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      "Naive Lockstep Game Loop: A basic game loop where game state updates and rendering happen in immediate succession, causing game speed to fluctuate with the hardware's rendering capabilities. This lead",
      "Pure Variable Timestep (deltaTime scaling): An approach where game logic updates are directly scaled by the time elapsed between frames. This method is challenging for non-linear physics and collision"
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      "fixed timestep rendering",
      "why decouple game update and render",
      "Fixed Framerate Game Loop (VSync): A game loop that forces both game logic and rendering to adhere to a constant frame rate, often synchronized with the display's refresh rate. While it guarantees con"
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