Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64

Re:Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64 by nonethewiser on Monday September 04, 2023 @03:28PM (#37384020)

This demake is an additional game. Seems like it will just add to the energy load required to run a computer programs. Which I think is fine, frankly. Perhaps some people will play it instead of portal but even still there is the overhead of developing it. I guess if we cared about ecology we'd shut down more game servers faster.

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Re:Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64 by bluescrn on Monday September 04, 2023 @04:04PM (#37384411)

To 'save the planet' you want as many people playing video games, watching TV, or arguing on social media as possible.

If they're doing those things, consuming digital entertainment (eventually powered by renewables), then they're not out in the real world, travelling around using fossil fuels, consuming physical products, using up physical resources and emitting CO2.

Pretty bleak future though.

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Re:Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64 by sgu999 on Monday September 04, 2023 @05:40PM (#37385377)

Or simply less people, busy doing what machine can't, with a bit less free time to spare. It's as bleak if we put ourselves in the shoes of the humans who wouldn't exist, but not that bleak for the ones who would...

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Re:Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64 by Kerb_ on Monday September 04, 2023 @07:00PM (#37385994)

Our free time is likely dwarfed by the labor spent on inefficient means towards inefficient ends if we're going to this level of analysis though

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Re:Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64 by uoaei on Monday September 04, 2023 @11:15PM (#37387437)

You raise an interesting question: how many people would you be able to bus how far into nature to spend how long with zero electricity consumption to make it net-negative compared to the consumption incurred in the course of their habitual lives?

My naive orders-of-magnitude guess is ~20 people in a bus going ~100 miles (each way) would only need 2-4 days before the net goes negative.

It's kinda crazy how much compute is dedicated to streaming HD video or serving an endless scroll of Instagram.

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Re:Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64 by bluescrn on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @09:58AM (#37391706)

Those people out in nature are likely to be doing physical activities, even if just walking, and those extra calories will need replenishing too

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