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by kazinator 1738 days ago
Gamers do not have a more intuitive sense for this than movie watchers, video/voice talkers, not to mention users who type text into bloated web browsers or lagged remote login sessions.

I would rather have a rock-steady consistent 500 ms reponse time when typing text, than to have a 100 ms average response time which randomly spikes to outliers that go past one second.

A rock-steady, though poor, event rate in a paint application is better for drawing a freehand curve (especially if the program interpolates well) than a really fast rate that suddenly has a glitch in it, spoiling your work.

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> Gamers do not have a more intuitive sense for this than movie watchers, video/voice talkers, not to mention users who type text into bloated web browsers or lagged remote login sessions

I would be shocked if gamers didn't on average have a more intuitive sense of this than any of the groups you mentioned.

Yah, I don't think anyone's arguing that ONLY gamers will observe the phenomena, but I would be shocked if they weren't more sensitive to it than most groups.
"more sensitive" != "more intuitive"
Maybe not all, but ones who create and consume analysis like this

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/msi-geforce-rtx-3090-gami...