Metaphorically surfing a "wave" of lag. In other words, achieving a desired result in spite of a lag spike.
My ping is terrible right now, but I'm getting pretty good at lagsurfing.
I kept rubberbanding so I had to lagsurf a bit for that clutch at the end.
I was lagsurfing so much they macro-checked me.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)