He's not wrong.

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

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That's like saying "lamps don't create light, it's the flame/filament in the lamp that creates the light"

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https://imgur.com/gallery/gRk1uZm

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I like the fact that people in the comments are debating this meme.

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Wait, video games use electricity?

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You made a blanket statement. There are exceptions.

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I upvoted both of these because chaos

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Schmidt?

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TVs very much so

Very much so... what? A quick glance, they're expensive AF (riddled with "smart" features and now AI, gigantic on top of 4K etc) too.

Sure I guess there's actually a chance a few impulsively bought one at a big-box store (or "on sale" for the full price of a non-OLED TV), but it's more likely they bought "LED" which is marketing speak for local dimming (not even close to OLED turning pixels off).

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

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

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I'm not sure sub-£550 ($700) with reasonable sizes (42"), really counts at expensive AF anymore. But each to their own.

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Pancakes aren’t…..

No…. pancakes are real. And they’re perfect.

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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.

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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

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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

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Huh. Is eternity (the app I'm using) finally broken? Did not even realize I double posted.

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Playing a fireplace video produces real heat.

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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.

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not that specific. most modern displays are oled, and most efficient games use prebaked lighting. the average gamer probably plays on an oled display, and has a game with prebaked lighting.