After the Sleeper Simulant quest captivated the Destiny population and sent them on a wild quest for the exotic fusion rifle, a new quest has today appeared. This quest, much like the Sleeper Simulant, is tied to past missions and objectives, and includes several new steps on the path to completion. Most importantly, though, the quest unlocks the No Time to Explain exotic pulse rifle, a weapon that has been on many players’ radars for quite some time. It also looks a lot like the Stranger’s Rifle from Year 1.
To acquire the No Time to Explain, follow these steps:
The Hidden Ghosts
Most should have completed the first step of the quest before, but for those who haven’t today’s daily story mission will help. Follow our guide for the Paradox story mission (only when it is the Daily) and you will earn a special Ghost that needs to be turned in to the Future War Cult representative. However, if you have only completed the mission today, it appears the quest won’t trigger until tomorrow at the earliest. It’s apparently time-gated.
Get the Simulation Core
Once some time has passed, or today for those players who captured the Ghost previously, the FWC handler will have a new quest called Not Forged in Light. It requires that players first gain some reputation with the Faction (about 1,000) before them obtaining and shattering a Simulation Core from a Taken minotaur. Taken minotaurs can be found in numerous places throughout Destiny, but we’d recommend The Citadel on Venus or The Buried City on Mars. Note that you don’t have to kill one of the Taken Champions that is a minotaur; any Lieutenant will work as well.
Defeat Atheon Again
Once you have the Simulation Core and have shattered it (hold Square/X), the FWC vendor will have a new step that requires completing the Vault of Glass raid. Now it’s possible to complete the raid with a smaller fireteam, but most will be more comfortable going at it with 6. This is really the major hurdle in the quest, and it’s also the most time consuming step.
The good news is Destiny players don’t have to do anything out of the ordinary during the Vault of Glass – simply make it to the end and kill Atheon. Doing so should give you the ‘Eye of Atheon’ item.
Find the Chest
After shattering the Eye of Atheon, the FWC vendor will give you a solo quest that requires heading to the Twilight Gap Crucible map. What’s unique about this instance is that there are a series of light pools scattered throughout the map, and only those will keep players from being overcome by the shadow and dying. So, what you need to do is move from light pool to light pool while searching for a hidden chest. The chest has random spawn points, so there’s no way to predict where it will be for each individual. Once you do find it, the chest should contain the ‘Bracelet of Ana Bray’.
Kill the Groundskeeper
Once again, players will need to return to the FWC vendor and give her the bracelet. And finally she will give you the last step on the quest, which requires killing the Groundskeeper in the Black Garden. This oversized Vex minotaur is not too challenging to defeat, but he is surrounded by Vex, which can be overwhelming when running the mission solo. What players need to do is first kill a bunch of Vex to get the ‘Anger’ level to 100%, and then the Groundskeeper will appear. Do as much damage to him as you can before the level drops below 100% and then rinse and repeat. Again, it’s tough to do damage and avoid the mobs of enemies, so either be very meticulous or take a fireteam.
No Time to Explain
Finally, once the Groundskeeper is down, players can return to the FWC vendor for the last time and claim their No Time to Explain exotic pulse rifle. The gun’s perks include Full Auto and a unique perk that returns ammo to the magazine for every precision hit. It’s quite the weapon and should be an extremely useful option in Crucible.
6 Best Web Browsers for MAC | Liquid Think | January 2015
The popularity of computers has continued to grow throughout the world in recent years. Different people have varied preferences on the operating systems they use for their computers. MAC OS has grown to be among the most popular and most loved OS, creating fans all over the world. With most people finding a computer useless if it is not connected to the internet, there has arisen some debate on which is the favorite internet browser for Mac. So, we compiled a list of our favorite MacOS browsers.
1. Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is the best web browser for mac. The browser has the best interface, user-friendly interface. It regularly updates and recommends updates that the user can choose to install. Mozilla Firefox has an ad-blocker restricting annoying ad’s. Mozilla Firefox prompts the user to choose the information that they can share, making it a browser for privacy-minded individuals. In addition, it can also store form information and log in credentials for different accounts thereby enabling easy access for the future.
2. Google Chrome
Google Chrome has developed to be among the most user friendly, easy to use, and fastest browsers for Mac users all around the world. It has an uncluttered and minimal interface that requires the most basic of skills to use. It has readily available links to the most innovative plug-in market on a browser, creating a very customized user-experience. For Mac, this is unarguably the fastest web browser as consistently rated by most users.
3. Opera
Forget those earlier versions of opera that were static and boring for many. The most modern versions of Opera have a user-friendly interface that allows the sleek loading of web pages at a high speed. It allows easy navigation of tabs and windows, thereby making the user experience enjoyable and fun to use among most Mac users. Opera is safe, and its software is secure from malware and other common internet based attacks on computers.
4. Apple Safari
This comes pre-installed on all Apple products capable of supporting web-surfing being Apple’s official browser. It has RSS integration and a speed dial and bookmark to allow easy access to most viewed web pages. It has a very innovative interface and most MAC users like because of its high speeds. However, when used on non-Apple products, some of its features may not work as efficiently as when used on Apple products.
5. Maxthon
Most Mac users who use this browser love it for the features which enable easy sharing of documents and files between different devices. Operating with less speed and with a less-than-stellar interface, however, it is nowhere near the leading browsers stated in this list.
6. OmniWeb Browser
The OmniWeb Browser allows Mac users to visit all web pages without any worry of compatibility issues. It has thumbnails that allow easy storage of most visited web pages, and interesting plug-ins to make browsing interesting. Limited with startup and navigation speeds, however, it is quite slow when compared to other mainstreams browsers.
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One thing I dislike when I’m browsing the web is being distracted. I hate those blinking, moving ads, auto-play videos, and all the other cruft that websites use to try to get you to click, click, click somewhere, rather than read the article that attracted you in the first place.
Fortunately, there are ways to avoid the most egregious annoyances on the web. Some of them can be easily muted using browser plug-ins, like the five that I use with Safari to make my browsing experience a lot better. (Note: some of these plug-ins also have equivalents for other browsers, such as Firefox and Chrome.)
Get ready for blast off as SPACE TRIBE brings his unique sonic wizardry to Melbourne!!
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“In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they were naked, discovered that the Sin existed, discovered they owed allegiance to a King and Kingdom from another world and a God from another sky, and that this God had invented the guilty and the dress, and had sent to be burnt alive who worships the Sun the Moon the Earth and the Rain that wets it.” ~ Eduardo Galeano
A good friend of mine, a member of the Republic of Lakotah, had a meeting with her first grade son’s elementary school principal. Apparently, her six-year-old was being defiant in classroom. What were these defiant actions? Well, upon his teacher explaining Columbus Day and honoring the courageous and brave sailor who discovered this land in 1492, he had a couple of questions for the teacher. He wanted to know how it was possible that Christopher Columbus discovered a land in which his ancestors had lived for over 30,000 years, he wanted to know what happened to all the people who lived here in 1491, and he wanted to know why the man responsible for invading his native land and slaughtering his ancestors was being honored.
I would love to just be a fly on the wall of that meeting with the elementary school principal.
Christopher Columbus Did NOT Discover America
There, I said it. The first thing we are told about our nation in our early childhood is a complete fabrication of the truth. But, that is only the beginning of the secret atrocities that shaped the nation that we know today.
The Spanish Conquest of the Americas, preceded by its “discovery” by Christopher Columbus (or Cristóbal Colón as he was known by the Spanish Crown) resulted in mass assimilation, raping, slaughtering, enslaving, and intention to wipe out all evidence of a native population of between 50 and 100 million indigenous people from the land — the greatest genocide in recorded history. These well-documented atrocities include:
Forced hard labor.
Abducting and selling children into the sex trade as young as nine-years-old.
Mass raping of women and children.
The amputation of limbs if slaves were not producing ‘enough’.
Labelled as hostile savages if not in complete compliance with their oppressors. Buried alive or burnt alive if you were resistant to the conquerors demands.
Offering cash rewards for the scalps of men, women, and children as proof of murder.
Intentionally spreading smallpox disease, an early means of biological warfare.
Forced removal from homes and land onto small reservations with barren, unlivable conditions.
Death marches of more than one-thousand miles to these reservations in which, if you were unable to continue the walk, you were left for dead and unable to assist dying family members.
On these same reservations “reserved” for the indigenous people, once this land was deemed valuable, the reservation agreement was broken and they were forced to move once again. All 370 treaties signed between the U.S Government and Indian nations have been broken by the United States.
Public execution of those who did not follow orders. Children were murdered by slamming them against stone and tree trunks, while pregnant women’s bellies were sliced open on public display, as a warning to those who did not comply.
These same mass murderers become labeled as heroes after sweeping through villages and slaughtering unarmed civilians.
Systematically kidnapping children and forcing them to a boarding school system in which they are beaten, forbidden to speak native language, brainwashed into becoming “Americanized”, and often molested.
Not entitled to the rights of citizenship in their own land until 1924.
Not included in the initial civil rights act; did not receive equal legal protections/rights until 1968.
Not allowed to practice their own ‘religion’/spirituality until 1978.
In the 1970’s the attendance at these brutal boarding schools peaked and it was not until 1975 that the United States Government emphasized reduction in boarding schools with most of them finally closing in the 1980s and 1990s. In 2007, there were still 9,500 American Indian children kept in boarding schools.
Traditional lifestyle mocked and ridiculed in mass media and in the classroom – socially acceptable to discriminate against.
Altered their history by ignoring and denying the truth for the past four centuries.
These were the policies of our government, the United States of America, as well as the the Spanish Crown and the Pope of the Catholic Church. These atrocities weren’t conducted by aliens from outer space; no, they was done by aliens from the east, who entered an occupied land with force to subjugate and exterminate the civilizations that had existed for at least 30,000 years (some estimates are as high as 200,000 years). And although they became icons of the national myth, only a small proportion of colonists were actually pilgrims and puritans, who arrived in the 1620s.
A map of North American Indian tribal territories at the time of Columbus’ Arrival.
The American Holocaust
Thousand-mile death marches, concentration camps, forced assimilation, mass killings by starvation and the deliberate introduction of disease, the forced adoption of culture and ‘beliefs’… Does this all sounds familiar?
“Hitler’s concept of concentration camps as well as the practicality of genocide owed much, so he claimed, to his studies of English and United States history. He admired the camps for Boer prisoners in South Africa and for the Indians in the Wild West; and often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America’s extermination — by starvation and uneven combat — of the red savages who could not be tamed by captivity.
“He was very interested in the way the Indian population had rapidly declined due to epidemics and starvation when the United States government forced them to live on the reservations. He thought the American government’s forced migrations of the Indians over great distances to barren reservation land was a deliberate policy of extermination. Just how much Hitler took from the American example of the destruction of the Indian nations is hard to say; however, frightening parallels can be drawn. For some time Hitler considered deporting the Jews to a large ‘reservation’ in the Lubin area where their numbers would be reduced through starvation and disease.”
However, that is a harsh reality to teach children in grade school, and not at all conducive to a sense of national patriotism. So, in the retelling of U.S. history, we soften it up a little… or change it altogether.
Discover, Invasion, or Conquer?
Discover is defined as finding something in the course of a search.
Invade is identified as an armed force or its commander entering a country/region so as to subjugate or occupy.
Conquer means to overcome and take control of a place or people by use of military force.
The word discover could be applied if something was actually found, but the problem is that Columbus’ so-called “discovery” had belonged to someone else for at least 30,000 years. For perspective, it has only been 2014 years since the “birth of Christ”. That means the first indigenous people first settled the Americas 27,986 years prior; whereas Europeans have only been here for 522 years.
The most interesting part about the definition of the word invade is the term “subjugate”, and the fact that Columbus used this exact word upon his first encounter with the Taino people of the north-east South American continent:
“They … brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks’ bells. They willingly traded everything they owned… . They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features…. They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane… . They would make fine servants…. With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.” ~ Christopher Columbus’s log
Interestingly enough the term subjugate is defined as “bringing under domination or control, especially by conquest”, while conquest is simply the act of conquering, which is interlocked with the definition of subjugate. By Columbus’ own words, it is therefore indisputable that the land and people of the North American continent were taken control of by military force. In fact, the exact term used in world history is “The Spanish Conquest.”
This 18th century copy of Chinese Admiral Zheng He’s 1417 map proves the New World was not ”discovered” by Columbus. The map has been authenticated by appraisers from Christie’s Auctions.
Now, before you disregard this article as a wacky, conspiracist, anti-American post, please understand that this is more about seeking the other side of the story. It is about viewing the landing of Columbus’s ships on May 12, 1492 from the perspective of the occupants of that land – the Taino and Arawaks perspective.
“When your people came to our land, it was not with open arms, but with Bibles and guns and disease. You took our land. You killed us with your guns and disease, then had the arrogance to call us godless savages. If there is a Heaven and it is filled with Christians, than Hell is the place for me.”
Columbus’s Early Life
Born as Cristofor Colombo (Italian name; Spanish: Cristóbal Colón; Portuguese: Cristóvão Colombo; and American/English: Christopher Columbus) was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451. He grew up working on ships and began sailing at age 10. After delivering goods to northern Europe in 1476, upon his return his ship was burnt by a group of French sailors and he swam to shore in Portugal. He remained in Portugal and started working for the Kingdom, which had the finest fleet in the world at this time.
During the middle ages, the kingdoms of Europe made their wealth by trading with Asia. But in 1453, the Turkish Empire cut off all land routes between Europe and Asia and the race to find a sea route to Asia soon began. Columbus sailed along the coasts of Africa, trading with the colonies and learning of the currents and wind patterns of the Atlantic. In 1487, another Portuguese sailor, Bartholomeu Dias made his way around the southern tip of Africa and located the eastern coast; giving strong belief to a quicker route to Asia by sea.
Columbus had already believed the world was smaller than that of the common-held belief of this time. Once Dias’ made this discovery, Columbus’s desire to sail west intensified as he had been seeking sponsorship for a trip across the Atlantic as early as 1484.
(Please note that nobody in the 15th century believed that the world was flat. This is an outright lie perpetrated by the American school system. The Greek philosopher Pythagoras first theorized that the earth was a sphere nearly 7,500 years before Columbus was born. Aristotle, 4th century B.C., added more proof to this theory by observing the motion of the stars. As historian Jeffrey Russel Burton once stated, “With extraordinary few exceptions, no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat.” Except, of course, Christopher Columbus.)
Columbus was rejected funding by Portugal, twice by Italy, Spain, England, and France. However, upon the Spanish kingdom conquering Granada they were more willing to fund his voyage of three ships and 80 men. Struggling to find a crew, Queen Isabella released prisoners early to join the voyage along with other criminals, conquistadors and pig farmers. These men that did not fear dying at sea, as it was for more appealing than what life had in store for them in Spain. Following Spain’s capture of Granada, there were also some unemployed former-military men that were sent along on Columbus’s voyage.
So, in August of 1492, after eight years of trying to make a voyage around the world, Columbus set sail seeking the riches of Asia.
If you've had a giant hole in your life that can only be filled with a t-shirt sporting the name and logo of the #1 iOS games site on the internet... Well, guess what, today is your lucky day. The Official TouchArcade T-Shirt is here. It's printed on a 100% cotton American Apparel shirt, and wearing it will automatically make you the coolest person around.
The shirts are being printed and shipped via Amazon Merch, so if you're an Amazon Prime member you can get the TouchArcade shirt shipped to you for free. Additionally, being Amazon and all, there's totally free returns in the absolutely insane event that you get your TouchArcade shirt and decide it isn't awesome enough. (Or it doesn't fit you, or something.)
Oh, and indie developers looking to get merch made for your particular iOS game, it's super easy. There's Illustrator, Photoshop, and GIMP templates that make the process of designing your shirt and preparing your art ridiculously easy. They've even got a really great page explaining the particulars when it comes to the differences in creating RGB game art and CMYK printed art. It also costs you absolutely nothing to set up, and there's no minimum (or maximum) to speak of. I'm seriously just shocked by how simple this all is, having dealt with personally selling (and shipping) runs of screen printed shirts in the past.
Anyway, yeah! Get the Official TouchArcade T-Shirt today! Also, we're totally down with having more than one t-shirt design if anyone has any fun ideas. Maybe a shirt with the Maglor instabuy cat?!
If you download the media player VLC you can stream videos from an OD that your browser might not be able to. Just right click on the video link and select, "Copy Link Address." Then go to an open VLC window, press ctrl + v, and select play.
Speed up your load times and add tons of storage to your Xbox One.
BY ALEX ROTH[Editor's Note: A new Xbox One Elite bundle with a 1TB SSHD that "optimizes system performance so you can get to the action up to 20 percent faster"has been announced. While we haven't yet gotten our hands on this new Xbox, we've already seen big performance improvements with our best external hard drive pic, theWestern Digital MyBook -- so you don't need to buy a new system to get a speed boost.]
As many gamers already know, a new 500GB Xbox One can fill up fast. You don’t even start with that much space, due to the OS and other data installed to the drive. And then on top of that, modern AAA games are huge.
The good news is that the Xbox One supports any USB 3.0 external hard drive that’s 256GB or larger, so upgrading your storage is simple. You just buy the drive, and plug in a single cable. (Plus possibly an AC adapter, as well.) Your Xbox One should then recognize it as a storage source; if not, you just need to go into Settings -> System -> Manage Storage to format it for use.
So which is the best Xbox One external hard drive? That’ll depend on your budget, but allow us to make some suggestions.
The Best Xbox One External Hard Drive
Overall, the best external hard drive for your Xbox One is the Western Digital MyBook. At its current price of $130 for the 4TB model, it works out to a highly competitive $32 per terabyte. It also provides a slight performance boost over the Xbox One’s internal drive. It does need an AC adapter, but you're not going to find a drive this big and this cost-effective without one.
In our tests, games on the MyBook loaded as much as 38 seconds faster than on the internal drive. Install times also were slightly faster, but with a much smaller gain proportionately; Battlefield 4, for example, took 32 minutes and 11 seconds to install to the MyBook, which was about a minute faster than the 33 minutes 10 seconds for the internal drive.
Western Digital MyBook
Internal Xbox One Drive
Battlefield 4 (Resume campaign)
17 seconds
24 seconds
GTA V (Initial load)
115 seconds
153 seconds
Halo: The Master Chief Collection (Start Halo 4 campaign)
8 seconds
9.36 seconds
The Witcher 3 (Load last save after death)
30 seconds
45 seconds
Battlefield 4 (Install time)
32 minutes, 11 seconds
33 minutes, 10 seconds
It’s not clear whether that performance gain comes from the MyBook’s faster speed (7200RPM) versus the internal drive’s (5400RPM), its USB 3.0 interface (which has a higher theoretical throughput rating than that of the internal drive’s SATA II connector), or both; real-world circumstances make it hard to compare USB against SATA in an easy, apples-to-apples fashion. There are other factors to consider outside of throughput rating.
But the exact reasons for why don’t really matter. If you want a simple option to turn your Xbox One into a 4.5TB behemoth that runs a bit faster, the Western Digital MyBook is it.
The Less Expensive Options
If you don’t want to go as big as 4TB, or don’t want to deal with an AC adapter, get the Toshiba 1TB Canvio Basics USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive. It’s dirt cheap at $55 for 1 TB (though the WD MyBook is a better deal per terabyte) and it’s USB powered, so there’s just one cable to deal with. It even runs a very tiny smidge faster, even though it’s also a 5400RPM drive just like the internal hard drive. Battlefield 4, for example, was about 25 seconds faster to install.
Toshiba Canvio
Internal Xbox One Drive
Battlefield 4 (Resume campaign)
18 seconds
24 seconds
GTA V (Initial load)
122 seconds
153 seconds
Halo: The Master Chief Collection (Start Halo 4 campaign)
8.28 seconds
9.36 seconds
The Witcher 3 (Load last save after death)
34 seconds
45 seconds
Battlefield 4 (Install time)
32 minutes, 47 seconds
33 minutes, 10 seconds
Finally, if you already have a 3.5-inch hard drive lying around, just get this Plugable USB 3.0 Hard Drive Docking Station. It’ll let you connect any standard drive to Xbox One via USB, and in our testing, offered performance that was consistent with the WD MyBook.
Alex is IGN's Deals Editor. He spent his weekend running a stopwatch as games installed, and he did it for you. Follow him on Twitter, won't you?
