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This is interesting, I can definitely see how being muslim in the West can lead to being judged negatively, and the parallel whith how eastern europe tends to be perceived sometimes.

I have been myself quite surprised by how Americans or Europeans seem to think that eastern europe is backwards on every level based on how they judge russian government.

One stupid example is : someone believed that all soviet made devices were bad quality, when actually a lot were manifactured without the idea of planned obsolescence built-in, which made them very durable. But they had a bias for everything russian being shitty because it is supposed to be a backwards country, and didnt consider different metrics to evaluate things.

I largely agree that there is a huge amount of caricature being made about russia, but I would also argue that the government is partly at fault for that because of the monolithic image they try to project. They erase all nuance about russian people and life in the country on purpose.

I see your point. For sure, the country's situation changed a lot since the 90s. It is also very common to dismiss any russians who are critical of power to have "western eyes", as if you couldn't be russian and have issues with your government. This mentality was already present in soviet times.

You seem to say that you gain immediate affinity with russians for having the same "orthodox" mindset, yet you are ready to dismiss any russian that doesnt think like you expect them to as "not really russian". People in russia are varied, just like everywhere else, there is just one voice which overpowers all the discourse.

Edit : I don't think people who criticise their country see "only the bad". They criticise because they care, so they probably see the good as well, what do you think?

I am russian and grew up there, this is why I genuinely wonder. Of course my experience in the West might be wildly different than yours. In the same way, maybe your experience in russia will be wildly different than mine, because starting as an expat right away instead of navigating russian society from the inside might be extremely different. I am curious to know and interested to hear your side of things.

This is exactly the image that Putin's power wants to project to foreigners - did you travel to russia or know people actually living there? The country is still extremely corrupt and opportunities might be more scarce than you think. A lot of people would move out of there if they could.

No doubt that as a tech worker you can make a decent living pretty much anywhere, and I guess you are lucky enough to not be a woman or fall under the LGBT umbrella to be able to see the uprising of "family values" as a good thing.

You can do anything you want if you are into managing a huge spaghetti node system. Sometimes its more efficient and especially flexible to be able to write code, and easier to maintain, update and edit.

Unity does have built-in debug tools for rendering, I'm not sure what leads you to affirm the contrary? Or do you consider the exisiting tools to be unsufficient for your needs?

For having used both Unity and Unreal, Unreal does crash often.

Unreal can also become very frustrating very fast if you are going for anything different than a standard fps or third person game, and I percieve it as being extremely bloated compared to Unity. The force of Unity lies it its modularity and flexibility, in my opinion.

You can use the built-in event system to achieve what you were trying to do. Its really straighforward to use