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Eminem vs Slim Shady - Hitman elusive target
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RagnarokIV
Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
This gimmick peaked with Gary Busey.
semiconscious
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Revolutionary
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EverydayBeast
ChatShitGPT Alpha 0.001
Played Hitman a few years backs no thoughts on these celebrity kills, it's good marketing, to me it's fun.
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
Holy shit who's going to appear in this game next? rofif?
awwr999999
Member
More and more it seems that the games behind us are better than the games in front of us.
Gaming's headed towards a tipping point ( like Facebook had) where most young people will reject modern day consoles and games.
Gaming's headed towards a tipping point ( like Facebook had) where most young people will reject modern day consoles and games.
Melon Husk
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Reaching for Fortnite
Itchy Tickles
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Doesn't offend me and might try it, it is free after all so why not. Could be fun in a stupid way. Plus it's not like Hitman games don't have whacky silly stuff in them anyway.
Edit - Some of the tears and exaggeration in here is bizarre and creepy. Leave your bubble once in a while.
Edit - Some of the tears and exaggeration in here is bizarre and creepy. Leave your bubble once in a while.
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Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
Eminem is a hypocrite.
He's supposedly nonpartisan, yet he was sucking up to a presidential candidate...
He's the typical idiot who makes fun of everyone else, but when someone makes fun of him... he gets offended.
He's a complete moron.
He's supposedly nonpartisan, yet he was sucking up to a presidential candidate...
He's the typical idiot who makes fun of everyone else, but when someone makes fun of him... he gets offended.
He's a complete moron.
Stafford
Member
I do recall how pissed off he was at the Triumph the Comic Dog a long time ago, he was visibly upset. Yet he loves to mock well.....anyone. it doesn't work that way.
We Dutch have a saying...."wie de bal kaatst kan hem terug verwachten." I think that's basically fuck around, find out.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
That's right, my friend... Well, Eminem... He should have kept quiet and not endorsed anyone... At least that way his fame would have been preserved... But no... There goes the idiot doing political advertising
MagnetoWasRight
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How the hell is he nonpartisan? He's campaigned against republican candidates all the way back to saying vote against Bush in the song and video for Mosh off Encore.
Branded
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Keep the Dutch to yourself please.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
That makes Eminem even dumber... Especially with the orange.
Pure propaganda... Like an idiot.
Besides, he's been making mediocre songs, honestly... The last good album was The Marshall Mathers LP, the last good song was Stan's with Dido... And the last one was "Lose Yourself." The other recent songs... are far inferior.
Stafford
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Sticks
Al Pachinko, Konami President
RoboCain
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And he electrocutes Dick Cheney in the video of Without Me.
MagnetoWasRight
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That was more about Lynne Cheney trying to expand the parental advisory limitations.
CuteFaceJay
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Mr Bean Or it's a bust.
DeepEnigma
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Chupanibre
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IbizaPocholo
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BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
yet_another_alt
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Reminder for those of you that always want the full version of your games, the Eminem DLC will be delisted on Dec 31. I bet IOI saw an uptick of purchases when they delisted McGregor's DLC and decided to implement something similar for Bruce Lee and Eminem.
HRK69
Gold Member
He is actually pretty left leaning. I mean he been dropping political bombs since Mosh back in 2004, straight up going after Bush and the Iraq War. Anyone saying otherwise clearly hasnt spent even thirty seconds looking it up
The whole "he's a hypocrite" angle falls apart that fast
You come at him, he turns it into a massacre track. If he ignores you, fine. If he responds, it's fire content. Calling that "offended" is like saying a boxer is sensitive for throwing punches after taking one. And he doesn't just randomly bully people out of nowhere. Pretty much every big diss track he's dropped was a response: someone came at him first, shaded him in interviews or dropped a track swinging
And when it comes to his shots at non-rappers, politicians, pop stars or random celebs: its usually him venting about fame, calling out hypocrisy, or just leaning into the provocative Slim Shady character. It's all performance art, not him picking fair fights and then getting butt-hurt if someone swings back
The man's sold over 220 million records, snatched 15 Grammys and an Oscar, and at 52 he's still spitting some of the most insane technical bars in the game. That's not moron territory..
He's widely regarded as the greatest rapper of all time, dead or alive, and the praise isn't rooted in nostalgia alone
When Eminem drops something new, the whole culture stops and listens. A surprise track or a real diss isn't just another upload, it's an instant global event that takes over timelines, trends, and conversations for days. Almost nobody else, in any era, still has that kind of pull. The scary part? He's only gotten sharper with age. The man is an absolute monster behind the mic
Criticize the man all you want but at least critique the real Eminem an not a strawman
The track record speaks for itself
No shade toward you, just passionate about the music and the facts. All love on this side
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0neAnd0nly
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TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
But his new album like previous was a big disappointment.
He is actually pretty left leaning. I mean he been dropping political bombs since Mosh back in 2004, straight up going after Bush and the Iraq War. Anyone saying otherwise clearly hasnt spent even thirty seconds looking it up
The whole "he's a hypocrite" angle falls apart that fast
You come at him, he turns it into a massacre track. If he ignores you, fine. If he responds, it's fire content. Calling that "offended" is like saying a boxer is sensitive for throwing punches after taking one. And he doesn't just randomly bully people out of nowhere. Pretty much every big diss track he's dropped was a response: someone came at him first, shaded him in interviews or dropped a track swinging
And when it comes to his shots at non-rappers, politicians, pop stars or random celebs: its usually him venting about fame, calling out hypocrisy, or just leaning into the provocative Slim Shady character. It's all performance art, not him picking fair fights and then getting butt-hurt if someone swings back
The man's sold over 220 million records, snatched 15 Grammys and an Oscar, and at 52 he's still spitting some of the most insane technical bars in the game. That's not moron territory..
He's widely regarded as the greatest rapper of all time, dead or alive, and the praise isn't rooted in nostalgia alone
When Eminem drops something new, the whole culture stops and listens. A surprise track or a real diss isn't just another upload, it's an instant global event that takes over timelines, trends, and conversations for days. Almost nobody else, in any era, still has that kind of pull. The scary part? He's only gotten sharper with age. The man is an absolute monster behind the mic
Criticize the man all you want but at least critique the real Eminem an not a strawman
The track record speaks for itself
No shade toward you, just passionate about the music and the facts. All love on this side
He basically Bait and switched, which is weird because the first single set-up would have been massive if it went in the direction it was advertising.
Sadly he just went back to his old/new ways and it was just another 2010+ Em album.
It had soo much potential.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
Is art about exploiting people to create content?
He is actually pretty left leaning. I mean he been dropping political bombs since Mosh back in 2004, straight up going after Bush and the Iraq War. Anyone saying otherwise clearly hasnt spent even thirty seconds looking it up
The whole "he's a hypocrite" angle falls apart that fast
You come at him, he turns it into a massacre track. If he ignores you, fine. If he responds, it's fire content. Calling that "offended" is like saying a boxer is sensitive for throwing punches after taking one. And he doesn't just randomly bully people out of nowhere. Pretty much every big diss track he's dropped was a response: someone came at him first, shaded him in interviews or dropped a track swinging
And when it comes to his shots at non-rappers, politicians, pop stars or random celebs: its usually him venting about fame, calling out hypocrisy, or just leaning into the provocative Slim Shady character. It's all performance art, not him picking fair fights and then getting butt-hurt if someone swings back
The man's sold over 220 million records, snatched 15 Grammys and an Oscar, and at 52 he's still spitting some of the most insane technical bars in the game. That's not moron territory..
He's widely regarded as the greatest rapper of all time, dead or alive, and the praise isn't rooted in nostalgia alone
When Eminem drops something new, the whole culture stops and listens. A surprise track or a real diss isn't just another upload, it's an instant global event that takes over timelines, trends, and conversations for days. Almost nobody else, in any era, still has that kind of pull. The scary part? He's only gotten sharper with age. The man is an absolute monster behind the mic
Criticize the man all you want but at least critique the real Eminem an not a strawman
The track record speaks for itself
No shade toward you, just passionate about the music and the facts. All love on this side
If he's smart, he's taking advantage of people... Anyone could do that...
HRK69
Gold Member
By that logic:
- stand-up comedians are "exploiting" people every time they roast hecklers or talk about their own lives. Nobody says Dave Chappelle is exploiting society, he's reflecting it.
- when U2 sings Sunday Bloody Sunday, they're using real conflict and real people to make art, not "taking advantage" of anyone. Eminem does the same thing, just in a more confrontational hip-hop language.
- same with movies. Is The Godfather exploiting crime? Is Joker exploiting mental illness? Or is it storytelling, exaggeration, and commentary?
Art isn't "exploiting people," it's expression. Diss tracks, satire, provocation, this stuff existed long before Eminem, and he didn't invent it. He just happens to be absolutely elite at it
Eminem literally spells this out himself on The Ringer :
"You mention me, millions of views, attention in news /
I mention you, lose-lose for me, win-win for you."
That's not exploitation, that's him pointing out how his name alone drives clicks, and how people profit from invoking him
HRK69
Gold Member
True, it definitely has its fair share of skips. I'm especially not into the tracks he dedicates to his daughter, his newer albums always seem to have one or two of those, and they just don't land for me at all
The technical ability is undeniable, but when the songs get packed with nonstop internal rhymes and dense wordplay, it starts to feel more like a showcase than something meant to serve the track itself. There are enough moments like that across the album that it pulls me out of the listening experience. It still has plenty of bangers imo
I think JID delivers the verse of the entire album, and considering the level of talent on it, that's really saying something
But yeah, if you judge it by the first two singles, the album definitely didn't end up delivering on what those tracks seemed to promise.