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-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-squareall-knight-partylinkfedilink8•2 years agoLet them know I’m taking that for my new band name.
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.
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
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.
Let them know I’m taking that for my new band name.
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.