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In a lot of games, you can actually see network lag visibly. You make moves and the server doesn't pick them up quickly, so it fails to correctly calculate your angle and position, and the game has to adjust for it. Your car or your character goes a little herky-jerky.
Gamers and their communities go into wild details with these things. Every microsecond counts in twitchy games. In the game I follow (PUBG), players determined that video frame rates were affecting the fire rates of automatic weapons. Like, if you had a good video card and got 80 frames per second, you had a tiny advantage over the person getting 60 frames per second. The game was doing something like waiting for the next frame to draw before firing the next round, something like that, so the difference between 1/60th of a second and 1/80th of a second became meaningful.
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