Duplicate the thread here, since in /gd/ it will get deleted in a few minutes:
https://2ch.hk/gd/res/632827.html (М)
Russian Gamedev Artists

My game, Spell of Mastery, is my personal project. While I have no team members and don't have to be responsible before anyone, I still hired freelancers in the past. I had some horrible experience working with Russian ones. For example, I have a Witch character sprite. The idea is that she is half human and half medusa gorgon. Obviously a play on the bipolar disorder stereotype. So I commissioned it to to several Russian artists in row. They all claimed to have pixelart and animation skills. Yet the best they were able to produce is the following:

https://i.imgur.com/JKtYT15.gif

Back then I've shelved the sprite, since it was not immediately needed in the game. But recently I had to finish it, which I did myself:
https://i.imgur.com/knXlRHP.gif

Have to remind you, that I'm no artist - I'm a programmer and I dislike drawing, yet I was able to do it better than a professional Russian artists with art school behind their back. Guess programming is a universal skill, allowing you to feel in any role, since you already know about light light propagation and animations from your 3d graphics experience. At one gamedev forum I've noticed a math professor guy doing okay isometric pixelart sprites for his games, while most artists usually have problems with isometry, especially animating it. So yeah, if you want to become good artist, care to learn the frigging geometry at school.

Now you may wonder what was wrong with the original sprite. Obviously animation is non existing, but artists also totally botched the palette, proportions and and art style of my game, despite me providing them existing sprites as example and explaining about proportions and the palette to use. I use that DOS gamma-level palette, inspired by games like Doom and Warcraft to get the retro feel. In fact, I took Warcraft 2 palette for player team colors as the reference point ;D

On the other hand, I worked with American and Mexican freelance artists. There were no problem with them. All animations were good. They were newbies yes, but responsible ones.

Got ban for the following message at /em/. Why?

Доброй ночи, соотечественники! Я обычно пишут по английский, но этот пост адресован вам Россиянам.

Давайте поймем, почему скажем арабам и африканцам дают полит убежище а русским - нет. Официальный ответ: потому что их страны не считаются безопасными. Там обостренна борьба за справедливость (сошал джастис), и либо уже идет гражданская война, либо диктатор закрутил гайки до трещин, и со дня на день вся конструкция людоедского общества обрушится под своим весом.

Теперь вернемся к корню проблемы - России. В отличии от например африканцев, Русские - генетически терпилы, поскольку государственные "Мичурины" всю историю России селекционировали русских на собачью покорность и беспрекословное подчинение. Именно поэтому скажем кавказцы называют себя волками, а русских - собаками. Спорить с кавказцами трудно, ибо на их стороне правда, ведь пойми, русский, ты, как собака, собой не владеешь - тобой владеет твой хозяин - правящяшяя элита России, она тебя и стрежёт. Поэтому не удивляйся, что рядом негру без очереди дали вид на жительство, а тебе - нет. Потому что это ты раб (генетический), а не негр. И тебя, беглого раба, наоборот надо вернуть хозяину - России.

Даже в случае с иммиграцией, если русскому откажут в политубежище или иммиграционной визе, русский воспримет это как должное "ну лан, где родился там и пригодился", и будет служить России, ведь никаких прав, включая право на свободное передвижение, у русского нет, поскольку даже сам русский за собой таких прав не признает и не требует их исполнения.

Араб так не поступит, у него при отказе в полит убежище, когда ему нагло заявят "FUCK OFF! WE ARE FULL", сразу "разум возмущенный кипит". Араб возьмет заложников или устроит теракт. Скорее всего скооперируется с другими арабами, которым отказали, и малой кровью никто не отделается. Мексиканцы аналогично. Например Роберто Фернандез, ожидая депортации на уРодину в миграционной тюрьме, убил гражданина США, чтобы саботировать процесс депортации (и освободить либенсраум - living room). Поэтому арабам и мексиканцам просто боятся отказывать. В России же если мусульмане и есть, то, кроме кавказцев, исключительно травоядные, курируемые Кремлем, Ислам в том же Татарстане полностью извращен и порочен, противореча священному учению пророка. Поговорите об этому с любым настоящим имамом из арабской страны. Аналогично православие - даже не ересь, а пустышка, в которой нет и тени Иисуса.

Что надо делать, чтобы русским начали давать полит убежище в той же Европе? С Европой тут как с женщиной - она дает сильным альфа самцам, а не слабакам и терпилам. Поэтому надо проявить себя - в России надо начать массово устраивать теракты, взрывать, жечь, убивать, чтоб Россия горела как Сирия, чтобы тут камня на камне не было, как после бомбежек Грозного, чтобы русских женщин буквально на улицах насиловали и прохожие мимо проходили не замечая, или наоборот собралась толпа и подбадривала насильника, имеющего "шлюху" без паранджи. Тогда безопасной Россию никто не признает. А пока наслаждайтесь своим статусом опущенцев, дорогие россосияне. Сами довольные в у параши разместились.

Как говорят американцы: "freedom is not free". Никто кроме вас за вашу свободу воевать не будет, а дерево свободы всегда надо поливать кровью, особенно обильно на начальных этапах роста. Без хорошего фертилизатора ничего не вырастет, тем более в вашей вечной сибирской мерзлоте.

Got banned for a thread asking for help at /gd/

Постинг запрещён. Бан: 1308546. Причина: Общее 11 - Обход бана //!gd. Истекает: Втр Июн 30 00:00:00 2020.Вот за это https://2ch.hk/gd/res/671169.html#671169 (М)

Hi, folks!

I'm a game developer (programmer, audio designer and an artist: https://nashgold.itch.io/ ). I don't usually ask people for help, but this time there is a problem which I can't solve by myself. I'm being threatened with deportation to Russia, since Ukraine declines me political asylum.

I don't really know what to do. So I plead you to help publicizing my case or say writing to Ukrainian FBI, aka SBU calEKJlcenterANUSsaG8suPUNCTUMgoI^vvPUNCTUMu&ZMa asking to give me, Nash Gold (legal name Nikita Sadkov), a refugee status:
https://ssu.gov.ua/ua/pages/30

I know I'm not a nice person and I cant offer humanity much, but I'm a desperate person and I really dislike Russia. In fact I've sweared to harm Russian children if Russia manages to get me extradited. So far I've kept all my oaths (I've promised to stop speaking the ugly Russian language, and I don't speak it anymore). So by preventing my extradition you can save little kids. I know you people love little kids. And I know that I have nothing to lose.

As of now I've contacted SBU myself by sending them the following letter, which I hope holds some water. But got no response.

This is an open letter.

Hello!

I'm Nash Gold (legal name "Nikita Sadkov"), unfortunately a citizen of Russia. I applied in your country, Ukraine, for a refugee status, since Russia persecuted me under the article 282 after my Internet posts where I stated that I hate Russia and its population. Since the beginning I had the intention of applying for British and Australian work visa, and then immediately leaving Ukraine, since Ukraine offers no opportunities for an English speaking IT person who hates the Russian mentality.

Your government migration service (ДМСУ) denied me the refugee status on the grounds of me "being diagnosed with psychopathy at the age of 8, breaking United Russia propaganda stands at the entrance to the commie-block, sacrificing a rooster, which represented the Russian patriots, extinguishing Eternal Fire and burning the flag of Russia." That decision was upheld by your Kyiv court (court documents attached). That forces me to conclude that you all love kissing Russian flag there and are big fans of the United Russia party, which voted to annex your Crimea in particular. Or you are just trying to prove some unobvious point to somebody, and create conflict where there is none, which is a bad PR for you in itself.

I have already wasted a lot of time in Ukraine, which I dislike for its Russian speaking population with a Soviet mindset. And now I'm facing the danger of deportation to Russia, where Russians will lock me for life since I have openly shown disrespect to their society and the ideology, they use to cement the power. And I don't even speak Russian, which creates a never-ending conflict with the common Russian population. Previously I have threaten the Russian side with huge problems if they accept my deportation, but Russians are uncooperative and still want me punished.

My legal resources to handle this outcome are unfortunately very limited. Given that I'm being left with little options and will be forced to consider desperate solutions. These can include crossing the border illegally to leave Ukraine, since I have no EU visa, and risking creating some international PR problems for you, or your border guards killing me. Or taking hostages in Ukraine and asking Ukraine less nicely to provide me a passage to another country. That will be even bigger PR disaster, especially if some hostage gets harmed. Nobody will win if a little Ukainian girl dies, used as a live shield, during your SWAT team assault.

After you declined me the refugee status, I have created a gallery criticizing your capital - Kyiv: https://www.flickr.com/photos/183169116@N03/
It was already disseminated by Kremlin bots. But as of now the license is still "All Rights Reserved". But if you still deny me the refugee status, I will change the license of these photos to "public domain", and upload to stock photo sites, like Pixabay, as a set of photos illustrating Kyiv. Then these photos will be spread by bloggers, who need a free photo of Kyiv. That will produce lasting damages to your country's PR. I.e. that is more damage, than if I had killed several your citizens, and the damage is harder to mitigate.

Apparently you're asking for something bad to happen. Since by mistreating refugees you prove nothing to nobody, beside proving you're no better than Russia. I know a refugee from India. She asked for an Ukrainian residency permit to work in Europe. You've declined her and now she smears your country. You made an enemy out of a random, but high initiative, person, who has just asked for your help, which would have cost you nothing, since Ukraine doesn't provide refugees with any welfare - just a single signature approving the residency permit.

Ukraine, please rethink your ignorant and racist stance towards us, refugees.

- Sincerely,
Nash Gold