02-25-2022, 03:21 PMboom Wrote:

02-25-2022, 03:12 PMSamee Wrote: im sorry this comes off as really xenophobic lol, and really performative

"I realized that immediate retirement was simply the only morally correct thing I could do with this player. To continue portraying a character as loudly and proudly Russian as Vasily would be disrespectful to the nation of Ukraine and make light of the suffering of its people"

why are you demonizing being russian???? lmfao. not all russians align with putin. being a russian does not make you anti ukranian. this is really weird, im sorry. i really couldnt care less about this post, but saying that "being a character thats Russian is disrespectful towards Ukraine" is really, really fucking odd. just implies that being russian==prowar==anti ukraine, which is simply NOT TRUE.

cut the performative bullshit

It's not just the name/nationality in this case, but if you actually spent more than three seconds looking into this you'd see that Vasily was characterized as very aggressively Russian with one previous post referring to striking people down. I totally get why someone would be uncomfortable keeping that character up, and it's not like a complete in-universe personality swap is easy to write.

If people want to keep their Russian players, I have no issue with that if they're not hurting anyone else. This was just Michiganonymous' decision and I get why he did it.

proudly russia=/=proudly a putin supporter!!!!!!!!!! its xenophobic. if the dude really wanted to not come off as pro putin, dont have to put this whole performance on and say shit like "To continue portraying a character as loudly and proudly Russian as Vasily would be disrespectful to the nation of Ukraine", which paints ALL russians in a negative light.

just make some sort of fucking media post that says "i dont support going to war with ukraine lol", not demonizing all russians like this.