I gave the only speech at my sister's wedding that got people to cry. I also didn't embarrass her in front of her friends.

Found out my eye color is only present in 5% of the population. Felt like an accomplishment.

i listened to 'welcome to the black parade' by my chemical romance over 200 times

I've kept my streak alive of finishing at least one video game a month (started Nov 23)

Reading this title, I was like as the doomer guy myself, "hah nothing achieved this year" and it then clicked in my head that I was actually doing some pushups and squats in my home on consistent basis.

I am very lean guy with my weight usually hanging around the underweight to healthy weight but I've started to develop some belly which is very noticeably to the people around me. So I decided to do some very basic body weight exercises -pushups and squats.

I started with not being able to do 2-3 pushups a day to current personal best of 12 pushups in one go! I have visible enough biceps and triceps now too :P (highlighted as a tldr answer)

I still haven't figured out the right way to go about my calisthenics journey with proper plans and programs, it feels kinda tough to find proper resources for a complete beginner, so if you know a really good resource do share it with me! I'd would've have a calisthenics focused community on lemmy too.

I 5-star mastered every single dualie kit in Splatoon 3

I finally finished my unhinged marathon of the entire Yakuza franchise that started when Infinite Wealth launched. At the time I'd played all the games up to that point but never really went for 100%, but that game's platinum was so easy and the nostalgia bait in the second half of the game both made me want to replay all the games and go through spinoffs that I hadn't played yet.

Right after IW I went back through the mainline starting from 0 (followed by the Kiwami remakes rather than the originals, but we'll get there). Burnt out on 5 which I'd argue is the actual most tedious plat in the series, but got back to it a few months later, then breezed through the rest just in time for Pirates (which was certainly a game of all time...).

With the mainline out of the way, I replayed Judgment and LJ, finally played through Kaito Files for the first time, and then started working through spinoffs. I also got through the original PS2 games twice each - once in English emulated just to experience them, then again on the Japanese HD port on the PS3 for the trophy list. I still have nightmares of the 20 Home Run thing for Y1. Dead Souls was actually fun, Kurohyou 1 and 2 were fantastic games but incredibly grindy (and buggy) for 100%. Ishin's plat wasn't actually nearly as bad as people say. Through in Fist of the North Star Lost Paradise for good measure. Finally, got through Kenzan for the first time and its completion list with the help of way too many translation guides.

So, all that being said, at the time I was satisfied with achievement lists for games that had them, and completion lists for those that didn't, but a handful of games don't actually require full completion lists for plat (off the top of my head I think 3, 4, Dead Souls, 6, 7, Gaiden, IW, and Pirates). So I said fuck it, run it back and wrap them up.

About a year and a half later, I could say I'd just about 100%'d the entire franchise. I think the only thing I didn't do was the Haruka's Trust bullshit in games that didn't require it.

I will add right now that I'm NOT currently planning on playing Kiwami 3 due to the Kagawa situation and just how the franchise is being handled in general. I'm happy calling this my stopping point if they don't recast him.

Nobody cares about it, but I've been a straight-edge for 35 years and counting. No drugs, no booze, not even cranking the hog. On the other hand though, I can't afford anything fun anyways, neither on money, time, or the less-known ethical implications (haven't been able to watch a movie in years, for instance)

Adopted my kitty...

After many years of trying and failing, I finally convinced my friends to try a TTRPG (Dungeons & Dragons). This is my first time ever playing a TTRPG as it is for most of my friends. We are having an absolute blast. The general consensus is that we should have started doing this years ago (which I always pipe in with a “yeah, that’s why I first brought it up in like 2021”)

Picked up kickboxing and lost 30lbs

Managed to make two cats tolerate each other - one is keen on chasing, one is shy and coward. They are bad at signalling play - so sometimes they go too rough, but now they coexist mostly in peace.

Rescued a whimpering puppy from a metre depth, straight down in a narrow drainpipe.

When we got the callout for an animal rescue, I had forgot that the cat-in-a-tree type incidents are stereotypical for firefighters.

Was a unique achievement for me.

I am on a 6834 game win streak in spider solitaire. This wasn’t all this year, but this is where I am now. Out of 9215 games I’ve lost 3 times, twice at the beginning when I didn’t realize you could undo the whole game and start again, and one when my phone glitched. It’s a small easily achievable goal when my life/brain is too much. I don’t think I’ll make 10k games before new years, but that’s ok. Shout out to Digital Smoke for making a solitaire app that doesn’t track you.

Bought an apartment with a mortgage with support of the state (they paid the half of a price) for my family. Not the greatest, but the cheapest out there, so there's many caveats, but we're finally home 🏠

Fixed my monitor rather than tossing more e-waste in the landfill. Replaced a couple blown caps and it's running like a champ again.

Won't necessarily go over well on Lemmy but still want to brag a bit. My company got bought by salesforce, life changing for my kids' kids (let alone me and my wife). Had a meeting this week with Marx Benioff and he said "I dont care about that i want to hear that v_krishna thinks" and then spent 15 minutes on the spot answering his questions.

Couple years ago, I finally got off my ass & started making time to actually fix the stuff I said I would fix. It's been transformational. This year, I made time for the 'good' car. I replaced the transmission along with a lot of other little bits that had been bothering me. Took close to 5 months in total, but I'm at the point now where both the good car & the beater truck are both reliable runners. It's a good feeling.

Since nobody gives a fuck about my true amazing feats, I'll brag about something more relatable: I did my laundry a few times this year. Major achievement if you know me.

Ripped a 20 second long fart in bed a month or two ago.

I dispersed (free) camped around my country for the whole year

I drove 150 miles at highspeed on a highway at night through a thunderstorm during a nervous breakdown. That was just the return drive home.