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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.
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Why? Just... why? Let his memory die already, please.
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?
A/S/L ?
Everybody gets what the majority deserves.
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"
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.
I'm fairly certain this will never see the light of day. I'm doubt it will even get beyond the concept art phase.
Michael Jackson's musical talent aside, who in their right mind would care enough to play a game like this? The kind of people who might actually care that much about him are unlikely to ever touch an MMO. Unless it's developed as a Facebook game perhaps.
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.
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.
Depends if they can get the Crytek engine ported into Javascript or maybe Flash I guess. Should only require all of the computers in the world to get reasonable performance.
I read the internet for the articles.
As a game proper, this sucker is toast, unless Jackson fans are more rabid than they appear.
On the other hand, observe the gradual accretion of "casual" features(ie. screensaver-eque autoplay modes that basically make the game function as an MP3 player with visuals) in the Guitar Hero/Rhythm game genre, along with the move toward online digital distribution/marketplace models and the ability to aggregate songs from multiple games...
As a game in the more or less classic sense, the project seems as doomed as it is stupid. As a game-esque mixture of themed social networking and micropayment nickel an diming for Jackson themed digital "merchandise" I can imagine it at least breaking even.
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.
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.
The man was a pedophile.
You need evidence. You need evidence because one day someone will accuse you of something like that and you will be desperately trying to convince everyone that it isn't true, and that evidence is not the plural of rumour.
As a young man I hung out in a social group which didn't care much for standard social etiquette. Sometimes we would all fall asleep under the covers of the same bed or floor together, male and female, single and partnered. It wasn't an orgy (honest, officer), nor a drunken heap (I still don't drink)... I guess it was a classical sleepover, but with everyone 16+ and within a few years of age of each other. Just because the age gap has widened in MJ's case, it doesn't suddenly make something /more/ sexual... at least, not automatically in my mind.
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
It's a first person shooter.
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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.
While not a MMO, there already was a Michael Jackson game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson's_Moonwalker
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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