I'm not triggered at all. I understand that high-refresh monitors decrease input lag and in competitive games like Counter-Strike: Potato Offensive (Steve Walton's name for it...
), it has been demonstrated (by Linus Sebastian of all people) that faster refresh monitors make you an instinctively better marksman.
What drives me crazy is when the noobs get this stupid idea in their heads that if they don't bankrupt themselves on halo products they'll have a subpar gaming experience. I guess it's more of an altruistic thing because I hate to see people struggling just because they don't know any better. Hell, I remember 14 years ago when 40+fps on average was considered pretty good and it really was pretty good.
The most legendary "hard-on-the-hardware" game in history is Crysis. It came out in 2007 and initially, no single card could run it properly.
This picture (from 2008) shows an array of the most potent video cards at the time and
none of them could crack 50fps. Nevertheless, people LOVED playing Crysis, even in the 40-49fps range. Nobody whined about getting less than 60fps, we just played the game and enjoyed it. Nowadays people whine about getting less than 120-140fps and, remembering how great Crysis was on my Phenom II X4 940 and XFX Radeon HD 4870 1GB (at about 45-47fps), it really makes me wonder what the hell is wrong with them. It's like listening to children crying about having to wear Nikes instead of Jordans. It's just cringeworthy!