Those new variables limit which choices you get to make.
If you aren't extreme on one end, you can't get the high value choices for Mao; if you aren't extreme on the other end, you can't get the high value choices for Nao. Each time you make a "whimsical" choice, it reduces your "logical" side, and vice versa. Same with "chaos" and whatever the fourth one is. Many (all?) of those 5 point choices for a LI require you to have 15 points on one side of the scale and, as you see, if both are present within the scene, whatever points you get for one, you lose from the other. Slim is just being a dick now. If he has any Patrons left, he's likely to lose them