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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why does one player having bad ping bring down everybody in the match in online games?
gpt
That's an older model that isn't used much anymore. Back in the day lag controll was mostly handled by checking in on all players and the system would slow down to allow one to catch up. Now lag compensation is handled in several different ways, but eternally avoids this older model.