He's not wrong.

[cornelius_wangenheim@lemmy.world]

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@lemmy.world]

Unless they are unloaded out of memory

[bhamlin@lemmy.world]

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

[keenflame@feddit.nu]

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

[latsss@discuss.tchncs.de]

Shades in video games use even more electricity

[chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de]

They would still emit real photons, just reflected ones.

[mangoholic@lemmy.ml]

Not on OLED screens + prebaked lightning

[lila_uraraka@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

You aren't supposed to think about it

[latsss@discuss.tchncs.de]

That's too specific conditions, but okay

[weker01@sh.itjust.works]

Why? I like combustion noises

[weker01@sh.itjust.works]

Why? I like combustion noises

[cholesterol@lemmy.world]

Strictly speaking, reflected light isn't 'emitted'. A mirror isn't an emitter of light either.

[hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

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

[hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

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

[fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de]

You can hardly argue that the lamp itself is using energy when "not a lamp" is using exactly as much energy

[chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de]

It is. Photons get absorbed and then re-emitted. I'd argue that counts as emission as it's one part of the reflection process.

[dabaldeagul@feddit.nl]

The light doesn't become true black, it's dark but not a complete nothingness. So yes, it'll still consume power.

[nutwrench@lemmynsfw.com]

Lamps in video games aren't real. It's the video game that's using the electricity.

[wizard_pope@lemmy.world]

Video games aren't real. It's the computer components that use electricity

[umbrella@lemmy.ml]

i was making a sad attempt at a joke about electric cars with fake car noises