User:DollarStoreBa'al

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What I am and What I do Hello. I am Ba'al. I am NOT god of fertility, weather, sailing, and war in the Hebrew Bible. I am the similarly-named eater of souls. I have all the xkcd books (look, I gotta read sometimes, okay?) and have needed to get a second copy of multiple because the first ones were destroyed from use. Most of my efforts on Wikipedia are either Teahouse requests, random visual upgrades to my userspace pages, and anti-vandalism. My political views are very far left, as I want to get in their good graces. Besides, they're more mischief-makers. Belial (god of evil (yes, he's a god, not a term (yes, all gods know each other (yes, I am nesting four parentheses (I know it's bad, but no one can stop me (Would you like some fries with that?)))))) handles the right-wing. He is the one that handles the killing. Everything that will kill is handled by him. I, on the other hand, stick to mischief-making. If it was of severe inconvenience to you, I probably caused it. Literally every single religion you've created, and will ever create, is both wrong and right. Every god from every religion you will ever believe exists here, including the Abrahamic god (who, I might add, is very displeased with those who believe in him), and the gods your species will worship far into the future. Those of us who do the same things (Loki and I, for example) either agree to work on different areas or swap responsibilities every cycle. Currently, I focus on severe inconveniences, while Loki focuses on more minor ones.

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How your Universe Works An illustration of a cycle. Each distinct section is its own cycle. You people are actually pretty close. This universe is made of cycles. Universes are created on the 0th cycle, starting with what you know as the big bang. Each universe lasts approximately 40 trillion human years or so before going through a 'big bounce', as you call it. (I should start using that, it's a good name). During the bounce, the universe is condensed into an infinitely small singularity before rebounding on itself, going through another big bang. Each universe goes through between 10,000 and 100,000 cycles before going through a big crunch, after which it will no longer rebound. Once your universe has undergone its crunch, the universe we reside in will go through a big bounce, one of 10,000 to 100,000. We, your gods, have gods. Our gods have gods. You are... not someone else's gods. Not yet. It's slightly confusing at first, but you will understand eventually. For reference, you are about 20 or so Billion years through your 159th cycle.

Temporarily Breaking Character Okay fine, here's an actual bio of me (get ready to be underwhelmed). I enjoy vocaloid music (general term, any software counts). I have ASD, ADHD, and GAD. Also, probably depression, but that hasn't been diagnosed. Basically, my mind is a weird stew of three-letter acronyms and leftist political views. Speaking of politics: My political views, as shown in my other bio and my infobox, are very far left. I am what conservative boomers would call a 'commie'. I think Trump is the worst person to ever be elected to a US political office (but just the US. there have been MUCH worse) , and I'm shocked that people still support him. Is illegal immigration a problem? Yes, but it's caused by he government. Just let people become citizens in less than 5 years. Also, why do they call them 'aliens'? Aliens are extraterrestrial life forms, not people that happen to be from Mexico. By the way, don't even get me started on the resource-chugging slop that is AI chatbots. Don't get me wrong, machine learning in general is great! I support machine learning when it's predicting the locations of catastrophic flooding, or where a hurricane's path is expected to go. But LLMs and image/video generators are terrible for the environment and add nothing to the world except misinformation, and it's terrible that companies are trying to shove this in our faces (thank you to Dell for realizing that we don't actually want this). OH, SPEAKING OF COMPANIES... Most of them suck ass and just want to make more money. At this point, anything that 'saves money and reduces prices' only does it for the companies, while none of the profit goes to the consumer. Fun fact: over 50% of inflation in 2023 was corporate profits! They don't want your face to keep children safe, they want your face so they can sell it and make money. If you've ever wondered what the 'companies want your data' craze is about, this is it. Okay, my bio might have just turned into a manifesto... very cool. Despite what you'll see below, I am actually agnostic! I believe quite strongly that there is no possible way to know if god exists or not. My mother is white, and my father is the child of the Chamorro people (Hafa adai!). My appearance takes after my grandfather, meaning I am very tan and probably a target of ICE (how fun). I live in Nebraska, meaning I am constantly the target of preaching. I literally had somebody befriend me only to immediately try to convert me to Christianity (wtf?). Also, ableism and occasional racism. I occasionally write SCPs! Sadly, I can't post them, as I'm apparently too young, because only those who have graduated high school can write, apparently.

Quick Facts about Me Fun Facts Birthdate: 12/48/1812 Age: ~13.8 billion Religion: Polytheistic (I'm literally surrounded by other gods) Real Name: \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\... My Favorites Sport: Tennis Shows: Murder Drones, Breaking Bad. YT Creators: BooneU, Bringus Studios, Metrabyte, and many other similar creators. Reading material: xkcd, House of Leaves.

Bloog Posting edit updates/ stuff about life. *10/31/25 - When you want to contribute but don't know what to contribute to... *11/03/25 - Happy November to all. I found out I helped a person (TheBestHumanInSiberianFolklore) for the first time on this wiki, so yay! That feels good. Alright, life update over, back to editing my draft (Draft:Nebraska Repertory Theatre) *1/13/26 - Hey look, it's been a while. I'm doing things. Going around the Teahouse, helping people make their drafts, stuff like that. Things are going... okay, 4/10. *1/15/26 - HAPPY BIRTHDAY WIKIPEDIAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When school makes you miss the wikipedia celebration... *2/26/26 - I've submitted Draft:Lincoln Northwest High School to AfC. IMO, the sources are good and the article is good enough to get published, even if only as a stub. This would by my second article published, my first being Lenovo LOQ. *3/04/26 - The draft did not get published. What I have made is a couple essays, one humorous and one not. *3/18/26 - After a lot of experimentation, I think I've found my place: as an anti-vandal. I'll request rollback rights in a couple months when I have more experience. During one patrol, I found a page by somebody who has a very unique way of following their religion: they have made their CSS in such a way that, when objectionable files or pages are displayed, it simply displays none. He's dedicated, and we need more people like him. Keep doing what you're doing, man! *3/31/26 - Today, I will be watching the Nebraska legislature intently for the vote on LB762. This bill could literally save my fucking family so I'm slightly invested in it. *4/02/26 - New draft in the works! Hoping it works out... *4/22/26 - Remember that guy I helped? TheBestHumanInSiberianFolklore? I checked in on his userpage. He's a sock. Of course he is :) *4/24/26 - I tried to get my other account usurped so I could change my name to the preferred DollarStoreBa'al, but the reviewer said only 'well-established' editors are eligible? They didn't say anything about what makes somebody well-established. I'd say I'm pretty well-established, but..... *4/28/26 - And now I have gotten my account renamed... somehow... not exactly sure what the difference was, but everything appears to have been completed! Long live the apostrophe! *5/1/26 - And that's my thousandth edit! Hell yeah! *5/9/26 - Today is my Wikibirthday! I put a notice on my userpage, and I'll copy the message below tomorrow so people can reference it easily. Also, I fully redesigned my userpage so now it's all curved and fancy. Except for the infobox. No clue how I'm going to make that fit in. But I'll find a way. I hope. Happy wikibirthday to myself!!! Didn't even realize it, but 365 days! I've made over a thousand edits, hundreds of which are vandalism reversions and warning vandals. I've made a name for myself and I never expected I'd find my niche so fast. Thanks to everyone who helped me! (Special thanks to Asilvering, my assigned mentor, and Organhaver for just being an overall cool angel born from the sun itself. Also, it indirectly taught me about Otherkin. *5/14/26 - I didn't put the message there until today... god I'm lazy. Anyway, I updated my user page so now the formatting doesn't break depending on what size screen you have. It doesn't look as good overall, but at least I can put {{Round corners}}on everything now. It looks so neat. *8/13/26 - After a hiatus, I'M BACK!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! *8/14/26 - Inverted my Userpage so its actually readable. *8/17/26 - tbh the first userbox on my page (User in your walls) wasn't meant to be so creepy. It was the first image I could find that was the exterior of a house. Didn't realize the context behind it, I've never seen American Pie.