Because she ' s an Evangelical that believes in school privatization meaning . we can finally force students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance while teaching creationism and a host of other fuckery in our schools . <| sep |> I seriously doubt that ' s how it works . server ticks and game time are not the same thing , and what you ' re describing makes the game different based on what server you ' re playing on and your connection . A tick is just a snapshot of the game world at a given time , and the tick rate is how many of those snapshots you get from the game server per second . This is why you actually get more lag on a high tick rate server on a poor connection and why Blizzard will dial that rate down , because your connection can ' t handle that much data coming in at once . On a good connection , a high tick rate means what you see is much closer to the real state of the game on the server . Since less client prediction is going on , you experience fewer bogus roadhog hooks or misses on shots you could have sworn you made , for example .