Ping? LAWL

I criticize you by saying you didn't post a picture of a beautifully large breasted woman with a big round booty in very little clothing.

Also that in this so called future you can assume that 5 milliseconds still isn't a 1:1 ratio in combat over the internet, so even though it is a miniscule amount of lag, it is still lag when all of the other players have become accustomed to playing with that amount of lag. Therefore Kabel being able to play the game without that small amount of lag he has a slight advantage.

Hey there, 21 year-old female gamer here who's known the word "ping" (in the technological sense) since 13 years of age,

As soon as I noticed the word "PING" on the gamer's user interface, I saw the number 100 to the left of it. Not sure if that refers to the ping or not (I could barely make out what else was in that area of the screen), but no matter, because here's another consideration:

Even if "100" does not refer to the ping rate (that would be too high!!), check out the meter to the right of the word "PING." It's filled, four out of four dots, completely maxed out. What if that refers to the ping?! I've seen ping meters before. Have you?

If this is a ping meter, then we ask, do they (the people behind this) not know that less is most ideal, not more? Do they even know what they're doing?

If they're going to incorporate technological commentary at all into this movie, they'd better do it correctly.

Also, to the opening poster: Get real and don't assume. You sound just like this guy: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034032/board/nest/186304762

Even a 5ms difference matters, ping's measured in milliseconds, not micro. Actually you'd have to double it to 10ms because it's two-way communication and there's no ping compensation like in regular FPS's. That's partially why until recently, pro gamers played on CRT screens, they have much shorter refresh time than LCD.

But yeah, it's pretty astounding how they make a movie about a game, yet don't bother to invite somebody who knows games. Still loved the teabagging reference in the movie though.



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OP MAKES A VERY GOOD POINT

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my favorite voice over ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8MGBn3KawM&feature=related

For anyone who has ever played sports, been in a fight, been in war, been on the street, done ANYTHING in the real world outside of video games, they would know that ANY fraction of a second between thought and action makes a difference. Have you ever heard of reflexes? Even people, without being possessed by a "gamer," have differences in the link of their mind & body. Some people's bodies react a fraction of a second faster than another's, but that first person has the advantage.

Now, imagine that there is first the small difference between the player & the fighter. Then, there's the difference between when the control activates the fighter and that fighter's body taking control and performing said action.

You should try accessing the real world, not Warcraft or whatever you're playing. That would teach you the how big of a difference a fraction of a second can really make.

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90 microseconds over 2800 miles would imply data transmission 166 times the speed of light, or ~250 times the current speed of fiber optics.

I highly doubt that in a hundred years we'll achieve better than 100 milliseconds to any point in the world.

It's a movie. "Ping" is the part of the story. Get it?

I thought this too OP, the guy controlling Kable has a 360 monitor screen thing that relays instant messages of girls from the UK etc. Am I to assume he plugs into a 56k modem to play the game?

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