You realize that the nomenclature of “trope” dates back to the ancient Greeks?

Utah doesn’t desalinate. The issue is that the lake’s water is naturally evaporating faster than the feeding rivers can replenish it. Most, if not all, the feeding rivers coming from the mountains divert into reservoirs before continuing.

Utah doesn’t desalinate, the water is captured in reservoirs in the mountains.

An adaptation isn’t free from the sins of the source.

If you just portray the humans as mustache-twirling evil though, it’s not really doing anything. I expect they are providing that nuance, but it’s not a given.

Call of Duty has run on heavily branched versions of the id Tech engine since its inception, not Source.

Someone used a floating point.

PR campaigns leading up to the release of games are heavily choreographed, so yes.

You don’t know to fix a problem until you find a problem.

This would be an a per-DNS-system basis. I imagine if DNS providers anticipated an extended outage, most of them would restore lookup table backups for a limited time if they existed.

This is quite possibly the worst take I’ve ever seen.

You realize that there are entire companies based on the idea that you can intuitively counter a DDoS attack? One of the most popular modern CDN providers, Cloudflare, basically advertises this as their biggest feature.

Company: “Heyyyyy China, your packets are looking pretty suspicious right now. We’re just gonna shut off your packets for a little while mmkay?”

This was done for a while on major browsers, in particular Internet Explorer up until 6.0. The issue becomes that locally caching DNS information becomes an issue when you start disagreeing with the authoritative name servers. DNS services and companies successfully lobbied for local DNS caching to be phased out.

I ended up not being able to see past the issues with the campaign. I was completely on board with the campaign at the beginning, even saying that if it kept the quality of the initial story’s writing and dialogue it would break DICE’s ongoing cycle of really bad campaigns.

Bethesda was never involved...

Ace Combat 7 needs to make another smash appearance. It’s perfect for VR.

DRM articles have become my least favourite part of the average day.

You don’t obey laws only when other people are around.

Leveling is a lot easier now.