MARGINAL GAINS
Whenever there’s technology involved in a feat of skill, we’re bound to wonder. If you slid into Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes F1 car, would you win races? And if you sat under the bright arena lights in the gaming chair of an esports pro, using their exact framerate, refresh rate, mouse settings, and precise mousepad friction levels, would you suddenly become S1mple?
The tacit implication from gaming hardware and peripheral manufacturers is that you just might. We’ve been sold everything from gaming mice to sound cards on the basis of gaining an advantage over the competition for decades, and that’s only been amplified by esports’ mainstream ascendancy. In 2019 it’s de rigueur to fill your desk with RGB-emitting kit that all promises to up your game, but those promises often go unchecked.
There’s no doubt that at
