ArmoredCavalry to [email protected]English • 2 years agoAnyone remember Xfire?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square102fedilinkarrow-up1759
arrow-up1759imageAnyone remember Xfire?lemmy.worldArmoredCavalry to [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square102fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish32•2 years agoDid you pronounce it X-fire or Crossfire?
minus-squareMrGerritlinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agoDo you call the button on a controller X or cross?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoI could be wrong but I call it the D pad
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agohttps://youtu.be/rCwn1NTK-50?si=P_IWEi6GnL_ziDVQ
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•2 years agoI dont even need to watch this video, I can hear the thumbnail. Don’t get caught in the CROSSFIREEEE! I actually convinced my parents to buy this for me, played it once.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agoI cannot read the word crossfire without that song latching onto my brain.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoThe commercial is a masterpiece of 90’s child-centric advertising
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years ago“Ex-fire”. “Crossfire” was an AMD thing.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish22•2 years agoI never even considered it might be pronounced crossfire…I am stupid.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish17•2 years agoSorry, why would it be called crossfire?
minus-squarevladlinkfedilinkEnglish9•2 years agoEnglish is my 2nd language, so I always read it as “X” Fire. That;s funny, I never though about it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish31•2 years agoA lot of, generally Japanese, media uses “x” as shorthand for “cross” A friend always called it “christfire” because it pissed EVERYONE off
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•2 years agoHence the cross button on PS controllers.
minus-squareall-knight-partylinkfedilink8•2 years agoLet them know I’m taking that for my new band name.
minus-squareLennethAegislinkfedilink4•2 years agoI remember in Paper Mario: TTYD one of the late game tattle entries on a X-naut enemy clarifies that its pronounced “cross”-nauts. This game had me mispronouncing the villain team’s name the entire time until the end.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•2 years agoX usually stands for cross. Some road sign will say train xing or deer xing
minus-squareSquare SingerlinkfedilinkEnglish17•2 years agoSometimes X is also used to abbreviate Crossmas.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•2 years agoI think I remember an official statement saying “X-Fire” was correct, and “crossfire” was wrong.
Did you pronounce it X-fire or Crossfire?
Do you call the button on a controller X or cross?
I could be wrong but I call it the D pad
I mean this button.
https://youtu.be/rCwn1NTK-50?si=P_IWEi6GnL_ziDVQ
I dont even need to watch this video, I can hear the thumbnail. Don’t get caught in the CROSSFIREEEE!
I actually convinced my parents to buy this for me, played it once.
I cannot read the word crossfire without that song latching onto my brain.
The commercial is a masterpiece of 90’s child-centric advertising
“Ex-fire”. “Crossfire” was an AMD thing.
I never even considered it might be pronounced crossfire…I am stupid.
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X fire, but in my defense I was eleven
Sorry, why would it be called crossfire?
English is my 2nd language, so I always read it as “X” Fire. That;s funny, I never though about it.
A lot of, generally Japanese, media uses “x” as shorthand for “cross”
A friend always called it “christfire” because it pissed EVERYONE off
Hence the cross button on PS controllers.
Let them know I’m taking that for my new band name.
I remember in Paper Mario: TTYD one of the late game tattle entries on a X-naut enemy clarifies that its pronounced “cross”-nauts. This game had me mispronouncing the villain team’s name the entire time until the end.
X usually stands for cross. Some road sign will say train xing or deer xing
More recently X also represents a heap of shit.
Sometimes X is also used to abbreviate Crossmas.
Christfire would’ve gone hard.
I think I remember an official statement saying “X-Fire” was correct, and “crossfire” was wrong.