Edit: Your full post won't show in my reply so know I'm replying to more than the part about ICSTOR.
Original reply:
Solid reply I even liked because it's well thought out and serious.
The few areas of question or disagreement are ones that we actually don't.
When asked if I think second base is pretense to fucking, I make it clear that I both don't mean outright fucking as much as going further. Even more, a direct focus on her ability to change her emotions (physical and mental) on a dime and the other behaving in a way that perfectly falls in line with it. It comes off as weird and very unbelievable.
Then, I even wrote that the dynamic between her kids should be that way. Other guys? No. Her son and daughter? Of course.
So that's not even a disagreement as much as, at most, a misunderstanding.
The rest is total agreement or a slight difference I can totally understand.
I'll end by saying that I also never once claimed L&P's renders are anything but terrific! That's not his issue. Frankly, it's a reason to get help as it should not have taken 4 months to make that update. If it did and does...you need some help with the work.
I think his real issue is writing, planning and execution of the story if we pretend he isn't outright milking it.
Let us pretend for a second that he really is the Kubrick of adult VNs. He demands perfection, lol.
In this obviously fake scenario, his perfectionism is getting in the way of the work he's a perfectionist about. It's the equivalent of taking 25 years to make a film and the film turns out to be Cocaine Bear, lol. Mildly entertaining but otherwise nonsense and not needing a 25 year shooting process. One could assume that Cocaine Bear could be made in a couple years...with help.
But solid post. Really.
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You are right, it was a misunderstanding on my part there, with the emotion changing. To be honest, I kind of half skipped half skimmed the text with Sam, because it was too bad, so I based my view, more on the last scene with Dylan.
The part about the quality of the renders I put in, not that you were not agreeing to that, but more as an intro to the fact that I think he would still want/need to have final overview of the scenes to keep up the same quality.
Regarding perfectionism, unfortunately it's a disease. I am the same way. I want to make my own VN. I started it four years ago and I still haven't released the first iteration. It took me four months just to make my MC (combination of something I modeled myself, with some morphs from daz. Same with textures, combination of existing textures, edited by myself afterwards.) Of course, I think I can afford to do that, since I don't have any duties to patrons that are supporting me. I do it on my own time and money.
But as another example of procrastinator, perfectionist that has slowed down his work down to a crawl is GRRM. His books from the Ice and fire series are taking longer and longer until this last one 13 years or something and still not out. Crazy how this happens sometimes.
I don't know if this is indeed L&Ps problem but I can imagine it being so. As you said in your original post, he would have more to gain if he was faster with his updates and even got a new game out at some point.
If he does manage to put the game on steam, and that's a big if, the motivation there is different, as the money is one time, so you get payed by what you do, not every month while you do it.
I thought you mean he will do the complete story with new renders... now I get it 
