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How do you say idgames?

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6 hours ago, DeetOpianSky said:

In niavety I pronounced id software as 'id' software. is as in the part of the mind in which innate instinctive impulses and primary processes are manifest.

More recently I learned that it initially stood for "In Demand" software. Meaning Eye Dee would be more appropriate.

 

So I still pronounce the company as id.

  

I pronounce the games part like Rick James does at about 3:05 of this video:

 

Bro I love this mashup so much, it goes harder than it has any right to

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When I played Commander Keen as a small kid, I always pronounced id Software as "eye-dee", but somewhere along the line I started saying it phonetically (rhyming with "did"), which by extension is how I say the id in idgames.

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8 hours ago, TheMagicMushroomMan said:

eye-dee-james

It doesn’t matter if you pronounce id in id games as “eye-dee” or “id”, just don’t pronounce “games” as “james”. No wonder you are called “TheMagicMushroomMan”, you really are on some magic mushrooms! Then again, every post you make tells us that. What next, you pronounce “gif” as “jif”, or “god” as “jod”?

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i have nothing to contribute. it's been said already.

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ids been said already.

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19 minutes ago, DiceByte said:

It doesn’t matter if you pronounce id in id games as “eye-dee” or “id”, just don’t pronounce “games” as “james”. No wonder you are called “TheMagicMushroomMan”, you really are on some magic mushrooms! Then again, every post you make tells us that. What next, you pronounce “gif” as “jif”, or “god” as “jod”?

jod dammit i hate joobers that do this kind of things, the silly jooses

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I'm one of those who thought they were "eye-dee" Software for years, but then found out that they were officially pronounced in a way that rhymes with "did". Over the past decade and a half I've gradually shifted towards the official version, but I still sometimes subconsciously think of them as "eye-dee Software" and by extension "eye-dee games". For me, it seems that "eye-dee games" remains in my subconscious to a greater extent than "eye-dee Software" does - regarding idgames my subconscious is divided roughly 50-50, whereas as for the company, the "id" pronunciation prevails by a ratio of around 4:1. 

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I heard both "Eye-dee Software" and "Ee-D Software", but never heard someone pronouncing "Eye-dee Games"...

So, I'm a regular person, not a weirdo, so I say "Ee-D Games", :D

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