Science Babies
First off, I want to say that I love this addition, and I am very excited about the gameplay opportunities this will add. I'm looking forward to using it in my game, and also I'm looking forward to al...
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"Babykittyjade;c-18236181" wrote:
I think it starts to get too complex gameplay wise and also controversial. Surrogacy and all those other ways people make babies nowadays that I don't know the name of is a bit of a controversial topic. To just have a "science" baby through some means of mysterious science is a much safer alternative and still useful to tell stories. At some point imagination has to be used too. It's just a game. ?
I have no issue whatsoever with it being called a science baby, that wasn't even remotely the point. Yes, the Science Babies name is good because it can cover so many situations. I am saying that I don't see why you wouldn't still have a pregnancy in that situation.
As for being "too controversial": people have used IVF and other assisted reproductive technology for several decades now, and those babies aren't grown in a lab, they arrive via pregnancy just like any other baby. I suppose after all these years, there might be a small percentage of people who still find that controversial, but the TS4 team doesn't defer to bigots in other aspects of the game, nor should they, so I don't see why they would here, either.
I truly believe it's just an oversight, and that somehow no one realized it would be problematic.
I also can't imagine how it would be "too complex" gameplay-wise. "Try for baby": boom, you're pregnant (okay, 80% of the time). "Return from alien abduction": boom, you're pregnant (a significant percentage of the time). "Pay for science baby": boom, you're pregnant. A sim pregnancy is a sim pregnancy, there's no new gameplay to add.
Again, just saying, if a cis male sim can carry an alien pregnancy, I don't see why a lesbian sim who used her best male friend as a donor, through technology, wouldn't also have a regular pregnancy. Or two married sims who need IVF due to fertility problems, or any of the other headcanon you might come up with- because yes, obviously imagination is involved, we all know this.
Anyway, long story short, if you don't mind, that's your business. But for me, it ruins what was an extremely cool and interesting new feature that I would otherwise have used a lot.
