“Tom, pull up the last clean manifest from the origin server. I’m going granular.”

Tom exhaled. “How did you…?”

On the studio monitor, the player’s character landed a perfect headshot. Smooth. Clean. No pixels.

“It’s not the edge node,” she said, her voice steady. “It’s the encoder’s GOP size. It’s too long for this content type.”

The chat exploded—but this time with joy.

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