Talk:Voodoo doll


 * It depends on who talks to the witch doctor, not who actually fixes the appliances. --a_morris (talk) 05:00, January 24, 2010 (UTC)


 * That's right.  To clarify, if Joe Sim and Jill Sim visit the Mysterious Hut together, and Joe offers to help the Witch Doctor (and listens to his "I give up!" speech), then Joe spends the time hula dancing to salsa music while Jill goes around and fixes the Witch Doctor's four broken appliances, Joe will still be the one who gets the Mr. Mickles doll, even if he didn't do a dram of the repair work.  Life isn't fair, I guess.
 * Or you may be referring to the issue where the Witch Doctor doesn't give your Sim a voodoo doll because your Sim interrupted the Receive Package action with another action; apparently, the Receive Package action is very low priority.  If that's the case, just have your Sim stand around the Witch Doctor, doing nothing; the Witch Doctor will eventually queue the Receive Package action again (even if you have to watch him give your Sim a half-dozen Hang Loose greetings before he realizes that he hasn't handed over the doll yet).
 * But age has nothing to do with it, as far as I know.  One of my Sims was a teenaged werewolf (who has since become a college-aged sorority girl werewolf...campy, I know), and her Mechanical skill has been strong since she was a child, so she talked to the Witch Doctor and fixed all of the appliances while her mother, her stepfather and her two little half-sisters were all fishing from one of the Mysterious Hut's ponds.  The Witch Doctor gave her a Mr. Mickles doll, as she deserved.  So teens can indeed get their emotional, drama-prone hands on voodoo dolls too.  Be afraid.  ;-)  BloodyBay from YouTube (talk) 04:21, July 1, 2014 (UTC)

"More Annoying Things"
Well, I myself wouldn't call the Warm Up and Cool Down actions "annoying." If you have Seasons installed, those actions can be either life-threatening or life-saving. I once had two of my Sims graduate from college, immediately get married and go to their week-long honeymoon on Twikki Island. They found the Mysterious Hut, both of them fixed the appliances and the wife got the doll. Then the husband ended up catching heatstroke back at their hotel. The wife drenched him, but splashing a Sim with water is just a stopgap remedy, so  it wasn't long before the husband collapsed from heatstroke again. Then I said "Screw this," so the wife hauled out Mr. Mickles and zapped her husband twice with the Cool Down spell, thus sparing him the threat of death by heatstroke (which would have made for a pretty awful honeymoon).

I haven't been malicious enough to try using Mr. Mickles to kill Sims with heatstroke or freezing (since I'm a benevolent god and I love my Sims too much), but my money says that it should work. Maybe I'll save that experiment for a rainy day (or whenever I happen to have an evil witch in need of a few zombie minions leading her unwitting roommates on a camping trip into the mountains...). BloodyBay from YouTube (talk) 05:09, July 1, 2014 (UTC)

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 * Uhh.. The one from Sims 1 is not on a special lot. I haven't played the game in a long time, but I was pretty bad at it. I am sure you could just buy it in buy mode. I would never be able to find a special lot. And why would you purchase something for The Sims 2 from The Sims 3 store? I think you got them mixed up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ‎67.168.217.26 (talk • contribs) 08:59 23 July 2014 (UTC) - Please sign your comments with ~


 * It says in the article:

"The voodoo doll appears in The Sims: Livin' Large, as a reward for visiting a hidden lot in The Sims 2: Bon Voyage and as Premium Content in The Sims 3 Store."


 * There is a comma in between "The Sims: Livin' Large" and "as a reward for visiting a hidden lot" (which I've underlined here). It also says "and as Premium Content in The Sims 3 Store. I think you're the one a little bit confused here as this is not poorly written. --k6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 11:52, July 23, 2014 (UTC)


 * Oh, and let's just be clear - I don't think it's written anywhere in the policy books of this wiki that an Oxford Comma (serial comma) was mandatory. --k6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 11:54, July 23, 2014 (UTC)
 * I figured quite recently that the use of Oxford comma isn't absolutely correct. I heard it's just optional and based on someone's preference? I tend to use Oxford comma because I think it looks tidier.  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  08:16, July 24, 2014 (UTC)
 * As I understand it, preference for the Oxford comma is partially a US/Commonwealth thing; general US usage tends to favor it, but does not require it. I tend to use it, as it generally marks a spot where someone would pause if speaking aloud. If I let myself "hear" that sentence in my head, there's a pause after "Bon Voyage", so I would have used an Oxford comma if I had written it. However, the sentence as written doesn't require an Oxford comma in order to be unambiguous. Dharden (talk) 12:11, July 24, 2014 (UTC)