I never play any maxis sims. I'm kind of pretentious that way in that I only want to play with my own families and have them friends with other custom sims. But for some reason, I'm especially fond of reading about maxis families. I guess that's just my way of getting to experience them in all the different ways that doesn't involve me being in control. I've always been more voyeuristic than a control freak.

I'm especially drawn to this story because one of my favorite families ended up becoming best friends with General Grunt and this sort of gives me an idea of what he's really like. I'm reading this and thinking, Wow, I can't believe Frank is best friends with such an asshole. You made that sort of thing convincing for me. Like whenever a really good actor gets people turned against him for playing a bad guy just a little too well.