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Subliminal messaging has never convincingly been shown to work outside of specific laboratory conditions.
That said, this made me laugh:
yvan eht nioj!!!
Superliminal advertising is way more effective.
"Hey you! Join the Navy!!"
I think it's called X because of Space X. Which follows simpleton Microsoft pattern of thinking basic numbers and letters are somehow "cool" - Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One. With the next one everyone's mind will explode.
It's called X because that was the name of his first company before PayPal bough it. He wants X to be an 'everything app' including banking. It will fail.
I think microsoft named it the Xbox because of DirectX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX
icrosoft?
Microsoft*
Oh yeah that I have no idea. Just the x part of Xbox did have a somewhat reasonable origin beyond "x is cool bro"