re: What's a random life accomplishment you hold dear that no one gives a shite about

I've ran 2 marathons.

As a young teen, I was incredibly skilled at one particular style of combat in one particular shitty video game, and I was mildly famous within the game community for it. People would visit from other servers just to watch and challenge me because there were videos online of me whooping people's asses. This was pre-YT so videos had to be shared manually between people.

It made me feel like hot shite at the time, because I was young and love games, but looking back it's hilarious.

I, 5’8” white boy, once made a 15 foot jump shot over LSU All-American Rudy Macklin in a pick-up game. Mr. Macklin was still playing professionally with the Atlanta Hawks at the time.

I won the most improved student out of my 6th grade class at the end of the year awards.

Making a “ average joes” style comeback in a dodgeball tournament to launch us into the finals in undergrad . It was a hodgepodge of people who none of us knew each other , and a lot of people watching.

My team was decimated early , other team had 3 left, and it was just me. Plus the game was timed so I had little time left, went on a rampage and knocked everyone out with time on the clock to advance .

We sadly came up short in the finals to a bunch of football players but that was one of my personal highlights

Miserable GPA in high school. Really just did nothing but chase tail and play ball. Mom made me take the ACT and I got a 27.

Yeah it's no mid 30 score, but considering how blind I went into the test, Im still pretty proud.

I once ate 16 pieces of fried chicken

Around the World at The Chimes!

I went dip net fishing in AK a few summers ago and caught 4 red salmon in one sweep. I’m pretty sure it’s not hard to do when they’re running, but I haven’t met anyone else that’s done it.

I dominated a school-wide chess tourney (including teachers at the end) of about 150-200ish participants in elementary. Followed up the next year by doing it again in middle school, albeit tougher competition. Also played some smaller regional tourneys for a couple of years before I went more heavily into the team sports route.

Some more experienced tourney folks told my parents I was a “prodigy” at the time, but I just never had the passion to truly pursue it further. I still play occasionally and remain quite good.