He's not wrong.

[tachyontele@lemm.ee]

Why can't we shoot lights out anymore?

[tachyontele@lemm.ee]

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

[user224@lemmy.sdf.org]

Nah, fuck that. Buys e-ink monitor

[flames5123@lemmy.world]

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

[flames5123@lemmy.world]

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.

[umbrella@lemmy.ml]

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

[ionaddis@lemmy.world]

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

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

[flames5123@lemmy.world]

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

[insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe]

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.

[deathbysnusnu@lemmy.world]

But what about candles?

[friend_of_satan@lemmy.world]

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

[psythik@lemmy.world]

Actually, the pixels go completely black and do not consume any electricity at all in that state.

You might be thinking of early OLEDs, which had to stay on at all times to prevent blur/smearing. But panel manufacturers solved that problem a few years ago. Don't remember exactly when the change happened, but I remember first seeing true black OLEDs sometime around 2017/2018.

[kolanaki@yiffit.net]

Every electronic device in the game uses real electricity. Even if it's not on.

[lelgenio@lemmy.ml]

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

[classy@sh.itjust.works]

When a lamp turns off it doesn't become a black hole. Previous commenter was correct, though I appreciate your info about OLED

[paupersserenade@sh.itjust.works]

Change electricity to energy and we’re good again

[jcbazpx@lemmy.world]

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.

[fckreddit@lemmy.ml]

So do lamps irl.

[fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de]

I'd argue that's not true if the lighting is baked into the map.

[allero@lemmy.today]

Does it matter?
The screen still has to display it.