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Abstract: When you’ve been playing with bad specs all your life, causing you to feel like you’re framing and lagging even when you got a good PC.
Lag PTSD is the mental state of feeling like your PC is performing bad, when it is performing perfectly fine. As the name suggests, this condition is caused when a person has played or watched media all their life with a bad PC. This causes them to frame and lag frequently, and them having a less than average time gaming. Then, after they got used to their PC’s bad performance, when they get an actually good PC they continue to feel like they’re lagging and framing, even if the PC is tearing through the game at QHD 144+ FPS.
One of the more versatile solution to countering this is to have the game’s performance tab open. Seeing the frame counter at a stable and desired number can quell any feelings of lag and framing. Additionally, if this condition takes the variant of only occurring in retrospect, remind yourself that you can likely play Cyberpunk at 60 FPS+.
Lag PTSD can be caused by having less than 60 FPS on even the lightest of games at minimum graphics settings.
Lag PTSD is the mental state of feeling like your PC is performing bad, when it is performing perfectly fine. As the name suggests, this condition is caused when a person has played or watched media all their life with a bad PC. This causes them to frame and lag frequently, and them having a less than average time gaming. Then, after they got used to their PC’s bad performance, when they get an actually good PC they continue to feel like they’re lagging and framing, even if the PC is tearing through the game at QHD 144+ FPS.
One of the more versatile solution to countering this is to have the game’s performance tab open. Seeing the frame counter at a stable and desired number can quell any feelings of lag and framing. Additionally, if this condition takes the variant of only occurring in retrospect, remind yourself that you can likely play Cyberpunk at 60 FPS+.
Lag PTSD can be caused by having less than 60 FPS on even the lightest of games at minimum graphics settings.
“I recently got a PC with a 9800X3D and a 5070 TI. I still feel like I’m lagging though. I lowkey might have lag PTSD.”
by asdffrfrnocap October 1, 2025
Get the Lag PTSDmug. The Skill Issue Fallacy is when a person, who via indirect means of exposure, says that a certain media is bad, then when they finally get to experience it, they don’t take it seriously because of their low expectations. This leads to them having an objectively unenjoyable time, later reinforcing their unproven belief that the certain media is bad and continuing the loop.
The Skill Issue Fallacy can be found most often in debates about similar video games, such as between Terraria and Minecraft, Valorant and Counter Strike, etc. While the fallacy is not inherent towards a specific group of players or fandoms, reviews from people with no prior, direct experience with the media, people who had an initial, coincidental negative experience, or reviewers who previously fell victim to the Skill Issue Fallacy while consuming said media, exhibit noticeable traces of the fallacy. Some examples are, but not limited to: vague/irrelevant/a lack of evidence (“Terraria sucks because its 2D graphics are bad”), cherry picked reasons (“Valorant’s ability mechanic sucks because of the lack of balancing”), and reaching (“Minecraft’s community sucks”).
This fallacy doesn’t have just limited to a few individuals either. Large groups of people can be deluded and herded into the fallacy because of viral videos posted by those who fell for the fallacy prior, causing a chain reaction of falling for the fallacy when the target media is sometimes actually peak.
The Skill Issue Fallacy can be found most often in debates about similar video games, such as between Terraria and Minecraft, Valorant and Counter Strike, etc. While the fallacy is not inherent towards a specific group of players or fandoms, reviews from people with no prior, direct experience with the media, people who had an initial, coincidental negative experience, or reviewers who previously fell victim to the Skill Issue Fallacy while consuming said media, exhibit noticeable traces of the fallacy. Some examples are, but not limited to: vague/irrelevant/a lack of evidence (“Terraria sucks because its 2D graphics are bad”), cherry picked reasons (“Valorant’s ability mechanic sucks because of the lack of balancing”), and reaching (“Minecraft’s community sucks”).
This fallacy doesn’t have just limited to a few individuals either. Large groups of people can be deluded and herded into the fallacy because of viral videos posted by those who fell for the fallacy prior, causing a chain reaction of falling for the fallacy when the target media is sometimes actually peak.
“Mark fell victim to the skill issue fallacy the other day, he finally got around to try Roblox but half-assed his attempt to find a good game cause he thinks everyone’s either a pedo or a scammer. What an idiot. He was two scrolls away from Entry Point.”
by asdffrfrnocap September 27, 2025
Get the Skill Issue Fallacymug. Abstract: An extremely overpowered character/item who's sole purpose for existing is to easily beat/counter any obstacle put in front of them.
A Little Timmy Character (abbreviated as LT character in this) is a character in fiction who's purpose is to be powerful/more powerful than a previous powerful predecessor. Most LT characters are products of insecure people projecting themselves with OCs that can solo all of fiction, or bad authors creating a bad plot. The isekai genre is infamously chock full of LT characters, most of which being the "person who appears weak but is actually really fucking strong" sub-genre.
The naming derives from the power logic of elementary children, as almost all of their powerscaling arguements boil down to "nuh uh, because my character can actually _____ which just so happens to convienently counter your character's ______."
A good way to identify a LT character on the fly is to check two things: their role in the story and their powerscaling's simplicity-to-power ratio. However, this method can be unreliable if the character's reasoning for existence requires more research compared to the average read session, so take the results of this test with a grain of salt. It is heavily recommended to do your own research on the character's, well, character first.
Important note: Not all overpowered characters are Little Timmy Characters. No examples will be provided due to controversy with differing opinions :P
A Little Timmy Character (abbreviated as LT character in this) is a character in fiction who's purpose is to be powerful/more powerful than a previous powerful predecessor. Most LT characters are products of insecure people projecting themselves with OCs that can solo all of fiction, or bad authors creating a bad plot. The isekai genre is infamously chock full of LT characters, most of which being the "person who appears weak but is actually really fucking strong" sub-genre.
The naming derives from the power logic of elementary children, as almost all of their powerscaling arguements boil down to "nuh uh, because my character can actually _____ which just so happens to convienently counter your character's ______."
A good way to identify a LT character on the fly is to check two things: their role in the story and their powerscaling's simplicity-to-power ratio. However, this method can be unreliable if the character's reasoning for existence requires more research compared to the average read session, so take the results of this test with a grain of salt. It is heavily recommended to do your own research on the character's, well, character first.
Important note: Not all overpowered characters are Little Timmy Characters. No examples will be provided due to controversy with differing opinions :P
"Dude, Cortium is such a little timmy character. He can literally erase space and time passively. What an unbalanced result of poor writing."
by asdffrfrnocap July 8, 2025
Get the Little Timmy Charactermug.