I'm a leftist, i have very strong feelings of solidarity with the people of Ukraine who are suffering an unprovoked, illegitimate, criminal, violent war at the hands of a totalitarian dictator and his corrupt state apparatus. Not sure how being left- or rightwing would influence your views on civilians being murdered and a totalitarian autocrat invading a neighboring country to deny its very right of existence (on absurd, false, and fabricated grounds).
I don't think this thread should be removed, but I would be in favor of the mods changing it's title into something more general and fitting for a 'war containment thread'.
I am also convinced that this forum is in one sense or another a 'community' - even if based only of our mutual desire to bitch and nag about a videogame - and that this means we should take care of each other, especially if some of us here are or have people close to them who suddenly found themselves in a war situation.
And to end with perhaps the most cynical observation: the war is relevant IMO for both Larian and the BG3 game as Larian has a St. Petersburg based studio, on twitter it seemed that the partner of Larian's head writer was trapped in a shelled area in Ukraine. So this stuff - besides affecting all of us in Europe - is also affecting Larian employees (and thus development) directly. Or do you think it is a nice time to be a highly skilled Russian dev working for a EU game studio now in Russia ? For what it's worth I sincerely hope Larian manages to evacuate anyone who can/wants from their Russian studio to somewhere else where they are not forced to live under authoritarian censorship laws, a repressive secret service and military dominated society and under the continuing risk of further escalation of either the war or the situation for civilians at the Russian side.
