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Michael Jackson Themed MMO In the Works
norton123 writes "SEE has announced plans to published a Michael Jackson themed MMO. From the article: 'Planet Michael is described by SEE as "a massive social gaming experience" with "collaborative in-game activities," set in "an immersive virtual space themed after iconic visuals drawn from Michael's music, his life and the global issues that concerned him."'"
Too bad about the COPPA Act. The intended target audience is impossible unless the chatlines and names were narrow pre-determined choices ala Toontown.
Captcha: upward.
Why? Just... why? Let his memory die already, please.
Are you fuckin with me?
You can only play male gnomes and dwarves.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
1) change your skin color
2) adjust your facial features
3) buy a monkey
I don't want to even THINK about the achievements.
The character selection screen will have two choices. Micheal Jackson and a Little White boy.
did you forget to take your meds?
Does anyone want to start a deadpool on this with me? I give it 5 months after release to implode.
There is a war going on for your mind.
boo I say, boo ....unless they include dance combos and hip thrusts
she was the daughter of a wealthy florentine pogen read em and weep was her adjustable slogan
A/S/L ?
Everybody gets what the majority deserves.
Ok, so not a die hard MJ follower but am certainly a fan of his music. A MMO based around his life and music may just be the stupidest thing I've ever heard of.
I think the whole image of MJ as a child molester might make this place a bit too obvious for pedophiles to go and solicite from.
Ok, on to the jokes.
1) Children under 13 need to ditch their parents in order to enter.
2) The MJMMO, the only place where you're payed to play!
3) Blue young hottie needs Jesus juice badly...
"Common sense will be the death of us all"
Please!
Well it is not so much buying, as paying off his parents.
They Are also introducing an SciFi themed Michael Jackson FPS called Alien vs Child Predator.
A MMO based on abusing drugs, molesting little kids and buying white babies to claim they are your own? Just doesn't seen right.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
..a fake /. story posted as a beautiful "set" for unlimited +5 Funny "spikes" for everyone?
If it isn't then this will make a great "Really?" segment on SNL's Weekend Update.
Will be a bigger den of pedo porn than AOL of the old days! Sheesh. I predict half the users will be feds posing as children and the rest catholic priests and republicans.
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Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Now that he's dead the owners of his 'brand' will sell, sell, sell his image until it becomes a mere parody of someone famous.
I imagine he would have wanted better. Respect, for example.
We haven't made a game for Elvis and he was THE KING, besides why does a pedophile get his own game?
At what level do you get to ride Michael?
You have split the child in two. You have gained 13 exp. Welcome to level 2!
Civilization has ended. Hope you enjoyed the show.
Does MJ appear as a child or adult NPC?
/b/ is that way -->
Probably don't want to be under 19 playing this!
What next? A Rick James MMO?
The above was a sincere and honest response to the post. It is echoed by many other posts here. With a subject like that and the dark history of MJ, it should be expected. It strikes me as a shame that there are so many fans of drug abuse, child molestation and buying of white babies with mod points willing to abuse them by silencing a view that they don't agree with by labeling it the posting of a troll, but I guess they couldn't say much to defend an alternative view instead.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Wonder who had this brain fart?
Hope is the currency of fools
Will this be the epic mount?
Assuming the accusations were true, it was tragic, not funny.
Assuming they were false ( as we should seeing he was never convicted in a court of law ) the joke is even more tasteless.
Seriously, considering how often people here point out how society tends to fucking lose its mind once children are involved, it is a bit tragic to see people repeat this tasteless joke and get moderated funny for it.
The MJ MMO may be fun and all, but I'm holding out for the Ike and Tina MMO.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
Pedobear approved.
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
...should be quite a thriller, tho.
Does anyone remember XPLORA, the Peter Gabriel interactive CD-ROM project? I am imagining something like that...
Meanwhile, MMO is all about fantasy. Who in the world wants to be Michael Jackson? How is that fun?
Now David Bowie world - that would be off the hook! Everyone starts with a gun/sex toy and you can change your name, race or gender at any time. In fact, I am amazed Bowie doesn't already have a MMORPG.
problem is there's more money to be made on MJ - he basically got marketing-martyred when he died.
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Hey! That's the bus I rode to school.
How can I be one of the first to sign up, so I can make sure I grab the "Pedobear" screen name?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
I assume that it will include Jesus Juice as power ups and your lair will contain a large bed filled with young boys. If not, what's the point?
If they let kids dance and create music together somehow ("collaborative in-game activities"), then I can see this becoming a success, if they pull it off well. However, the fact that they didn't give any details regarding the gameplay tells me that this unlikely to be the case.
:wq
The MJ MMO will just be "Hello Kitty Online" but re-skinned...
Dibs on the name AnnieRUOK
Apparently this MMO is a whole universe and Planet Michael is just the first planet and is simply a Michael Jackson themed world.
If consumers don't really like Michael Jackson then they may still feel at home 6 months later, when the company releases their 2nd planet, Planet Gary Glitter.
The 3rd planet is only in pre-planning. If the game is still viable 1 year after launch, sports fans can enjoy Planet North American Major Baseball League Association.
I got really excited until I realized it was about having inappropriate relations with little boy's instead of finding new beers.
It's a first person shooter.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
Norton123 posted this from April 1, 2011.
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Naturally a small army of people started threads here asserting their certainty that Michael Jackson actually did what he was accused of doing.
Yet not one of those people bother to point out that there was never a criminal conviction on those charges. Instead they keep bashing him over what can't be taken to be anything more than accusations.
And if you think he did do what he was accused of, the person you should really be directing your anger at is the parents of the child who was victimized. Those parents would be roughly the fourth or fifth worst parents in the world; not only for allowing their young child to spend the night with a weirdo but then for dropping the charges in exchange for money. No decent parent, regardless of their financial situation, should ever be willing to compromise on matters of the law in exchange for money. Ever.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
He wants his graphics back.
Does it come with a printed instruction manual, or is there a pdf file on the disk? Pediaphile, geddit?
Thank you, try the seafood platter!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
They should have him in prison and have him get beat up by all the other prisoners!
While not a MMO, there already was a Michael Jackson game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson's_Moonwalker
Early game kind of sucks. You're exploited by the senior members of your clan despite having considerably more talent than all of them put together.
Middle game is cool. You kick all kinds of ass on your way to fame on royalty.
End game is kind of weird. Feels unfinished.
No dad! no!
It's nice to see all of this recent publicity for Michael, he's had it pretty rough for the last decade or so. Hopefully he'll be able to capitalize on all of this newfound attention and turn the corner on his financial woes given this huge surge in popularity.
What's that you say? Oh. Sorry to hear that.
And then rode his body down a rocky hill like a Christmas sleigh in winter
Nightelves do the MJ-moves in WoW.
Now Moonwalkers will play characters akin to little elves.
TIME FOR FUN!
I'd much rather have an Xbox Live Arcade/PSN release of the Sega arcade game. Preferably with "Thriller" in the soundtrack this time.
Freedom is drinking a beer in the park when you're supposed to be at work.
Do you get to drop babies from buildings as a weapon? That doesn't sound too bad.
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I kinda doubt that that was the _whole_ story though. All the photos I've seen of the disease, and someone with that kind of depigmentation I actually knew IRL, were cases of it happening in patches, rather than just becoming gradually uniformly whiter. The guy I knew was nicknamed "the dalmatian" because, really, that's what he looked like because of it.
It also tends to be disproportionally more pronounced around the eyes, nostrils and mouth, and often asymmetrically so.
Michael Jackson's face never showed any signs of that. Even if the final result of a really extreme version might conceivably be uniformly white, the intermediate stages would not. At some point in between he'd not as much need a glove to hide it, he'd need a mask.
Really, even if he had it, and assuming that no "bleaching" was involved, he would have to use makeup heavily to look relatively uniformly white. In which case, really, if he's ashamed of becoming white _and_ is using makeup for it anyway, then why not dark makeup? Something doesn't add up.
But... even in the link you provided, down the page it says they did find a lot of monobenzone and hydroquinone in his home, which, guess what? Is used to depigment the skin. It can be used to make someone with vitiligo uniformly white, but it does amount to "bleaching" the skin to remove the unaffected patches. Or, if I'm to be mean, it can also be used to depigment someone who doesn't have vitiligo at all. There is no difference there between killing the melanocites (pigmentation cells) in an unaffected skin patch on someone with vitiligo, and killing them in an unaffected skin patch in someone who just is unaffected.
But at any rate, if he wasn't using those to whiten his skin, WTH _did_ he have all those tubes of it for? We're not even talking one or two bought just in case. There was a total of 37 tubes, roughly evenly divided between the two.
It seems to me like, maybe because Vitiligo or maybe not, he did whiten his skin chemically too. And frankly I wouldn't hold it against him either way. But let's not invent some disease that's just, you know, totally natually uniform when that very likely wasn't the case.
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so that his memory might be more profitable
Surely a game where you can live like Michael Jackson has no way of getting past the ratings board. This game will be banned in Australia.
This is it!
You are likely to be molested by a grue.
I predict michaelville to be home of the trolls.
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