Bad Wolf

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I haven't played this in awhile, but is Riona an actual LI yet or still stuck in the 'side-piece' category?
 

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Status update Episode 10


This week has been all about preparing for the vacation by working smart. I aim to have the PCs up and rendering 24/7 while I'm off.

PC maintenance was done to ensure everything was up to speed and working. I've decided to upgrade yet another rig after my vacation, as I'm very pleased with the performance of the 4090 cards. It will allow me to take animations one step further.

All static renders in the render queue were prioritized to render first, as these can potentially be why PCs stop rendering due to software crashes. As a result, I post-processed over 200 renders, and now only animations are left in the queue.
Regarding the render queue, I've been trying to create a big one with long animations. As my vacation starts on Monday, I still have the weekend to beef it up a bit more, but I already think I have more than enough to last two weeks.
I have also worked on and planned the previews for the duration when I'm gone. I have scheduled four previews that will auto-post on Patreon over the next couple of weeks. If you want to see the exact dates, they are posted as events on my Discord server.

There will be a cosmetic poll for Sage starting tomorrow too. Sign up as a DIK tier patron or above to participate.



And finally, a note regarding Status updates. The next status update will be on Friday, July 14th, as I'd like to work a bit after my vacation to have something new to show. I'll be back to work on July 10.

Have a nice weekend, and I'll see you here in July or occasionally on my Discord server.

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Apparently Sage's glowing skin will become as permanent as Maya's hands and skin and Josy's teeth? Why does DPC like disfiguring its own characters so much?
 
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Jumbi

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I haven't played this in awhile, but is Riona an actual LI yet or still stuck in the 'side-piece' category?
Kind of both? She is a side girl, but it looks like she is going to have her own romanceable path at last (pick the Others' branch in episode 8 for this).

Apparently Sage's glowing skin will become as permanent as Maya's hands and skin and Josy's teeth? Why does DPC like disfiguring its own characters so much?
Hmm... I must say that I am also somewhat concerned about that moist look of her skin. I hope it does not become a permanent issue.
 
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Bad Wolf

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Kind of both? She is a side girl, but it looks like she is going to have her own romanceable path at last (pick the Others' branch in episode 8 for this).
I need to catch up first. But I'll remember that. Thanks.
 
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Geralt From Rivia

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Script wise, pretty self-explanatory
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On ep7 game runs a check for these variables to play the dialogue out,
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So, I doubt there are more things going on since the save file transfer... although I don't find dalli's theory entirely ridiculous but not really credible. Nonetheless I like reading his theories it's like reading a mystery novel with lots of twists and turns.
I had to write the "plot", here's the language barrier. :ROFLMAO:
 
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DPC has said people give too much importance to LI or SG status. So I guess this means some SGs can take a more relevent role.
I believe DPC's stance is that the main girls will have a lot more content and their story lines will drive some of the overall plot segments, while the side girls will have some things to do with them. I think it's similar to Maya's loan struggle, Sage's cheating boyfriend arc or Jill's recital or Tybalt dating arcs where there was a lot of time and interaction spent over multiple chapters vs smaller individual side girl events like Riona's stalker or Quinn's robbery aftermath. It doesn't mean you can't romance the side girls but the Others track will not have as much story devoted to them. There are already a lot more sex scenes with the main girls when on their path than the side girls (except for Jill, unless she turns into a ravenously insatiable freak in bed in the next chapter to make up the difference).
 

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Nicole is 30, so the kid is probably four or five.
Or not. Her kid is most likely not fifteen either. But she fits well enough in the stereotype of the girl who gets knocked up sooner than she would have liked.
 
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Or not. Her kid is most likely not fifteen either. But she fits well enough in the stereotype of the girl who gets knocked up sooner than she would have liked.
Since her kid spends half the time with his dad this implies it was part of a divorce settlement for custody. You don't typically do that for a "wham, bam, thank-you-ma'am" pregnancy. That means Nicole and her husband were married for some period of time before divorcing so it's not likely she was in her mid-teen years when she had him. I would expect her to have gotten pregnant in her very late teens (shotgun wedding?) or early twenties, making her kid somewhere between 5-11 years old.
 

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Since her kid spends half the time with his dad this implies it was part of a divorce settlement for custody. You don't typically do that for a "wham, bam, thank-you-ma'am" pregnancy. That means Nicole and her husband were married for some period of time before divorcing so it's not likely she was in her mid-teen years when she had him. I would expect her to have gotten pregnant in her very late teens (shotgun wedding?) or early twenties, making her kid somewhere between 5-11 years old.
You do realize that babies are born out of wedlock and sometimes the dad isn't a deadbeat. Right?
 

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So we go for the outlier and not the huge majority of cases. Of course.
Of course. I tend to think differently than most. I'm not on Nicole's path or anyone's actually. I didn't think the girl I like had an actual path. After what a few people have told me, I'm going to restart and hope for the best with Riona.
 
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