Yes.
HYE played with a dog?
Yes
HYE done a woodworking project?
Only very basic stuff in high school
HYE done a metalwork project?
No, but I’ve got a friend who’s into metalworking.
HYE beat a video game on the hardest difficulty?
Loads of times
HYE gotten game rage that has caused you to break something?
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To answer my own question, I snapped my Crysis 3 disc in half a few years ago.
For the most part, I’ve been pretty good about it, but I probably put a small dent in a fridge door during a frustrating Halo 3 session.
I’m interested in playing the Crysis series (mostly the first one). What led to you breaking a disc?
To keep the flow going, HYE won a game of Monopoly?
Oof. I don’t think I’ve even ever finished a game. Lol
HYE participated in a zoom call?
The Crysis series is fantastic, I’m a big fanboy of it, I’d recommend it for singleplayer immediately. There was a time where I’d recommend it for multiplayer as well if you’re willing to learn it and put up with a lot of crap, not these days though.
Back near the fall of my gaming addiction (somewhere in early 2016 I think) I was a surprisingly big player in C3 on PS3, I was in the top 60 for all stats combined, world second for one of the guns and world first for a couple of attachments (all on PS3, the PC guys were on a whole different level). The problem was that the multiplayer was utterly broken, the devs stopped support about 3 months after the game release.
I’d initially gotten so fed up of the game that I sold it, but then my family finally got a 4K TV (I’d spent my entire life on CRT up to that point). I wanted to experience the graphics, so I bought the game again. One day I was in an especially bad match and probably not in the best mood that day either. I probably went on like a 13 death streak (my record in C2 was 22 LOL) or something. I just calmly walked up to my PS3, popped the disc out and broke it. It takes a surprisng amount of back and forth bending to break it.
I actually remember posting about it.
I properly quit before I started uni in 2016, deleted all my saves for all my games (10 years of progress just burned) sold almost all of my games (kept all my Ratchet and Clank games, because I wanted my sister to play them) to make sure I never go back. The funniest thing? Last summer I fell into the trap of Steam sales and bought the entrie Crysis series AGAIN (including Warhead this time which is only on PC) among a bunch of other games. The difference this time is that I use the games as performance tests and benchmarks for my laptop and I haven’t set foot online once. I’m concerned that I might relapse if I get too into anything again.
No
HYE used Skype?
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@the_termin8r I was hearing about how the first game was the series starting off with a bang, then Call of Duty became mainstream years later and Crysis wanted to compete, which resulted in the sequels sacrificing open maps. I’m still interested, though, especially in the singleplayer. I love the Halo franchise, but I’m irredeemably bad online. Your story’s also really funny! You have a sort of romantic-comedy love story with the Crysis franchise. If I get a stronger computer this year, I’ll have to try and start my own love story.
As for the topic at hand:
I was a big Skype freak in high school. A couple friends, another guy, and I would Skype on a pretty regular basis, but we fell out of it sometime through high school. I rarely use Skype anymore, but I have fond memories with it.
HYE marathoned a movie series?
Yes and no. Crysis was a different kind of animal. It was more of a tech demo to show off what the devs can do. There’s a reason it gained a reputation for melting PCs and why a ~2007 game still looks semi-decent today. C1 and Warhead (parallel stories of two of the characters during the first game) were open sandbox games with fairly big areas in singleplayer, they weren’t full free roam, but you got dropped into very big levels and could move through them as you chose. The areas were so big that the only time I found one of the borders was when I swam a mile out into the sea and the game auto-killed me with a missile from a ship. 
The by the time C2 came out (~2011), the gaming scene had changed. COD was in and multiplayer was the focus. Crytek decided that it they would try and get into the console markets (C1 and CW were PC only). So made C2 much easier for controllers and made the singleplayer almost completely linear. Graphics and story were still on point, but it was a very different change of direction. It managed to offer enough novelty in multiplayer to distinguish it from the pack. However, that meant that COD fanboys didn’t like it because it was very fast paced and required some tactics when it came to managing suit energy and other such features. As a result, they’d come in, get destroyed by a series regular, get put off and go back to COD.
2013 comes around and so does C3, they tried to mix the singleplayer aspects of C1 and C2, to some degree of success, the graphics (as usual) were pretty legendary and still hold up very well today. Story was solid as usual (continues from 1 and 2), however, it was very short. Multiplayer became even more fast paced, but also even more simplistic and aimed at console players from COD. The new suit energy system pretty much defeated the purpose it originally had of making you plan out your moves so that you don’t end up in the open with a dead suit (i.e. a free kill for someone). However, that still didn’t attract the COD fanboys, because they’d still get annihilated. The typical COD tactcis of spamming and camping don’t work.
I actually tried to get into BF3 some time after I started C3 (it’s when BF was starting to edge ahead of COD in popularity). I played about 6 mins of singleplayer before I’d had enough. The game failed me twice for getting too far ahead of my AI team in some kind of walking sequence the moment you get dropped into the game (if a game is going to pull what I call ‘a far cry 3’ and punish me for being good, I want nothing to do with it). I then tried the multiplayer. I went in playing like a Crysis player (because I was), went on a 16/0 streak as a level 1 player and got vote kicked…3 times in a row from 3 different lobbies. Never touched that game again, good thing I got it for free with a PS Plus trial I had lol.
Not that I remember.
HYE finished a videogame to 100% in one sitting?
Yes
HYE tried to jump start the forum on your own?
Somebody’s gotta do it 
Felt seasick for a few day’s when my family went on a cruise a few years back. The ship was booking it back to the dock and you could actively feel the entire thing lurching back and forth. It was wild.
HYE used a rotary phone?
I actually saw some great vid, where young folk trayed to work it out.
HYE played a tape recorder?
Boomers always trynna act like teens don’t know how to use anything made pre-2000
Does this mean played as it watched videos from a tape recorder or used a tape recorder to video something?
Either way my answer is yes.
HYE eaten a napkin?
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Like an entire fabric napkin? No. I’ve had like the odd fragment when eating a hot dog from a paper one.
HYE experienced buyer’s remorse?
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Oh, way to often.
Mostly with shoes. I have size 43, in my new hiking boots even 44,5. So if I come over female shoes, I actually fit in, it’s such a rare occasion, that I buy these, and later can’t stand it, never wear those.
But the last thing was a pot from IKEA with a integrated sieve for noodles. It’s just not working, the water is boiling over between pot and sieve. The dang thing is not useable, needs space, but it was 7 Euro and so I don’t throw it away. 
You?
Not that I can remember, I don’t buy impulsively.
HYE been in the wrong, known it, but doubled down anyway because you were in too deep?