Yes, yes, I admire your passion and dedication to your wrong opinions.
“no one imposed lag on you” - that’s funny, because it only takes one person lagging to slow down the game for everyone. 
“People with subpar hardware also do not create lag in game.”
You are clearly an expert and know what you’re talking about. You are a very compassionate person.
You two were a match made in heaven, you’re more alike than you think.
Anyways I think it would be good to eliminate one of the game count-downs now because there are two of them. Since the new one helps people start evenly I think it would be better to remove the old one.
Lag isn’t the same as a countdown. Having a popup that displays the fact your opponent is lagging and might disconnect isn’t the same as lagging. Lagging is latency in your connection with a server. If you’re going to use nomenclature use it correctly.
I am, actually, an expert.
I agree wholeheartedly. They should remove the old countdown.
Having a popup that displays the fact your opponent is lagging and might disconnect isn’t the same as lagging.
I am, actually, an expert.
“Lagging isn’t the same as lagging” … Whatever you say, ‘expert’.
Wanting to play without lag isn’t the same as ‘lacking compassion.’
The point is, don’t waste time. We don’t need two different countdowns. Pick one.
You two were a match made in heaven, you’re more alike than you think.
No, we are nothing alike. Please don’t insult me like that again. I will compromise and say keep the new countdown if the old one is gotten rid of.
It isn’t. Again, your opponent being at risk of disconnecting isn’t you lagging.
I’m a full stack software development engineer and previously I worked in ISSS Network Administration. I’m factually an expert. You are not.
I agreed with the sentiment of removing the original countdown.
lag
/laɡ/verb
fall behind in movement, progress, or development; not keep pace with another or others.
"they stopped to wait for one of the children who was lagging behind "noun
a period of time between one event or phenomenon and another.
“there was a time lag between the commission of the crime and its reporting to the police”
It is absolutely possible for one player with insufficient hardware to drastically slow down a multiplayer game of SC2 for everyone. I don’t know why you have to argue semantics; it’s probably for the same reason you have to accuse people you disagree with of ‘lack[ing] compassion’. I’m done talking to you. Go away. I know you’ll reply to me again and probably insult me again. Go ahead.
The countdown is there to ensure both players have an equal start.
Both players can be ready to click their central main building and be ready for the first worker production, after it goes.
I’m used to it, as someone who played racing games in arcades at the movie theaters, or on playstation 1, to me its a mechanic I like simply because it is something I am familiar with.
So that’s why 1 player with a bad connection slows down all of World of Warcraft for every player? Oh wait, it doesn’t.
Agree’d OP. Was just about to create this very same thread. We don’t need more than one countdown timer.
I never claimed that. If I did quote it.
No, but you claimed 1 person lagging makes everyone lag. It doesn’t. A pop up box isn’t you lagging. Your opponent lagging isn’t the same as you actually lagging. Just admit it.
Just answer me this. If your opponent is lagging with 300 ping does that mean your ping in game is also now 300? (hint: it doesn’t.)
QED.
No, but you claimed 1 person lagging makes everyone lag
No, what I said was this
It is absolutely possible for one player with insufficient hardware to drastically slow down a multiplayer game of SC2 for everyone.
You must never play team games because all it takes is one person with a toaster for a computer to make the game slow down to a halt. And yes, when their connection starts to drop then the game stops for everyone.
Just answer me this. If your opponent is lagging with 300 ping does that mean your ping in game is also now 300? (hint: it doesn’t.)
Not what I said, get a life.
Swanky is a troll. Stop feeding the troll.
Impose - To force upon another; in reference to an event, action, condition, or state.
This directly means to have lower hardware is to force the condition of lagging upon others; that is to say, to make others lag.
I never denied there was a disconnect timer or that the game doesn’t stop. I said you were inaccurate about hardware creating lag for others; rather than saying “people with subpar hardware slow down games”.
And again, it’s unlikely hardware that they even have control over; it’s usually their ISP. It can also be the server Blizzard has chosen to host the game on. If you play on NA from Canada and get a Singapore server you’re gonna have a bad time (and vice-versa). But that’s not the fault of other people in the game nor an excuse to discount a countdown timer as “it’s for people that lag.” This is particularly true because the key reasons you’d have a slow load timer (seeing as map data is downloaded in advance) are r/w disk speed and cpu availability (which should be rare given a 2010 game). Quite frankly, the new countdown timer is an ideal fix for such situations, as I have stated, as it makes it so no matter how long load time takes, you will always have the same 3 seconds in game before start.
I’m not a troll, I’m just precise. Not my fault you’re not. It’s okay, I understand your jealousy; such things often cause simpler people to lash out and insult others as Earth has been.
Swanky is a troll. Stop feeding the troll.
Yeah, you’re right. I will, right after this.
I’m not a troll, I’m just precise.
Says the absolute who literally says “lagging isn’t lagging”
… and argues that a person with a bad computer can’t lag a game of sc2 “Or ElSe WhY nOt 1 PlAyEr LaG AlL oF WoW?”
Complete and utter
Not your fault I’m not what? Precise? I was both precise and concise. All I said was to stop feeding the troll, which you are. I read through this dumpster fire of a thread, and you have been antagonizing this angry guy with obvious troll posts even after he asked you to stop. Now I’ll take my own advice and not feed you any more.
So responding to an argument is antagonizing now? Do you need a safe space or something kid?
Why would I stop? He’s not been respectful at any point. I took this whole week off for SGDQ. I got all the time in the week to respond.
LOL not angry actually, I kind of enjoy watching him try so hard to act in exactly the way he reprimanded me for. Each post get’s even more nonsensical. Fell right off his high horse and onto his 
face.