Arnold Schwarzenegger is a person with an extended and diverse profession, from his entrance onto the world stage as a bodybuilder nicknamed “The Austrian Oak”, to a number of Mr Olympia title wins, a large Hollywood profession, and ultimately, his rise to the standing of Governor of California.
Nevertheless, he might have simply added one other title to his spectacular assortment, as it has been revealed that he was the inspiration for the naming of, err, a set of digital artwork compression instruments.
Ex Intel and AMD graphics chief Raja Koduri dropped this little tidbit in a recent tweet, revealing that then-ATI software program engineer Seth Sowery coined the title “Compressonator” for the now AMD-owned toolset in reference to Schwarzenegger’s well-known nickname. He was often called “The Governator” when he turned the thirty eighth Governor of California in 2003.
There’s little similarity between Arnold Schwarzenegger and a set of compression instruments (let me add that to my “issues I by no means thought I might write” folder), though it is doubtless that given this system’s lengthy shelf life it has in some unspecified time in the future been used to work with property depicting the person himself.
In spite of everything, Arnie’s likeness has an extended historical past of showing in all types of digital media, together with the latest use of his likeness as a tank commander in World of Tanks.
The gaming affiliation might come as a shock to these of you who bear in mind a few of his views on the topic, significantly with regard to depictions of “violence or mayhem” within the medium, as throughout his tenure as The Governator he signed into regulation a invoice that sought to ban sale or rental of video video games deemed violent to anybody underneath the age of 17.
The invoice was later blocked by a federal choose on the grounds of a scarcity of proof for hyperlinks between violent video video games and harm to kids.
Whereas this newest information is unlikely to make him fall off his chair, the Austrian muscle-man can now chalk up one other cultural win, and it is all because of a little bit of tongue-in-cheek tomfoolery again within the heady days of ATI. It is unclear if this good little bit of referencing got here earlier than or after the Wendy’s “Baconator” cheeseburger, however in my thoughts at the least, it was the Compressonator that acquired there first.