MMeM, Vol.11 Issue 42 – Sour!

Talk about things that make you go “Hmmm?”, “Huh!”, or really, “WTF?”. Ok, so you know how George Lucas sold the rights to everything for Star Wars to Disney for $4 Billion a while back right? Yeah, BILLION with a B. And as the story goes, he was called or approached by Disney, and was asked what he would want for the entire Star Wars franchise. He thought about it for a bit and thinking it would be quite a long drawn out negotiation spit our a round number of oh, how about 4 Billion? Disney said, done.

In all honesty, when you add everything up over the decades, the toys, the books, the movies which are still coming out, it actually now seems like a bit of a bargain for Disney so to them I say, “Well done sirs, and madams.” Moreover, think of what Disney will do with, oh I don’t know, STAR WARS PARKS? They could build Star Wars themed parks for infinity and beyond!!!! Sorry Buzz Lightyear, it’s true.

Anyway, I thought that was absolutely incredible on so many levels for all parties involved. Then on a completely different note I saw this story the other day that made me do a double take.

You know that insidiously addictive and absolutely stupid game that most of you have probably been suckered into playing for hours on your smart(dumber-now)phone called Candy Crush Saga? You know the one. Don’t act like you don’t. You’ve stooped to levels that you are too embarrassed to admit to even yourself. You have inadvertently sent invites to countless friends and families all in hopes of unlocking another life to use in getting to another stupid level that has new kinds of, wait for it, candy.

It even made you crave sweet, sugary, calorie-ridden, cavity-causing, CANDY. You re-entered the world of C A N D Y with wide eyes like a child!

You fought against shelling out actual currency. And, you logged more hours in so doing consquently finding yourself patting yourself on the back for not sucumbing to the monetary cost to lessen the torture in the snails pace edging along in a completely senseless and fruitless adventure in a world that is less respectful than a board game of the biggest Dungeons & Dragons nerds you EVER knew.

This “game”, and I use that term VERY loosely, was so shaming-ly addictive that I mark my days since breaking from its grips as freeing as kicking a horrible physical or emotional addiction like tobacco, alcohol, or codependent-heroin-hooked-shoplifting. I mean it is a break from which people should carry a micro storage card for their mobile phone in their pockets like AA chips or something. Drill holes in them to make bracelets and necklaces.

There can be special meetings with ceremonies for presenting 32, 64, and 128 days of Candy-Crush-Saga-free chips.

Well, that pile of crap was sold to Activision for a whopping $5.8 BILLION. That piece of $%$#$ sold for MORE than the total value of the Star Wars Franchise! STAR freaking WARS!!!! That’s more that Hans Solo, Luke Skywalker, C3PO, R2D2, Chewbacca, the Millenium Falcon, Boba Fett, and Princess Lea in that slave costume while being held hostage by Jabba the Hut for God’s sake!!!

Hungry yet? Craving some sweets? Where did you put that left over Halloween candy anyway?