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They also emit real photons. 🤯
Yep, virtual lights work the same as real lights
If they’re not looked at, they don’t consume as much electricity. So there’s that difference.
The problem with those virtual lamps is that when you look away, the light turns off but the heat doesn’t.
If you have your back to them, they don’t emit light either!
Edit: Well, reflections, for you with the FANCY GPUs…
Exactly what I thought while I was commenting that. The reflections are what made me rewrite it 😅
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.
Virtual lights are real lights…
Nah, fuck that. Buys e-ink monitor
They would still emit real photons, just reflected ones.
Strictly speaking, reflected light isn’t ‘emitted’. A mirror isn’t an emitter of light either.
Photons get absorbed and then re-emitted. I’d argue that counts as emission as it’s one part of the reflection process.
Playing a fireplace video produces real heat.
I guess if you disable the computer’s fan, yes.
Greetings fellow time-traveler. What model of entropy-reversing computer fan do you use?
Why reversing enthropy? I just throw the computer in the trash when it burns off so I can buy a new one every month. Mass consumer society is so greaaat.
And by convention, all vehicles in video games are electric.
technically they all make fake combustion noises, which is worse.
Why? I like combustion noises
I upvoted both of these because chaos
Huh. Is eternity (the app I’m using) finally broken? Did not even realize I double posted.
Why? I like combustion noises
i was making a sad attempt at a joke about electric cars with fake car noises
Which is really unexpected if you’re looking at an oil lamp.
Change electricity to energy and we’re good again
If you’re using an older LCD screen, turning off the lamp uses more electricity than leaving it on
So an oil lamp in a video game is actually an electric lamp?
Shades in video games use even more electricity
Not on OLED screens + prebaked lightning
That’s too specific conditions, but okay :)
You made a blanket statement. There are exceptions.
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.
Looks like we’re from a different galaxies, as I never seen oled display for PC in my eyes(I know they exist, but they are extremely rare where I am)
More interestingly, lamps in video games use the same amount of real electricity if they are on or off.
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.
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
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.
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.
When a lamp turns off it doesn’t become a black hole. Previous commenter was correct, though I appreciate your info about OLED
The light doesn’t become true black, it’s dark but not a complete nothingness. So yes, it’ll still consume power.
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.
Did you know that if we took all the rhinos left on the planet, put them in a rocket ship and launched it towards the sun, the would travel 91.511 million mi, and die along the way?
Akshually we currently have no rocket with enough power to launch that much mass towards the Sun. People always assume because the Sun has a lot of gravity, stuff moves toward it automatically. But when launching from Earth that’s not the case. Earth is in orbit around the Sun, in order to get to the Sun you need to lose all that energy. Since rhino’s are heavy af you’d need a mighty rocket indeed.
We could with some effort maybe launch one small rhino, say 600-700kg towards the Sun. And it requires some fancy ass orbital mechanics. So it would travel way more than 91.511 million miles before ending up in the Sun. This rhino would probably not survive the launch, which is just as well given its destination and travel time.
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You need multitudes more energy to get to a sun orbit than you need to leave the solar system.
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.
Also we don’t launch towards the sun, we deorbit by burning in the opposite direction of where the earth is moving towards.
Even if the lamps are off.
Did you know that characters in video games have an electrical current to keep them alive just like real people?
If the game is demanding enough they also consume the same amount of electricity, maybe even more.
Every electronic device in the game uses real electricity. Even if it’s not on.
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We should demand that they are oil lamps from now on to save the planet
Just make the player stumble in pitch black darkness through the entire game, duh.