Non-British readers, let me catch you up on one of the most divisive political discourses in the UK this year. George Osborne, the former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer (main money guy), isn't a super popular fella. Over a six-year period, he introduced huge public spending cuts, and many hold him responsible for the ongoing struggles our National Health Service (NHS) faces today. One report has even linked his austerity measures to 330,000 excess deaths, and that's not counting those lost during the Covid pandemic.
Fast forward to earlier this month, and Osborne is set to marry wife number two. Given that the wedding location was made public, someone turned up to protest, chucking some bright orange confetti over the newlyweds. The whole thing made Twitter pretty unusable for anyone who cared about British politics, as pundits insisted that whatever we think about the whole austerity deaths thing, we should feel real sorry for the Osbornes getting some paper thrown at them. So, naturally, the event is now memorialised in a Duke Nukem 3D mod.
In the mod, created by developer Dan Douglas, you can recreate the events of that fateful day, traumatising the couple with confetti yourself. The police are, of course, on hand to rough you up for such a disgraceful act of violence, so you'll have to whip out a gun and fight them off too.
Douglas has shared footage of the mod in action over on Twitter, giving us a taste of what the protest seemed to look like in the minds of UK conservatives calling for the "assailant's" arrest.
It seems that this custom level will be part of Douglas' upcoming mod, Duke Smoochem 3D. This project includes a bunch of references to key British political and cultural moments, like people throwing eggs at the king, and that time a wanking walrus kept washing up on UK shores. The slight disruption to George Osborne's wedding that ignited a week of Twitter discourse now has its rightful place among such historical events, creating an authentic British experience that can educate everyone about our way of life.
Vibe wise, it's a little reminiscent of Thatcher's Techbase - a Doom 2 mod that lets you send Margaret Thatcher back to hell. That got a lot of attention when it launched last year, so much so that former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was spotted playing it on an arcade machine. That moment has actually been recreated in Duke Smoochem 3D as well, just as it deserves.