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gaming is obviously meant to be fun but even if you're a seasoned vet the

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alphabet soup of gaming acronyms can be a little mystifying from technical terms

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to shorthand you see in discord to jargon throne and angry game reviews so

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let's demystify some of these acronyms right now starting with the dreaded qte

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which stands for quick time event this has nothing to do with that old video

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player from apple but it does have to do with cut scenes instead of giving us a

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cut scene to advance the plot and then just getting back to the game

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some developers had the genius idea of making gamers press a button during a

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cutscene to make something happen on the screen the whole press f to pay respects

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fiasco from a few years ago has become the quintessential example of an

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extremely stupid quick time event the acne qte isn't disparaging in and of

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itself but the vast majority of times you see it

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no one's going to have anything positive to say here's another popular one moba

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moba or multiplayer online battle arena

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these are games based around fighting through three lanes as a team to destroy

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the opposing team's base the game dota or defense of the asians is widely

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credited with popularizing the genre and

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fun fact dota was actually a mod for warcraft 3 but it became so popular that

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a standalone sequel called dota 2 was developed today dota 2 league of legends

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and arena of valor are three extremely popular moba games that are common in

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esports competitions though many other titles do exist let's move on to

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something a little bit more technical right after i tell you about secret lab

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head to the link in the video description and check out secret lab today so for something more technical

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dlss and fsr which stand for deep learning super sampling and fidelity

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effects super resolution respectively are the next acronyms on our list these

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are two technologies designed to deliver better image quality without putting a

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huge load on your graphics card the lss is developed by NVIDIA and is only

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available on 2000 series and newer cards and as the name suggests it uses machine

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learning to train an ai on what a game should look like meaning the card can

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use ai cores to upscale the game instead of forcing the GPU to do tons of raw

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computation meaning higher frame rates and higher quality than traditional

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rendering fsr on the other hand is from AMD and unlike dlss it does not use

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machine learning but it does have special AMD specific algorithms baked in

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that allow it for better up sampling without putting too much extra work on

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the GPU for your game to support the lss

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or fsr the game itself has to support it

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so it's mostly found on newer titles some games only support one or the other

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while other titles support both another graphical acronym that's

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sneakily important is fov or field of view this is a setting that determines

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how much of your surroundings you can see the common wisdom is to set it

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higher if you're sitting close to the screen and lower if you're farther away

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setting it too low when you're close to the display as is often the case when

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you're gaming on a pc is actually a common cause of motion sickness so try

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turning it up if you're feeling queasy of course turning it up too much can

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make the game look like you're viewing it through a fisheye lens so watch out

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for that as well do you have any gaming acronyms that confuse the heck out of

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you let us know down in the comment section and you might see an explainer

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in a future episode so thanks for watching guys if you like this video hit

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