ArmoredCavalry to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 months agoAnyone remember Xfire?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square105fedilinkarrow-up1763arrow-down129
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minus-square@ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish31•10 months agoDid you pronounce it X-fire or Crossfire?
minus-squareall-knight-partylinkfedilink7•10 months agoLet them know I’m taking that for my new band name.
minus-squareLennethAegislinkfedilink3•10 months 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@full_on_rapist@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish2•10 months agoHence the cross button on PS controllers.
minus-square@secret301@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish11•10 months agoX usually stands for cross. Some road sign will say train xing or deer xing
minus-squareSquare SingerlinkfedilinkEnglish16•10 months agoSometimes X is also used to abbreviate Crossmas.
minus-squarevladlinkfedilinkEnglish8•10 months agoEnglish is my 2nd language, so I always read it as “X” Fire. That;s funny, I never though about it.
minus-square@thrasherv3@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish21•10 months agoI never even considered it might be pronounced crossfire…I am stupid.
minus-square@tifa0080@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglish3•10 months agoI think I remember an official statement saying “X-Fire” was correct, and “crossfire” was wrong.
minus-square@HotboxedSubmersible@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•10 months agohttps://youtu.be/rCwn1NTK-50?si=P_IWEi6GnL_ziDVQ
minus-square@SilverFlame@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•10 months 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@HotboxedSubmersible@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•10 months agoI cannot read the word crossfire without that song latching onto my brain.
minus-square@SilverFlame@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish0•10 months agoThe commercial is a masterpiece of 90’s child-centric advertising
minus-squareMrGerritlinkfedilinkEnglish1•10 months agoDo you call the button on a controller X or cross?
minus-square@ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish0•10 months agoI could be wrong but I call it the D pad
minus-square@TheIllustrativeMan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•10 months ago“Ex-fire”. “Crossfire” was an AMD thing.
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.
Same here…
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
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.
“Ex-fire”. “Crossfire” was an AMD thing.