The Bumblefudge Legacy: Generation 2: Chapter 2

Are you ready for a spooooooooooooky Halloween update????



Too bad. Nothing scary happened this time.



Unless you're wurwolf.

First, though, let's catch up with the new lady of the house. Andrea has all kinds of wants and ambitions that she's going to have to push out of her pretty little head. wurwolf has numerous activities and hobbies to keep up with--way too many for her to do them all--so she does none of them. wurwolf never does anything around this house besides sit around and lose money, and Andrea's here to pick up some slack.

Her first wurwolf job? Tending the garden.


In the meantime, BOG is off to his first day of work as a fan. Good luck pretending to like some assy band, BOG!


It is time.


I'm sure she'll get the hang of it.


Ah! We're starting to see results!

Not as thin as I could get her, but a great improvement on where she was when she started. I'll let her stay like this for a while.


Awww, isn't that sweet? She's so enamored about the wedding, she's completely failed to notice she's not wearing a ring.

"Hi honey! Did you have a good day at work?"

"I sure did! I got promoted to roadie! You look... different."

"I spent 9 hours on the treadmill!"

"I guess that explains the smell!"



Andrea is easily impressed. This means that even the simple act of watching her husband look at a sandwich sends waves of excitement through her.

Sims are weird.


BOG's playing for tips, but the only person here who can hear him is too busy stuffing her face to put money in the guitar case.


Meanwhile, Andrea is reading up on how to cook. wurwolf has been so busy pissing away the family fortune, she hasn't had any time to learn any cooking. The family has been living on leftovers from when Grandma Sally was still alive.

Gross.


wurwolf! Hurry! Hero is escaping!!!


"Oh, can't I just let him go? Just this once?"

I'm ashamed of you. Now take him back inside.

"This kind of thing should really be a Daughter in Law job."

She's busy.


Oh... oh geez.... oh, wurwolf.....

....she made that puddle all by herself.

"I told you I had to go, but you insisted I care for the baby first."

I'm sorry! I didn't know it was that desperate!

It's ok. I'm sure nobody saw--

Oh. Gee.

"And I've got news for you."

What?



"I'm not done."

...

You are not a large woman. How can your bladder even hold that much liquid?

"You shut up. Ugh... It's running down into my stockings..."

You're going to have to replace those shoes. And somebody's going to have to mop that up.

"That's what Daughters in Law are for."

"Don't feel bad, Mom. It's very common for older people to become incontinent as they age."

"...You know Dear, Boggy is still very young. It's not too late for him to find a new bride if some unfortunate accident were to befall you."


"Hey, I'm home from work and... What the hell happened in here?"

"Andrea did it."

"Did what? Is a pipe busted or something?"

"Oh, I just spilled a little glass of water..."

"...A little bucket of water."


Oh, wow. Andrea, I don't know what that look is supposed to signify, but stop doing it.


Andrea's cooking lessons are coming along smoothly.

"My mom's a great big slut,
She thinks moraity don't matter,
She sleeps with all the guys,
And she can't control her bladder!
Yeah, yeah, yeah!"

"Wow, buddy, your mom sounds great. Can I get her number?"



While BOG's in town, I send him by the bookstore to pick up some music he can learn. Check out the fiction section. I have a hack that makes Sim-written books salable (not sure why that wasn't included in the game).

Note that the game doesn't keep track of who wrote what, so if I want wurwolf to retain credit for anything she's written, I have to actually name the book "Smutty Title by wurwolf".

Her most lucrative book is too far down the list to appear in this picture.


There it is! I don't know what goes on in that book, but Sims are willing to pay $56 a pop to read it!


Her cooking is improving!


I think she needs a little more work, though, so here she goes.


There!

That's it for now. See you next time! Take care, and happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

For the scary holiday I choose the scariest of monsters: Medusa!

Of course, I choose this picture of a video game sprite so my readers don't turn to stone.


When I was in college I minored in history. In a class about classical Greek myths we came across this creature. The professor told us that the monster was a reputation of Greek men and their fear of female sexuality. No, really. Think of the snakes as hair, and remember that she spat out some kids after being decapitated. Also, her stare turns people into stone. Her face is just so scary and hideous!

While looking for an appropriate picture I saw many Medusa's with pretty faces, which misses the whole poin. I guess it could be a lot worse given the Internet.

Tork's Picks Week 8

I'll pick

Hou over Buf
Chi over Cle
Dal over Sea
Det over StL (Good gravy. I bet this game is somehow shown on FOX.)
Ind over SF
NYJ over Mia (Both these teams stink. Bet this game is shown on CBS, though.)
NYG over Phi (Go whoever can best beat Dallas if they meet in the playoffs)
Balt over Den (Denver is bound to lose one, right?)
-
Tenn over Jac (So, which city will the Jaguars move to? Will we finally have a LA team?)
SD over Oak
Ari over Car
Minn over GB (I'm glad we're getting these Brett/GB matchups done quickly.)
-
NO over Atl


open: Was and some other teams


Last Week: 9-4
Total: 67-36

This Week In Entertainment (10/27/09)

My Pick of the Week is Tales of Monkey Island Episode 3 for the WiiWare. What took you guys so long? Yes, I know the answer is that Nintendo sucks at release schedules.


Out in theaters this week is a stitched together movie about Michael Jackson's last concert. Or some other concerts stitched together. This blogger chooses to skip this movie and remember the 80s.

Not a movie about the Boondocks the comic.


On home DVD is another movie about Tinker Bell and all her girlfriends. Let me guess: She talks, because why bother keeping her in character.

I thought this series was about the anthology series introduced by the Cryptkeeper, but it isn't, so forget about it.

I just mentioned this film being in theaters LAST WEEK!

Technically he wasn't... Just saying.

Due to all the promotion about 2012, I'm not very worried about the year. It looks like the next Y2k.


On Wii and DS is Press Your Luck. It better be cheap. In fact, it should be packaged with Price Is Right for 30 dollars. I'd pick them up.

Geocities is dead

I used to have a geocities account. I wanted to make a website that contained all the posts from a role playing game that my friends and I participated in. I also wanted to play around with HTML and work on my own things. So in 2002 I got an account and started making my own website.

It was fun at first, but unfortunately I did something really stupid that stopped the project dead. For some reason, you're not suppose to hard save a geocities webpage. Hard saving is when you save an individual web page to your computer. This ended up doing two things. 1) I could no longer access any geocities pages. 2) I was getting frequent pop-ups for female anatomy. Specifically it was always Asian female anatomy. I never got why it was so specific.

So somehow I had a virus that prevented me from using the website anymore at home. I think part of the problem was that I was using a Windows 98 computer with little updates. So I was left without a website and with the embarrassing task of telling my friends that I couldn't use my own website anymore. Thanks to my friend PM, I got a tripod account and was able to move my files over. Now I have a tripod account that I haven't touched in years. Hopefully tripod lasts a little longer. I don't want to move my stuff to freewebs anytime soon.

So thank you, yahoo, for giving me a place to host my first website. But I'm afraid my memories of geocities is mostly side ads and mysterious viruses.

Tork's Picks Week 7

I bet the Redskins lose by 30 poins Monday night.


I'll take:

Green Bay over Cleveland
San Diego over Kansas City
Indianapolis over StL
Minnesota over Pittsburgh
NE over TB
Houston over SF
-
NYJ over Oakland
Carolina over Buffalo
Chicago over Cincinnati
Dallas over Atlanta
NO over Miami
-
NYG over Ari
-
Phi over Was


Last Week: 9- 5
Season: 58- 32

This Week In Entertainment (10/20/09)

This isn't a movie, game, or video, but My Pick of the Week is Windows 7 because I hope it's what Vista should have been. In fact, I assume it's just a stable Vista. I'd love to get a faster computer with an updated OS.



Also out this week is the latest in this decade's version of Friday the Thirteenth. I will be reading the wiki entry Friday night just to see how stupid Saw VI is.

Want to see a movie that's actually scary? Stan Helsing. Yes, it's YET ANOTHER dumb spoof, this one that I didn't hear of until now. I will never understand the illegal drug culture.

Motherhood is a movie starring Uma Thurman. The only reason why I bring it up is the poster art reminds me of the awful poster for a movie called Baby Mama. I know it may sound like I'm exaggerating, but I can't stand the Baby Mama poster. It makes me cringe.

Astroboy is a 3d animated movie. This movie is for the older crowd because it certainly wasn't around for my generation. This will be either the first or second highest opening this week.


On dvd is the second Transformers movie. I saw a video review of the first one. Boy, was it not funny. Yes, I'm talking about the comedy when it was a summer blockbuster film. I can't imagine the second film being any better.

Also out on DVD is all of those bunny movie parodies. For not-free!

Did somebody mention a new version of Windows? Time to roll out the video tutorials!

There's a ton of DS and Wii games out this week. The only one worth mentioning is Cooking Mama 3 for the DS. Nintendo, where the heck is Tales of Monkey Island Episode 3?

Your Butt

People are mortal. I hope you were sitting down when you read that last sentence. Anyway, since people want to squeeze some more years out of their lives, there's always products that claim to extend your life. Unfortunately, a lot of them are scams. For example!!!

The most recent fad usually has two steps. The first step is unimportant. Usually you eat some rare berries or something. It's the kind of thing found in old diets where one miracle thing can make up for your lifetime of watching TV and eating potato chips.

It's step two that tries something new. The second step in a lot of these scams that you'll see in many web ads are colon cleansings. Basically, they claim that there is a lot of gunk in your colon, and if you don't flush the "toxins" out, you'll stay fat or something. I've heard that some of these ads even show gross feces to convince you that something was clogging you up and now the guy in the photo is good to go.

The solution is some product that you eat to "flush" your colon. Naturally, you have to take the company's word that it's your previously bad colon that produced your gross feces, not the product.


I bring this up for a couple reasons. One, this ad is everywhere, at least where I roam to on the internet. (Now that I think of that...HEY!!!) It's endorsed by CNN, Oprah, and some Food Network cook, except when it's not. Whenever you click on an ad promising weight loss, you can be assured that it will tell you about your large intestines.

(And of course, they won't let you leave unless you click a double pop up prompt to cancel. Didn't we all agree that pop ups are a bad thing and only used by people who want to give us viruses? I get very nervous when I see that box and want to close the whole page instead.)

The second reason is that this scam uses the WORST before and after pics I've seen. It must be hard for con men to put those together. You have to get a before guy who appeals to the gullible, but you have to have the after guy look reasonably like the before guy. Instead, many of the ads I see show a bulked up before guy, and the same guy with a tan and a baseball cap. Really.

Flush your colon, people. It's holding your melanin count down.

Tork's Picks Week 6

I'd like to thank myself for picking the Skins last week after vowing not to pick them again for the rest of the season. Best way to make sure they blow a 15 point lead.


My picks as if anybody cares are:

Cincinnati over Houston
Green Bay over Detroit
Minnesota over Baltimore
NY Giants over New Orleans
Pittsburgh over Cleveland
Carolina over Tampa Bay
Kansas City over Washington
Jacksonville over St. Louis
-
Philadelphia over Oakland
Arizona over Seattle
New England over Tennessee
NY Jets over Buffalo
-
Chicago over Atlanta
-
Denver over San Diego

open: Dallas, Indianapolis, Miami, San Francisco


Last Week: 7-7
This Season: 49-27

This Week In Entertainment (10/13/09)

My Pick of the Week is A Boy and His Blob for the Wii, a remake of the NES game. This looks like the kid is easy to control, which was my problem with the original.


Also out this week in theaters is Law Abiding Citizen, about some guy who commits crazy crimes while locked away. Unless it turns out that he's connected, I predict that this movie will be preposterous.

Where the Wild Things Are is about some book. Sorry, I'm not familiar with the series but I am aware of them.



Now you can own the entire Futurama collection, including all four movies in this Bender head.


Also out on the Wii this week is Mario & Sonic at The Winter Olympic Games. More controller shaking fun!

Tork's Picks Week 5

My picks are:

Buffalo over Cleveland
Pittsburgh over Detroit
Dallas over KC
Minnesota over StL
NYG over Oakland
Philadelphia over Tampa Bay
Washington over Carolina
Baltimore over Cincinnati
-
San Francisco over Atlanta
Seattle over Jacksonville
Houston over Arizona
New England over Denver
-
Indianapolis over Tennessee
-
NYJ over Miami

open: Chicago, Green Bay, New Orleans, San Diego



Last Week: 7-7
Total: 42-20

With my last breath, I curse Tork (Again)

Last year it was that collider thing, now you nerd types are blowing up the friggin' moon? What is your deal, man?????

Look, if we just give you guys the Nude Raider code, will you just go away?

This Week In Entertainment (10/6/09)

My Pick of the Week is Wii Fit Plus, which is basically an add-on for Wii Fit but it offers crucial additions, like the ability to pick more than one exercise, instead of just picking one and having the game kick you back to the main menu every minute.


Also out this week is Ken Burn and national park's, which is a stupid thing to be a country's best idea. Just saying. The man's entitled too his opinion but really.


These two dvds contain collections of classical educational shorts about how to be men or women.



On the Wii Virtual Console is the original Final Fantasy. Remember, every Nintendo nerd who purchases this game is giving money to Square/Enix to make future Final Fantasy games for the PlayStation 3.


Finally on the Wii is Spore Hero, because we needed more iterations of a PC game that collapsed under it's own hype.

The Bumblefudge Legacy: Generation 2: Chapter 1

I can't let the first post on this page be about football, so brace yourself for more Bumblefudge! Today is a landmark chapter as we move on to Generation 2! Hooray!

First thing's first:


Yes, of course I got somebody to feed the baby. He just had to wait for the party to end is all. We kind of forgot about him with all the rapid aging and humiliation and hurtful comments that was going on. Isn't that always how it goes with family get-togethers?


Hey, BOG, where are you going?

"Uh... bed? It's getting late."

BOG, you're the adult heir now! You run this place! You don't sleep in a little dinky bed in the nursery! You get your OWN room!

"Oh."


Ok, it's pretty small, but it's historical! This was the Founder's room!

"Grandma Sally slept in here?"

Yeah! Sometimes she still does!

"This is kind of creepy."


Hey! You even get your own attached bathroom!

"Well, I guess that's cool."

There's no shower in there because it got repossessed, but there's still a toilet and a sink!

"Oh. Great. Welp. I'm going to go to sleep now. Night!"


First job of any responsible adult heir is to figure out how he's going to support his family. Job search time! Between paintings and park guitar sessions, BOG has already been bringing in more money than his mom does for quite some time, but he hasn't had a regular scheduled job before.

None of the jobs in the paper today were what we were looking for. Fortunately, Sims 3 offers a new way to get a job:


That's right. If there aren't any good job openings in the paper or online, you can just march your Sim over to whichever building in which the job is located and apply directly.

BOG is going for the music career track. I have no idea at this point whether this is rock or classical music we are talking about, but he should be happy either way. Sim BOG has a fondness for both.


BOG is hired as a music fan! Don't ask me how you get paid to be a fan. I guess there are some bands that need to hire people to like their music? Explains Creed's success.


"Hey, Boggy! I heard you got a job!"

"MOM!!"

"That's great, Son! It'll be great to get some money coming into the house for once! You know, there were some touches I was hoping you could add to the vault out back--"

"MOM WILL YOU GET OUT OF HERE???"



Ugh. Today's maid-du-jour is the worst ever. That bowl she's eating out of is left over from some long-forgotten previous meal and has bugs and green stuff floating off it. THAT IS NOT HOW YOU CLEAN DIRTY DISHES!

Seriously, we pay her to clean, not--

Holy shit.

That bowl in her hand? Exact same bowl she was eating out of. She hasn't put it down since the last picture. She was sitting and eating surrounded by filth one second, and then she starts to stand up and POOF! All the dirty dishes disappear! I do not know how she did it. I think she may be a witch.


BOG called up Andrea Wilks, his girlfriend, and is now chilling out front, waiting for her to arrive.


There she is!

"Wait... seriously?"

Oh, shut up and quit being a jerk, you jerk. You know I'm looking out for your best interests. Don't I always have your back?

"Um... No?"

Just do as you're told.


Ahh, young love. The romantic scene begins just as sun begins to set and we lose all our light making most of the rest of it indecipherable.

Main upshot? BOG proposes! The next few pictures that I took but am not including because they are too dark to be worthwhile are of Andrea accepting, and then her and BOG taking their vows right on the spot because I don't believe in long Sim engagements.

Yes, I could invest in outdoor lighting to help with some of this trouble, but my experience with this game so far is that outdoor lighting is unreliable at best. I've never noticed any improvement in Sims 3, unlike in the other Sims games where it made a difference. Maybe I didn't try hard enough. I might give it another shot some day.


"What's going on out here? Did I miss anything? Andrea, what are you doing out here by yourself?

"Mom, I'm right here."

"Oh, Boggy, I'm sorry, I didn't see you. It's so dark out."

"..."

"What are you two doing out here? You are adults now. You can smooch indoors if you want. I'll just try to keep my retching to a minm--"

"Hello, Ms. Bumblefudge!! Er... do you mind if I call you Mom?"

"...?"

"Oh, Mom, I look so forward to getting to know you better! Hey, look at this beautiful ring Boggy gave me!"

"Oh dear God in heaven..."


I promised Andrea in the last chapter that I'd fix what the Sims clothing randomizer broke. Here is my effort so far. She's got more transforming to do, but this is as much as I can do to her short-term.

Keeping BOG's career choice in mind, I endeavored to make her look like a proper rock-and-roll wife. I also tried to keep her personality in mind when making her clothing choices. Speaking of which, I never looked at Andrea's personality before marrying her to BOG. Heck, it's not like it's unheard of for kids to get married right out of high school without really getting to know their new spouse, right?

Here's the damage:


Not bad! Most of those traits are fine. Even Unlucky isn't likely to interfere with any specific plans I have for Andrea. Her favorite music is Indie, I think, and her favorite color is blue. I think that food in the middle is...what is that? Looks like nachos, but I'm pretty sure it's mac & cheese, which is a really easy dish. She should be easy to care for. She's easily impressed, and I can't imagine that's a bad trait to have if you're determined to be a part of this family.

Starting now.

Let's leave these two lovebirds alone for now, shall we? I'll see you next time as BOG starts working for a living and Andrea settles into her new life as a Legacy wife.

Take care!

Tork's Picks Week 4

I'll take:

Tampa Bay over Washington
Indianapolis over Seattle
Chicago over Detroit
Cincinnati over Cleveland
NY Giants over KC
Baltimore over New England
Tennessee over Jacksonville
Oakland over Houston
-
Buffalo over Miami
New Orleans over NY Jets
Dallas over Denver
San Francisco over StL
-
Pittsburgh over San Diego
-
Green Bay over Minnesota

open Atl, Phi, Ari, Car


Notes: I'm picking against the Skins for the rest of the season. I hope they blow up the team and start from scratch. Won't happen. They'll just can Zorn and keep pretending that the players are better than the owner thinks.


Last Week: 13-3
This Season: 35-13