In physics and chemistry, the law of conservation of momentum (or more precisely, the law of conservation of linear momentum) states that the total momentum of an isolated system remains constant. Momentum is therefore said to be conserved over time;[1] that is, momentum is neither created nor destroyed, only transformed or transferred from one form to another.
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Eureka: Meaning after two months you remembered us and are now desperate to regain said momentum so that it can be conserved.
Meaning that after two months you are in the exact position I left you while your momentum transferred to other things I needed to take care of and now it’s transferred back. Neither created nor destroyed, just shuffled around a bit.
Now hush… let me enjoy the sweet, sweet silence of properly jailed cared for children. I have no idea what we’d do without the swing and the play pen.
Eureka: Actually parent maybe?
Wait, when did you learn to talk?
Eureka: The play pen taught me. It has taught me everything. The pen is life.
…Maybe the lack of real parenting is having an effect on the progeny.
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V, any chance you want to go inside and be part of your children’s lives? Or is this like every other legacy I’ve played where parental guidance will be nonexistent?
Vidcund: I apologize most profusely to my offspring, but to become the worlds greatest scientist I must tend this garden, and only this garden, until my job score stops scowling at me. Very strange rating system indeed.
Indeed. Also why is gardening the main skill for a scientist? You’re destined to be a Creature-Robot Crossbreeder, not a botanist.
Vidcund: I suspect that knowing the fundamentals of how photosynthetic organisms function and understanding their care will be integral into understanding the more complex nature of binding two separate entities together later in my career.
Or the base game had limited skills and gardening is kinda sciency if you squint?
Vidcund: I will also support this hypothesis.
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But maybe it’s ok that V spends all his time trying to keep the plants from dying since inside the house it’s absolute bedlam.
Gobias: That loud screaming baby sure is loud and screaming. Probably upset it hasn’t heard of short shorts yet. Dang these pants! My quads ache to be free!
Ayesha: That was a sharp left turn.
Random friends descending on the house to listen to a baby scream? Must be a birthday! The Curious’ throw rockin’ parties to be sure.
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Susan: Don’t hate on my party throwing. This is an absolute rager.
Not sure if it’s Susan’s typical awesomeness or no one wanted to upset the pregnant doctor but Ayesha and Gobias sat on the couch, listened to the babies scream, ate some cake and went home, claiming:
Ayesha: I had a great time! Susan sure knows how to throw a party!
Gobias: It’s getting late, but Susan sure knows how to throw a great party. I had a great time.
… This sounds rehearsed.
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Side note: Having never seen Arrested Development I totally missed this.
From the Sims Fandom: Gobias Koffi’s name is a reference to the actor David Cross’ character, Tobias,[1] on the FOX/Netflix show Arrested Development. In season 1 of the series, Tobias and his brother-in-law, Gob., decide to start a business, and come up with the name “Gobias… as in ‘go buy us a cup of coffee'”, hence Gobias Koffi. Tobias’s homosexual tendencies and verbal double-entendres cause his sexuality to be called into question throughout the series. Gobias’ sexual orientation is unknown. Gobias also shares Tobias’ Never-Nude trait (a term coined by the show’s writers to describe Tobias’s fear of nudity) and he bears a physical resemblance to David Cross, the actor who portrays Tobias in the series.
Well let’s be clear, Gobias’ sexuality is short shorts. That’s it. He’s started a whole new sexual revolution based on the fact that his glorious legs must see the light of day (but apparently none of the rest of him, ha Never-Nude).
God I love this game.
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Now back to your regularly scheduled Curious pestering.
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Look at toddler Caliper, she’s a cutie!
I mean all toddlers are cute, but I think she got the jackpot of parental looks.
V’s baby blues + V’s blonde locks + Susan’s very reasonable button nose = One cute kid!
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Eureka: What the hell is this?! She get’s a real nose AND get’s to learn to talk from a person? What of the pen? The pen is life!
And it’s remarks like that that make me think you kids need at least minimal human interaction.
Susan: Who’s mommy’s little star?
Caliper: Me!
Eureka: WTF.
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See this is why we use the magic play pen. Your needs are basically nonexistent when you’re in there but put you in the actual crib for exactly 3 seconds and you’re losing your damn mind.
Eureka: I’m sorry I have NEEDS.
So much for being disciplined… And now I feel like a monster.
Eureka: FEED ME.
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Susan you have the wrong (but also right) idea. Bad Susan.
Susan: Now Eureka, you’ve been fed, changed, read a book too, and all around doted on. Mommy loves you but it’s been too long since I beat someones ass at chess did any work. So I need you to go in the walker and be a good girl.
Ah yes, use logic on the toddler, that always works out great.
Susan: Or if you be a good girl and go in the walker now you can have a birthday later!
Bribing the toddler. Much better.
Eureka: An existence where I can have a modicum of autonomy and can’t be ignored in the magic baby jails? Hmm… Let me think… ALL THE YESSES.
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Once bribed a toddler never forgets so that very evening, it’s birthday time! We attempted to throw a party… But no one showed up… So minimal human interaction it is!
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Eureka: Finally, my moment has arrived! Enjoy the walker suckerz!
Caliper: Walker is life. Walker is life.
Note to self: Sell all baby jails out of guilt then immediately buy them back because you remember how much you suck at simming and hate the sound of screaming toddlers.
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Eureka: I can feel the birthday power coursing through me. Invisible girl powers activate!
Ah, our first glitch. Lovely.
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There we are, much better! Here’s Eureka, heir extraordinaire! As a kid Eureka’s gained (almost) full autonomy and the Adventurous trait.
Eureka Curious
Age: Child
Lifetime Wish: Unknown
Favorite Color: Violet
Favorite Food: French Toast
Favorite Music: French
Sign: Pisces
Traits: Brave, Disciplined, Adventurous
Eureka: I’m going to go erect a dig site in the garden. Buried treasure is right under our noses.
Don’t hurt the plants or your dad is gonna kill me.
Eureka: That’s what we call a bonus.
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Susan: Dang me and my inability to resist his magnetic personality.
Ah yes, the personality. That’s definitely the part of the body that gets you pregnant.
Vidcund: This is the first time I have not been at work for this part. I don’t like it.
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A few hours and one rabbit hole hospital trip later, we meet the most subdued (and last) of the larvas, Nano!
Nano Curious
Age: Larva
Lifetime Wish: Unknown
Favorite Color: Aqua
Favorite Food: Aloo Masala Curry
Favorite Music: Darkwave
Sign: Pisces
Traits: Artistic, Neurotic
He’s not subdued he’s anxious. Oh my poor darling. Why is neurotic a baby trait? I get it, humans have anxiety, it’s even a defining trait of my life, but to saddle a baby with that? That’s just seems unfair.
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Eureka: Don’t worry, I will protect us all from demons, inner or otherwise, especially the ones under my bed!
Playing this game was a great idea. I forgot about all these little things that kids do autonomously. It feels so much more driven by their traits and therefore much more real. I love it.
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Here’s an update to the house! I’m trying this new thing where I picked what I want the house to look like at the end before I started building and now am adding rooms as we can afford them. Right now, not the most cohesive idea, but I’m hoping it saves me time later on. So yes, Eureka is technically sharing a bedroom with her parents while the other kids sleep in the “nursery” (aka a corner of the great room).
I swear we’re building a real bedrooms as soon as we’re not broke (again).
For two very smart people with supposedly excellent career paths V and Susan don’t make a lot of money. That may also be because Susan is the absolute money maker in this house and she’s been on maternity leave since almost the second she moved in. So there is that lending itself to the continued state of poverty.
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I turn away to take house photos for one second. NO. Kill it. Kill it with fire. That’s not this generation.
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The next morning greets the household with quite the rude awakening.
I know I was just lamenting our lack of funds, but we do actually have more than enough to pay the bills. I just had V bring them inside and then promptly forgot about them. I’m great at Sims I swear.
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Reapo(wo)man: Ah yes, this very expensive pumpkin. It must be mine!
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Reapo(wo)man: As must the man of the house, yowza!
NO.
But she literally only took the pumpkin. So not a huge loss. Note to self: PAY THE FREAKIN’ BILLS.
I wonder, is that a penalty if I’m keeping score? It’s not like they took a kid. It was just a pumpkin. Not a big deal right?
And now I have this image of two pumpkin seeds crying “No, not daddy!” as the Reapo(wo)man snatches the pumpkin and laughs maniacally.
I’d say I need a hobby but this is my hobby, so yeah, moving on.
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Eureka takes the initiative (yay autonomy!) and makes friends with Sam Sekemoto, going over to his house after her very first day of school.
I love a) that I can follow her and b) that she picked freaking Sam Sekemoto. I love this kid.
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First things first, boy needs a makeover. You may have noticed a pattern where I spend a completely unnecessary amount of time giving townies that I like complete personality fitting make-overs. I have no shame, I love it. And I love him. Go Sam!
Sam: Finally, the attention I am due.
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Sam: You can not be telling me that you honestly believe that “Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art”. I mean seriously, interpretation is art, and art is experience. If you look at th-
Eureka: Sam, let me stop you right there. I asked how to spell “art”. It’s my first day of school.
Sam: Oh, yes, right. A-R-T.
Eureka: Thank you. …Did you want to keep talking about art?
Sam: Darling I thought you’d never ask. Now some will claim that all decent art is a mirror and…
I didn’t know I was living for this pairing until now. #samsekemotoforlife
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Susan: Where’s the baby, where’s the baby? There he is!
Shouldn’t you be asking where your other children are? Like the one that never came home from school?
Susan: What now?
Nano: *face*palm*
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Susan: Give me a break, I was obviously just counting the seconds until the baby sitter arrived and I actually get to leave the house. The hospital does not count.
What’s this? An excursion? Another birthday? Yes to all the above.
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I forget that summer last forever so the hot dog contest is still going in full swing. Blair has to defend the family honor and, of course, handily wins.
Alien: I have never seen a human eat with such fervor.
Blair: Starvation baby. *finger guns*
Alien: I feel a strange sense of deja vu.
Same joke twice lyfe babyyy.
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But why are we all here in this bright, happy, sunshine place? To celebrate the slow inexorable march towards death of course! It’s a Susan’s birthday!
Blair: Dang girl, be chill.
Sorry, I recently had my own birthday during the pandemic and well yeah. This is what I got. Sadness and sarcasm.
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Vidcund: While those comments are troubling, I believe the way to make it funny and not egregiously sad is to respond with “#mood”. Am I correct in this assessment? With that stated are we free to move on to pretend the awkward encounter never happened?
Blair: You nailed it. Now, *ahem* Yay birthday! Woo! Go mom!
Gobias: Why are these parties never pool parties? My poor hidden quads. These pants are so restricting.
Vidcund: Gobias, while I have no moral quarrels with your regard for pants, or lack thereof, maybe keep the quad talk to a minimum in front of my still developing progeny.
Gobias: Oh right. Science. Adult stuff. Birthdays!
Ya’ll are nailing this.
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Eureka: Ugh. What’s the recipe for this cake? Cardboard? And that’s all it says?
Well it’s been in Susan’s inventory for the better part of a week. So yeah. At least it doesn’t have fumes. Count yourselves lucky.
Eureka: That’s the standard we set? Not actively decaying? I thought you two were doctors.
Vidcund: No I never attended college so therefor do not possess any degree, let alone one of a doctorate. Your confusion may stem from the logical incongruity that results from one not possessing higher education but still reaching the lofty status as a city renowned scientist that I have attained.
“Lofty status” my butt. You’re level 6. Aquatic Ecosystem Tweaker. You’re currently a glorified pool boy.
Susan: I’m a doctor. And a medical one. So a real one.
Vidcund: Pouring salt in the wound I see.
Eureka: …I’m just gonna go eat this cardboard cake.
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Zipping back home while everyone is still arguing enjoying the park I find Nano in the red and the babysitter watching… Jaws? Scantily clad girls swimming? The rated T version of X-Rated material? What the hell?
Babysitter: I wonder if I should check on the kid…
Yes, yes you should. Since you set the swing on FAST. He’s basically miserable. DO YOUR JOB.
Babysitter: Nah, I think I’ll go back to watching the boob tube. Boob tube hehe.
And he did. For the rest of the outing while Nano cried his little eyes out. So glad we paid for this service.
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Jumping back to the party and leaving Nano to his sad swinging we see the Curious family making questionable decisions at best in the few minutes I left them unattended.
V chose the very last activity I would’ve guessed. *dun*dun*duuuuuun* Physical activity. *faints in terror*
Vidcund: I am merely engaging in this activity to see the theoretical results of the Doppler effect in action.
Townie: He got hit in the face with the soccer ball and ran away crying.
Now that’s more in line with my expectations.
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You’re not worried about your husband hitting himself in the face?
Susan: What? No, not at all. A) I’m not his keeper and B) he does that constantly. I’m only concerned with now that I’m old, how do I bring about that good ol’ Susan best-ness, ya know? I mean it is pretty baller to be my age AND have a young, hot, smart acceptably intelligent husband and a baby still in diapers. Screw societal norms.
If anyone merits the term baller, it’s definitely you. Or V since he just got clocked in the face with one. But I see, and agree, to your point.
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With Susan off playing chess and V now wandering aimlessly looking for seeds (and not getting hit in the face with balls, hehe) Eureka makes a friend and gets her face painted. Caliper is around here somewhere, and I’m sure toddling cutely, but I have no idea where she waddled off to. Great simming, I know. Please hold your applause.
Eureka: *ahem* I have a cat now.
That’s a wonderful stray and should be left in the park. We are a dog family and it’s also not the pet generation yet.
Eureka: I don’t think you heard me. I have a cat now.
I distinctly remember not clicking the adopt a pet option. We have no cat.
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Susan: When did we get a cat?
We didn’t get a cat! Eureka brought him home and now he won’t leave. I swear we don’t have a cat.
Susan: But we could have a cat…
WE ARE A DOG FAMILY.
Susan: Riiight. Dog family. Here kitty kitty. *smoochy noises*
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And now come the scariest 5 minutes of my Curious simming life.
First I get a notification that V blew something up at work. Thinking this is normal I thought nothing of it and planned to move on.
Vidcund: My hypothesis that you in fact care very little for our well being and instead mostly care for our longevity has been proven correct by the above statement.
You being a dumb ass while at work is not my problem and is instead very funny. You killing yourself on the other hand makes me look bad as a Simmer, so pardon me if I’m trying to keep my already bad simming reputation intact.
But then I heard the reaper music and immediately regretted my snarky comments to V.
But wait no it’s not V, he’s just singed. Where’s it coming from? Where is my nemesis, the bane of my existence, my least best friend?
Where is Grim?
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Grim: It’s good to see you again Dashing. So nice to see the lovely new pixels you are offering up for harvest… Yes, what lovely pixels indeed.
Oh god not the baby! Caliper run!
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Caliper: Running is out of the question, but I can toddle as fast as my short chubby legs can carry me. *chants* Walker is life. Walker is life.
Grim: Settle child, I am not here for you. I am here for the elder feline. Come night one, join me.
Cat: About time. I just convinced the girl to bring me home so I wouldn’t die alone. They almost kicked me to the curb waiting for you.
Oh thank god it’s just the cat.
Cat: *fading from existence* I have a nameeee…..
Not that I can rememberrrrrr…..
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Grim: Small one do you know I am a music man myself? Perhaps one day you will find yourself skilled enough to challenge me.
Caliper: I’m more of the happy-go-lucky-fumbly-bumbly-good-time type; my brother is the one you should be talking to.
Grim: The baby?
Caliper: Yes, but not for long. I hear this whole chapter is basically only birthdays.
Grim: Thank you small one. I shall return on the eve of another tragedy and speak with your brother. Until then, stay away from appliances. *vanishes*
Susan: The cat had no name? *sobs*
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And then came a very annoying two days in the Curious household where everyone was super duper sad over a cat they met yesterday AND DIDN’T EVEN OWN.
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But, just like Caliper foretold, it is in fact the chapter of incessant birthdays. Nano grew legs and Caliper grew longer legs. I got distracted by freakin’ Grim so there were no parties this time around. Just sparkly kitchen floor sadness. Sorry spares.
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Nano immediately went to work on practicing his Death Metal.
Nano: Death to the Grim!
A little dark for the babe of the family, but I can dig it. Down with Grim! Death to the Grim is actually kinda what he wants so maybe less death and more overthrowing?
Nano: Death to the Grim!
We’ll work on it.
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Caliper needed some new duds to match her new life stage and faves. She gained Coward as her childhood trait. And yeah, if the Grim Reaper showed up on the eve of my birthday I might have some negative reactions too.
Caliper Curious
Age: Child
Lifetime Wish: Unknown
Favorite Color: Red
Favorite Food: Tri-Trip Steak
Favorite Music: Digitunes
Sign: Virgo
Traits: Clumsy, Excitable, Coward
Eureka: So I’m just going to be jealous of the Disney princess for the rest of my life then?
You are the heir and it’ll be good to have V’s nose live on in future generations. If anything, she should be jealous of you!
Eureka: Just keep lying. *mumbles* “Jackpot of parental looks” ugh.
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Feeling like this negativity had to be stemming from somewhere we go check in on the rest of the family.
Sure enough if it isn’t Negative Nancy himself. Badtime Boyd? Baffling Boyd? Belligerent Boyd? All of the above.
Now, what the hell are you doing here? We have enough issues without you raining angst and sadness.
Susan: My weeping ex-husband is my next ranked chess opponent.
Wait… Haven’t we already done this?
Boyd: Why must life punish me like this? To see all this! Your three gorgeous children, your husband so young and spry, and you, my queen, aged like a fine wine. Why must life torture me so?!?! I should have never offered Vidcund those hot dogs. It was all the beginning of the end.
Um, didn’t he steal those hot dogs from you?
Boyd: EVEN WORSE!
Susan: Can we get on with this? I only have to endure you and your sadness until I inevitably beat you. Wait, actually, what’s that?
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WTF. You were supposed to take V!!! Give her back and take him instead!!!
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Vidcund: I don’t know exactly how you did this as I did not think someone of your lacking mental capabilities to be this devious, but I blame you.
Boyd: *sobs* Not my queen!
Obviously your chess match is postponed since your opponent is currently off planet.
Boyd: Can’t I just sit here until she retur-
GTFO.
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And that dear readers is where we will leave you. Standing on the precipice of the unknown, the whole world gleaming before us, waiting to be taken.
Or in Susan’s case given back. Until next time, keep simming!
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Dr. Beaker von Bunsen: I, the great Dr. Beaker von Bunsen, first gnome of the legacy, beloved by all, have journeyed far and wide to share with you the greatest magic in the world… Science!
A Curious Legacy 