Birds (stickers) and Winter Sale

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kris.aalst Dec 23, 2020 @ 11:21am

I don't get the link between birds and winter/holidays/yuletide/christmas/new year/... Am I missing the point or is it just random like e.g. summer sale and fish?

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WhitePhantom Dec 23, 2020 @ 11:40am

Birds in the snow is a classic winter image

kris.aalst Dec 23, 2020 @ 11:51am

Originally posted by WhitePhantom:
Birds in the snow is a classic winter image

Sure, and fish in a pond are a classic summer image when taking those long walks through the park, so next summer during the sale the theme will be fish

I can match any two unconnected things in some way when necessary. This still doesn't explain the match Valve apparently made between winter sale and birds, though

↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect Dec 23, 2020 @ 12:16pm

Don't most birds fly south for the winter anyways?

kris.aalst Dec 23, 2020 @ 12:22pm

Originally posted by KingOfGamersBowDownToME:
Don't most birds fly south for the winter anyways?

WhitePhantom Dec 23, 2020 @ 1:17pm

As I said it is a commonly used image when it comes to winter. Anything marketed around the Christmas period that isn't specific to Christmas will most likely be landscape and nature = birds in snow. Not hard to see how they made that connection.

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Crazy Tiger Dec 23, 2020 @ 1:19pm

Originally posted by kris.aalst:
Originally posted by WhitePhantom:
Birds in the snow is a classic winter image

Sure, and fish in a pond are a classic summer image when taking those long walks through the park, so next summer during the sale the theme will be fish I can match any two unconnected things in some way when necessary. This still doesn't explain the match Valve apparently made between winter sale and birds, though :Winking:

Just do a Google for "Birds in the snow". You'll see lots of lovely pictures.

kris.aalst Dec 23, 2020 @ 1:30pm

Dear gods

Sure, and if I google 'kids in the snow', 'dogs in the snow' or 'trees in the snow' I get tons of results as well. Still doesn't explain it. You can pretty much put anything in snow that isn't very hot but that doesn't mean there's an inherit link between the two. Googling 'dogs with sunglasses' or 'dogs with funny hats' yields hundreds of results as well, but it doesn't mean there's a link between the two that's logical to have a Steam sale centered around them

Crazy Tiger Dec 23, 2020 @ 1:36pm

From the blog post:

Grab your Holiday Gifts

This year we’ve teamed up with artist Eric Nyffeler, to help us create the Winter Sale theme, the Seasonal Profile, and... bird stickers!? Why birds, you ask? To that we ask you - why NOT birds? Claim a free animated bird sticker (each inspired by a popular game on Steam) every other day of the sale when you visit the Points Shop, where you'll find other new winter seasonal items.

Have you thought of the possibility that you're just overthinking things and Valve just is having fun with the theme? Which seems to work, since you made this thread.

Last edited by Crazy Tiger; Dec 23, 2020 @ 1:36pm

Bdbtoys Dec 23, 2020 @ 2:26pm

On 12 Days of Christmas it calls for...
7 Swans a Swimming
6 Geese a Laying
4 Calling Birds
3 French Hens
2 Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree

That's 23 birds in just one song (verse)... more if you include all the repeats (in the song).

Last edited by Bdbtoys; Dec 23, 2020 @ 2:28pm

Morgan Fun Gamer Dec 23, 2020 @ 3:11pm

Who doesn't love birds though ITS CHRISTMAS TIME WE GET WHAT WE WANT

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B-o-B Dec 25, 2020 @ 10:53am

Bird's mark the start of winter in general.
I just saw a dead bird on a table earlier, what a way to go.
As a kid your taught to look out for and feed them in the winter, here anyway.

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samcharles77 Dec 25, 2020 @ 11:00am

Because Gabe was sitting in the office pondering what to to do for the Winter sale. He looked out of his office window, saw a bird and said, "There we go."

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nextgengranny Dec 25, 2020 @ 11:45am

Originally posted by kris.aalst:
I don't get the link between birds and winter/holidays/yuletide/christmas/new year/... Am I missing the point or is it just random like e.g. summer sale and fish?

Birds have been a common theme on Christmas cards for a long time.

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kris.aalst Dec 25, 2020 @ 12:36pm

Originally posted by 𐂃 𐂃BoBooN:
Bird's mark the start of winter in general.

Strange, we have birds all year round in Europe. If anything, we have less birds in wintertime than in all the other seasons

Originally posted by nextgengranny:
Birds have been a common theme on Christmas cards for a long time.

Really? Mkay, I googled 'christmas card' and checked the images. Sure, I see a few (no more than 5) cards that have bird on it. The following animals are apparently shown a lot more often on Christmas cards than birds: cats (WAY more often), hedgehogs, squirrels and raindeer/moose. And those are just the animals. Other things are a LOT more often pictured on Christmas cards than birds.So next year the theme for the winter sale will be cats then, I suppose.

Originally posted by samcharles77:
Because Gabe was sitting in the office pondering what to to do for the Winter sale. He looked out of his office window, saw a bird and said, "There we go."

This seems more plausible, indeed

People love seeing connections when there are none.

Ah well... Anyway: a merry, bird-rich Christmas to everyone!