He's not wrong.

don

~~Lamps in~~ video games are using real electricity.

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

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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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YELLS IN GPU VERTEX PIPELINE

that consumes electricity. ever think about the poor gpu? about how your words hurt its feelings?

jokes aside the power to process a few hundred vertices every frame is insignificant

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While getting a rocket or probe to hit the sun smack in the middle sounds hard to do, you can get obliterated by it with much less delta-v.

You need to get to the Earth's escape velocity and just cleverly align the angle of escape so that you get an eccentric enough heliocentric orbit that you'd end up some 6 million kms close to the sun. Anything closer than that is literally overkill.

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"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."

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Nuclear powerplants in video games generate real electricity

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Even if the lamps are off.

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Why can't we shoot lights out anymore?

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You need multitudes more energy to get to a sun orbit than you need to leave the solar system.

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Nah, fuck that. Buys e-ink monitor

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

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Highly depends on the rendering engine and if you’re looking at it, as it could unrender if you look away, meaning less energy used.

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technically they all make fake combustion noises, which is worse.

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If you have your back to them, they don't emit light either!

Edit: Well, reflections, for you with the FANCY GPUs...

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Exactly what I thought while I was commenting that. The reflections are what made me rewrite it

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OLED displays (which are definitely a thing for desktop computers and TVs)

Probably not for most people, due to cost. More realistic for portable devices where battery saving is a thing, as it doesn't seem like there's much mainstream push for OLED (or similar equivalent) monitors that aren't top-end (on newegg, I could only find 240Hz options).

That and often search results are for other panel technologies (IPS/TN/VA). Lower spec stuff seems to exist but you really gotta scrape the bottom of the barrel (portable monitors) to find some niche product.

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But what about candles?

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