Be Excellent To Each Other

Brilliant. Craster's a shit thief.

Cookie gets out of bed to tell Malabar's mate to fuck off.

Everyone's enjoying breakfast.

Joans pumps some iron on the new exercise gear while Grim... has a swim.

Grim... is talking about money because the Beexer's have been mercing it at the workplace recently. Myp, in particular, is doing very well.

Grim... helps Malabar with his homework.

Cookie has broken the new dishwasher!

Craster, who is becoming quite the handyman, leaps up and gets in there with his spanner.

Five-oh in the house! Joans gets a promotion and looks the part now.

Cookie jumps into the pool with her clothes on, and starts thinking about the stereo.

Because of this thread, I bought the Sims 3 in the steam sale. Bastard.

Myp has got another promotion! Check out his snazzy suit!

As a reward, I build them a LAN room. They seem to like it. It looks like Myp has nearly finished that book!

Ha!

A quick run-through of their jobs.
Mali is a 'grunt', which is the third rung of the military career.
Joans is a 'traffic cop', the third rung of the police career.
Grim... is a 'resident', the fifth rung of the medical career.
Myp is a 'division manager', the sixth rung of the business career.
Craster is a 'thug', the third rung of the criminal career.

Cookie is unemployed, but is very good at cooking (level 5) and gardening (also level 5). Malabar is also unemployed, so he must have lost his job at the bookstore at some point. He's doing well at school though, he's getting A's and made it to the Honor Roll (whatever that is)

Because if this thread, i'm currently downloading an illegal copy of the game

I've got the disk somewhere, but fucked if I can find it...

Don't do it, Cookie! Suicide is the selfish way out!

What is Craster talking about here?

His job - that's a criminal.

Today, Malabar has woken up in a bad mood. Apparently, the other Beexers should "stay out of his way"!

Man, eating that gone-off peanut butter sandwich out of the fridge isn't going to improve his mood, I doubt.

Still, waste not want not.

Now, he's cleaning out the fridge. I'm fairly sure I wasn't like this when I was a pissed-off teenager.

And now he's doing the recycling. What a rebel!

Cleaning the shower, now. I guess the others were warned to stay out of his way so he could actually get some shit done.

...

I bought the house a guitar. Mali gives it a go.

He draws quite the crowd. Joans even has a little dance.

Myp, by far the highest earner in the house (especially now he's sold his book - The Livid Tales Of Zack McKracken - for $44 a week for the next two months), tells Joans that he's worried about money.

Mali makes a big deal about the fact that he's hungry.

Ooh, a fish tank!

Mali decides to point something out to Cookie that perhaps should have been obvious.

Best. Pyjamas. Ever

It's on!

So, what's going on here? Cookie really needs a piss. Craster is fixing a computer and Grim... has just finished playing chess.

"I'm not using one toilet."

Exciting reverse angle!

Who the fuck is this man? He just walked into the house.

Er... What?

Craster plays with the house's new puppy which, due do his disappointment a missing out on a place in the Beex house, I have named "Zardoz".

Zardoz beds down in the ridiculously expensive doggie bed (note the bowl for food and the ball to play with, too). Also note that Cookie's puddle of piss is still on the floor.

Ewww! Bare feet, too!

Hooray! It's back.

Geek central.

Grim... is paged and has to go back to the hospital. He doesn't seem that concerned.

Bad Zardoz!

Bad Zardoz!

Grim... tells Zardoz off for chewing the furniture.

But then they play. Awww.

Malabar has brought a chum home - the excellently-named "Michael Bachelor".

Myp has got another promotion! He's now the company CEO!

Myp and Mike do their homework while Zardoz howls along to the music.

Zardoz makes a friend.

Craster has just been arrested. Again.

It's the Beex Book Club. That huge puddle on the floor sugests the dishwasher broke without me noticing.

New kitchen!

Cookie makes fish and chips.

Myp and Cookie still aren't getting along.

At least the red shirt works on somebody.

Brilliance! I suck at being a burglar.

Mali is reading a book miles away from the house. What's he doing?

Cookie is either being insane or about to make Myp's dreams come true.

Cookie and Captain Hose went out on a date, but it's not going well.

Mind you, she's succeeded where Myp failed.

Maybe they shouldn't have gone for a date at the military base

Grim... gets an ice cream.

Myp has got another promotion! He's "Vice-chairman of the board" now, or something.

MaliA has got a promotion, too! I can't remember what his job title changed to.

Why are the Beexers gathering around Zardoz..?

I think I know why...

It does strike me that having a criminal and a policeman living under the same roof is never going to go terribly well.

What expansion packs do you have Grim...?

Pets (obv), High End Loft Stuff, Ambitions, Generations, Town Life Stuff, Outdoor Living Stuff and Late Night*. I'll be getting Master Suite Stuff when it comes out in a couple of weeks and Showtime** when it comes out in March.

*Not installed this yet.
**I think Mali would make a great magician!

I pokévolved into Lassie!

Excellent work!

Yay!

If you've bought all those, all I can say is holy fuck Just looked on steam at how much it would cost to get the whole set and you are looking at £200! I was expecting a bundle for about £60 to be honest.

Lets see what the download-a-tron has to offer.

I have Ambitions, World Adventures, Late night, and Design & high-tech stuff. I am hopeing to get pets and maybe generations soon.

And, you've made me want to play the sims again.

Let's call them "gifts".

Craster has decided not to bother going to work, and they've phoned up to demote him.

Zardoz is too big to sleep in his doggie bed now.

Grim... has a go at Mali about something while Cookie subtly suggests that Malabar's mate Mike could do with a bath.

Mali is shredding away, but Mike just wants to go home.

Look at that uniform! Phwoar! Amirite, ladies?

Zardoz does it doggie style.

Myp wants to go fishing, and look what rocks up to take him there. Taxis are for the poor.

He catches quite a few fish - some of which he puts in the fish tank and some of which he puts in the fridge. I'm not sure how minnows will taste, but if anyone will cook them, Cookie will.

Zardoz needs a new bed, but there's no room. I consider building behind the LAN room but then decide that actually...

...it's time to move out.

Goodbye sea views, hello mountain views.

Note that Malabar isn't there - he went round to a friends house after school and when he gets back he'll find another family in his house. Let's hope they let him know, or something.

Seconds later, everyone starts screaming about their issues, with no house to fix them in. Except Joans, who is too busy admiring the plot of land.

It is rather impressive.

Ooh, exciting!

Bam!

I broke the rules a little bit and told Myp to go and sleep in the super-comfy double bed, therefore marking it as "his". I figured as he's bringing in nearly three grand a day he deserves it.

Because Joans is "frugal" and saves money wherever he can, he's constantly turning the lights off and standing in the dark.

Beds are for the sane.

Cue Barry White!

"I'm really wet."
"Jesus!"

Malabar found his way to the new house, and gives Zardoz a bath.

"Blurgh!"
"Jesus!"
Myp appears to wear a green ring. Maybe he's a superhero.

Because the new house is so big, someone phoned for a maid. Mali literally ran to talk to her.

Red-shirted!

Back from work at some ungodly hour, the only person Craster can tell about his promotion is Zardoz. Look closely and you'll see that Zardoz has fleas.

Craster then takes Zardoz for a walk to the "dog park" which, considering they live far away from pretty much anywhere, might take a while.

Brilliant stuff!

And in the game?

And then told Zardoz to also sleep in it for strange bestiality?

Myp comes home, drops his suitcase, and announces that he is now a Power Broker, the top job on the business career. He earns a shedload of money, and only works three days a week.

Cookie congratulates him by twatting him in the face with a pillow.

**THWUMPH**

To celebrate, I bought him a bed that cost more than the original house...

...and an arcade game, which he seems to like.

This game is riddled with bugs.

Since people in the game are reaching their limit in the job part how long has this got as an enjoyable BEEX adventure?

Myp was somewhat "driven" while at work, and the business career ladder doesn't actually require any skills. I'm debating starting him out in something completely different, but then he wouldn't earn shittonnes of money. What do you think, Beexers?

I thought myp was a bassist. Make him a busker.

Cookie has taken to painting, it seems.

Clearly someone liked it - she sold the painting for 35 Simolians.

Grim...'s got a promotion, too. I bought him a telescope, as he seemed to want one.

Cookie is getting better.

Myp has broken the bath. It's only about three days old!

Whee!