Your favorite thing about botb (name only one!)

109417

there are a lot of cool things i really like about this site, but my most favorite thing might be the variety of musical styles. so many different people contributing their stuff on here and it feels like everyone has their own favorite genre and style, it almost never gets boring to listen to new (and old) entries.
additionally, themed battles (major and minor) which forces people to write stuff outside of their comfort zone.

i'm also interested in other peoples favorite botb-things! c:

(i know, there might be a thread about this topic already, but im too lazy to search for it.)

109418

For me it's simply getting to hear lot of music, improving as an artist and always learning new stuff. Pretty straight-forward answer.

109419

That was more than one but all of those things are really important to me.

109420

my favorite part is watching people get mad when majors inevitably get extensions

by which i actually mean ohbing obviouslyyyy but also just in general getting critique and feedback and making things people enjoy

109421

although this site forced me to make better music and brought me a lot of joy through puke's streams and the friendly nature of its community (great evenings with robyn's streams as well), i guess my fave thing about botb still is binge-playing keffie's entries

109422

Personally, botb has given me a fresh perspective on my music again, I think it's really easy to get into the trap of just thinking that your music is absolutely amazing and just never letting yourself improve, if you've got no reference point. I felt like I was in that place before botb, where I thought that everything I made was great even though there was still a lot of room for improvement.

I haven't been making music for very long (on and off for about 1-2 years) but I think for the few months I've been on botb I've improved more than I did for the entirety of last year. This community is so lovely and supportive that I always keep coming back to make more stuff and taking part in more ohbs/majors <3

(sorry if I said more than one thing lol)

109423

smart people

109424

Learning to make music for a variety of chips.

109425

There's so many things I love about BotB, I could do a big write-up about what this site has personally done for me. I was thinking of doing that after Winter Chip XIV ended but forgot to get around to doing it...

But one thing I love about BotB is the variety of different formats to go for. It's a lot of fun to explore other tools with different restrictions in place, and those limits inspire me to get creative and find the best way to make x soundchip sound good. This site does a good job at encouraging exploration, especially with how the battles are organized.

109426

It has anime avatars!

But in all seriousness, aside of what others have already said, it's also the uniqueness. It's probably the most peculiar and most fun one among all vintage computer music and arts-centered places with specific charm to it

109427

it gives motivation to do stuff+
urlfriends+

also http://battleofthebits.com/arena/Tag/%3Cmarquee%3E/

109434

it's "git gud" in a good way

109435

The community is really cool, and this is nice for noobs like me struggling to make music. Everyone is friendly and helpful, and very chill to befriend.

109436

most of us are used to it by now, but this site's layout is so frickin whack. i love it

109437

The site layout was what turned me off for a long time, and I regret being a member for such a long time before actually becoming active and make crappy tunes,

So much regrets D:

I actually love it now lol

109443

Getting to hear a lot of really good songs that I wouldn't get to otherwise

109450

The community.
I love you all.

109451

As underground music fan there is so much to explore and to listen to - and you can meet every time nice people :)

109454

Tomorrow.

109460

my favorite thing about butt is that it is round

109461

you say you like botb, but do you like botb enough to show botb to people just walking by on the street? i think not

109467

What do I like about Bottle of the Bobs? I'm not sure, mjen....

I like myself some bobs, but I also like the bottle... Both of them are important to me!

109471

I like when it's not 1st April, so I can access this site properly in my cellphone. Oh boy...

109473

I love it when people upload their source files and I get to take peek behind the magic of it all.
Sadly I haven't seen many OHB so I haven't been able to take part properly. And the ones that I've seen are during my work hours. Would be nice to have an alert system.

109492

follow @battleofthebits or @botb_battles on twitter and turn on notifs

109504

ah, this is hard.

madness? Diversity? masters? n00bs? oddballs?

I'm going with Open-mindness

109505

I can relate to many things that were said here so in addiction to those, I guess my favorite thing is the fact that the community is the only place I feel comfortable nerding out and having cool discussions about soundchips and etc.

109521

The community, by far...

(Yeah, and anime avatars. That makes two).

109527

all I can think of is ohbs

109534

actually improving at music and learning new things is pretty nice

109536

listening to all y'allls botb original music, sometimes I gotta hold back the tears (-: Thank you all!!!!!!

109543

I love how talented yet humble and friendly everyone is. :)

109615

Honesty. No one's gonna be acting like your stuff is better than it is or upvoting you because you're nice or something. That's something that seriously helped me level up.

109657

I love how BOTB has pushed my creativity into new areas and broken a lot of boundaries for me!

109658

the fact that a few people are willing to give so much of their time and energy to both develop and moderate a community in a way that pleases most/all of it's participants, without asking for much in return.

thank you, all admins and moderators

109660

shawnphase's incredibly shitty knees

109662

It's friendly community

109666

how people keep coming back

109670

the game jams

109671

community

109673

using game mechanics to trick me into making music

118760

good evening.
here are 2 reasons why i bump this:
1. i want more people to tell me and the world why they like botb
2. its almost april 1st again and we all know what the thread name will look like on that date :)

118762

formats
gives me a reason to muck about with different stuff

118763

I name my favorite thing James

118764

because

118765

You guys; the community.

For making such amazing music free of charge for the fun of it, which is greatly appreciated by people like me who adores music but can't afford any of it. (there's also the fact that y'all are nice people, but who cares about that)

118796

my real answer is that the compos give me an excuse to have a fun time making random tunes even if i feel like i'm just repeating myself

118801

( ﾟ^ﾟ) if not for this site, i probably would've just used fl studio forever

118806

I love participating and everything, but I think in recent years I have really come to love my favorites playlist. It's really got some of the best music that I have heard.

118821

Tomorrow.

118825

I'm not much of a butt person myself

oh, you mean botb? Well I think I can honestly say that my exposure to chiptune writing/FamiTracker has actually impacted on my writing for live instruments. The ability to have micro-control over every single note and waveform, and the amount of detail that you can therefore put into chiptunes, has led to me experimenting much more with mixing instruments/sounds, and I also now think a lot more about the small details and putting colour variation into every single note rather than just treating the whole melodic line as if it needs to be played the same way all the way through. The pieces I wrote in my second year of my masters degree would not have been the same at all if I hadn't been exposed to botb.

118828

I like to think that exposure to butt has improved us all in some way

118829

i'm really just thankful for all the sounds the botb community has given my ears

118832

honestly botb is so cool like what's cooler than botb?!

118833

BotB is comfy =w=

119683

Yay! Happy Galgox is best Galgox

119686

Community

119696

vinsCool

119780

interface

119982

You get exposure by uploading instead of having to rely on an algorithm

119999

the Lyceum is really useful.

120000

i really like how the lyceum lists all these tools for me to download and then decide I hate

also this post is #120000 O__o

120009

munsic,

120112

For me it's focus on hardware accuracy and encouragement to compose for a variety of platforms.

And annoying puke to fix the IP tables!

120115

i like when number go up

120118

bits

129662

My favorite thing about BotB and Botbers? Only one thing? ok I have to cheat and do a big sentence then:

The benevolent nature of the skilled community doing awesome music and pushing me to explore new ideas without stress and without being judged with stupid standard and cliché

129674

My favorite thing about BotB is the awesome community circa 2005!

129692

this is the only community online that has eagerly accepted every aspect of my identity and given me critical feedback for improving my lifestyle as an artist, resulting in me getting closer than I've ever been to living off my work

139423

hello! its bump-time because another year passed and its almost april 1st again :)))))

139424

botb is a quite interesting case study for testing the actual tools and their features (specially the lack of them), and help improving them

the community is quite motivational (even when it doesn't seem like at first), making us curious about being more risky and experimental, and is quite surprising how far any of us can motivate back

scoring looks like coming from a random number generator, which is actually cool! :D

in the end we might get a quite great and interesting portfolio we had no idea we could make them at first, even when their average might sound totally crappy

139426

latist entries

139437

The spirit!

139449

botb is soft yet firm

139458

my favorite thing is the continuing arcs of new people coming in with fresh ideas and motivations. the standards seem to gradually increase more as the years roll by which is very cool and inspiring

139502

It made me wanna learn how to compose in c64 format and (kinda) grow into liking some NINTENDO formats (nes and gb) and the ability to Collab with other peeps :D

139516

fade outs

139518

what gyms said about the standards increasing. it's crazy how fast newer botbrs rise among the ranks now. it certainly took me a while.

139598

i think, for me its still the variety of musical styles because we have so many different people with different musical backgrounds on here, its amazing. together with what gyms said about new people joining and putting the focus on something else. its organic and full of live ^~^

139600

Tomorrow.

139602

so many cool people to collab and befriend!!

139603

56
discovered the new funni number

139610

i like big botbs and i cannot lie

139615

also the first botb vcv compo is what got me into vcv and its now one of my favorite tools for music

139620

this thread was created only to be read on april 1st right?

139624

not only

139628

battle of the bits dot organ

139630

i fuckin love botb man

139631

BUTTCRACKS

139632

ah siht i forgot about this

i like botb

139633

This April fools palette really goes well with adlib techno.

139634

btw, isn't butt actually an amazing musical instrument? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFLw8aH-M2w

139637

the best favorite thing this site has is trying to use the site on April 1st

139653

battle of the tits

139671

Exposure is based on quality and activity, not just YouTu- I mean BotB picking favorites.

140815

how i haven't been able to stop thinking about this site for over 8 years....

140961

everything's in the creative commons!

140971

i like how everyone is really friendly to all regardless of skill level , very respectful internet environment

140998

everyone is cute

i do not care how cool or edgy you guyss try to act, you are ALLÑcute

154332

botb is still so cool and awesome and i cant get enough of it

154334

A place enticing me to improve in arts and practice, participate in epic arguing, see nice art, and even get to choose themes of drawing from hosting! I can be myself around and even have got away with venting publicly now and then: Battle of the Bits is feeling as an adjective in my mind with these qualities.

It also feats the highest amount of neat people I have meet in one community too

My favorite *one* thing as of now is that I can find neat company I may interact with in when I look for so

154336

If you cut your right botb cheek…
Are you left behind?

154376

Aw man, I have to pick one thing?

One of my favorite things would be all the different formats this site hosts

Because of how many there are to pick from, you're bound to find the ones that suit you the most, there's even plenty of non-music formats to persue if you wanted to

This site's also the only place that still makes music for some of the more obscure formats, which made me really appreciate them because of how unique they are

And because of how talented people are on the site, they put out some of the best music ever made for these formats

154403

It's still active

154407

it is warm! >w<

154409

botb botb botb botb botb botb botb botb

154411

butt is love butt is life we cant live with butt its too important to be ignored
thanks for coming to my tedtalk

154414

the best feature of botb is obviously the obscure niche format

154430

i love botb god i want botb so badly right now pleeease gimmie some botb

154600

I'm a bit late to this, I think, 𝓫𝓾𝓽𝓽 my favoritze thing about 𝓫𝓾𝓽𝓽 is that; ass a saying where I'm from goes: "No matter where you go, or what you do; 𝓫𝓾𝓽𝓽 will be always behind you!" 🤎🤗🍑

154605

teh lycelium

154689

the people i have meet over the years!, some in RL others over the Internet! :D

Been a botbr since 2005 baby!!!!

154692

All the little verbal idiosyncrasies. Donload, nextious entry, 56, etc

154921

teh noobz

155050

ze people. you are all beautiful and i lub u :3

155196

I LOVE the format variety. There’s just so much to do and so much left to do. (Site still isn’t finished I’ve heard)

155272

What I find really inspiring about this site is how high the average skill level is

155316

The radio, being able to just have sick music easily.

155357

All the tracks up on radio thank you for all these sweet creative tunes, they continue to inspire me creatively.

155359

How organized battles are, and just the whole conceptual thing of it as well. I could only dream of hosting something like this.

155598

I CAN ONLY SAY ONE?!?!?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

at the top of the insane list is probably the great community.
everyone here is different, but the music and art totally bring us all together, like some big competitive family or something.

i added competitive because everyone seems to be fighting for either #1 or last place(making it easy to be somewhere in the middle).

155608

I am a pretty big fan of the pants.

169038

hi
u know the thing.
it's time again

fun BotB things to talk about

169039

ok so i know it says only one thing BUUUUT i have two really strong ones:

1. music! so much music! hours upon hours of bangers waiting for me to listen to with even more music being uploaded every day, not to mention the variety of music too.

2. gamification! having the tism, i have this habit of gamifying my life and botb does this almost flawlessly with badges, levels, classes and my chievo system (even though it's unofficial)!

169045

My all-time favorite inspirational quote (attributable to game designer Mark Rosewater, but probably also other people) is "Restrictions breed creativity."

I love this site because it leans into that attitude in several different ways: time restrictions, through XHBs; chip and other format restrictions, forcing me to work with limited tools; and bitpacks, which can put any kind of additional layer of restrictions on top of these.

Maybe that's cheating, because I brought up 3 things, but what I appreciate is the thing they have in common: they are restrictions that breed creativity.

169048

fun

169053

My favorite thing about being here is that even when I've been gone a long time, I come back and everyone is just as cool as I remember and it feels like I never left. Seriously, I've posted things around many places but BOTB feels like home more than any other corner of the internet.

It's beautiful.

169057

This place is jam-packed with great, inspiring music and art with a huge variety of styles to the point where it feels like you could never truly plumb the depths of what's here. And the gamification and constraints built into every aspect of the site really make for great "replay value." But my number one favorite thing? I think it's been mentioned a lot in this thread - the sense of community. Our artistic efforts, even among people with different skill levels, bring us together in a cool way. I feel a kinship with a lot of people around, even some people I haven't interacted with directly in chat or elsewhere. I'd agree with Jredd in saying it feels like home.

10/10
Hours played at review time: many

169070

forcing others to perceive my ideas

169071

@Savestate forcing?

169348

anyone else who has even more sweet things to say about botb? :3

169351

For sure has to be the variety of music. I don't really find anything like what I have here, elsewhere, without deep searching for niche results.

I should elaborate that I don't just mean the genres or formats, but the unique style and sound each BoBtr has. It's not something I can simply explain, but compared to the playlists littered around youtube, you just can't beat the quality of some songs, and especially not the ideas that spawned them.

169352

Joke answer: The Funny
Real answer: There's SO MUCH COOL STUFF! cool music, cool art, and you get to see it and make it all on the same site. If I had to name one specific thing I think it would be... uhhhhhhhhhhhhh... hmmmmmmmmmmmm.........
as a n00b at the time of writing this, it's definitely the learning. I'm pretty confident that my skills at general creative stuff will increase.

169354

it is squishy yet firm

169375

Oh no what have I done

169387

my favorite thing about botb is the botb ocks

169556

major battles with 30-60 entries (all audio entries)

169692

It's hard for me to pinpoint one particular aspect that I love the most about BotB, since mine's all about how the site executes the idea of bringing songs to the user.

The UI and UX being not overly focused on pleasing to literally everyone on the planet, thus implicitly nudging the user to pay attention and requiring some degree of intelligence and persistence on their part. Even past the registration phase.

BotB also showcase a wide variety of entries, with no obvious distinction of what are the most desirable ones. It sounds counterintuitive at first, but it works in its favor for two reasons:

- We can't inherently agree on what constitutes the best song ever
- Overexposure of the "greatest" songs will make us more likely to (dis)miss on the more esoteric ones

As a result, most users who end up being involved in BotB would wind up forming a tighter-knit community, churning out many more interesting entries you'd otherwise have a much, MUCH tougher time finding elsewhere.

169694

> name only one

> a lot of people name several

:(

169695

The community.
I'm nowhere near as active as people are here, and I'm crap at making music, but I peek into everyone's interactions and entries and I find it beautiful how people are talented, creative, easy to talk to, and overall so friendly. There are few places on the internet nowadays that are nice and pleasant as BotB, and that makes it much more special.

169876

Obviously not my only favorite thing, but the site itself!

The way the site looks is an absolute vibe, that and the whole leveling deal where you earn experience for doing stuff (such as liking other people's tracks, making your own stuff, or leveling in certain stuff) makes community interaction even more encouraging!

That and the fact that you can make your own color scheme just adds to it!

Quite honestly shocked that I haven't checked this place out sooner!

169882

Best thing for me has to be the constant little incentives to make music. OHBs get my creative juices goin real fast and the long format ones are a nice, slower paced place to really put effort into a tune. There's almost always a challenge to look at to get me going

169890

watching people struggle to choose a single, defining feature of this site they like
TOO MANY AAAAA
luv u all! botb forever!!!!

169896

I love that everything has a deadline. It forces me to actually finish things.

169920

Having been here for a few months now, I really appreciate the balance of support, but also competition? A lot of people said very nice things about my Winter Chip submissions, but in the same breath, I didn't get gifted really high scores because people want to be polite. It feels like a good line to walk where folks can share what they like about your work, but also (directly or indirectly) encourage you to keep striving for better!

169974

music competitions on botb online helped to shape my confidence in music. i go back and see how & why i didn't win this or that battle, and i can improve my music from that open feedback.

it also helps me to stay creative so that i can have good samples and patches on hand for OHB and other similar battles.

170248

the peeps

187306

butt

187308

ah, it's almost that time of year again already...

187310

ohh!! probably the fact that everyones cool and cute in theirn own way, and it all meshes well together, no matter how they may act or be perceived.. ^~^

187311

I love the freedom and uniqueness in this sight. From the peoples personalities, their style of music, and the variety/design of thia site. This is one of the things that helped me realize how important it is to be yourself and find your niche. Truly greatful to have found this area 🥰🤝

187330

My favorite thing about this site is listening to how people interpret the provided bitpacks. It's interesting to hear people's styles.

187343

you know, i've never actually replied to this thread because i found the idea of picking One thing overwhelming. how do i even do that?

but i think the best answer i could give is the fact that it provides, holistically, this fertile creative ground that's earnest, unpretentious, welcoming; people can learn here, they can experiment and express themselves without pressure, and as long as the community continues to nurture that - which it quite broadly has since i've been here - it'll remain a powerful wellspring for people to draw from and create art.

that's the biggest reason i stick around. that means a lot to me.

187375

slugs! a small group of people going round in a circle and giving each other feedback

187392

delicious creamy brown SHIT in my mouth

187400

my favorite thing about botb is that it exists

187424

i like the competition -- i am more efficient when creating for a battle rather than not.

187438

I like that it tricks me into being productive

187497

I've already posted so consider this my 2nd thing but noteworthy to mention

I'm ten years into making stuff here (and 12 overall elsewhere) and yet I'm still learning about new stuff/formats that I haven't tried before. It's a testament to the variety and scope of creativity that is available to be encouraged about from a platform

187771

the person reading this ;)

188432

One thing I absolutely adore about Battle of The Bits is that because it kinda got stuck in a older web feel and design that dates back to 2011/2012 (this current version at least), it sort of accidentally ended up becoming a participant of the indie and old web revival in a way.
Like, this website looks and feels so fucking oldskool, and we can still use our own animated profile pictures like it's 2005 without any paywalls nor arbitrary bullshit (other than levels limiting pfp size).
It honestly gives this website a much needed comfy aura and feeling that it would never have if it followed modern day conventional internet design trends.
I do not feel welcome at home when I open up a page full of flat design and "Alegria" fake people on it, but i feel fully at home when I see this website, it's very oldskool feel and quirks.