Comment on Just Stop Oil protestors interrupt UK’s biggest games event EGX

• regulatorg@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Computing requires little oil, while we aren't there yet its safe to assume it will be powered by green energy

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  • vivadanang@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    video games are basically software that turns electricity into heat.

    your reply in no way addresses this fundamental point.

    The entire market is growing year over year, requiring more power each generation. Do the math, it’s pretty easy.

    ditto. even if we only worry about the heat generated, and not the power sourced (assuming your 100% renewable which is not realistic today) - we still have a problem.

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    • regulatorg@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In this particular case, the protestors are complaining about oil, not power use or heat generation, so your fundamental point isn't really valid

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      • vivadanang@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        yes yes we only have a single problem to worry about, thank goodness.

        oh wait, no… that’s not, actually, the case at all. not even closely.

        thanks for your comment tho bellend, when the human race cooks itself this will be a great example of how we saw it coming, but didn’t give a fuck.

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• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There are a lot of much more harmful things people could be doing with their spare time than playing vidya games.

  Besides, it entirely depends on how renewable the electricity generation is as to the environmental impact.

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