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]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-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]linkfedilinkEnglish5•2 years agoHence the cross button on PS controllers.
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.
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
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.
Hence the cross button on PS controllers.
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.