ArmoredCavalry@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoAnyone remember Xfire?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square100fedilinkarrow-up1750arrow-down130
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minus-squareChicoSuave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32arrow-down1·1 year agoDid you pronounce it X-fire or Crossfire?
minus-squareDran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up55arrow-down1·1 year agoX fire, but in my defense I was eleven
minus-squareTestuserplsignore@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down1·1 year agoSorry, why would it be called crossfire?
minus-squarePuzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31arrow-down1·1 year 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-party@kbin.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year agoLet them know I’m taking that for my new band name.
minus-squareLennethAegis@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 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-squarefull_on_rapist@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down3·1 year agoHence the cross button on PS controllers.
minus-squaresecret301@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·1 year agoX usually stands for cross. Some road sign will say train xing or deer xing
minus-squareSquare Singer@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·1 year agoSometimes X is also used to abbreviate Crossmas.
minus-squareNAM@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·1 year agoChristfire would’ve gone hard.
minus-square🦄🦄🦄@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year agoMore recently X also represents a heap of shit.
minus-squarevlad@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year agoEnglish is my 2nd language, so I always read it as “X” Fire. That;s funny, I never though about it.
minus-squarethrasherv3@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down1·1 year agoI never even considered it might be pronounced crossfire…I am stupid.
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minus-squaretifa0080@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoI think I remember an official statement saying “X-Fire” was correct, and “crossfire” was wrong.
minus-squareHotboxedSubmersible@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agohttps://youtu.be/rCwn1NTK-50?si=P_IWEi6GnL_ziDVQ
minus-squareSilverFlame@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 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-squareHotboxedSubmersible@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoI cannot read the word crossfire without that song latching onto my brain.
minus-squareSilverFlame@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoThe commercial is a masterpiece of 90’s child-centric advertising
minus-squareMrGerrit@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoDo you call the button on a controller X or cross?
minus-squareChicoSuave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoI could be wrong but I call it the D pad
minus-squareTheIllustrativeMan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year 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
Sorry, why would it be called crossfire?
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
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
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.