Listening to Lofi hip hop radio on YouTube and checking Thunderbird to see if there’s been an update to the 256GB microSDXC chip that I ordered yesterday (if they decided to ship it earlier.. and sadly, no update on shipping), I saw ‘Happy Birthday!’ as a subject from Nintendo.
Uhh, my birthday isn’t for another 11 days, guys. Assumed I made a typo when I was setting up the account, I went to check and there was no error. Okay, so what the heck is this, then?
Opened it up and saw this…
“Special Day”, as in another day closer to my untimely demise? Oh how that clashes with the chill, relaxing music coming from my headphones.
But anyway, they promise presents. Okay, you got me interested. Free stuff is always welcomed.. such as a free $60 game. How about that?
Clicked the button, and got sent to Nintendo.com. This came up in Firefox.
Again, 11 days away, guys– one and a half weeks. And I love how this feels so… “we didn’t have time to personalize it for you, so we’re going to give you something we give to all our players and just slap your name on it. Enjoy!”
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So the presents they have for me, are two things.
1. Four wallpapers for my desktop.
2. Printables (if I had a printer, that is).
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Of how cheap this feels, I have to say it’s also very thoughtful of Nintendo to do this for their playerbase. It’s better than just giving you a Happy Birthday and that’s it; they actually give you some free stuff. Sure, it’s cheap, but it’s the thought that counts.
Though I’m curious if they’ll send anything else in the days counting down to my
birthday (hopefully a free game on my birthday).
If they do, I will be editing this post.