Brainlet wrote: ↑10 Jun 2020, 11:36
You can clearly see the scaling in this video. Also, have you ever asked yourself how shroud comes in 4th place out of 5 people when confronted with a mouse that's not his own? Beaten by a casual tech youtuber
It's possibly partially related to the training effect, a subchapter (2nd post) of the
Milliseconds Matter: The Amazing Human Visible Feats Of The Millisecond thread.
In the spirit of Blur Busters esports commentary neutrality, we see the obvious: Professional olympics sprinters can fall several places back suddenly in practice runs when they switched equipment such as shoe brands as one example. Football players that normally play only on grass vs astroturf, suddenly try to play on a different field surface and fail more often. Environment change and/or equipment change issues can turn a champion player into an average or below-average player. There are those who adapt faster, others adapt slower, when adapting to a different environment/equipment.
Thus, I deem this irrelevant.
Brainlet wrote: ↑10 Jun 2020, 11:36
Also, I suggest changing the title to something fitting for an Input Lag discussion rather than moving the thread to offtopic.
New threads are welcome. Post a new thread completely from scratch, meeting
"be nice to others" rules.
The rule is favoured towards original poster in treatment of replies to an original poster's thread.
Right now, this is davidoo's thread and Original Poster typically first right to control the direction of their own forum threads here. If OP wants to change the thread title, this may reverse the move -- right now, the thread is currently a bit too derailed of several non-OP people debating non-OP-related topics, plus several non-latency-topics (esports politics) in the OP's thread. This is why Blur Busters Forums is above-average reputation to many, the OP gets a bit more rights to thread direction than the average forum. A more blunt phrase is called "
thread crapping" (UrbanDictionary), but it also applies to more innocous topic derails too.
Also, the Latency Forum is not the appropriate venue to debate polarizing esports topics in a
Forum-temperature-raised environment (UrbanDictionary).
In other words, whatever the truth or lies are, Blur Busters is chiefly
focussed on display temporals (motionblur, lag, MPRT, GtG, strobe, refresh, framerate, etc). Music classroom is usually not the correct venue to argue details of Einstein Theory of Relativity. And Math classroom is usually not the correct venue to argue Origin of Life. Etc.
mello wrote: ↑10 Jun 2020, 07:02
Talking from personal experience. Professional gamers are nothing special, they are all normal people who specialize at something specific and they have achieved elite level in comparison to other humans at doing this particular thing. This is no different from any other specialization that every human has. I have known many pros over the years, and i agree 100% that an appeal to authority argument is meaningless here. What pros do, how they do things, why they do things, what hardware and setting they use or what they recommend is irrelevant. No one should be taking an advice regarding windows / game settings, hardware advice from professional gamers, because almost none of they specialize in this area. Almost all of them either use personal preferences, try to copy each other or they have read some articles / watch some videos and then they try to pass that "knowledge" from a authorative perspective. There are very few pros who are actually a generally smart and knowledable people in different areas and outside of their gaming & skillset specialty. And thats just the truth and it applies to all other areas of life too.
Hey Mello, thanks for your thoughtful reply -- always enjoy reading your posts.
The good old adage, "Jack of all trades, masters of none" is quite true. Blur Busters is stupendously specialized on
display temporals (refresh rates, frame rates, GtG, MPRT, strobing, blur, etc), and we excel as an authority on those matters.
However, subtopics now start to try to push the envelope of the Jack of All Trades matters -- we're not experts on every single atom of The Life, The Universe and Everything -- and sometimes have to consult our Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy </picks up an iPad>
Now, I like to say that a rocket gimbal engineer might not know the firmware programming language of the inertial control unit, which may be the speciality of another rocket scientist working on the same rocket.
Likewise, none of us are perfect moderators, but we are proud that our forum has not degraded to Twitter-style discourse levels... (BTW, @BlurBusters is on Twitter, as a good influence).