In a game like XDefiant, Pinging your position or where the enemy is located is crucial. For many games I’ve played the people don’t talk a lot, so Pinging things would be a great replacement for that. However, in XDefiant, this system isn’t explained well. To learn how to Ping in XDefiant, you should read on. XDefiant: How to Ping At the time of writing this guide, it seems that XDefiant does not have a Ping system. I’ve looked for in the Settings menu for both the mouse and keyboard and controller, and it looks like Ubisoft hasn’t implemented this mechanic in the game yet. Strangely, a game like XDefiant does not have this system at launch because it makes perfect sense. If you’re playing on any of the modes such as Zone Control which requires the team to work in sync, Pinging targets and locations could help out — especially if no one is talking.  Screenshot: PC Invasion There have been many instances when I’m playing ...

There will be four MultiVersus currencies that you’ll be striving to earn. They all have a different purpose and are earned in different ways. As MultiVersus isn’t out yet, we are operating with as much information as we have been given. When the game releases on May 28, we’ll update you with any specifics. Table of contentsWhat happens to the old currency in MultiVersus?How to get and use Fighter currency in MutliVersusHow to get and use Perk currency in MultiVersusHow to get and use Gleamium currency in MultiVersusHow to get and use Prestige currency in MultiVersus What happens to the old currency in MultiVersus? MultiVersus will be abandoning the old currency system and introducing a new economy, using four different currency types. This means that old currency in the Open Beta will no longer be available to be earned. But this does not make it obsolete. To not punish the players who paid for and collected the old currencies, you’ll still be ab...

The ACR 6.8 assault rifle is one of the best weapons in XDefiant, so here’s a guide on how to unlock it, the best attachments and loadout, as well as all the camos. Let’s review everything you need to know about the ACR 6.8. How to unlock ACR 6.8 in XDefiant To unlock any unavailable weapon in XDefiant you must complete certain challenges. If you head to the Challenges menu and go to the “Base” tab, you’ll notice that each locked weapon has a specific challenge required to unlock it. For ACR 6.8, you’ll need to get 10 Assault Rifle longshot kills, which means you have to kill someone from more than 30 meters away. Once you kill at least 10 players using an Assault Rifle from more than 30 meters away, you’ll be able to use the ACR 6.8. Best ACR 6.8 attachments and loadout When choosing the best attachments for your ACR 6.8, there are many to choose from. Here are my picks for the best ACR 6.8 attachments: TypeAttachmentEffects...

XDefiant is a competitive first-person shooter, meaning it’s crucial to keep track of your stats to see how well you’re doing. This guide will cover how to check your career stats, including Average Skill Rating in XDefiant. XDefiant: How to check your Skill Rating Screenshot: PC Invasion Players can easily check their Average Skill Rating by heading to the profile tab from the main menu and selecting “Career Stats.” On the career stats page, you’ll get to see an overview of how well you’ve been playing against other players. Here is everything included on the career stats page: Total playtime The amount of hours you’ve played with each faction. Win/Loss Ratio Kill/Death Ratio Score/Minute Average Skill Rating As you can see, this page has all the key information you need to keep track of your performance in XDefiant. Remember to use the practice zone to prepare yourself for real matches if you want to increas...

As Americans struggle to keep up with the rising tide of prices and feel the squeeze of high interest rates on housing, President Joe Biden continues to claim that the economy is good. “Bidenomics” is working, there’s no recession to see here, so shut up and enjoy the drag queen performances at the White House. That narrative took a hit back in 2022, however, when America experienced two consecutive quarters of decline in gross domestic product—the traditional definition of a recession. In the first quarter of 2022, inflation-adjusted GDP declined in the U.S. by 1.6%, and it declined by an additional 0.6% in the second quarter of that year. The Biden administration responded by simply redefining the word “recession.” The move made a bizarre kind of sense coming from a bureaucracy that has redefined what it means to be a woman. The White House stated in July 2022 that “it is unlikely that the decline of the GDP in the first quarter of this year—even if followed by another GDP decline in the second quarter—indicates a recession.” The Heritage Foundation, a stick-in-the-mud organization that doesn’t support willy-nilly redefining words to suit the woke movement, decided to get to the bottom of this whole redefining-a-recession nonsense. Heritage’s Oversight Project filed a Freedom of Information Act request in July 2023, asking the Treasury Department for internal communications regarding recessions. (Heritage created The Daily Signal in 2014.) Treasury asked Heritage to narrow the parameters of the request. It did so. Treasury refused to hand over the documents by the time required by law. Heritage sued. Late last month, Treasury handed over some documents. The catch? Most of the conversations in those documents have been redacted. To be sure, we do get little gems like “I’d be glad to discuss tomorrow or Monday,” and “Thank you for forwarding.” These largely meaningless pleasantries are among the few words Treasury apparently deems nonthreatening enough to reveal to the public. Many pages simply feature a large black box redacting the entire page. One email shows Treasury staff discussing a quote from the International Monetary Fund stating that a “technical recession” consists of two quarters of economic decline. “For the United States, some indicators, such as the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s GDPNow forecasting model, suggest that a technical recession (defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth) may already have started,” Gene Sperling, a senior adviser to Biden, quoted the IMF in an email on July 26, 2022. Treasury redacted Sperling’s own words in his email, along with the substance of every email responding to him. So, Heritage plans to sue again. “The Oversight Project sued the Treasury Department to seek answers on why the Biden administration gaslit the American people into changing the definition of recession,” Kyle Brosnan, chief counsel at the Oversight Project, told The Daily Signal. “We have received multiple document productions from our lawsuit showing that there were a lot of communications about this change, but excessive redactions have hampered our ability to determine the truth.  We intend to challenge these redactions as we progress in the case.”  The Biden administration’s apparent attempt, yet again, to hide the substance of internal discussions about the definition of a recession raises more questions than answers. Did Treasury officials intentionally twist the definition in order to politically protect Biden in a midterm election year? Did they develop strategies for hiding negative economic news that might interfere with the 2024 election? If they weren’t trying to monkey with the definition of recession, why are they so insistent on hiding that fact? Perhaps the Biden administration merely wishes to redefine “transparency,” as well. The post WHAT ARE THEY HIDING? Biden Admin Redacts Its Justification for Altering the Definition of ‘Recession’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

For Iran’s late President Ebrahim Raisi—who died this week in a helicopter crash—the question was not whether terrorism was good or evil, but who perpetrated it against whom. Raisi condemned the terrorist attack that the Islamic State launched this January against Iranians who were commemorating the death of Qassem Soleimani, who was killed by a U.S. drone strike in January 2020. Soleimani had commanded the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Forc, which itself engages in terrorism, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. “The IRGCF-QF,” says the DNI’s website, “is one of the Iranian regime’s primary organizations responsible for conducting covert lethal activities outside of Iran, including asymmetric and terrorist operations.” “Iran views terrorism,” says the DNI, “as a tool that it can use to support its efforts to deter and counter its perceived foes, assert leadership over Shia Muslims worldwide, and project power in the Middle East.” In its 2021 Country Reports on Terrorism, the State Department described how the IRGC-QF supported terrorist activities outside Iran. “Iran used the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Force (IRGC-QF) to provide support to terrorist organizations, provide cover for associated covert operations, and create instability in the region,” said the report. “[T]he IRGC-QF is Iran’s primary mechanism for cultivating and supporting terrorist activity abroad.” In 2019, the State Department officially designated it as a terrorist organization. This Jan. 3, when a group of Iranians gathered in the city of Kerman on the anniversary of the IRGC-QF commander’s death, two Islamic State suicide bombers infiltrated the crowd. They killed themselves and 89 Iranians. Two days later, speaking at the funeral for these victims of terrorism, Raisi, the Iranian President, praised Hamas for its Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel. “Hailing Hamas, Iranian president says October 7 massacres will destroy Israel,” said the headline in The Times of Israel. “Speaking at the funeral, Raisi hailed Hamas for its deadly October 7 onslaught, in which thousands of terrorists attacked more than 20 communities across southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 240 hostages,” said the report. “We know that ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’ operation will bring about the end of the Zionist regime,” Raisi told the crowd assembled for this funeral. “The mourners,” reported The Times of Israel, “waved the national flag as well as the yellow flag of Tehran’s ally in Lebanon, Hezbollah, along with portraits of Soleimani, amid shouts of ‘revenge, revenge,’ ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Israel.'” Like the Islamic State and the IRGC, Hezbollah is also a State Department-designated terrorist group—and it is also supported by the Iranian government that Raisi served as president. This “Lebanon-based radical Shia group takes its ideological inspiration from the Iranian Revolution and the teachings of the late Ayatollah Khomeini,” says the State Department’s 2022 Country Reports on Terrorism. “The group generally follows the religious guidance of the Iranian supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. Hizballah is closely allied with Iran, and the two often work together on shared initiatives, although Hizballah also occasionally acts independently.” Then there are the Houthis. “Since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks and Israel’s military response in Gaza, the Ansar Allah/Houthi movement, an Iran-backed force in Yemen, has targeted Israeli territory and commercial and naval vessels near the Bab al Mandeb Strait, a key maritime choke point,” said a Congressional Research Service report released this month. “In January 2024, the Biden Administration announced that the Houthis would be redesignated as Specially Designated Global Terrorists,” said the report. While promoting terrorism against foreign nations, Iran—during Raisi’s presidency—routinely violated the human rights of its own people. In 2022, as this column has noted before, Mahsa “Zhina” Amini died in the custody of Iran’s “morality police.” “On September 13, police detained Amini for her alleged ‘improper hijab’ while she was visiting Tehran from her home in the Kurdistan region,” the State Department said in its report on human rights in Iran in 2022. She “died after reportedly being beaten while in the custody of the morality police,” said the report.“Authorities claimed Amini had suffered a ‘heart problem’ while in custody and was pronounced dead on September 16,” it said. “A photograph was later circulated showing Amini lying in a hospital bed with apparent severe facial injuries.” Last year, Iran detained Amini’s father and imprisoned her family’s lawyer and journalists who had covered her story. “According to IranWire, on the one-year anniversary of Mahsa Zhina Amini’s death, September 16, Amini’s father Amjad Amini was temporarily detained by authorities and prohibited from visiting his daughter’s grave or leaving his residence,” said the State Department’s report on human rights in Iran in 2023. “In October, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network reported that Saleh Nikbakht, lawyer of the family of Mahsa Zhina Amini, was sentenced to one year in prison for propaganda against the regime,” said the State Department report. “In October, Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, two of the first journalists to report on Mahsa Zhina Amini’s death, were sentenced to 13 and 12 years in jail, respectively,” the State Department said. “They were charged with collaborating with the ‘hostile American government,’ colluding against national security, and spreading propaganda against the regime, according to the government’s judiciary news website.” What did President Joe Biden’s State Department say when Raisi, the president of this tyrannical and terrorist-supporting regime, died in that helicopter crash? “The United States expresses its official condolences for the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian, and other members of their delegation in a helicopter crash in northwest Iran,” said a statement from department spokesman Matthew Miller. “As Iran selects a new president, we reaffirm our support for the Iranian people and their struggle for human rights and fundamental freedoms.” The Biden State Department refrained from stating the fact that Raisi was among those responsible for denying Iranians their rights and freedoms—and it has been justly criticized for it by Republicans in the House of Representatives. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM The Daily Signal publishes a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Heritage Foundation. The post Legacy of Iran’s Late President: Tyranny and Terrorism appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Have you heard about the “bee-pocalypse?” My new video explains.  Honeybees are dying!  It’s another environmental crisis we’re supposed to worry about.   The media call it “bee-pocalypse” and “bee-mageddon!”  A YouTube video with 15 million views says bee-mageddon “could lead to millions of people starving!”  Even Fox News shrieked, “Do you like to eat? The disappearance of honeybees could have a drastic impact on our nation’s food supply!”  It’s nonsense.  Now, it’s true that, about 20 years ago, many American bees did die. Beekeepers opened hives and found their bees gone. Scientists called it “colony collapse disorder.” No one knows what caused it. After the initial dramatic reports, it’s steadily diminished.   But media hysteria hasn’t.   Beekeepers adjusted to colony collapse. They divided remaining colonies to make new hives. Bee numbers increased by millions.  “We’re not in any way facing an apocalypse,” says Science journalist Jon Entine. “Things have never been better in terms of the numbers of bees.”  Entine runs the Genetic Literacy Project, which challenges scientific misinformation.  I remind him that the media continue to run scare stories.  “Bees are dying at an alarming rate,” says NBC.  CNN headlines: “Bee Population is Dying … the food we eat is at risk.”  It’s so stupid.   “They could have just Googled bee population, and they would’ve seen them going up?” I ask.  “Absolutely,” responds Entine. “It’s farcical.”  In 2013, Time magazine’s cover predicted “A World Without Bees!”   “I don’t remember seeing Time apologize,” I tell Entine.   “Time has not even written a new article that puts this in science perspective,” he responds. Nor did The New York Times Magazine correct its cover story on “The Insect Apocalypse.” They just “skipped on to another ‘crisis.’”  “There’s always a scare,” I point out.  “Catastrophe, exaggeration,” he says. “That gets the clicks.”  Entine complains that the media rarely interview serious scientists for its scare stories.  “They have the Environmental Working Group or Pesticide Action Network framing these issues … . Hysteria generates donations. The oxygen for these organizations is money.”  Sadly, “Many of these [environment] groups harm people.”  How? By convincing gullible politicians to ban fertilizers and new pesticides, even though the new chemicals are usually safer.  For example, even with worldwide honeybee populations at record highs, the European Union prohibited the use of neonicotinoids, a common insecticide, out of fear they might kill bees.  That means farmers use older, more dangerous chemicals that actually do kill bees.  But why use these chemicals at all?  I push back at Entine, “‘Natural’ food advocates say: ‘Organic! You don’t have to have chemicals! Buy organic, and you don’t get them!”  Entine laughs and says, “They use chemicals extensively! It’s not like organic farmers can sprinkle organic fairy dust to get rid of insects and weeds.”   Instead, they use “natural” chemicals “like copper sulfate,” he says, “one of the most toxic chemicals in the world!”  Sri Lanka’s president listened to activists and banned chemical fertilizers.  Suddenly, farms produced much less food. Prices rose 80%.   Sri Lankans invaded the presidential mansion, and the president fled his country.   The new government re-legalized chemical fertilizers. Only then could the crisis end.  “This attack on industrial chemicals,” says Entine, “is really a way for the environmental industry—industry is what it is—to go after what they call big [agriculture], big corporations. It’s an anti-capitalist movement.”  The anti-capitalists oppose genetically modified organisms (GMOs). They’ve persuaded most European countries to basically ban GMO crops.   But genetic modification allows farmers to grow more food on less land. It creates plants resistant to disease and insects. That allows farmers to use fewer pesticides. That’s good for everyone, especially poor people.   In Bangladesh, scientists invented a GMO eggplant.   “It decreased use of chemicals by 85%,” says Entine. “Allowing women and children who do most of the farming to live a much more viable life. We have to be smart about these things!”  “We’re not being smart,” I note.  “No,” he says, “We’re following an outdated, 40-year-old environmental script that doesn’t work in this technologically innovative world. … They hurt the very people they claim to help.”  Modern chemicals and GMOs make our food cheaper and safer.   Deceitful money-hungry environmental groups won’t acknowledge that.  COPYRIGHT 2024 BY JFS PRODUCTIONS INC. The Daily Signal publishes a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Heritage Foundation.  The post Consumers Stung by Scaremongers’ Phony ‘Bee-pocalypse’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The US Department of Commerce is seeking to end the right of users of cloud services to remain anonymous. The proposal first emerged in January, documents show, detailing new rules (National Emergency with Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities) for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers, which include Know Your Customer (KYC) regulation, which is normally used by banks and financial institutions. But now, the US government is citing concerns over “malicious foreign actors” and their usage of these services as a reason to effectively end anonymity on the cloud, including when only signing up for a trial. Another new proposal from the notice is to cut access to US cloud services to persons designated as “foreign adversaries.” As is often the case, although the justification for such measures is a foreign threat, US citizens inevitably, given the nature of the infrastructure in question, get caught up as well. And, once again, to address a problem caused by a few users, everyone will be denied the right to anonymity. That would these days be any government’s dream, it appears, while the industry itself, especially the biggest players like Amazon, can implement the identification feature with ease, at the same time gaining a valuable new source of personal data. The only losers here appear to be users of IaaS platforms, who will have to allow tech giants yet another way of accessing their sensitive personal information and risk losing it through leaks. Meanwhile, the actual malicious actors will hardly give up those services – leaked personal data that can be sold and bought illegally, including by those the proposal says it is targeting. Until now, providers of cloud services felt no need to implement a KYC regime, instead allowing people to become users, or try their products, simply by providing an email, and a valid credit card in case they signed up for a plan. As for what the proposal considers to be an IaaS, the list is long and includes services providing processing, storage, networks, content delivery networks (CDNs), virtual private servers (VPSs), proxies, domain name resolution services, and more. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Say Goodbye to Cloud Anonymity? New US Regulations Demand User Identification appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The US House Judiciary Committee, which is investigating the disgraced and disbanded Disinformation Governance Board (a part of the Department of Homeland Security, DHS), has decided to release a redacted transcript of a deposition given last April by the Board’s director, Nina Jankowicz. We obtained a copy of the transcript for you here. The deposition was supposed to shed light on how the DHS was handling the avalanche of negative reactions to the board, envisaged as a key component in the current White House’s “anti-disinformation” frenzy, but which quickly got overwhelmed by criticism of being openly biased. One of the DHS tactics, according to Jankowicz, was to avoid transparency even where it concerned on-the-record information about the board. “The guidance from up above was that we were to be as vague as possible, which I found very frustrating,” Jankowicz said. While this may look like an attempt by Jankowicz to protect herself, in terms of her own decisions and actions, it tracks: the censorship playbook that is used far more widely, from government entities to Big Tech, has always relied on different ways to obfuscate. As for this particular “guidance,” Jankowicz pointed the finger at her colleague Jen Daskal as basically the messenger – while the message, she said, was likely coming from elsewhere in the organization. Jankowicz also complained to the Committee about being “thrown under the bus” by the DHS, once the agency realized the magnitude of opposition to the board’s activities. Perhaps the opposition wouldn’t have been so intense if the DHS showed less hubris and picked a less divisive person to lead the Board  in the first place – Jankowicz was a well-known Biden supporter and campaign policy advisor (and, some would say, a Biden apologist) before she became the head of the Board, shortly after “getting thrown under the bus.” However, appearing before the Committee, Jankowicz saw no relevance to her social media posts that revealed her ideological bias, including a jarring example of her trying to prop up the discredited “dossier author” Christopher Steele, and also join voices seeking to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story. Jankowicz told the Judiciary Committee that she was advised by her attorney not to answer questions that were “not pertinent.” But, it also revealed how even something with a powerful agency like the DHS behind it can collapse like a house of cards. “We did not provide enough information at the outset. We left a vacuum for people to speculate. And indeed, within hours of the board being announced, the phrase ‘ministry of truth’ – which, again, the board had nothing to do with being a ministry of truth – was trending on social media,” Jankowicz stated. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Vague Directives and Vague Answers: Testimony Highlights More Disinformation Board’s Flaws appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

Of Course: Biden Was Plotting With Iran Against Israel