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

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alex13_zen

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I started a new playthrough from the beginning, and I had forgotten how grainy the images were. Even in season 2, they look bad for today's standards.
I had also forgotten that Quinn surprise-kissed Maya in a pool scene, when Maya was trying to change mothers.
 
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Sorry, but I beg to differ on this one... The fact someone does something while keeping a job doesn't necessarily mean it's a hobby. Of course, it could be, but then DPC would donate his hobby to mankind. This is not what DPC is doing. He's asking for money to do it and doesn't even give the final product, as some devs do, but sells it on Steam and other stores. So he kept his job out of necessity while doing the best entrepreneurship he thought he could do while still a slave to the grind.

About his intentions, one can only speculate... You say it wasn't his plan, but I'd rather bet that living out of it was his plan since the beginning. That's what every entrepreneur hopes for. Of course, his rhetoric is another thing, but, as a quote I read says, "a man is not what he says but what he does". DPC is a very smart man and knows how to sell his product, manage his brand, and keep his following. It doesn't mean we shouldn't take his words as a case of branding as we do with every other capitalist business on the face of the Earth.

P.S.: I have no comments about his financial situation, but, according to average estimates, he's earning ~50k/month, which means that, even if he's saving half of it for retirement, he may be living a 300k/year lifestyle. Mind though that 300k a year in some parts of the world is not that much... According to people in this forum, he lives in Sweden, which is an expensive country (and don't forget about Scandinavian tax rates)... And he may have a family, which means 300k/year would mean even less (I know he has a wife because he commented on Patreon... He may also have children...). His earnings put him in the upper class but do not make him uber-rich... And he only reached 10k patrons in 2021. Until 2020 he was the average successful AVN entrepreneur with about 3k patrons, and this was the year he boomed. So his 300k lifestyle (halved after Scandinavian taxes) is recent news.
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Graphtreon calculates his earnings to be between 29K and 85K.

I did an independent correlation with other games that reveal their earnings a while back, and came up with 30K - 80K.

Taken from random internet sources:

"A person working in Sweden typically earns around 45,100 SEK per month. Salaries range from 11,400 SEK (lowest average) to 201,000 SEK (highest average, actual maximum salary is higher)."​

DPC's earning fall between 330,000 SEK and 550,000 SEK month. So even taking the most conservative estimate of his earnings, he's smashing the high average salary in Sweden.

Even 2 years ago, when he only had around 5,000 subscribers, that's still between 140K SEK and 350K SEK.

So unless his living expenses have ballooned commensurate with his new income (and I accept, a lot of people simply spend whatever they earn, no matter how much it is), DPC is probably very, very well off.

And if he falls back down to 5K subscribers, he's still gonna be earning a very decent wage. The point being, he doesn't need to panic if he starts losing some customers, and even if they trickle down to 0 across the next 5 years, depending on his age, he'd could probably retire comfortable anyway.

Slightly separate not: I'll be very interested to see where his subscriber count spikes to this next release though. Will it even exceed his 17K count? Was COVID a big part in the success of ANVs over the last few years? :unsure:
 
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I completely agree with you, but mind that I said he's upper class; I was just saying he ain't über-rich, like, Hollywood-style celebrity rich. For Swedish standards, he's like a super CEO (also from an Internet source: "The average pay for a CEO is SEK 2,091,571 a year and SEK 1,006 an hour in Sweden. The average salary range for a CEO is between SEK 1,248,668 and SEK 3,459,459", which roughly is between US$10k~US$25k/month). So, taking the average of Graphtreon, he's beating the top average Swedish CEO by ~ two times (but CEOs get bonus, so he's probably just like a top Swedish CEO). This puts him in the upper class, top upper class, very comfortable, but not über-rich. And Sweden is a very egalitarian country; if it were in the US, he'd be an average CEO even after making the adjustments between USD and SEK. And let's not forget about Sweden high taxes... And people standards of living also grow as they earn more (even more likely when you have a wife...) So, yeah... He can live quite comfortably, but he also can't be negligent about his future finances, like any CEO...

As for you other comment, I don't think he'll beat his previous record (but it's just a hunch... I may be wrong...), but I don't think it'll be COVID related... Of course, people staying at home made people look for things to do at home, but I think most of the AVNs audience was already interested in gaming, and before COVID there were already AVN's success cases. COVID may have helped a li'l, but I think it was just a small amount and, as there were AVNs before, there will still be AVNs after COVID...
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I don't think he'll top his November 21 tally either, you could see for that year the subscribers just kept rising until the release when it spiked hard, whereas this time around, they've just kept slowly falling, there'll surely be a spike, but probably not as much.

What I am hanging out for though, is a fantastic episode 9. Recent top tier games' (from this site anyway) updates have been rather disappointing of late, with limited content and minimal payoff.
 
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This thread between updates is painful, you have a lot of shit that can be discussed every Episode yet the conversation always revolves around why does Zoey even exist, Maya's tuition, Jill is a goblin, the goddamn milking or how the Interlude is the worst thing ever.

I tend to avoid dropping comments specifically because of this but in the past few days it has been even more unbearable.
 
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TuffyTenToes said:
This thread between updates is painful, you have a lot of shit that can be discussed every Episode yet the conversation always revolves around why does Zoey even exist, Maya's tuition, Jill is a goblin, the goddamn milking or how the Interlude is the worst thing ever.

I tend to avoid dropping comments specifically because of this but in the past few days it has been even more unbearable.
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We are just the scapegoat of morons flaws aren't we?
 
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TuffyTenToes said:
This thread between updates is painful, you have a lot of shit that can be discussed every Episode yet the conversation always revolves around why does Zoey even exist, Maya's tuition, Jill is a goblin, the goddamn milking or how the Interlude is the worst thing ever.

I tend to avoid dropping comments specifically because of this but in the past few days it has been even more unbearable.
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It's been like, a year. All the "good" shit was discussed after 1 week, there's fuckall left to talk about except what you listed.
 
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TuffyTenToes said:
This thread between updates is painful, you have a lot of shit that can be discussed every Episode yet the conversation always revolves around why does Zoey even exist, Maya's tuition, Jill is a goblin, the goddamn milking or how the Interlude is the worst thing ever.

I tend to avoid dropping comments specifically because of this but in the past few days it has been even more unbearable.
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So allow me to give you some enlightenment: you can avoid all this just by not visiting this thread. I hope this revelation has been edifying for you. Be welcome.
 
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TuffyTenToes said:
This thread between updates is painful, you have a lot of shit that can be discussed every Episode yet the conversation always revolves around why does Zoey even exist, Maya's tuition, Jill is a goblin, the goddamn milking or how the Interlude is the worst thing ever.

I tend to avoid dropping comments specifically because of this but in the past few days it has been even more unbearable.
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It gets worse over time, you hear the beginning of a joke and you already know how it will end and what the comic effect will be.
BTW, why does Zoey even exist?
 
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