{"id":4180,"date":"2018-07-10T17:49:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T21:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/?p=4180"},"modified":"2018-07-10T17:49:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T21:49:57","slug":"stabbing-westward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/stabbing-westward\/","title":{"rendered":"Stabbing Westward"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is an early strip and it ain’t that great. I feel that works thematically with the band in question. I mean, do you even remember who I’m talking about?<\/p>\n

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This might jog your memory; what do you think of when I say the name “Duke Nukem”?<\/p>\n

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  1. A villain who threatens the environment from a 1990s cartoon<\/li>\n
  2. The muscle-bound, chauvinist protagonist from a popular PlayStation game<\/li>\n
  3. The borderline-parody protagonist of the most delayed video game in the history of the medium, which, when finally bought out and completed by another company, contained womens’ boobies growing from the walls, with an option to slap them around<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Why would I make that up? Why would I make you look at it? Why would anybody?\u00a0Who would think to do something like that?!?<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

    If you answered #2, then you played\u00a0Duke Nukem: Time To Kill<\/em> on PlayStation in the late 90s. It was a pretty fun game, and if you shot the strippers in the club, Duke himself would talk shit about you, before a squad of interdimensional “pig cops” beamed in to teach you a lesson. It wasn’t as great as the PC games that preceded it, but it was a lot of fun nonetheless. Duke was already known in the computer world for irreverent, action-hero-style shooters. This was his first console foray. For the proper fanfare, the developers included a real song to go with Duke’s entrance; “The Thing I Hate”, by Stabbing Westward.<\/p>\n

    It even contains the word “shit”. Cursing in video games was still a big deal in 1998.<\/p>\n

    (By the way, this would be Stabbing Westward’s best song, but there’s not a ton of competition for that spot.)<\/p>\n