What’s you obscure low key achievement this year?

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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.

Managed to get to the stage with my job, where I just kinda resent having to go to work because I’d rather be doing other things, as opposed to deeply hating it because I’m freaking out constantly. This is a big step for me, I had to leave my last career after crashing and burning, due undiagnosed ADHD. Had a couple of years off getting myself sorted out and correctly medicated, and started back in a new role, but with a genuine question about whether I could have a professional career again.

The first couple of years were really hard, just so stressful and I needed to see a therapist at points to keep going. But I did, and now in my 3rd year I’ve hit a very manageable level of stress that seems normal and bearable. Interestingly, this isn’t because I finally started being organised and stopped leaving things to the last minute. Nope, I just embraced my terrible work habits, stopped beating myself up about them, and changed my expectations for work so that paperwork was minimized and doing all my prep at the last minute was fine. Much less mentally horrific for me and, despite ‘lowering my standards’ the quality of my work probably increased, because I was doing what I could actually achieve not pushing to do something amazing that never materialised.

Wish I had the exact number (my brain likes to count everything), but I’ve done like 100 flip turns at the pool this year. Back in high school I’d do over 100 a day. I’ve been telling myself for a decade “this is the year I’ll do flip turns every lap by x-date”, of course I set off this year with the same lie. And of course I’m not doing them on every lap, but at one point I did my first in over 20 years, and then I did a couple in a row, and then I realized how much less time I have to focus on such a trivial thing, but it was the act of exercising itself that I was benefiting from, not perfectly recreating who I was half a lifetime ago.

I’ve kept going to the pool this year, and I’ve improved myself by doing that, I’m not going to be as fast or skilled or fluid as I used to be, I’m probably never going to flip turn every turn again, but I’m not going to get discouraged by not meeting my own goals that I’d set while looking in a rose tinted mirror.

Could also phrase it as “swam over 100 km (really a bit impressive amount of distance, 1.5-2.5 km per day one of two days a week) listening to the same 4"the dollop”, “god awful movies” “citation needed” and “no such thing as a fish” episodes on repeat (because I kept forgetting to bring my swim headphones and their transfer cable to the same place at the same time)

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.

I’ve found a giant chicken of the woods polypore on an oak while hiking with three cats. A week later the oak broke apart and was blocking the street for me on my bike.

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.

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

Got my hair cut this year. It was growing for years, and shocked everyone around me that I cut it. I’m going to save so much money on shampoo

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.

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.

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.

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.

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”)

Finally starting to un pigeon hole my career by expanding to other technologies.

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

Adopted my kitty…

Got in the top 3% for average weekly steps for someone in my age group (40-49)

I finally read ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’

Picked up kickboxing and lost 30lbs

After weeks of debugging and a million things tried, finally fixed a bug that ended up being an off-by-one error. Had to turn < into <=. Debugging embedded devices can be hard…

edit: the chaos caused by the error was of course completely unrelated to the process, caused a full watchdog timeout

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 5-star mastered every single dualie kit in Splatoon 3

Got some boxes and stuff to organize things in my kitchen and other rooms. It feels so nice not having to roam through messy piles in order to find things!

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)

For 1000 completions in Pirate Solitaire and working towards 2000.

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

I re-entered the job market after 5 years burning through all my saving and being super depressed after I was laid off during the pandemic.

I’m still in love with my Halloween costume this year. I dressed as a playboy bunny and my God did it make my ass look great. I just can’t get over how it complimented my figure.

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.