I hope people know this by now but it was named after the windows graphics api DirectX.
DirectX Box > X-Box
X. Box. 360.
I was legitimately irritated when the called the gen after 360 the âOneâ instead of the âDelta.â They had a good thing going, why would they F that up?
Good thing? Xboxâs whole naming scheme is just shuffling in place for a while with the â360â and âOneâ before devolving into incomprehensible âseries whateverâ. Microsoft are comically bad at naming.
P.S. They had actually decent naming going on with âForza Motorsportâ 1-7, and then decided to reset back to no number in 2023 for no good reason. Itâs like theyâre outright trying to be ridiculous.
The Xbox naming always reminds me of the âNew Nintendo 3dsâ which was different from the âNintendo 3dsâ. People probably got paid a lot of money to come up with the stupidest names.
âNew 3DSâ wasnât 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 âthe 360â so they figured if they named the next one the xbox one everybody would call it âthe oneâ
âEks boneâ 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.
To this day, I am amazed at how badly they effed that name up.
Itâs effing crazy, I say.
why delta ? because of the triangle ?
This is the greek letter delta: Î
yeah, capital delta is a triangle. Itâs also used in math and science to indicate rate of change.
Cheers ! I was a bit lost. I know delta as âdifference fromâ, or âoffsetâ in 3D graphics
and the triangle is green⌠like the xbox
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? Thatâs too far even for me and I do all the drugs
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
Rage comics were objectively more creative than current memes, because they told stories instead of just slapping text over stock images.
Itâs weird that thatâs 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, itâs no longer funny.
free comedy tip, slick. the pie gagâs only funny when the sapâs got dignity
Like all slapstick tbh. Inspector Clousau doesnât 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.