and the triangle is green... like the xbox
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The ring is red… like the Xbox
and the square is boxy... like the xbox?
The x is an x, like in xbox
An x is like an x? That's too far even for me and I do all the drugs
Its also a console, just like an xbox
I was legitimately irritated when the called the gen after 360 the "One" instead of the "Delta." They had a good thing going, why would they F that up?
To this day, I am amazed at how badly they effed that name up.
It's effing crazy, I say.
Good thing? Xbox's whole naming scheme is just shuffling in place for a while with the ‘360’ and ‘One’ before devolving into incomprehensible ‘series whatever’. Microsoft are comically bad at naming.
P.S. They had actually decent naming going on with 'Forza Motorsport' 1-7, and then decided to reset back to no number in 2023 for no good reason. It's like they're outright trying to be ridiculous.
The Xbox naming always reminds me of the "New Nintendo 3ds" which was different from the "Nintendo 3ds". People probably got paid a lot of money to come up with the stupidest names.
‘New 3DS’ wasn't really that egregious, since it was a revision of 3DS. What was worse is that DS, 3DS, and 2DS were released in that order.
everybody called the xbox 360 "the 360" so they figured if they named the next one the xbox one everybody would call it "the one"
‘Eks bone’ is the kind of thing why designers spend time finding any and all obscene or unbecoming connotations in their projects before the customers have a chance to do that.
why delta ? because of the triangle ?
This is the greek letter delta: Δ
yeah, capital delta is a triangle. It's also used in math and science to indicate rate of change.
Cheers ! I was a bit lost. I know delta as "difference from", or "offset" in 3D graphics
Its crazy to think how much I legitimately cackled at these when they hit the scene, no shade to younger us, it was novel then. just funny to think about is all
It's weird that that's just how humor seems to go. At one point, the pinnacle of comedy was someone getting pied in the face.
This is because comedy often revolves around subversion of expectation. When something becomes expected, like a pie to the face, it’s no longer funny.
free comedy tip, slick. the pie gag's only funny when the sap's got dignity
Like all slapstick tbh. Inspector Clousau doesn't enter the situation with the expectation that he will push the duchess tits in the wedding cake, and then slip and rip her dress off. Delboy wants to play it nice and cool but still falls down
dammit now i really, intensely miss Peter Sellers. The movie they cut together after his passing was not great, but A Shot In the Dark was phenomenal.
The comedic treadmill
Bill Gates deserved it!
Yeah I used to binge f7u12 for hours at a time. Then one day something just clicked and they were no longer funny. It was weird.
Rage comics were objectively more creative than current memes, because they told stories instead of just slapping text over stock images.
I hope people know this by now but it was named after the windows graphics api DirectX.
DirectX Box > X-Box
X. Box. 360.
