User talk:DollarStoreBa'al

Hi! Talk here if you want, my life is ever-changing. swears are fine :)

Smash!

You've been squished by a whale!
Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know you did something really silly.

General Chitchat and such

Hey, as per your comment on Main Page#Create my user page, I created your pages. Welcome to the wiki! Please always remember to sign your comments with --~~~~, and ask in the Community portal if you don't know something. If you want, you can read the the Editor FAQ! Welcome. --FaviFake (talk) 18:02, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 19:11, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

hi btw :) ⯅A dream demon⯅ (talk) 15:11, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

hello, how are you doing this fine morning, my dear fellow? DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 16:03, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Hiyo

I'm trying to lurk less and be friendly so I just thought I'd ah drop in :) ⯅A dream demon⯅ (talk) 15:53, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

Bello. me editor guy who edit much. edit fun! DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 17:00, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

hahahahaha edit fun indeed. ⯅A dream demon⯅ (talk) 15:20, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Question: How do you add those user boxes that you have on your page? Those would be nice to have. DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 16:52, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

copy and paste this and remove the nowiki tag:

{{Userbox | border-c = #255 | border-s = 1 | info-s = 9 | id = alastor jumpscare | info = [[User:Definitely Bill Cipher|This user has a pet cannibal deer.]] | float = left}} and replace it with what you desire, for example:

{{Userbox | border-c = #255 | border-s = 1 | info-s = 9 | id = ;) | info = [[User:DollarStoreBa'al|This user _____ ]] | float = left}}

⯅A dream demon⯅ (talk) 14:50, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

Dude thanks! DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 13:48, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

You're very welcome dear. WEE WOO ⯅A dream demon⯅ (talk) 14:18, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

Wow

Am I so cool that I got a mention on your user page just because I showed you how to make userboxes? I mean, if I am... thanks. ⯅A dream demon⯅ (talk) 14:44, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Yes. Yes you are. DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 15:43, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

YAY TYSM i will get you free jambalaya for you immediately due to that (if you're into that) ⯅A dream demon⯅ (talk) 14:19, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

No need. Also, I see you're from Louisiana. DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 03:44, 29 March 2025 (UTC)]]

Haha or maybe I just like jambalaya :). Also you are not 4029 hHHA ⯅A dream demon⯅ (talk) 14:17, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

The 5s and Es and Os

Reply to this if you've figured out what the meaning of the thingy on my user page is.

it's base 3 Caliban (talk) 09:07, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

 :O ⯅A dream demon⯅ (talk) 14:31, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Nope! I'll give you a hint: talk to sam. DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 14:33, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

https://voca.ro/1Akmh0zRqa8Q Caliban (talk) 16:02, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

uhhh...DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 20:41, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

sorry, that's not it. Don't know what to say to that.DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 17:54, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

You have one week! Hint: beep boooop --DollarStoreBa'al^ConverseMy life choices 16:30, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

Morse code? BobcatInABox (talk) 19:33, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Morse code of what? You are very, very close.--DollarStoreBa'al^ConverseMy life choices 20:47, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Time's up! If you put this into [1] and click play, you get the intro to Bad Apple. --DollarStoreBa'al^ConverseMy life choices 14:44, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

It's better than 2869: Puzzles BobcatInABox (talk) 11:11, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

Want to do some repetitive work?

Hey dollar, I noticed you're very active here! I don't have a ton of time, but I recently overhauled the template {{comic}} to add many new features. While we figure out Header text, would you be interested in editing the contents of about 50 pages (the early xkcd comics) to make these new features work? It's a lot of repetitive work, you'd just need to make the same small edits on 50 pages. (If you're interested in why the OG comics were in a different order, see LiveJournal). Just let me know and I'll finish the documentation for the template! --FaviFake (talk) 17:13, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

What exactly would I be doing to get these features to work? DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 17:18, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

If it isn't super-complex wikitext things I can totally help! --DollarStoreBa'al ^Converse 19:21, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

Right so you'd just need to move things around and remove some useless code. This process adds a second white navigation bar at the bottom to browse the OG comics in the original order. You can follow this example. The steps are:

Start from comic number 4:

1. Based on the short sentence written above the explanation, add "ognumber =", "ogprev =", and "ognext =" (so the navbar can work)
2. Add "oglink =", and move ONLY the link from "before" to "oglink" (so from HTTPS://..... until the end of the link, move that to "oglink")
3. Now, from the edit preview, copy the original title.
4. Delete everything in "before =" now that you moved the link
5. Add "ogtitle =" and paste the original title that you copied.
6. Finally, in "titletext", add two couples of apostrophes ('') in these places: https://imgur.com/a/BewKKr1
7. Now save the changes, and click the new white "Next >" button you just created to go to the next one!

And you're done! It's much simpler when you try it. Of course you don't have to do it, feel free to work on the header text! --FaviFake (talk) 20:41, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

me am do. --DollarStoreBa'al ^{ConverseFaviFake (talk) 11:05, 26 April 2025 (UTC)com/wiki/index.php/S--FaviFake (talk) 11:05, 26 April 2025 (UTC)pecial:Contributions/DollarStoreBa%27al My life choices} 20:51, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

Oh and I added friendly errors for when you forget to add one of the "og" labels. Just note that if you don't provide "ognumber", the cool white navbar won't show up. Remember to always insert a pipe before a label, like this "| ognumber =". And once you get to comic 55 you're done! That's the last one --FaviFake (talk) 20:58, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

Hey, I don't really understand where I'm supposed to put these. --DollarStoreBa'al ^{ConverseMy life choices} 21:01, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

Nevermind, I got this. --DollarStoreBa'al ^{ConverseMy life choices} 21:05, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

Erm nope the OGnumber, OGprev, and OGnext you should take from the first sentence above the explanation. For example 24 says it's sixth. Anyways, I found a pretty big bug in the template, so I guess we should stop until it's fixed. The Original title doesn't show up! Arghhh! I'll fix it.

I'll let you know when you can continue. Thanks! --FaviFake (talk) 21:18, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

alright, sounds good! Dang tho. Let me know and I'll get right back to it. --DollarStoreBa'al ^{ConverseMy life choices} 13:45, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Hey, I, um, undid all your edits because they broke the template haha. I guess this was more complex that I thought! Don't worry, I'll finish them myself over time. I'm more experienced than I thought it seems! Thanks for trying to help anyways! --FaviFake (talk) 18:52, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Reviewing them, it seems you were not isolating the link correctly and leaving there some HTML elements that closed other open HTML elements that weren't finished! It did look, interesting, at least! --FaviFake (talk) 18:55, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

So sorry about that, I noticed those random Html elements. Thought they were part of the bug. oops. --DollarStoreBa'al^ConverseMy life choices 22:45, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

No worries! --FaviFake (talk) 11:05, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

My Mistakes

Your signature is in violation of WP:SIGAPP

Hey, I wanted to let you know that your current signature doesn't follow WP:SIGAPP (specifically the first bullet point). Kindly change it. Thanks. --FaviFake (talk) 12:48, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Changed to 14pt. --DollarStoreBa'al^ConverseMy life choices 13:02, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Any height that's taller than the other text on the page disrupts the way that surrounding text displays. 14 px is no better. --FaviFake (talk) 13:25, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

FINE --DollarStoreBa'al^ConverseMy life choices 15:14, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

That still disrupts the page flow... I think you signature is already more eye-catching than any other signature on this entire wiki, why do you want to increase its height too? --FaviFake (talk) 15:19, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

I thought the issue was the height? Doesn't the wiki use 12pt font, which that Sig is? --DollarStoreBa'al^ConverseMy life choices 15:27, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

I don't know, I just noticed that it does increase the space between two lines. It might be the superscript's fault then. Well, at least the current one is much better than before. --FaviFake (talk) 15:49, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Mass-deleting links

Hay, just letting you know that maybe you've misunderstood the "incomplete" notice. You shouldn't delete every link on the page until there are no links left, but rather include these links, if they're helpful, directly into the explanation, as explained in the editor faq. Thanks! --FaviFake (talk) 18:09, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Creating someone's User pages, without being asked

In short, not worth the bother. You were helped, above, because you asked (and now, obviously, have become capable of doing the creation yourself, within a very short time). But this wiki is littered with "Welcome, I created your User pages for you" (including for IPs, which is particularly unuseful), where the user concerned has not then used them. However active an editor they are, if they don't know/care about them then it's effort done for nothing. 172.70.86.130 08:50, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

Yup, I also pointed it out. In case you missed my reply to your message, here's a copy:

”It's relevant to note that we only create User pages when people explicitly ask for them. On the other hand, User talk pages are created if you want to talk to that specific member privately."--FaviFake (talk) 15:03, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

Sorry about that. Just trying to help! --DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 15:34, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

excuse me

but it appears you have discovered that I was a spammer in a past account or maybe this account. who's to say anymore? anyway i'm trying to fix that hehe ⯅A dream demon⯅ (talk) 14:02, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

NEWS

Hey uhhh does anyone know about this? Should we make explanations for these? --DollarStoreBa'al^ConverseMy life choices 20:48, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Google's Ai says there are multiple exclusive comics for the textbook, but I've only been able to find Inside Body, shown here:

Just so you know, the standard method for announcing something, big or small, to the community is to create a post in te community portal. Just so you don't have to copy and paste every message and reach a wider audience. --FaviFake (talk) 15:50, 9 May 2025 (UTC)