GamesFPSAfter Bethesda kicked it off Doom’s mod browser for ‘real world politics’, Thatcher’s Techbase creators engage in masterful malicious compliance with a censored re-releaseWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
GamesFPSAfter Bethesda kicked it off Doom’s mod browser for ‘real world politics’, Thatcher’s Techbase creators engage in masterful malicious compliance with a censored re-releaseWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
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Bethesda, on the face of it, seems really keen to give off the impression that it’s all about modders using its games to express themselves. Unless, of course, you make a mod that consigns the former, late prime minister Margaret Thatcher to “The Tenth Circle of Hell: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.” In which case, it’s to the dungeon with thee. .
Good news, though! Thatcher’s Techbase is getting a re-release on the official store. I am, however, going to have to call it [REDACTED] Techbase, because I’m worried the characters used in the tweet below might break something on our poor website.
“To celebrate its 3rd birthday, I am rereleasing THATCHER’S TECHBASE for ‘DOOM+DOOM 2’! However, in light of the recent Educational Notice received from Bethesda, all real-world politics have now been removed.”
(Image credit: @letshugbro on Twitter/X.)
The result is an utter masterclass in malicious compliance—something that manages to be an even more biting political satire than the original, which mostly just put the face of the famously anti-union political leader in Hell, and let you blow up demons with rockets while pondering the economic impacts of her decade in power.
Now, in a pleasantly Streisand effect-adjacent move, [REDACTED] Techbase serves as a giant middle finger to Bethesda’s staunchly anti-politics stance. Clumsily-pixelated enemies, censor signs with comic sans, haphazard smiley face stickers and—perhaps my favourite addition—the swapping out of a poster that reads “Victory to the Miners” to “Victory for the Gamers”. It’s about time!
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