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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
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    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Xbox started looking at 14yo's gamer tags and thought that was a good naming convention:

"XboxoneX"

[–] BambiDiego@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm still not over the fact that not ONE person at Microsoft said "Really? We're calling it the XBone?"

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

the theory i like to believe is they saw everyone call the xbox 360 "the 360" so they assumed if they called the new xbox the xbox one everyone would call it "the one"

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Why do you assume that them using the name meant no one noticed? There's a non-zero chance the person who came up with the name was trolling the company and deliberately set that up. Stranger things have happened, like the phalluses on the Little Mermaid poster art.

There's also a chance that some marketing people came up with it, higher ups liked it, then didn't appreciate anyone pointing out the name they like had a potentially embarrassing abbreviation and would respond negatively to that. Or maybe they already had a culture of people pointing out things like that getting flak for it and anyone who noticed just stayed quiet. Hell, I could easily see that kind of culture being established when people objected to all the actual deliberate anti-features MS has been adding over the years.