TAN #196 BlaTANt Adulation for Yanti the Indefatigable! (Page 5)

You'll have to send a link to the picture if there is one. My wife is an art teacher and loves those old images

Ahhhh, there it is 

If it makes you feel better, we have a few of yinz Steeler fans that we keep around to talk smack with

The whole retro pin-up girl look is HAWT.

well, if you youtube wings of angles tala marie...  that's the missus...

Yanti is out of the water in 1:24:29

I know its triathlon related, but considering the title of this TAn, very appropriate.

Is it saturday there?  And they hold it on Sat?  Does Mike Riley do the commentary? 

I'm glad it's her out there and not me.  The thought of being in mid IM right now turns my stomach.

Nothing a little bourbon, PS3 and porn can't fix though.

Yep.  He was at the finish line this morning for a picture.

You are a very lucky man!

Anyone up to speed with programming?

I noticed the new PS4 is coming out.  No date, but I'm guessing by Christmas to capitalize on the holiday sales.

SO, I'm sure game programers are already working on ps4 based games - which got me wondering.  Who is in the lead?  Do the programers have to "dumb down" games to work on a system or are the systems too powerful?

I'm guessing when the system first comes out, games don't push them.  But at the end of a systems run, the games probably want MORE power...

I want that gig.  I assume he's part owner of that organization?  Or do they just pay him bank to be the voice/face of it.

When I get to see her.  I call her my little spectre these days.  I only get glimpses and start to wonder if she's real.

Wow people you all are really slacking in here!

I don't do game programming, but I am a programmer and have been around the game development circles for more than a few years.

They don't necessarily have to dumb them down, but there are fixed memory constraints that a game developer has to work within.  The static hardware also means a fixed resolution for your display, textures for graphics can only be of a certain bit depth, etc...

After all of that, then yes, there is the issue of how heavy of a CPU load you can put on the machine and still have acceptable gameplay.  

When a new system comes out, it is as much about learning what the new hardware can do and how to get the most out of it as it is about creating something new and cool.  As a platform matures, developers get better at making good use of what they have available to them.

COOKIES!!!!

I see your cookies and I will raise you CAKE

That's what I figured.

I could SWEAR that first generation PS3 games, even if they still look/play good/well, seem infirior to modern versions.

For example, Assassin's creed vs Assassin's Creed III (with 4 other versions in between).  Assassin's creed III looks amazing compared to the first one.  And all for the same system.

Madden and Unchartered are the same.  Madden for 2006 (or whenever the first PS3 came out) looks bad compared to Madden 13.

I guess they learn how to optimize the game for the system it's to be played on.

Happy Friday TAN!

Is everyone else constantly refreshing the athlete tracker to see if there's another update for Yanti? 

I'm letting others do that and keep my up to date.

There seems to be 3-4 Yanti tracking threads going so I just take a peek on occasion.

I would rather have cookies, sorry.

Hmmmm how about we split the difference and have cupcakes with lots of frosting.