today is our thanksgiving holiday in the states. whether you celebrate or not, it’s very liberating and good for you to think of things you are thankful for in your life.
so what are you thankful for? someone? something? someplace? it could
be big or small.

i’ll go first: i’m thankful for my friends and free samples!

im thankful 4 being married to someone rly caring. like they r expressing feelings to me about things that happen in MY life and same thing the other way round. its the first/only relationship ive ever been in where the feelings are actually mutual and equal, and we want to do things for each other to show each other love and its great. ayyy

also stability; bein able to sleep in a room without worryin about cockroaches is a HUGE one to b thankful for. thank you turkey god

I'm thankful for everything in existence. It helps me exist

Anyway, jokes aside:

I'm thankful for the supportive family in my life. Shoutouts to Mom and Dad and teeny little brother. He's gonna find this comment one day and scream at me, I just know, he absolutely despises when I call him small. Hehe.

I'm thankful for the few awesome real life friends I have. Better few good friends than a whole room of bad ones! My friends have never given up on me, and I cannot ever thank them enough for that.

For my teachers, they are literally too nice to me sometimes.

For every single nurse that took care of me as a 2 month preemie - I wanted my presents, according to my parents. I was a PROBLEM in their hands. Thanks, and sorry about that. XP

For my entire support system, my therapist, my doctor—thanks for helping me with everything that was going on with me. What am I? XD

For the people who helped me on my artistic journey. You know who you are.

For whoever left a note on my backpack in 8th grade saying "You are here for a reason" after multiple people told me otherwise that day. Thank you.

Don't cry, Arix... ah, too late. :')

Sorry for my long comment lmfao

Edit: also thankful for cookies and this website and a bunch of other things but what's above is more important than that

thanks for asking. let me think about it and maybe I'll get back to you.

I'm thankful for my boyfriend, whom I just dropped off at the train station this morning to go back home; we spent the week together. I'm thankful for my friends, both those here on BotB and outside, and my mother as well.

I guess I'm thankful for people, all-in-all! Hope everyone is having a great Turkey Day today!

hard question
i don't celebrate but i am grateful for forests and seas, i guess
and to live in the same time of video games era cause video games weren't a thing in middle ages lol

I'm thankful for my new job. I make in a month what I used to make in a year now. One day I'll bite the bullet and actually buy that super midi pack I've had my eyes on for a year.

I'm thankful that my family encouraged me to do homeschool and college classes at the same time. With 3 siblings it's a lot to ask to be driven to college twice a week in addition to being homeschooled. If it weren't for their support, I'd probably be working at McDonald's and wasting all my free time on TF2.

I'm thankful that my girlfriend actually cares about me, thinks I'm funny at least half the time, and encourages me to be more active in my faith.

I'm thankful that I have been raised in an environment where philosophy is more than just a joke. Being able to defend my beliefs with more than just shouting is great.

easy question, its my girls every time

thankful to live in this beautiful city, the kind friends I have here, the friends I've yet to make, and my little fledgling garden

arp effect

being alive, even if i really can't understand it

yall deadass telling me i can be breathing one second and the next some tiny creatures take over my body and quickly kill me?
or that i could be alone on the streets?
or just live in an uncomfortable environment?

nah man, im taking whatever wins i get.




...oh and music
me love music, makes me hapi.

I thank you. You and everyone else in Battle Of The Bits. I had fun joining battles, voting entries, commenting sometimes... and seeing the same faces over and over again, but it's not like I don't like that. For me, Battle Of The Bits is a small yet active community. Sure, it does have a lot of BotBrs here and there, and there may be rare moments where an inactive BotBr just logs in out of nowhere, but seeing the same people again and again helps me get used to them. Their music style, how they are, what they are. And that's what makes me happy about Battle Of The Bits, it's a place where people eventually get easier to recognize. Not only that, but it's also a friendly and fun community.

I'm glad that Battle Of The Bits is still standing to this day since 2005, apparently. It's not just a memory, it's not like you talk about it and people say "Battle Of The Bits was decades ago, dude". Of course, not everything lasts forever and BOTB is not immortal, but it's still living long enough to give new people the chance to join and give Battle Of The Bits a try.

I'm pretty sure y'all can understand what I'm trying to say here. I love you and thank you all.

(edit from windows XP, no javascript so edit button doesn't work) An important addendum to my last paragraph: I am thankful that I do not have to "defend beliefs" at Thanksgiving dinner because whooooooooooooooooooooooooooo boi

I'm thankful for time to see and appreciate family and friends. It's been a great week!

I'm thankful for having been able to make music like this. I don't know how long it or I'll last, but I'm thankful.

THANK YOU FOR NOTHING.CAUSE WE GOT NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE

Ho ho, where do I even start? It’s 6 AM where I am and I haven’t slept, so excuse the rantiness. I’m bored as hell.

I’m thankful for the wonderful community of like-minded people who are a big part of the reason I’m in the position I am now. BotB, YouTube, Discord, the demoscene, the many IRL friends I’ve shown my works - all have been appreciative. Except for that one time I accidentally included the driver author’s cause of death in a title… that one nearly got me blacklisted from the demoscene. But it’s water under the bridge now.

I’m thankful for my autism. It sounds silly, but it’s been the biggest driving force behind my whole chiptune career. I started chiptune when I was around eight or nine years old. I got hooked on retro gaming when about 1/3 of retro gaming was just considered… gaming. I’m 23 now, in my sophomore year of college, and at every step of the way from rock bottom to the very climax, I’ve had chiptune by my side as a way to channel my intense curiosity, my emotions, and my views.

I’m thankful for the dedication - and the sheer balls of steel - of the retro community. Through thick and thin, wading through a quagmire of sadistic copyright laws, media archiving blunders, websites coming and going, the march of technology going faster and faster, we’re still here. Just about anything you can think of has an emulator or simulator of some sort, and you can write music on about half of them. We do things the people who created the very things we love would assassinate us over! I can play Switch games on my dinosaur gaming laptop and use cracked Roland Cloud VSTs to render MIDI tunes from the comfort of my own dorm room, without anyone giving me the Litvinenko treatment… if you stop hearing from me or see my name in the news, Nintendo did it.

I’m thankful for my job. I currently work the front desk my college’s information technology. I’m not paying rent or bills, so I have all the money to myself. I’ve bought a few little tchotchkes with my earnings as what many would call a grunt - a metric assload of VSTs, a sample pack optimized for my Casio SK-1, three musical toys, some headphone adapters, subscriptions to a couple mobile apps, and a Pocket Operator that’s yet to come in the mail. If I got fleeced out of $60, there will be HELL to pay.

I’m thankful for food. I consider myself a foodie - no wonder I’m so fat - and whatever money I’m not spending on musical nuggets, I’m probably spending on meals and snacks. There are hundreds of restaurants in my area, and I’ve been to a good chunk of them. My favorite has to be this Vietnamese restaurant tucked away in a strip mall. You’d barely notice it, but it has some of the best pho, summer rolls, and wonton egg noodle soup I’ve had in my life. I was once an impossibly picky eater. I’m talking buttered pasta 24/7. Now I’ll eat just about anything you put in front of me… as long as you SEASON IT! My two cents for people who are perfectly healthy but don’t salt anything: “You’re not dying, eat like you’re alive.”

I’m thankful for this one guy with a dream. He was a shut-in who spent most of his free time catching bugs in the wilds around his house and school. Eventually, he would discover video gaming, write a gaming magazine with his friends, and later move onto developing games of his own. His name was Satoshi Tajiri. Boom. Pokémon. I have a huge worldbuilding project that I’ve been working on for the past couple years, called the Fourth World Project. It’s an exceptionally contrived AU that seeks to fill in what the games didn’t, and correct some of what they did. If you see any titles from me that look like gibberish - Kaskkaay Kürümakkü, Kymoon, Ayakori, Fúeh - those aren’t gibberish, those are Fourth World conlangs!

I’m thankful for my resilience. Starting in 2020, I struggled with what I later found out to be crippling OCD. At the time, I hadn’t the slightest idea what it could be. It felt like my mind was being whipped like cream. I would spend entire days crying in quarantine, afraid of my own shadow, browsing shady forums in hopes someone would read my obsessive-compulsive, self-destructive messages. Trolls did. Eventually I did manage to get past it, but in 2022 it happened again. I would obsess over my gender, sexuality, and the rest of my identity, to the point I could barely function. A friend, who would later become my boyfriend, helped me out along the way. I stressed myself out so much, I gave myself full-on migraines simply from overthinking. I don’t remember much from this period of my life as far as milestones go, but it took me until very recently to finally compose myself in a state I can call stable.

I was gonna write 2,500 words about this topic, then 1,800, but I don’t wanna bore you. I’ll ixnay it here.

a bit late but im thankful for NOTHING, I DONT CELEBRATE THANKSGIVING!!!!!! (im thankful for how much i have improved this year)

when all is said and done, i'm very thankful that i've never tasted an opioid. i have no curiosity to test the limits of whatever genetic predisposition-for-addiction may be lurking within my core. there has been no suffering so great i could not ensure in its absence, thank goodness. and a quality education around the subject from school growing up that steered me away. just the... countless lives i've seen ruined by it. all you can do is only dedicate your life against it, and pray you collect others who would do the same.

also thankful for my cats (RIP Obie)

for meditation, friendship, and art, and my cat

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