UK Politician Seen Playing Margaret Thatcher-Themed Doom 2

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UK politician Jeremy Corbyn has been seen playing «Thatcher's Techbase,» a mod for Doom 2 that centers around Britain's ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher coming back as a Cyberdemon monster. Given its stance as one of the best first-person shooter franchises in gaming, id Software's early output helped establish the genre, with the classic games still being played to this day. And of course, the modding community is no stranger to messing with the formula, though it is quite surprising to see a politician engaging with one of the mods.

As popular as the games may be, with the series containing one of the craziest and most iconic FPS weapons in the guise of the BFG, many wouldn't consider it «the norm» for a public figure to be seen playing Doom or any of its follow-ups or contemporaries. Gaming is often considered to be something for younger people, especially when it comes to the more violent titles, so the image of a political leader playing a video game is quite intriguing, especially considering this particular one could say something about the player in question.

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Jeremy Corbyn is the former leader of the UK's Labour Party and was recently seen playing this Margaret Thatcher-themed Doom 2 mod, as first spotted by PC Gamer. An image uploaded to Twitter shows the politician standing next to a «Thatcher's Techbase» arcade cabinet, which was built for The World Transformed festival, an event based around art, music, and «radical politics.» What's interesting about seeing Corbyn play this game is that the late Margaret Thatcher was the leader of the opposition, fronting the Conservative Party and serving as UK's Prime Minister between 1979 and 1990.

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