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After way too many hours I finally got to Immortal rank in Dota 2. Now I feel kind of done with it haha

In my entire life I've spent less than $50 in micro-transactions.

Long time ago, I would play Transport Tycoon (Deluxe?) all the time. I had this just about fully built map, I was forced to optimize everything because the game didn't allow any more railway stations or depots to be built.

One day, the news pops up that my company will go bankrupt if performance doesn't improve, I find myself in a balance of some number starting with -2.147... I couldn't find a way to the positives to save my company so I reloaded last save, I purchased the max amount of trains and carriages to sell when the apocalypse happens, I would build a significant amount of the map in railway that I could get refunded. No way I could achieve over 2 billion in one year.

Eventually I learn that the max value a 32 bit processor can have is 2,147,483,647, until it flips over to -2,147,483,647. I had become so successful that the hardware in my PC couldn't handle it! I take plenty of pride in this achievement. I actually beat an endless game.

Beating Ninja Gaiden Black on Master Ninja.

Probably completing The Shattered Throne dungeon solo. This is in Destiny 2, by the way.

It doesn't compare to the insane stuff other people are soloing, but it was still darn difficult.

100% both RDR2 and breath of the wild.

Facebook used to (or still does?) have games on it. When Tetris was added, I climbed to the #1 rank in the world in one of the modes, I forget which. Didn't last long though

I'm the King of Dragon Pass. Without using a guide...

I'm in the top ten in The Stanley Parable

I am in the top 100s on some tracks in Art of Rally.

I maxed out the buzz lighter shooter ride in Disney... 9s all across. I have a picture of it somewhere

In crawl stone soup I had a win with every species and every background. They added more and I haven't kept up, but it was a pretty big deal.

It's a good rogue like. Recommend checking it out if you like the genre.

Top 150 ranked in world on Company of Heroes 1v1 a long time ago lol. Got to play against some of the #1's - one of them left to join the South Korean military I heard. Got stomped but was fun.

I was pretty damn good at C&C Generals: Zero Hour back in the day. Damn I wish they remastered that game.

Was ranked on global leaderboards in Dota for a brief moment, too. Top 1%, but never close to the 0.1%.

My favorite moment in gaming was playing a sniper in Red Orchestra in a large 64 player game. Huge map. All game I'm sniping people left and right. Not dying once. Meanwhile throughout the game, like 30 minutes, the enemy sniper is equally decimating my team's ranks. I was hunting for him the entire game to no avail. Then, while prone I crest this ridgeline to scout a valley below and as I pan my scope to look all the way down toward the other side of my ridgeline, I see the other sniper lock with me at Exactly. The Same. Time.

We both fire.

And since Red Orchestra actually tries to simulate ballistics, we both hit each other and die.

99 woodcutting!

Completing everything in Goldeneye (finished all levels on 00 agent, all cheat challenges completed, etc)

Got my name published in Nintendo Power for beating Ocarina of Time with only 3 hearts and no deaths

Completing FF7 in one 19 hour sitting (not a crazy fast time, but I also completed a decent amount of side quests for their useful rewards)

Being a top raiding mage in WoW, and maxing out gold on multiple characters and guild banks

Finished Doom eternal ultra nightmare I guess?

finished punch out (famicom emu), terranigma and kirby.

I beat Halo 2 on legendary. I also refuse to attempt that again and haven't bothered playing legendary at all on any Halo in over a decade. Pretty sure my thumbs will not do that anymore.

I managed a cyber cafe many years ago. Mostly filled with regulars that I knew on a first name basis and would usually sit in for a CS match if it was slow.

I wouldn’t call myself great but I could take down middle schoolers. That’s not what this post is about though.

A girl walks in, has some sweats on from the big university that’s not too close but still in the area.

She wipes all those kids out repeatedly. They start yelling, asking me to help them out so I do. I’m effectively going 50% with this person.

Before she leaves she reveals that’s she’s visiting her parents for the weekend and that she was on a team that was ranked or otherwise played professionally.

I asked her if I was good enough to play competitively.

She said no, she hadn’t played at all for a few months because of school and she was going easy.

Felt pretty proud that I was able to keep up with an out-of-shape pro.

When I was a kid in the 80’s and 90’s, you only owned a few games if you had an NES or SNES (or Sega equivalent) even if you rented/played a lot of them. So, I got insanely good at the few games I owned. After I beat Street Fighter II with every character on the highest difficulty, I decided to beat the game using only one button (plus the D pad, obviously). Finally did it with Chun Li and X button.

With Super Mario World, the hardest personal challenge I did was beating every level except the switch blocks. There’s a bunch of secret exits where switch blocks are supposed to be the way. It took a lot of cape+blue Yoshi shenanigans to get that one done.

Now that I’m old (or least older) and games are way longer, my biggest accomplishment is actually finding time to play a game all the way through, much less do side quests. I made time for BoTW, Horizon Zero Dawn, Nier: Automata, and Hades. But if I stop playing a game for awhile, I forget all the controls and that’s the end of that game.

I’m the largest collector of Anivia merch on earth, and her biggest fan. I’ve had communications with all the famous Anivia related people, am the best Anivia player in my country, and probably close to the world; but I defs am the biggest fan and follower of her :>

I was rank 34 warlock serverwide in wow before I abandoned it. I already have a job don't want another.

I've finished mario kart in 4 different platforms. Not exactly hard but it does take some time so I'll consider it an achievement.

I was ranked #1 in the world for a good while in Pistol Whip. On both PC and PS4, before they separated out all the leaderboards based on modifiers.

I did a Dishonored run with zero kills and never being spotted, took forever but felt so satisfying.

In my first play through of Dark Souls, I killed Ornstein last and therefore got his armor. Maybe not terribly hard, but by far my favorite achievement.

It’s easier to kill Smough last but his armor isn’t as cool as Ornstein’s.

Mario Galaxy 2 - got all of the stars (240 I think)

I did some other stuff that I'm proud of but doesn't sound as "complete" as that

In wow, I was a death knight gnome in a raid (dungeon finder so it was easy mode). I think it was one of the early warlords of dreanor raids. Anyways 95% of group wiped, but me and the other tank (a paladin) plus a healer (revived with gnomish army knife - which has a huge chance of failure) managed to survive for what felt like 5 minutes. Really upset the dead folks who just wanted us to wipe and start again.

Unfortuanlty we didn't have enough DPS and hit the beserk timer and that was the end of that.

I also loved using the multi-target death grip skill, normally it sucks every mob to your target, great for CC.

I read you can set your self as target with a macro, so I'd run into the middle of a room and yank everything to me in one go. Super handy when mobs came in from behind and targeted the healer - I just sucked them all in into the stabbing party.

Got the sword of kings in Earthbound

I was in the Battle of B-r5rb under the Halloween Coalition (and won, cue the wrath of former N3 Coalitionaires and Pandemic Legionaires). This actually technically makes me a war veteran.

A couple years ago I won 2048