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Re: DU: Let's take shots of Xexex on the beach
12/07/15 10:53 PM


> > > I actually prefer the title 'Orius' but clearly Konami believe the true name to be
> > > Xexex. Makes me wonder why this version ended up with the alt. name at all.
> >
> > Xexex is a cooler name, it sounds sexy - Orius sounds like a Roman Oreo or something.
> > Maybe they Xexex sounded too much like sex for Americans.
>
> Xexex also better fits the (admittedly still rare in 1991) 90s aesthetic of putting
> the letter "X" in everything.
>
> As far as sounding like sex, well, just look at Smit's post title :-)

Well I just found out that an Orius is a family of beetles often called minute pirate bugs, some varieties of which are bred to control pests on agricultural crops. Thanks Konami.







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* DU: Let's take shots of Xexex on the beach SmitdoggAdministrator 12/05/15 04:05 PM
. * Re: DU: Let's take shots of Xexex on the beach Vas Crabb  12/06/15 08:27 AM
. * Re: DU: Let's take shots of Xexex on the beach Haze  12/06/15 09:30 AM
. * Re: DU: Let's take shots of Xexex on the beach Vas Crabb  12/06/15 09:58 AM
. * Re: DU: Let's take shots of Xexex on the beach R. Belmont  12/07/15 11:24 AM
. * Re: DU: Let's take shots of Xexex on the beach Vas Crabb  12/07/15 10:53 PM
. * Mmm, the sex thing could've been an element...... Traso  12/11/15 05:59 PM
. * Re: DU: Let's take shots of Xexex on the beach Nomax  12/06/15 04:21 AM
. * For some reason. The name remind me of Darius. Dullaron  12/06/15 01:26 AM
. * Re: DU: Let's take shots of Xexex on the beach Phil Bennett  12/06/15 01:17 AM
. * Re: DU: Let's take shots of Xexex on the beach Vas Crabb  12/06/15 04:26 AM
. * Re: DU: Let's take shots of Xexex on the beach Phil Bennett  12/07/15 02:46 PM
. * Re: DU: Let's take shots of Xexex on the beach B2K24  12/05/15 05:52 PM
. * Re: DU: Orius gregf  12/05/15 05:27 PM
. * Wasn't it Orius GL? DiodeDude  12/05/15 09:49 PM

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