Every few months, someone points out that videogame lamps use real electricity, and another round of people go "huh, I guess that is true, isn't it?" It shouldn't be a surprising observation, because displaying anything on a screen requires electricity (with caveats), and yet there's an eeriness to the idea. It's slightly strange when virtual worlds seem to cross into the physical world like that. I don't know if there's a term for the phenomenon, so I'll call it "glure," which stands for "game lamps use real electricity." (Be glad I didn't go with "ludolūcēs consonance" or something.).. Read more.
