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And are full of untold mathematical horrors, just like physical lamps.
So an oil lamp in a video game is actually an electric lamp?
Playing a fireplace video produces real heat.
I guess if you disable the computer’s fan, yes.
Greetings fellow time-traveler. What model of entropy-reversing computer fan do you use?
Why reversing enthropy? I just throw the computer in the trash when it burns off so I can buy a new one every month. Mass consumer society is so greaaat.
If you’re using an older LCD screen, turning off the lamp uses more electricity than leaving it on
Did you know that characters in video games have an electrical current to keep them alive just like real people?
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somebody said this at work yesterday, and now it’s here
Wait, video games use electricity?
Mind blow
Lamps in video games aren’t real. It’s the video game that’s using the electricity.
Video games aren’t real. It’s the computer components that use electricity
computer components aren’t real. It’s all just tiny gremlins doing maths really fast and turning pixels on and off
Tiny gremlins aren’t real. It’s all just a dream. Wake up you have to make me breakfast. I would like pancakes please.
Babe wake up I want pancakes
Pancakes aren’t……
No…. pancakes are real. And they’re perfect.
That’s like saying “lamps don’t create light, it’s the flame/filament in the lamp that creates the light”
The lamp is rendered by small electric lights, be it LEDs or LCD. CRTs are in a bit of an grey area. But you can absolutely use a monitor as a light source by itself .
Do they use more than dark places in video games? Like if you are in dark room in the game, and you turn on a lamp in the game, are you using more electricity?
My guess is no but I am not a programmer or electrician nor a physicist.
if you have an oled display, then if a video game is brighter it costs more energy because the LEDs turn on more.
if have an lcd display, there’s a backlight that always has the same brightness and crystals blocking the light, which makes the image. meaning a brighter scene doesn’t take more power, since the backlight doesn’t use more energy.
On an LCD display, the backlight is always on but the crystals need power to align and let the backlight through.
A full white screen would in theory use more electricity than a full black screen. How much more, I don’t actually know but I would like to know more info in it.
If the light is not dynamic at all, no. If it has stuff like dynamic shadows it will require more processing power to render frames than if the light was off, which probably makes the CPU/GPU draw slightly more power
I’d guess if you have an OLED panel it would because black pixels are ‘off’ it would consume somewhat of more electricity but I do not know
Schmidt?
They also emit real photons. 🤯
Yep, virtual lights work the same as real lights
Virtual lights are real lights…
If they’re not looked at, they don’t consume as much electricity. So there’s that difference.
The problem with those virtual lamps is that when you look away, the light turns off but the heat doesn’t.
If you have your back to them, they don’t emit light either!
Edit: Well, reflections, for you with the FANCY GPUs…
Exactly what I thought while I was commenting that. The reflections are what made me rewrite it 😅
That depends on how the game does reflections. In some games they have a mirrored room with an identical but different light for the reflection.
Nah, fuck that. Buys e-ink monitor
They would still emit real photons, just reflected ones.
Strictly speaking, reflected light isn’t ‘emitted’. A mirror isn’t an emitter of light either.
Photons get absorbed and then re-emitted. I’d argue that counts as emission as it’s one part of the reflection process.
And by convention, all vehicles in video games are electric.
technically they all make fake combustion noises, which is worse.
Why? I like combustion noises
I upvoted both of these because chaos
Huh. Is eternity (the app I’m using) finally broken? Did not even realize I double posted.
Why? I like combustion noises
i was making a sad attempt at a joke about electric cars with fake car noises
Which is really unexpected if you’re looking at an oil lamp.
Change electricity to energy and we’re good again
