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[โ€“] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My boy experienced lag for the first time about a year ago while playing fortnite. Another player was rubber banding about the place.

He looks at me and says "bro why is our internet so bad?"

I was legitimately amazed that he'd never seen that happen before, and equally surprised that I'd just sort of forgotten about it myself.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Lag....you don't know lad till you tried playing Quake online from New Zealand (that place that is often left off maps)...in the late 90's.

    I scoff at your 200ms ping, try 4500ms (on a good day); that is right, you spot turn and shoot. Three and a half seconds later you die; because you shot at empty space and someone saw you.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 day ago

    My first attempt at online gaming was 90s. Tried playing counter strike using a 56k dialup. My dumb child ass was waiting for it to load. Every 2 minutes it would refresh and the screen would fill up with text of who killed me.

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