hmmm why is using two different \ / slashes ???
Might be wrong here, but RenPy being Python based, and a whole lot of that community are Linux developers (forward slash) as well as a whole lot being Mac (which is now basically a flavor of Linux/Unix), it's probably just from bleed-over from the underlying libraries used. Win 10 handles it pretty well, mostly. Older Windows? Dunno.
Technically every 2 second animation loop at 30 FPS is 60 images more.
I always wondered if that was the case. As in, animations are from stills rendered individually vs using a different rendering engine that can take a model and animation plan and then render in all the "in-between" images.
ICSTOR wasn't the only creator who got hit by Patreon. A load of creators got hit pretty hard, some even worse than ICSTOR. A couple of good developers lost their pages completely because they refused to bow to censorship.
Maybe you remember/know, but wasn't Patreon under quite a bit of fire from their unwillingness to block (sanction) creators who were in countries that the west has deemed "evil"? Seems like they publicly stated that they would still allow creators accounts to remain open, but that those creators might still not get funds b/c of payment routes (aka: they deflected to Visa/MC there as well).