Gaming Guides

I used to stare at a 22ms ping in the corner of my screen during Valorant matches and get confused about why I’d still lose duels I should’ve won. On paper, 22ms is excellent — pro players compete at under 15ms, and anything under 50ms is considered great for ranked play. But I was still … Read more

A few months ago I got tired of losing 50/50 duels I felt like I should win, so I started actually tracking my accuracy in Kovaak’s instead of just vibing through a warmup routine before queuing ranked. Six weeks of logged sessions later, the thing that moved my numbers the most wasn’t raw reflex drills … Read more

A friend messaged me confused because his “gaming laptop” with a dedicated RTX card was getting worse frame rates than his desktop with a weaker GPU, in the same game, at the same settings. We pulled up the on-screen GPU utilization overlay while he played and the dedicated GPU was sitting at 40-50% usage the … Read more

I spent a week convinced my internet upload was the problem because my stream turned into a blocky mess every time I played Apex Legends, even though the exact same settings looked clean when I played a slower game. My upload was fine the whole time. The actual issue was that fast, chaotic games need … Read more

My mom used to tell me shooters were rotting my brain. Turns out the actual research says the opposite, but only for a specific type of game, and only if you’re playing the kind of fast, chaotic titles she was most worried about — not the calmer games she’d have approved of instead. The Specific … Read more