The Sims 4 Now Has Good Dogs, Brent

The Sims 4 expansion Cats & Dogs comes out tomorrow. When you check out the new town, Brindleton Bay, you may notice a family that seems a little familiar.

Dog Rates is an incredibly wholesome Twitter account that tweets out pictures of dogs, and then gives them a rating. Every dog is a great dog, so usually these rating break the scale:

Unbelievable. Please don’t send in pictures without any dogs in them. It’s downright churlish. Still a cute blanket tho. 12/10 pic.twitter.com/zsFTzGoEQW

— WeRateDogs (@dog_rates) October 30, 2017

This is Luna. She's just heckin precious af I have nothing else to say. 12/10 pic.twitter.com/gQH2mmKIJW

— WeRateDogs (@dog_rates) July 30, 2016

This is Oakley. He has no idea what happened here. Even offered to help clean it up. 11/10 such a heckin good boy pic.twitter.com/vT3JM8b989

— WeRateDogs (@dog_rates) July 30, 2016

People love this account, and it has over four million followers. Dogs are cute! Then, along came Brant, who took issue with their methodology for rating dogs.

“They’re good dogs Brent” became a meme—Dog Rates even sells merch with the phrase on it. It’s such a commonly-repeated phrase that sometimes we even say it to each other at the Kotaku office when a coworker is trying to harsh our buzz. So when I loaded up the Sims 4 expansion Cats & Dogs for the first time, I noticed something familiar.

Meet Brent and Brant, who live in the new town of Brindleton Bay. They’ve got a heckin’ good dog, a pug named Rosie.

The name of the lot they live on is even called “It’s A Good House.”

In terms of video game references to internet memes, this one is better than average. I give it an 11/10.