And Finally...

Calling the UK the tenth circle of hell is also hilarious.

Remember when killing Hitler wasn't controversial?

Bethesda couldn't deal with a game more functionally complete and quality-tested on one of their platforms

There is an untapped market out there for this sort of thing. I don't need to tear apart [obnoxious media personality] with an Uzi, but it would sure be cathartic to chase them around with a metal bat and bruise them up a bit as they cry for their mommy and apologize for being such a twat on social media.

There used to be a Flash game called Punchable Faces or something like that which was literally just that, in a very simplistic form: you'd upload an image of whoever you wanted, and as you clicked the box boxing glove icon, it would overlay bruises, bumps, and cuts.

If ever there was a good use for AI, it would be pasting celebrity likenesses onto video game sub-bosses.

Bethesda recently re-released doom and doom 2. It added some new levels but also an official mod browser and mod library.

It caused some major friction with doom's modding community because there was little oversight or vetting, and nothing to check that the uploader is the mod's creator. Many modders had their work pirated by other uploaders, posting their work without credit.

Bethesda removed this mod from their own mod library, showing that they are at minimum, doing some sort of moderation at least. If you wish to play the thatcher mod you can still do so on any other version of doom.

One more reason to not let companies too far into the modding scene.

No one tell them about the eric harris ones

Folks, it's a doom mod and Bethesda removed it off their page.

People have been modding and sharing Doom mods for 30 years. There's lots of doom clients outside of the Bethesda one. There's lots of ways to Mod and finding Doom mods.

Again, this is a thirty year old game and it probably has like a handful of devs working part time to manage the Doom community. They don't want to deal with anything that gives them shit.

I mean fair enough honestly, if they're going to have a hard rule to not have poltics-driven mods on their store, there shouldn't be exceptions.

There’s no way Bethesda didn’t know about it prior, so all it took was for someone to complain? Three years after it was available? Such a load of shit.

Is it impossible to sideload mods, or have they just Streisanded it?

honk if thatchers deed

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