1. A person who has made me happy more than anybody or anything this year, and maybe it's not a coincidence that they aren't a member of this forum.
2. Certain people of this forum, not this place in general, just because it's the holiday, I won't warm up to places I don't 100% like. Without naming them all, basically any cool and calm person who talked Pokemon, and especially the devs who made all the awesome toys to complement the current generation of games. It just gets better every year and I hope never to take that for granted. Also devs of material I use a lot, whether it be 3DSHell, GodMode9, BootNTRSelector, Luma3DS.
3. John Woo for making A Better Tomorrow, the best first time movie viewing of 2017. Chow Yun Fat and all the other main cast members for crafting such an amazing movie.
4. Tommy Wiseau for The Room, Greg Sestero for the stories behind it, the poor souls who worked on the movie, and the cool souls that hopefully made a great movie about it (James Franco, Seth Rogen and company).
5. My mom, grandma, and great grandma, a holy trinity of strong women.
6. Akira Toriyama, his stamp on the world this year can be summarized in one phrase. Back tingly thing.
7. Hirohiko Araki for making JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, the manga, leading to the amazing people who made that masterpiece of an anime (2012 onwards).
8. David Lynch for Twin Peaks' return season, all the cast and crew who worked on that, great job.
9. A new batch of thanks for everyone involved in Stranger Things, and a plea for nobody to stand too close to Winona Ryder, because showing me how tiny she is fucks me up.
10. Justin Roiland for Rick & Morty.
11. Funimation for dubbing Dragon Ball Super, good stuff so far.
12. The Japanese voices of Dragon Ball Super, and Pokemon for that matter, the anime I surprisingly got back into.
13. My therapist, I won't explain any further.
14. 80s Picture House, Cult 45, and The Same Coin for podcast entertainment and replayability.
15. Game Freak for Pokemon, yearly thanks.
16. The people of Channel Awesome and Cinemassacre for keeping my Youtube visits regular.
17. Morbus Chron, I wish they got back together.
18. All the metal bands I listened to this year for that matter, and a special nod to Metallica for finally making a good album after 25 or so years.
19. Amir Shervan for Samurai Cop.
20. Corey Yuen for No Retreat, No Surrender.
21. YK Kim for Miami Connection.
22. Jackie Chan for being Jackie Chan.
23. Clint Eastwood for being Clint Eastwood.
24. Trey Parker and Matt Stone for South Park.
25. Camgirls in general, beats professional porn.
26. 4chan for certain quality torrents and NSFW GIFs.
27. Serebii and the guy behind it, Joe Merrick.
28. Coffee.
29. The people responsible for NTRBoot, this year a console bricked for 2 years was revived, making my 3DS collection more even. Plailect for the guide.
30. My grandma's cousin for various things, including being a really good barber.
I think 30 is a good number to stop at.