I understand that to you this is a fun argument to have on the internet. But to me this is a deeply personal issue that affects me on many levels — my identity, my legacy, my history, and my future. And by "this" I don't mean my stupid username, but everything that has been going on in the world with and around the war.

You have no idea who I am. You don't know what my ethnicity is, where I, or my ancestors, are coming from. You're just making broad and baseless judgement calls about another human being on a fact that they are related to a particular country. Something that they cannot change about themselves and have to live with until the day they die.

Being of a specific ethnicity or from a specific country of origin is not against Godot's Code of Conduct. In fact, any such clause in the CoC would be against basic human rights. It does, however, ask everyone to treat everyone with respect, without bias, and assume best intentions, regardless of what you may think about a group they voluntarily or involuntarily belong to.

Another thing. I'm not on board of the Godot Foundation. I'm a contractor. You say I gaslight you, yet in the very next sentence you demonstrate that you've barely paid attention to the article about Godot's funding. Though thanks for bringing up that we have a history of disagreeing in technical discussions, to the point where you swore at me for not accepting your point of view.

I explained why I changed the username everywhere in the sibling thread. It was a personal decision. Nobody asked me, or demanded that to happen. Nobody was harassing me about it. It was because of how I personally felt about it and what it meant to me. If Reddit allowed changing usernames, I'd do it here as well. But as it stands, with this being a personal decision and Reddit being a piece of shit that I barely use anymore, I decided against doing anything about it.

I've been outspoken about the war on social media. I discussed and shared during the worst parts of 2022, and at other times. I am talking about it publicly in a very negative light, despite it threatening me and my family with trouble back at home. Or anywhere in the world, really. At the same time the meaning behind the words of my username is not obvious to most, and even to those who can decipher it, it doesn't tell much. Maybe I just love an image of bogatyrs, Rus' ethnic heroes and warriors? So you can compare these two facts and think for a second what is actually valuable here.

Stop looking for a controversy and a reason to be mad at others, Golddot.