Pet Peeves of the PC Gamer Community

[Kadayi]

@Goose

Is it not simply the case that they suffer from some degree of snobbery/superiority complex in that they believe they are somehow above the maddening crowd and able to see the tawdriness of what the masses consume?

When there was the whole Ubisoft always on DRM I always thought it was rather tragic that amongst those who elected to boycott AC2 when it was released (myself included ) were a group that thought somehow that wasn't enough and then DDoSed the games verification servers basically meaning no one could play for a couple of days. I think it's one thing to object to something yourself, it's another to ruin some elses choice in the matter. Gamers basically griefing other gamers.

[Batolemaeus]

I thought "lag" in gamer slogan meant 'A noticable delay between player input and that input actually happening'. high ping results in lag. But low FPS then also results in lag.

But that's conflating two entirely different problems. There are many cases where there's a noticeable delay at a steady 60hz, and tons of cases (most of them actually) where low fps do not result in any delays.

Describing technical problems must be done with a certain degree of precision to be useful at all. If someone just says "lag" without making it clear they're referring to the original definition, it's best to simply ignore whatever they said since it'll be a red herring.

[Nalano]

I put this link here so I can find it again.

[Wizardry]

I put this link here so I can find it again.

Didn't know you could climb in post-Daggerfall TES games.

[Cooper]

I don't know about you, but when I go hill climbing I always shuffle forwards at just a few degrees off of the horizontal, moving fowards but very slowly upwards too. Occasionally I also bunny hop my way up the almost-walkable bits.

[Grizzly]

But that's conflating two entirely different problems. There are many cases where there's a noticeable delay at a steady 60hz, and tons of cases (most of them actually) where low fps do not result in any delays.

Oh, I thought that when gamers talked about 'lag' due to low FPS they were actually talking about lag, and not the act of having low fps by itself.