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[–] [email protected] 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Playing a fireplace video produces real heat.

[–] wildlyfist 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I guess if you disable the computer's fan, yes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Greetings fellow time-traveler. What model of entropy-reversing computer fan do you use?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

If you're using an older LCD screen, turning off the lamp uses more electricity than leaving it on

[–] joel1974 4 points 1 day ago

Did you know that characters in video games have an electrical current to keep them alive just like real people?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

So an oil lamp in a video game is actually an electric lamp?

[–] [email protected] 169 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They also emit real photons. 🤯

[–] YoFrodo 42 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yep, virtual lights work the same as real lights

[–] blanketswithsmallpox 3 points 1 day ago

Virtual lights are real lights...

[–] flames5123 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If they’re not looked at, they don’t consume as much electricity. So there’s that difference.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Nah, fuck that. Buys e-ink monitor

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shades in video games use even more electricity

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Not on OLED screens + prebaked lightning

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[–] friend_of_satan 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Which is really unexpected if you're looking at an oil lamp.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

somebody said this at work yesterday, and now it's here

[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

And by convention, all vehicles in video games are electric.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] rhacer 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

More interestingly, lamps in video games use the same amount of real electricity if they are on or off.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Not necessarily, on OLED displays (which are definitely a thing for desktop computers and TVs) a light that's turned off is using less power because the pixels the lamp is displayed on (and the ones around it too) are dimmer.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Wait, video games use electricity?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Did you know that if we took all the rhinos left on the planet, put them in a rocket ship and launched it towards the sun, the would travel 91.511 million mi, and die along the way?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Akshually we currently have no rocket with enough power to launch that much mass towards the Sun. People always assume because the Sun has a lot of gravity, stuff moves toward it automatically. But when launching from Earth that's not the case. Earth is in orbit around the Sun, in order to get to the Sun you need to lose all that energy. Since rhino's are heavy af you'd need a mighty rocket indeed.

We could with some effort maybe launch one small rhino, say 600-700kg towards the Sun. And it requires some fancy ass orbital mechanics. So it would travel way more than 91.511 million miles before ending up in the Sun. This rhino would probably not survive the launch, which is just as well given its destination and travel time.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We should demand that they are oil lamps from now on to save the planet

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Just make the player stumble in pitch black darkness through the entire game, duh.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

If the game is demanding enough they also consume the same amount of electricity, maybe even more.

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