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This ename and shazba debate has me like:
...Ok, it looks like it’s time to take this to the next level. I didn’t want to do this, but you’ve forced my hand…
These two mc’s exist in alternate timelines. They do not have all the same experiences (although many may overlap), and so they would never gauge their response on an alternate version of themself under different circumstances.
The mc that goes into the meeting having fucked both Jade and Sage, and just finished dumping Jade over text (definitely the cowards way out!) while deciding to choose Sage (debatably the most dangerous combination), is not the same guy who is just friends with Sage and turned down Jade’s highly unprofessional advances from the beginning.
You’re looking at it from the perspective of a person who is confronted with both (or multiple) outcomes, whereas the mc, in the play through where he was unwantedly molested by Jade, never experienced the whole mother/daughter fuckfest.
How? How is he endangering the mission?When the mc walks into the apartment, he has a sense of foreboding, and it is realised in the presentation of the family photos.
The innocent mc has done no wrong, his focus is to help Maya and this meeting is very important, Maya’s problems have been present since the day they met. Suddenly the mc realised the very person he is going to be asking help from is a woman who sexually assaulted him and threatened him when he did not accept her advances. This is very bad news. This could jeopardise the entire meeting. His presence is endangering the mission! “Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.”
Sheesh, with the bullets he's sweating in your head, you'd think the MC was the one who'd assaulted a student.The fuckboy mc also wants to help Maya, but when he realises who the person he’s looking to get help from is, his “Fuck. Fuck. Fuck” panic is all about himself. He’s about to walk into an ambush. He just dumped this woman, and now he’s gonna ask her for help, all while Sage may innocently disclose that they are a couple now! He is “Fuck. Fuck. Fucked!”
Two different mc’s reacting the same way on completely different tangents because that’s who they are at the time. One who sees the meeting as fucked, the other who sees himself as fucked.
Two unrelated focuses that can acceptably warrant the same response.
Also, at no point am I suggested the mc is just surprised, or relieved. Relief would come if he was presented two doors:
“Behind one of these doors is a woman who you’ve fucked, and you’re fucking her daughter, and you’ve just dumped her! Behind the other door is a woman who sexually assaulted you. Now make your choice!”
When the mc opens the door to find the lesser of two evils, he may be relieved.
But that’s not what this is.
Your expectations are biased because you consider one outcome worse than the other, but the mc only knows the outcome that he’s living, and he panics regardless.
In the mc’s universe, whatever scenario he is living, he’s not weighing up other scenarios, he’s just shitting himself thinking about what’s to come.
And to compound things, no matter the scenario, in all cases, the people he’s hoping for Maya to get help from are Tybalt’s parents. That just makes matters worse.
In all cases, not being there sounds like a good idea. Time to run the the bathroom, where the gravity of the situation sinks in more…
Halloween. <3We have reached the final status update for episode 9.
The render queue is now down to a single digit.
9 animations remain, meaning that private beta testing, with my team of testers, can start within the next 1-2 weeks.
I have started preparing for the release, and the final preview will be posted next week.
It looks like it will be Halloween in December for every DIK and HOT.
Stay tuned for the release date announcement.
Have a nice weekend
Dr PinkCake
Not exactly overflowing with numbers, but this is probably the best news we could get nonetheless. DPC completed at least 10 animations this week. He maintains his overall average of ~7.7 animations per week since the Interlude launched. More importantly, it also brings the final 9 animations within striking range by next week - at least theoretically. Still no word on additional statics, but that's unlikely to make a difference to the bottom line at this point. Here are the charts:You must be registered to see the links
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Halloween. <3
We finally got there! There are only 3-4 weeks left before the release.You must be registered to see the links
Halloween. <3
I think it also shows that he's making enough money that he doesn't need to bother with custom renders anymore. DPC picked up over 1000 new patrons this month without even releasing episode 9 (from 12000 to 13000). I assume they joined expecting the episode to drop this month.Credit where it's due, canning the customs is a sensible move. They're great for those that get them every month, I'm sure, but clearly in the nice to have category (except for the Quinn ones, which are of course essential).
That he's looking for ways to free up more of his time to focus on the meat of game development is definitely encouraging. It hints at someone who's probably been a tad more bothered by the length of the development cycle this time than his "it takes as long as it takes" comments have sometimes suggested. I hope he goes further and really asks himself some tough questions about time and resources in episode 10, but for now this is a step in the right direction.
ArigonThere was someone in this thread a while ago (I forget who), who said DPC was only going to do 2 more episodes and then quit.
Ok, it looks like it’s time to take this to the next level. I didn’t want to do this, but you’ve forced my hand…
These two mc’s exist in alternate timelines. They do not have all the same experiences (although many may overlap), and so they would never gauge their response on an alternate version of themself under different circumstances.
The mc that goes into the meeting having fucked both Jade and Sage, and just finished dumping Jade over text (definitely the cowards way out!) while deciding to choose Sage (debatably the most dangerous combination), is not the same guy who is just friends with Sage and turned down Jade’s highly unprofessional advances from the beginning.
You’re looking at it from the perspective of a person who is confronted with both (or multiple) outcomes, whereas the mc, in the play through where he was unwantedly molested by Jade, never experienced the whole mother/daughter fuckfest.
When the mc walks into the apartment, he has a sense of foreboding, and it is realised in the presentation of the family photos.
The innocent mc has done no wrong, his focus is to help Maya and this meeting is very important, Maya’s problems have been present since the day they met. Suddenly the mc realised the very person he is going to be asking help from is a woman who sexually assaulted him and threatened him when he did not accept her advances. This is very bad news. This could jeopardise the entire meeting. His presence is endangering the mission! “Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.”
The fuckboy mc also wants to help Maya, but when he realises who the person he’s looking to get help from is, his “Fuck. Fuck. Fuck” panic is all about himself. He’s about to walk into an ambush. He just dumped this woman, and now he’s gonna ask her for help, all while Sage may innocently disclose that they are a couple now! He is “Fuck. Fuck. Fucked!”
Two different mc’s reacting the same way on completely different tangents because that’s who they are at the time. One who sees the meeting as fucked, the other who sees himself as fucked.
Two unrelated focuses that can acceptably warrant the same response.
Also, at no point am I suggested the mc is just surprised, or relieved. Relief would come if he was presented two doors:
“Behind one of these doors is a woman who you’ve fucked, and you’re fucking her daughter, and you’ve just dumped her! Behind the other door is a woman who sexually assaulted you. Now make your choice!”
When the mc opens the door to find the lesser of two evils, he may be relieved.
But that’s not what this is.
Your expectations are biased because you consider one outcome worse than the other, but the mc only knows the outcome that he’s living, and he panics regardless.
In the mc’s universe, whatever scenario he is living, he’s not weighing up other scenarios, he’s just shitting himself thinking about what’s to come.
And to compound things, no matter the scenario, in all cases, the people he’s hoping for Maya to get help from are Tybalt’s parents. That just makes matters worse.
In all cases, not being there sounds like a good idea. Time to run the the bathroom, where the gravity of the situation sinks in more…
Miracle Max and his misconceptions aside ("to blave..." what bullshit....
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How? How is he endangering the mission?
Jade is obviously not going to bring the topic up directly, and if she wanted to make *him* suffer she could easily have done that at the Prep party 4 episodes ago when the snub was still raw. She didn't give a shit about seeing the MC sneak into her son's big party back then, why the fuck would she decide to take her frustrations out on *Maya* now??
Moreover, I completely reject your premise. Sure, the MC hasn't seen the alternative branches where he fucks Jade and/or Sage, but even a bulb as dim as the MC can extrapolate that fucking Jade might have resulted if he didn't reject her. So yeah, the pure CHICK, irrationally-worried-about-Jade-hating-Maya-through-him MC should still realize the situation could be substantially worse.
And it's not like these two supposedly disparate incarnations of the MCs are in the same delicate lockstep the rest of the time. The MC who turned down the throuple won't awkwardly blurt out "Study!" during the Episode 6 library scene, despite not having experienced how much more awkward the situation *could* have been. Yet somehow no one commented on such a "glaring" omission at the time. It's almost like we expected the MC to be mostly the same guy reacting to his different circumstances.
Were I inclined to be generous, I might accept a single 'Fuck." as a summation of the curious mix of surprise, concern and relief our chaste MC might be feeling. But DPC got greedy and tried to slip another 5 fucks past us. So my generosity is gone. I'm limiting the Jade/Sage-less encounter to a single "Well... shit." at most.
Sheesh, with the bullets he's sweating in your head, you'd think the MC was the one who'd assaulted a student.
You keep asserting that the MC is terrified because Jade came on to him and her turned her down, but the game has never hinted at such a thing. Hell, even in that moronic ending the game doesn't actually offer an explanation; the idea that his meltdown is justified is pure headcanon, and increasingly threadbare heeadcanon at that.
Again, in the actual game Jade had a chance to extract a pound of flesh from the MC only to shrug and walked away. The MC spent Episode 6 trying to brush up on Gender Studies with Maya and never had a single inner monologue thinking about how all this work might be meaningless if his professor felt scorned. It's almost as if the concern never occurred to him... because it hadn't, any more than it had occurred to us in the last 2 years.
DPC prioritized hyping a lame twist over reflecting our "important" choices in his season cliffhanger. It's okay to admit it and criticize him for it. He's never going to grow out of these bad habits if we won't hold his feet to the fire.
That's a very good point, because it seems very early on Jacob is gonna say something about Sage and the Burkes to the mc but he gets cut off, so at least some of the DIKs know, if not all of them.I am a bit surprised when MC and D-boy are getting scored on their hell week performance. In the thread where the fucking Jade video is used to get a point for fucking a teacher. No other DiK spoke up and said, "Dude...that's Sages' mom!"
After all, it is a school for special kids, and not in the sense of the Xavier Institute.I am a bit surprised when MC and D-boy are getting scored on their hell week performance. In the thread where the fucking Jade video is used to get a point for fucking a teacher. No other DiK spoke up and said, "Dude...that's Sages' mom!"
I did not think that nowadays someone else is interested in the sandbox, it seemed to me all use the accrual of money through the console.I think it also shows that he's making enough money that he doesn't need to bother with custom renders anymore. DPC picked up over 1000 new patrons this month without even releasing episode 9 (from 12000 to 13000). I assume they joined expecting the episode to drop this month.
There have been changes to DPC's attitude over the years. Look at the very first post in this thread, where he was happy for people just to play and spread the game, only to later disown F95 for "ruining his business model". A few weeks ago he said in an update to stop supporting him if people didn't like the long wait times, to this update where he basically stopped giving any benefit to his whale backers. He's getting frustrated, or cocky.
There was someone in this thread a while ago (I forget who), who said DPC was only going to do 2 more episodes and then quit. I thought he was trolling and he probably was, but the more I think about it I'm concerned DPC isn't going to make it to 16 episodes. I remember when DPC used to talk about the game he was going to make after BaDIK, but now he said recently that he might not make anything after BaDIK. I'm sure him and his wife are crunching the numbers to figure out how long this game needs to go on for them to retire.
Whatever happens, the episodes need to come out faster. We have 7 more episodes to go. They can't take a year each. DPC won't make it that long.
Which means he'll shave off roughly a month from the process. Yay?Don't worry guys, EP 10 will be 10% faster because DPC won't make custom renders
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of course it doesThis ename and shazba debate has me like:
I disagree. the relationship with nicole is anything but just fuckingI don't see Nicole but like a friends-with-benefits type of situation.
considering how much this episode has taken and how much is left, I'm actually hoping arigon was right. stretching this out for 4+ more years makes no sense at allThere was someone in this thread a while ago (I forget who), who said DPC was only going to do 2 more episodes and then quit.
I'm still sure it won't go under 7-8 months per episodeDon't worry guys, EP 10 will be 10% faster because DPC won't make custom renders
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Dude you are overthinking things, overthinking causes nothing but headaches. what's going to happen in future ,will happend no matter the initiatives. So just chill , relax and enjoy.I think it also shows that he's making enough money that he doesn't need to bother with custom renders anymore. DPC picked up over 1000 new patrons this month without even releasing episode 9 (from 12000 to 13000). I assume they joined expecting the episode to drop this month.
There have been changes to DPC's attitude over the years. Look at the very first post in this thread, where he was happy for people just to play and spread the game, only to later disown F95 for "ruining his business model". A few weeks ago he said in an update to stop supporting him if people didn't like the long wait times, to this update where he basically stopped giving any benefit to his whale backers. He's getting frustrated, or cocky.
There was someone in this thread a while ago (I forget who), who said DPC was only going to do 2 more episodes and then quit. I thought he was trolling and he probably was, but the more I think about it I'm concerned DPC isn't going to make it to 16 episodes. I remember when DPC used to talk about the game he was going to make after BaDIK, but now he said recently that he might not make anything after BaDIK. I'm sure him and his wife are crunching the numbers to figure out how long this game needs to go on for them to retire.
Whatever happens, the episodes need to come out faster. We have 7 more episodes to go. They can't take a year each. DPC won't make it that long.
Yeah, dude be like "Episodes need to come faster", but they won't lmao. If you haven't accepted this yet, 9 chapters later, then just move on from this game. I also wanted the episodes to release more quickly, but I know that's not happening, it's futile to stress over this.Dude you are overthinking things, overthinking causes nothing but headaches. what's going to happen in future ,will happend no matter the initiatives. So just chill , relax and enjoy.