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So I've been reading up on Sims 3 a lot lately and... it seems kind of crappy. I mean, some of the new features seem cool but nothing has made me think, "Ooh, I want that right now!" like I did when Sims 2 came out and I subsequently forgot all about the first Sims. And it also seems to have way too many bugs and "features" that range from mildly annoying to downright infuriating to even justify the good. Plus, I can't stand the way the Sims look. They're all identical, pudgy blobs of clay with faces - seriously. I'd take the fugly of Sims 2 default townies over a bunch of bland clones any day. Not that I was going to be buying the game anytime soon in the first place, since I doubt my computer could even handle it without some major upgrades, but now I'm even less likely to. I am very content with what I have now, thank you very much.

That being said, Newbury update! I've had most of these pictures lying around for awhile but I haven't played much the past couple of weeks and I just finally got some more to round out this installment. It's even larger than the last few have been but this (hopefully) is a one-time occurrence; I just wanted to wrap everything up at once so that I could start the next update with the triplets at uni.

Last time: The triplets became teenagers. Avery is a boring nerd who skills 24/7. Charlotte is a self-obsessed drama queen. And Blake is the greatest emo to ever emo. There were plenty of other birthdays too: Miranda became an elder as her youngest child, Ophelia, finally escaped the terrible twos and her poor neglected son Nico hit teendom and was immediately shipped off to the college bin. Meanwhile, Colin remains a huge asshole who spends most of his days at Academie Le Tour getting into fights. Unfortunately, his most abused punching bag, John (aka Smelly Boy), who has been around since nearly the beginning of the legacy, abruptly perished. Whoever will he take his anger out on now?!?




"ARRRGHH!!! I NEED TO TALK TO SOMEONE NOW!"

Uh-oh. Emo Blake is not very happy with the world.



"Please?!? I'm going crazy!"

God, what's your problem all of a sudden, kid? You've never cared about making human contact with anyone else before.



Who Killed Amanda Palmer the Social Bunny?



Just kidding! Mr. (or Miss? it is pink after all) Social Bunny is alive and well. Much to Blake's dismay. Apparently, when he was having a fit about needing human-to-human contact, he didn't mean a big pink filthy bunny rabbit. Well, you'll have to make due because pretty much your entire family thinks you're a moody freak who should be avoided at all costs.



Blake tries out the ol' "Look, you've got a stain on your shirt!" routine and the Bunny is apparently very gullible.



And very angry. OMG. This is really frightening. It looks like the Bunny is jabbing a gun into his back there and forcing him into the backyard. And that expression of blank fright on Blake's face. Run for your life, kid! If I'd have known Social Bunnies were homocidal psychos, I wouldn't have forced your social needs to plummet just to see one. Er, I mean, you should've just talked to your family instead! Is it really so hard?



Our boy Blake isn't going down without a fight!



To everyone else in the household, though, it just looks like he's giving himself the smackdown. This is some total Tyler Durden Fight Club shit going down right here, folks.

Anyway, with all of Blake's anti-social antics and the fact that his siblings are boring as hell (apparently the childhood trait of general cuteness does not transform into an interesting personality as a teen), I'm strongly leaning towards him as heir already.



Charlotte is very angry over this development. Sorry, honey! Maybe if you actually did something interesting every once in awhile I would consider you more. But taking bubble baths isn't quite going to cut it.



In other news, Ella is still on drugs. Big surprise, right?



She also just got demoted thisclose to reaching the top of her career track. Ugh! Why must you do this to me?!? Okay, technically, it's my fault for picking the wrong chance card option but still, you suck!



Miranda, meanwhile, is kind of batshit insane as an elder. There are so many things wrong with this picture. First of all, she's frolicking around in her bathing suit for no apparent reason. Second of all, she's frolicking around in her bathing suit in the middle of winter and in the middle of a blizzard at that. Third, stomping on roaches is not exactly the most effective way to get rid of them! And fourth, it's fucking three in the morning. Why are you even awake?!? Those damn elders and their wonky sleep schedules. They're almost as bad as toddlers except at least they can take care of themselves. Though not very well, as this picture is proof of.



Well, at least she's put on some decent clothes but now she's decided that juggling tumblers in the wee hours of the morning is a very productive task. She seriously did this until everyone else woke up to get ready for school and work. And I'm pretty sure she wouldn't have stopped if I didn't tell her to.



But now that I have forced her to stop? She'll just get drunk so she has an excuse to act even crazier.



She's still a good mom to her one remaining child in the house. At least she's got that. Once Ophelia's gone, I can't imagine how she'll go on!



Oh, wait, she's still got Sasha. Who has a sudden unexplainable interest in shoes.

Sasha: "Hey mom! Love your shoes!"
Miranda: "What did you just say to me???"


"Oh my God. My son has been a closeted gay all this time. How could I have missed it?!?"

Careful there, Miranda, you're about to lose your dentures.



Sasha has finally discovered the Bubble Blower of Happiness! Took him long enough. But he really enjoys it. He only spent... oh, the entire night after he got home from work giggling away at it. And Miranda is pretty much a constant fixture.



Charlotte: "Um... what are you guys doing in my room?"
Miranda: "Just blowing some bubbles, honey! Don't mind us!"



Charlotte: "Awesome! Can I join in too?"
Miranda: "This machine is for the adults, sweetheart. Go play with your dollhouse or something."



You're so vain...



I bet you think this song is about you.



Charlotte: "Get the hell out of here! You're not the only member of this household who wants to admire their amazingly good-looking reflection!"

And queue the song. Ad nauseum.



Holy crap. This situation is so perfectly Blake I can hardly believe it. Except the part about him having a band. I can't believe he would be able to communicate with others effectively enough to even front a functional band. But anyway, obviously they would rock out since they're probably a screamo band or some shit like that.



Sweet! Blake is such a musical talent. He just needs to work on his social skills a little bit. Okay, maybe a lot.



But, look, he's getting better! He's actually made a best friend. Though his expression here is kind of contradictory to that. Careful, Blake, or you'll lose your one friend in the world!



He still needs lots of work though.
Blake: "No, I don't want to dance with you, you stupid bitch! And why am I wearing this ugly lightbulb on my head?!?"



Meanwhile, Sasha is caught in an Ella/Miranda sandwich, both of them vying for his utmost attention. Ella attempts to win him over with some flirting but Sasha looks a bit caught off guard there. Miranda patiently waits her turn...



Then attempts to win him over with jokes.
Miranda: "So three guys walk into a bar..."
Sasha: "Right? And then what happens?!?"



Ella eventually reels him in with promises of WooHoo. Miranda knows she can't compete with that. Or shouldn't attempt to. Ick.



Ella: "You know what sounds really good right now? An ice cream sundae!"



Ella: *belch* *om nom nom*
Sasha: ...



Sasha: "Um, maybe you shoud lay off the ice cream sundaes for awhile, sweetheart."
Ella: "What? Are you calling me fat?"



Turns out Blake is a huge failure in the kitchen and can't even make a TV dinner without burning it. Aww, he looks so sad. I would feel sorry for him if he wasn't making this because he was being too anti-social to eat at the same time as the rest of the family. They had some perfectly good salmon or porkchops or something! If you would've just sucked it up, you wouldn't be eating ashes right now.



"Oh my God, this is so disgusting. I'm going to choke to death."
Lesson learned? I hope so.



Charlotte: "Can I please be heir? Pretty please? Pretty pretty pretty please?"
Uh, no. Your amazing acting skillz aren't going to win me over that easily.



She turns to the bubble blower for solace. In her undies. This is actually the first time she's ever used it despite it being right next to her bed.



Aww, Blake! My musical prodigy! This is so adorable I can't stand it. Look at Avery back there, all pissed off. "You're messing up my concerto, you idiot!"



"Where's my money? The stingy bastards!"

Little tip, Blake? If you're looking to get paid for your excellent musicianship, you should probably try somewhere other than at home. Random strangers are much more likely to pay you than your own family.



Should I be worried about Sasha here? He seems to be discussing his newfound shoe fetish very intensely. Is there something you've been hiding, bb? But you seem so in love with Ella!



Charlotte: "Did someone mention shoes?!?"



Blake, honey, please don't follow in your father's metrosexual footsteps! Everyone else is totally uninterested in talking to him, as usual. Ella is talking to Charlotte. Char and Ophelia are trying to pretend nobody else exists. Poor kid. He can't catch a break.



Blake: "Blah blah blah, necklaces shoes makeup..."
Ophelia: "So, anyway, about those sumo wrestlers..."

It's a sad day when Blake's aunt who is way younger than him has more manly discussion topics than he does.



FINALLY!!!!!



Now you can focus on more important things. Like getting into shape, you lazy slob!



OMG. Blake! What is this? I can't believe Mr. Antisocial is going to be the first to lose his virginity. He's all "hey baby, wanna have some fun?" and Julia Simms here looks scared out of her mind.



Her apprehension doesn't last very long though. She suddenly seems extremely willing... Blake must be one hell of a smooth-talker. He just fails at everything else.



Now that he is officially a man, he can't stop thinking about it. Oh great. We've got a sex fiend in the making on our hands now.



Blake: "Hehehe, I just got laid."
Yes, we all know. Good for you.

Anyway, I was getting rather bored with the house and they had accomplished all they needed to accomplish as teens so it's college time now. I don't really need to send them, I guess, since I'm already pretty sure of who will be heir but, even though the process is extremely long, it's a huge help in the work and family department. It takes way longer to get promotions and find a spouse without it.

So let's compare scholarships, shall we?



Avery is an overachiever in every sense of the word.



Blake. Respectable. Though maybe if he hadn't skipped school that one day and ruined his grades, he would be getting more.



Charlotte, what is this?!? You are such a slacker! But I guess you'll be okay since your lifelong dream of acting doesn't really require much book learnin'.

Before we send them off on their college adventures, let's wrap up the trials of (most of) the rest of Miranda's children...



Now that both of his arch nemesises have kicked the bucket (yes, Imposter Natalie Perkins died too), Colin's had to find new meat to pound into the ground. Fortunately, he makes enemies in about two seconds so it didn't take very long. Here he is duking it out with another girl.



And with this dude with a douchey haircut. Notice how Harlan is in the background of both? He's apparently too pansy to get in an actual fight with Colin so he just enjoys watching him suffer from afar. Dude. He cheated at chess. And you still won. It's not that serious.



Christian: "You made my brother cry and you smell like shit, but here, let me give you a backrub!"



I'm not sure how this happened but Chloe is madly in love with Harlan. WTF. Though I guess he is the least douchey option available in their dorm. But still. Harlan?!? I think her motherly instincts have just kicked in and told her that she needs to get married so that she can get started on making babies the instant she graduates. I knew there had to be a baby-crazy Miranda clone in one of the kids!



Chloe: "Oh my God. My brother and my boyfriend are getting slapped around. What do I do???"



We haven't seen much of Elodie because she's pretty uninteresting. She and Christian are all filled up with school spirit though!



So is Colin but it's a different kind of school spirit. The kind that involves attacking Demon Cheerleader from behind. He's got like ten enemies now, I swear. The only people he's friends with are his siblings. God, I wish he had been born earlier in the generation. He would have been an insane and hilarious heir.



So I got tired of seeing him in a fight every five minutes so he invited some random chick off the street inside for a little romance. Seriously. She was just walking by and I thought "she'll do" and that's all. But apparently, Colin actually hates initiating romantic interactions. It seems like I always pick the "kissing is icky!" ones to be romance Sims.



He likes her though. If only for a fuck. There's no fooling me, Col. I know exactly what you want to use that double bed for and it ain't sleeping. Predictably, as soon as I gave him his wish, they were heading over to get familiar with each other under the sheets. Unfortunately, this was interrupted by a rather untimely occurrence...



Another dormie death! Jesus. These people are dropping like flies. You notice how only Colin's sworn enemies are dying? Hmm, something fishy is going on here... I love how everyone is utterly uninterested except for Christian who has developed a close bond with this girl.



Christian: "Please! I beg of you! Return her to me!"
Col's Lover (whose name I am blanking on at the moment): "Oh my God, your brother is sooooo dreamy!"
Chloe: "Is that really appropriate right now? This girl just died! And also, he's a total asshole. Eww."



Needless to say, Christian did not succeed in defeating the Grim Reaper. The relationship score must have to be extremely high to do so. Or my Grim Reaper just enjoys torturing people. Either way, Christian is devastated.



Christian: "My beloved! My angel! How will I ever move on?"
Colin: "Dude, what's your problem? And why are you in your underwear?"

I think it's a rule that all Newbury men must always walk around half-naked or something. They are never fully-dressed!





I bought you that bed for having hot sex in not for being all incestuous in! As it turns out, none of them got to have any sex before they graduated. Oh well.



SHIT! ANOTHER DEATH! Also Colin's enemy. Everyone is rather excited he's dead. And Christian is once again wearing nothing but his undies. Classy.



OMG THIS IS INSANE. Half of these are brand new. There are usually about three ghosts haunting the dorm at night. Fun times!



I'm sorry your college experience was plagued by fighting and death, Chloe! She'll never be the same again, poor girl. And with that, they are officially graduated. Hallelujah!

As we're moving them in with the spares, let's take this opportunity to see how a few familiar faces are doing...



Iris wants to become a witch. Oooookay then.



Ariel has apparently turned bisexual. I blame my sister's gay couple. Who just happen to be the two guys he has chemistry with. And apparently, he's most drawn to the guy with the same exact hairdo as him. Conceited much? He also likes cornrowed girl, vamp bartender girl, and the totally unattainable Ella. God, he's got terrible taste.

The most troubling development however?...



Pearl thinks her great-nephew is sexy as hell. Gross. This damn game and it's inability to recognize family beyond grandparents. This is wrong on so many levels. Must go bleach the inappropriateness from my mind.

Next up, college! Again. I feel like I'm constantly going through college.

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