Brandon’s hobby is actually arts and crafts, and although he took Philosophy in college (why yes, I gave all my Sims college degrees), he still has a soft spot for painting and the performing arts. After sleeping in, he spends his noon and afternoon happily painting before it’s time to head off to work again. Surprisingly, bartending in the city is much more stressful and draining than owning his own bar, Brandon thinks.

Thankfully, he has found a (measly paying) job as a bar tender in a bar in SimCity, but the working hours and the commute to and from the City mean that he has little time left during the day.

He invites his current flame, Andrea Hogan, over for some afternoon fun.

Downtown, Brandon Lillard gives up his little bar. It’s one of the biggest lots in town and considering what he earns and what he would have to pay, it just doesn’t make sense to keep it. It’s a shitty situation, but one a lot of business owners in SimCity and the surrounding suburbs currently find themselves in.

Stuff that happened while I was playtesting (testing if the normal community lots were fine):

Christy Stratton and Joe Carr get along so great that she rejects her previous flirt, Remington Harris.

Joe Carr thinks flirting with other sims is fine. As long as it’s him and not his now ex-lover.

Brandon Lillard seems to have gotten over his newspaper-stealing, trash can-kicking fit of anger over Sandy being late on their date (this is a completely new neighbourhood, so in theory, this never happened).

Sandy should probably just run from all this weirdness. Seriously, those two guys have no concept of a normal love life.