When you turn a lamp off in a video game, it’s using the same amount of electricity.

unless you’ve got an oled display

Stop staring on that lamp, Mothman!

I've got to make a game for e-ink devices to make the most energy efficient lamp ever.

If the lamp casts shadows, and if there are things light reflections, those costs extra processing power, and thus the lights actually does use real electricity.

And the fake light in the video game is actually converted into real light if I stare directly at the lamp and turn on HDR on my monitor.

It seems like someone would have used a lightpipe to direct sunlight to use as a backlight on a monitor--just for fun--but I couldn't find anything. I blame search enshittification.

Even with how much video games have advanced, they've never managed to put a generator in a game that produces more energy than it consumes.

My 50" plasma tv. 80 Watts for a black image, 400 Watts for notepad maximised.

My 65" Chiq LCD. 180 Watts full time.

Deep, bro.

They hated Jesus because He told them the truth.

https://shop.dasung.com/

It's probably easier to just get an e-ink monitor

Oh wow, I never thought about a whole e-ink monitor. That’s gotta be amazing for script writers and the like

I recently installed an electricity usage monitor on my home server and it made me realize something I knew but never consciously acknowledged: every action I take has an associated cost, however small.

Playing a game adds about 600W of consumption. That means a three hour gaming session runs about 0,63 €. It's obvious, but I've had some form of PC on 24/7 nearly my entire life, so I never truly thought about it.