He's not wrong.

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

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

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So does every other pixel in the game

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The GPU renders the map no matter if there is lighting baked in our not. It's exactly the same operation. And depending on your display tech, brighter pixels might actually use slightly less energy.

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Also we don't launch towards the sun, we deorbit by burning in the opposite direction of where the earth is moving towards.

fatalicus

But they still use energy.

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Nope. Only the screens do. Technically you could play a video game without a screen.

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So do stones in video games. And water.

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And traditional LCDs with a backlight use more power for darkness. The LCD is transparent by default and turns opaque/black when a voltage is applied.

Amon

Unless they are unloaded out of memory

Billegh

What is this mythical video game system that doesn't use power itself?

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

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Shades in video games use even more electricity

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They would still emit real photons, just reflected ones.

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Not on OLED screens + prebaked lightning

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You aren't supposed to think about it

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That's too specific conditions, but okay

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Why? I like combustion noises

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Why? I like combustion noises