Michael Jackson Themed MMO In the Works 180
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."'"
Is this really just... (Score:3, Interesting)
If it isn't then this will make a great "Really?" segment on SNL's Weekend Update.
Re:Truly sad (Score:3, Interesting)
That was the case well before he was dead, and he did it himself. The rest of this is latent greed, just like all the inevitable "Michael Jackson Xth Anniversary Greatest Hits" album to be released every 5 years from here on out.
The article makes this look like a success. (Score:1, Interesting)
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.
Re:I can see the daily quests now... (Score:5, Interesting)
Oh, come off it. Micheal Jackson obviously had a huge complex where he wanted to be white. Look at the photos of him when he was young - he was a handsome African-American man with a wide nose. He could have done quite well with the ladies, had that been his objective. Obviously, it was not. As time goes on, he gets whiter and whiter, and his nose gets narrower and narrower until it became disfigured by too many surgeries. So he likes kids? Great! Get hitched and shit out a litter of his own pups. Then nobody will quest for inconvenient truths like why he sleeps in the same bed with children. If he honestly had a platonic idea of love with young'uns, then he wouldn't have needed his Jesus Juice, eh? The whole thing stinks of a tragic man, isolated from society by his wealth and his enabling entourage. Have you listened to "Thriller" in the past few years? Give it a fresh listen, it is an outstanding work. I cordially hated MJ during his popularity period in the 80s, mostly due to his endorsemanship of Pepsi (Coke or Dr. Pepper or DIE!)
However, his music before "Bad" was outstanding, even I cannot deny this. When "Bad" was released, it was obvious to everyone that he had jumped the shark (even though this term was not in common usage at the time). When he started molesting little boys, that was it. He crossed the line. America is endlessly forgiving of popular celebrities...just look at how many of them are reprehensible in one way or another. All you have to do is go to rehab, don the sackcloth and ashes of the repentant, and claim you have seen the light and will sin no more. Look at Robert Downey, Jr...the man got high and broke in to his neighbor's house. He got the Emmy when he was released from prison! A personage no less than Mel Gibson himself took the financial risk to get him back making movies again, and just look at the Ironman franchise these days.
But the whole "adopting white kids" thing took him really over the edge. There are millions of colored children who would love to be adopted by rich celebrities...just look at Madonna or Brangelina. It's fashionable! Micheal Jackson was a man with serious issues. If he wasn't the son of Joe Jackson, he would just be another 50 year old child molester serving a long sentence in a California prison.
Re:I can see the daily quests now... (Score:3, Interesting)
My personal opinion why my generation never developed a mashed potato or a time warp or much of anything other than standing around in a mosh pit and bouncing up and down is because Micheal Jackson killed dance. Killed it dead. The 2 or 3 people at the highschool dance who could do the moonwalk without looking like crap couldn't manage any of his other moves, so we all just gave up.
After that, MTV kept dance from rising from the grave by making sure the 2 music videos they showed had nothing but scantily clad women shaking their tits and ass at the camera.
I kinda doubt it (Score:3, Interesting)
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.