ArmoredCavalry to [email protected]English • 1 year agoAnyone remember Xfire?lemmy.worldmessage-square101fedilinkarrow-up1767
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish31•1 year agoDid you pronounce it X-fire or Crossfire?
minus-squareall-knight-partylinkfedilink7•1 year agoLet them know I’m taking that for my new band name.
minus-squareLennethAegislinkfedilink3•1 year 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]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoHence the cross button on PS controllers.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•1 year agoX usually stands for cross. Some road sign will say train xing or deer xing
minus-squareSquare SingerlinkfedilinkEnglish16•1 year agoSometimes X is also used to abbreviate Crossmas.
minus-squarevladlinkfedilinkEnglish8•1 year 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]linkfedilinkEnglish22•1 year agoI never even considered it might be pronounced crossfire…I am stupid.
minus-square@tifa0080linkEnglish3•1 year agoI think I remember an official statement saying “X-Fire” was correct, and “crossfire” was wrong.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agohttps://youtu.be/rCwn1NTK-50?si=P_IWEi6GnL_ziDVQ
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year 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]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoI cannot read the word crossfire without that song latching onto my brain.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year agoThe commercial is a masterpiece of 90’s child-centric advertising
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year ago“Ex-fire”. “Crossfire” was an AMD thing.
minus-squareMrGerritlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoDo you call the button on a controller X or cross?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year agoI could be wrong but I call it the D pad
Did you pronounce it X-fire or Crossfire?
X fire, but in my defense I was eleven
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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
Sometimes X is also used to abbreviate Crossmas.
Christfire would’ve gone hard.
More recently X also represents a heap of shit.
English is my 2nd language, so I always read it as “X” Fire. That;s funny, I never though about it.
I never even considered it might be pronounced crossfire…I am stupid.
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I think I remember an official statement saying “X-Fire” was correct, and “crossfire” was wrong.
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.
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.