Colonialism

yeah

i mean what's interesting about poltergeist is it's really kind of an anti-capitalist movie Anti-colonialist.

Yeah, anti-developing.

Yeah, it was good.

Euh.

En fait, pas plus tard qu'hier, j'étais en train de, de discuter, euh- Des, des compagnies à charte pendant, pendant l'époque coloniale.

Euh, où en fait, vous voyez bien comment est-ce que, d'une certaine manière, la rente minière a été utilisée, euh, pour construire, euh, le chemin de fer entre Kisangani et Kindu, euh, entre Kindu et le lac Tanganyika et ainsi de suite.

Donc, euh, quand je regarde certainement notre région, euh, l'Afrique australe et l'Amérique latine, euh, la diversification, la croissance économique, euh, a été faite à travers l'utilisation des redevances, des redevances minières.

Le peuple a souffert, oh, combien il a porté.

La chaîne coloniale française et l'épine néo-coloniale l'ont pleuré.

Sa sueur fut extraite, sa valeur fut niée.

Mais aujourd'hui à Bobo, une nouvelle aube est nouée.

So, yeah, you know, I watch the shows on HGTV where people are buying, you know, 600,000 to-

Colonialist.

It's just colonialism

... 2 million cl- yeah.

So this radioactivity kept traveling and circulating and contaminating African countries, but also European countries.

With colonial toxicity, my argument is also to say that Colonialism did not stop with the independence of Algeria in 1962, but it continued.

And it will continue for many years to come.

Again, the half-life of radioactivity is about 240,000 years.

Then of course, um, another m- maybe milestone was, um, Zeitalter der Vernunft by Martin Wallace, because that was a game where people were saying, "Wow, there's a Martin Wallace game formerly unpublished." So not a reissue from, um, [lips smack] Tree Frog, um, that is done by Spielworks, so that definitely helped to attract new customers.

And then for sure, Colonialism by Scott Labrent, uh, because it was such a dark topic.

Great game in my opinion, really mechanically a great game, but the topic so differently handled, and nobody did colonialism before in, in such a way.

And then, uh, uh, I think finally, uh, La Granja by, uh, Ode and, uh, Mike.

So, so I think these are the various, uh, stages.

And sort of if you had to think about one of those games, the one you have the most fondness for, which one would it be?

For most fondness because we did it in this way, and a big, huge thank you to, uh, Harald Leiske as well, is Colonialism.

Because I was really scared to do, uh, the game, and I'm, I wasn't sure, ah, shall we do a game on this topic? What should be the name? What should be the title? How to do the art? Uh, and, um, in the end, we did it in this way, and I'm really fond that we did it just with this dark graphics and with this title here, and with this cover, uh, artwork.

... be careful how it's used.

Pre-colonialism maybe.

Yeah.

Okay.

And so, yeah, I think there are some people who will dig in their heels and who will never be convinced that they took any missteps.

But as I detail in the piece, there was a signature requirement called the Race, Power, Privilege, and Colonialism requirement that was passed that mandated that every major on campus would offer at least one course on race, white supremacy, colonialism, privilege, whatever, including the sciences.

We're talking physics courses on white supremacy, etc., And when Trump got into power, the legislation had been passed in, I believe, 2023.

When Trump gets into power, it was supposed to be enacted, the legislation, the following academic year.