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Why must they deny what we all know is true
Sep 15, 2019 10:55 PM
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kronkle
Come on guys we all know cross marks the spot!
Bruc3LZR
I thought it was the 'doubt' button
luketoll
I always called triangle "N" for some reason
JackOLoser
I once saw a manual where it was called the "X (Eks)" button.
jasta6
Did people really not know this? Of course we call it "X" but in truth it's actually Cross. Always has been.
Starhaven350
GrosseChung
Says x in every game on the ps4. Im not ure that the company really has the power here...
kohrah
No, it shows the symbol, like for triangle etc. Or where is it said it's the letter x?
eddieeeeeee69
Cross gon' give it to ya!
Srslythoguys
If X-Mas stands for Christmas. Shouldn’t it be called a “Christ”? “Press O to crouch, Press Christ to jump.”
Youhavinagiraffe
I'll tell you another thing. It's pronounced "gif" no matter what the creator says.
richiWebKing
UnhelpfulAnswers
Is this because of Xbox's tweet?
SMASPTP
You can't make me say jiff either.
Vigilante03
petresun
Honestly, who should give even a single iota of concern about what they call the button? Paltry distractioms.
aLessThanCleverusername
Who cares about anything? Everything is a fucking distraction. Welcome to the internet nothing we talk about here matters. Read a newspaper
TwoPumpTrump
Who doesn't like playing naughts and exes?
SharkShanker
In Japanese they call it a cross
DisgruntledFerret
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kohrah
Not the letter, but the controller button
Geo80
notacobra
When I was a kid and we used to pull apart controllers (because why not) it was always labelled as the "Forked" button.
aLessThanCleverusername
Oh you best be joking
uppity321
just wish it was in the same spot for all controllers. I play all systems and games. This annoys me the most
Mohead12
Did I miss something again?
anotherusernamed
Sony is fucking stupid, nothing new. Insert any BigCorp name then put the words fucking stupid after it.
Mohead12
Seems legit
Iankill
They're Japanese lol there isn't a letter X in that alphabet
Dontworrybesalty
Microsoft tweeted out on Videogames Day that despite whatever you play every console & PC is connected with an X button. Sony said nuh-uh.
DiscipleN2k
Xbox Twitter did this https://twitter.com/Xbox/status/1172178061627932672 PS had to come back with a "well, actually..."
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Seph89
Here we go, it's this all over again
MarkPenrice
JIF is an entirely different format (JFIF), based on JP(E)G.
voxael
And just like the jif people, the cross people are idiots
sciencebasedlifeform
DissidenceTSB
Who's gonna give it to ya?
Senseismackdown
Undervalued comment. Thank you. Dmx will be in my head the rest of the day.
BeanMugged
Kris Kross?
DissidenceTSB
Na, they make me jump.
plainoldfool
That's wickity wickity wickity wack
jurrdOpPilot
I've always called the square button box
aLessThanCleverusername
The what button?
Lambdafish1
Cross, zero, box, and trigon
DigitalRebel
So you’re saying their buttons are X & Box... like Xbox
kerms
And the circle is a 360
aLessThanCleverusername
And the triangle is a shape....just like the xbox.
aLessThanCleverusername
Cross box
ilovedogknots
timmy26
Are you a square?
DadBodThor
Ok JK Rowling, and the triangle button was gay all along as well.
pixistikgoodness
koops
X marks the gay!
pleaseconsiderthatImightbejoking
*stares at concentration camps*
lethrblaka976
This deserves more updoots lol
MyDadSaysButanesABastardGas
Many layers
Eclaircissement
Select and Triangle grew up next to each other. Select and Triangle fought. Triangle won. Triangle man...
alsowhatsaderp
Right. And the Tetris blocks have names.
Paradigmthefallen
*glances at Thomas was Alone*
Oldmemedigger
To be fair this does make more sense due to everything else being shape based.
aLessThanCleverusername
Your asshole is shaped like my dick.
DataMonkeyNicki
usernametaken89
what a coincidence, mine too
aLessThanCleverusername
Yeah yeah get in line
TheRicM
Trigayngle
definitelynotawolf
LetsTalkGameDesign
Triangay
springuy8
Or, bear with me. Who gives a fuck?
aLessThanCleverusername
Who cares about anything?
DisgruntledFerret
If there's a bear with you, you really should care a little bit.
SecretlyThreeDucksInAManSuit
According to these comments? Uh... a few people.
whatsupdoccy
Well, of course it's a cross. Triangle, square and circle. They're shapes. Not 3 shapes and a letter. That doesn't mean anyone cares. It's X
minibois
Triangle is Delta, Circle is 'O' and the Square is when your phone doesn't recognize the character (emote) used.
BuyPensFromPenIsland
If you disassemble the old controllers it shows it's labeled as CROSS on the board. But, as you said: nobody cares it's X.
Hyero
It's 3 interconnecting lines, 4 interconnecting lines, nearly infinite tiny interconnecting lines and 2 interconnecting lines.
EllisTomago
It's spelled "Ecks"
BraupPandaGodKing
Across from what? Who? Where?
TheMadOnion
Not going to lie you had me in the first half.
MadHakon
Allow me to pedantically disagree. The X is not an outline of an internal space, therefore not a shape. IT'S AN X DAMMIT. THE HILL I DIE ON!
Gaidenninjacat
A shape isn't limited to outlines, Its simply a form of an object or its boundary. therefor it IS a shape. Looks like your dead on that hill
MadHakon
I am sticking to my specific definition of a geometric polygon shape! I will come back as a zombie if you exact this challenge upon me!
MrSaturday
I'll stand with you.
KinetoPlay
You're both right and wrong. It is a shape. That shape is an X. X just also happens to be how you draw a letter.
tonysdg
AbacusFinch
It's an outline of an internal space that is either filled in or so small you cant see it
lolzomg123
no, it's half-n-half. X, O, Triangle, Square.
bananhammock
I’m a whole milk guy.
inevermadeone
No, it's tree letters X, O, Δ, and Square.
xanius
It's actually 4 you just don't have the right font installed.
MadHakon
This makes me realize something. We made a circle a letter, but why not the square? What do we have against it as a people!?
mity0k23
I always thought it was the “ten” button.
depressingcomments
Ah yes, the 10 button, the second power button, the zero button and the pythagorean button. I know the buttons of which you speak.
Retromorphic
johnzaku
keyblader1985
jezebel2718
hahahahahahahaha you made my day ♡
CheckMate343
ThisIsTheShortestUsernameICouldFind
MantisTobagganMD
I miss Amir. Wonder what he's doing now.
dynamiteleo
Found the iPhone user!
MrSaturday
Little bit older.
TolstoyTheFox
WolfeCammando
capnsebastian
kerms
Found the Roman.
sciencebasedlifeform
mkyner
Found the Roman time traveler.
mity0k23
Goddamnit. I have to bounce again now?! I was enjoying it here. Y’all funny and there are memes.
mkyner
ROMANS GO HOME.
mity0k23
I ain’t going back there! There’s a crucifixion warrant out for me. You go.
rgzdev
What have the Romans ever done for us.
MrSaturday
According to a fp post couple days ago, gave us the standard railway gage.
SWReefer
It says "X" in the manual
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Trubo
Then it would be ち or チ
jellybeandaddyjl
It was called cross back in the PS1 by Sony...other game companies started calling it "X" but it was called cross.
Shewy92
It also says O but I've never heard anyone say it like the letter, just Circle. Also some games do spell it as Cross
candar
It says "X" on the button!
JONTHECROUTON
You read the manual to a Playstation controller?
theleftmostpotato
76000BatteryLlamas
That's because its an X
GoldenPenisOfWisdom
You mean the x-man?
LavaTorrent
They had to call it cross because Xbox already took the alphabet.
Zaayl
You can interpret that as using the letter X as shorthand for "Cross" but in games like Sly Cooper, they verbally call it the "X Button"
QuantumVikings
Is that pronounced x or X?
forelle
"X" or "❌" ?
forelle
yeah and guess how that sign is called in the unicode standard? https://graphemica.com/%E2%9D%8C
ilhares
It says 'fork' on the circuit board.
Iankill
Which is only a letter in English Sony is a Japanese company
SnyderEC3
Sony is also spelled "SONY", even on their Japanese logo, using Latin characters.
Iankill
What point are you trying to make here it's a international corporation
SnyderEC3
Then why are you arguing that it's a Japanese company? Is it Japanese or international?
KinetoPlay
Supposedly that's because the founder of the company wanted something that was easy to pronounce in as many languages as possible.
reverendbonobo
They're actually called Snake Circle Zigzag Crotch.
PhilipJFryIII
Old manuals say cross I think
jellybeandaddyjl
Yeah it even says on the wiki circle was meant for "yes while cross was meant for "no" responses in games.
KTDD
They do. People are just mad because they didn't own a PS1. Buttons were called Cross, Circle, Square, Triangle.
OnionCutter
I believe so to.
Rincloud
LAX = LaCross. X could mean "Cross"
BriefausdemGeist
That spelling comes from X being “chi” in Classical Greek and it’s attendant relationship with the Greek word “Christos”
nosuchusername
Professor Xavier = prof. Crossavier! And the amazing Cross-men!
Gerckin
Is that the bubble water that tastes kinda like a lime?
Arcrosis
Kinda like kinda like lime.
DriveByShitting
DoYouWantAntsBecauseThatsHowYouGetAnts
Crossmas is my favorite holiday
CaptainClarification
No LAX = Los Angeles international airport
nommon
LAX means Los Angeles International Airport
KinetoPlay
The X is there because when they decided to standardize airport codes to 3 letters, all airports with a two letter code added an X
iamthepush
International airport box?
samsoniteson2000
Or La Crosse Wi depending on who you ask.
cheneygunnin4ever
I mean, the website for UW-La Crosse is uwlax.edu. I get that LAX is better known as the airport, but it IS the name of a place Wisconsin.
MrStickyCheeks
No... It means Los Angeles Intl Airport.
samsoniteson2000
No?
JLaP01001
It’s call “X” in games going all the way back to PS1. Sony is just being the difficult child, again.
Threadnomancer
...again? Ooh boy. Lemme guess, Tool is underrated but only the new stuff and we faked the moon landing too
maninthedarkness
Are they? Got no link to the article, and for all we know this is just Kotaku bullshit they always make up.
thehumanoidsarecoming
If this 'issue' holds any interest for you beyond rubbernecking at the morons who care about this crap, you /are/ the "difficult child"
IndisputableFact
Says the contrarian with about 10 agreeable vs. 1,000 hairsplitting comments...
Iankill
Sony is a Japanese company and X isn't a letter in Japanese but it is in English. What you are referring to is just localization
iamthemadz
Japanese people use English words in all kinds of shit that are not made for English speaking people.
Aramis424
Have you ever heard of Japanese person say X?!
Neomechavoltron
ECKA-SU
iamthemadz
There is a lot of shit I've never heard a Japanese person say.
ColoneISanders
Have you ever heard one not!? I didn't think so! ...Wait...
KinetoPlay
Yes. Many times. It's a fairly popular letter in anime.
FeIineDisrespectFromBehind
Ekusu
Iankill
That doesn't mean they are more common to them than their own words though which is clearly the case
TotallySaneScientist
But calling it the X button still makes sense since it is literally the shape of what it is referring to. I get if its for consistency tho
Jarjarthejedi
Localization done by Sony. And the franchise of Sony that's claiming it's 'Cross' is Sony UK, where the manual is printed in English.
KinetoPlay
Which makes sense since in the UK cross means X. Like in the game naughts and crosses.
ShadeEmberi
yeh we never called it cross on the controller either.
thehumanoidsarecoming
which holds so significance over anything significant. The shit that distracts some of you people is just hilarious.
NotTheRealMeNow
You’re saying that on an image sharing website. I’m not sure you have that much room to throw stones.
AardnT
What is “you people” supposed to mean, huh? Are you hating on gamers, dude?
kerms
All the buttons are shapes rather than letters so cross does actually make more sense.
MyNameIsJesusAndIStealHubcapsFromCars
except for the O
mcshady
X is a shape you uncultured swine. It marks spots.
kadaeux
Also handy for crucifixions without making bigass letter T's.
aLessThanCleverusername
Yes but hear me out.... Fuck it
SippyTurtle
I remember one old Harry Potter game saying cross instead of X. I wanna say Chamber of Secrets?
Kamishiro
Srco, sqr, triago, and cros?
krolio
GerberLegalTeam
Boy you had to be the dumbest 1st grader in the school
MyNameIsJesusAndIStealHubcapsFromCars
throw that ass in a Srco
MoistenedPenguin
Most people use X to describe the shape more often than cross, I'm my anecdotal experience.
Weblord
Agreed! To me, there is a distinction: a cross would be horizontal and vertical.
WizardofAnus
In my experience, they refer to different orientations of the shape. x vs +
MoistenedPenguin
Exactly that, yes
smileyhat
English-speaking people do, yes, because we have the context of an alphabet containing a letter called X which has that shape.
mebe21
I go back and forth between “cross” and “X” and confuse the hell out of people.
kadaeux
"Can I have some X?" *Passes over drugs.* "No dude, I meant the Cross, aka Crucifix. You need Jesus or something..."
konijntjesbroek
I doth wager thine hooliganesque acquaintances hath forsaken calling naughts naughts also. . . . prithee, do tell!
MoistenedPenguin
You may be right, I'm a big fan of Zero these days as are my friends
Rignak
Yeah, it's a cross in the shape of an X. You can have shapes that are letters.
edgeofadhesion
A cross in the shape of an X is a saltire.
vorodar
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