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Untitled Goose Game Devs Commit 1% Of All Future Earnings To Australian Indigenous Groups

"Our videogames are made on stolen Wurundjeri land."

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January 26 in Australia is officially called Australia Day, a public holiday meant to celebrate the arrival of the British First Fleet in 1788. It's the date that British sovereignty was declared, and as such it's also a day of mourning for many indigenous Australians, as it marks the beginning of British rule and a period of history where numerous atrocities were committed. Reparations have never been provided, and land rights were never ceded.

In the wake of January 26, 2020, one Australian developer has pledged to take part in the "Pay The Rent" initiative, which asks people to pledge a portion of their income to indigenous groups on a regular basis. House House, the developer of Untitled Goose Game and Push Me, Pull You, will give "at least 1%" of all their earnings going forward to indigenous groups.

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"Our videogames are made on stolen Wurundjeri land," their announcement acknowledges. The land of the Wurundjeri tribe covers what is now known as the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria. Prior to colonization, there were around 300 unique Indigenous nations.

To date, Untitled Goose Game has sold over one million copies--if it continues to sell well in 2020, 1% a month could be a substantial contribution. The goose terrorized the Game Awards in 2019, and might get its own Lego set.

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It's a super difficult situation; on one hand if the British Fleet asked nicely "Can we stay?", indigenous Australians may have said No and it would be left with them even today if no other countries came. But then you have other Australians who are born here who feel they are also indigenous to this country who some are calling invaders today even though they weren't there. Aborigines have felt the land was stolen from them, yet other Australians weren't involved in those atrocities centuries ago. Why can't everyone get along because there will be no resolution that everyone will be happy with.

Also your statement "Reparations have never been provided, and land rights were never ceded" isn't accurate. One may believe the Australian government is not doing enough, but this statement is incorrect.

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"In the wake of January 26, 2020..."

You mean, in the wake of Sunday? Did some terrible tragedy happen in Austrailia three days ago?

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@lionheartssj1: The definition of the idiom "in the wake of [something]" is as follows "happening after an event or as a result of it." There's no criteria that it has to involve some terrible tragedy. So in this case, it'd be in the wake of the celebration of Australia Day.

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@CaidKean: Some definitions, and I would argue the most common usage, ties it to the aftermath of something. Aftermath being the consequences of a negative event. Either way, it would have read better, and much less somber, if they just said..."In response to Australia Day, one Australian developer has...".

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Sad that I'm not surprised about the fact that the 4 comments here are complaints about how they don't critizises what they want, an accusation about it being politics, and a case of "whataboutism"

But hey, I'm sure that those outraged by this have donated money or done some kind of voluntary job and not just crying over other people actually doing something.

2020, ladies and gentlemen...

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@Warlord_Irochi: Yeah I think I’m gonna make it my New Years resolution to stop reading comments.

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@bluzima: Comments on this site are the fucking worst. I'm close to moving on from here personally.

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@kgsg-19-2: not much better in other places...

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@kgsg-19-2: It’s the same everywhere you go. We’re now at a point where people feel the need to complain about a good deed while they probably do nothing charitable themselves. Social media has scrambled their brains I reckon.

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Of course, the intra-national conflicts of colonization, pillage, land plunder, rape, massacre, etc. predating the arrival of European settlers is irrelevant. The mainstream of social thought/accountability should begin and end with atrocities occurring in and after 1788. Because atrocities only matter when the perpetrators are white!

Gee, sounds like every other instance of racist myopia, like those the mainstream rightly worries about when targeting non-whites. Like when someone being killed in a car accident with a Latino immigrant gets amplified by certain predominantly white political corners, even though car accidents have no unique relationship to or coincidence with being Latino or an immigrant. Christ, people really have no self-awareness.

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What about the indigenous people of Unites Stated and Canada and New Zealand and Mexico and Uyghurs etc? seems like they're hopping on the twitter train for some publicity.

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@m7stech said:

What about the indigenous people of Unites Stated and Canada and New Zealand and Mexico and Uyghurs etc? seems like they're hopping on the twitter train for some publicity.

Did you even read the article you're commenting on? It explicitly states that the developer (House House) is Australian. Thus, it actually makes a lot of sense that they decide to focus on their own indigenous population rather than United States, Canada, New Zealand and Mexico. It seems like you're hopping on the hate train for some reason.

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@m7stech: Oh, trust me, there's plenty of sheeples in Canada who parade around declaring at the start of every single academic or political meeting that "we are on the stolen land of the such-and-such" - and then they carry on with their business as usual because they have no intention of actually giving the land back (which would of course be absurd and historically dubious to boot). But they carry on with their little self-righteous act to virtue signal to everyone else how amazing and progressive they are. It's part of the "Me 1st", "Me too", and "Me 3, 4, 5, to infinity" generation's attention grabbing schtick.

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So basically they're blaming people and making them feel bad for things that happened long before they were born?

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@velite: No. It's called reading comprehension and a total wrong take on it.

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@kgsg-19-2: My reading comprehension is quite fine, thank you.

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@velite: And it might be but it's a still a swing and a miss so not like it's any different.

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@kgsg-19-2: It's proposed here that one group of people should be given money from another group of people because long before anyone alive now was born one group of people did something to another group of people.

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