes, as far as MC knows, is solely Tybalt.

Tybalt despises MC and despises him in any scenario, in fact I would say that thanks to Jill he has never hated him so much (regardless of whether MC is with Jill or not)

if MC is having an affair with Jade, the surprise is understandable but it is not a danger, in fact it would be an extra ally. even in the hypothesis that he is having an affair with Sage as well, it would certainly not emerge in that meeting, Sage will certainly not present him as her boyfriend, and in the same way Jade will not do anything to expose him. at the limit it will become a problem to be dealt with later, but this situation is still very peculiar.

Mc at the moment doesn't know anything about Burke, so he has no reason to be afraid of him (even if there was a movie, Mc doesn't know it, so he can't be afraid of something he doesn't know). apart from that I see it very unlikely that Burke will take advantage of Maya's situation, she already walks on thin ice, to play with someone that her daughter is trying to help would be a quite suicidal choice (to those who imagine strange blackmails I remember that James, Bella's husband, in the flashback doesn't even kiss her...)


in my memory the only mandatory sex for MC is cumpetition

But I agree with you, I think the main suspect is Derek directly or indirectly (Ashley pregnant with Anthony?).

If MC is having an affair with Jade, it's not just a surprise, but definitely also a danger. I mean if Burke watched the video of Jade and her new boytoy, I'm sure he will give a mean handshake when they meet.