The Season of the Hunt may be over, but Destiny 2‘s tough Exotic mission, Harbinger, is still available in the game. In addition to fighting through some tough battles, you can also hunt through the mission for Paracausal Feathers to complete the Bird of Prey mission. Their locations rotate each week, but fortunately for you, we’ve scoured the EDZ’s Reservoir and located all five of this week’s feathers. You’ll find them all in the guide below.
Completing Harbinger earns you fresh rolls of the powerful Exotic hand cannon Hawkmoon, and if you complete Bird of Prey by earning 100 Paracausal Feathers, you can unlock a special Exotic ship called Radiant Accipiter. Don’t worry, though–you earn additional feathers by beating bosses in Harbinger, and finding the hidden feathers adds even more to your total. If you find them all this week, expect to finish Harbinger with around 37 feathers. Read on for the complete list of where to find this week’s feathers.
Paracausal Feather 1: Catwalk Near The Taken Centurion Emissary
The easiest feather to find is right in the middle of the room where you fight the Taken Centurion. Just make sure to check the catwalk.
Pigs are known to be very smart animals, and now scientists have demonstrated that they are capable of playing video games.
According to the BBC, scientists in the UK conducted research that they say demonstrates that certain swine are intelligent enough to control an arcade-style joystick and understand the connection between their actions and the results on screen. The exact nature of the game the pigs played was not described, however, but who are you to judge a pig who can play video games?
The four pigs–Hamlet, Omelette, Ebony, and Ivory–were recently trained by the researchers to play a basic video game with their snouts. The scientists said it was “no small feat” that the swine were able to play the game and understand what they were doing. It’s also remarkable because pigs are far-sighted and they don’t have hands or thumbs.
The new Fortnite Season 5, Week 11 challenges are available in the game now, and they are all Valentine’s Day-themed for Hearts Wild. Love is in the air, and you’re going to get sent all over the map to help the map’s residents find their soulmates while you try to stay alive and even deal some damage with a very famous weapon. It may take you a few matches to complete these, but we’ll help make your life a little easier with our guides.
Your Legendary challenge this week is to deal damage with a crossbow. The weapon is back in the game and can be found scattered all over the floor in many buildings. It’s actually Cupid’s crossbow, and all you have to do to complete this challenge is deal enough damage with it.
Find and deliver a love potion
You only need to pick one of these locations
For this challenge, you’ll get 20,000 XP for finding a love potion and another 20,000 for delivering it to a set location. The love potion can be found at Stealthy Stronghold, Coral Cove, and Fort Crumpet. Just go to one of those locations to find it, then deliver it to either Slurpy Swamp or Shanty Town. In Shanty Town, it’s near the very end of the town in the upstairs area.
Following its debut in theatres and on HBO Max, Wonder Woman 1984 is headed to 4K Blu-ray and digital stores very soon.
Warner Bros. has confirmed the superhero movie will be available for 48-hour rental beginning February 12, while you can buy the movie outright on digital stores starting on March 16. The film will then be available to buy in physical form on Blu-ray and DVD starting March 30. Get those wallets ready.
The 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray uses DolbyVision HDR and it features an optimized soundtrack, whatever that means. It also comes with HDR10+, which “optimizes brightness levels and contrast for each scene, making bright areas brighter and dark areas darker to deliver a lifelike viewing experience.”
Pigs can be trained to play simple video games, scientists have found, demonstrating the animals’ potential for a “remarkable” level of behavioral and mental flexibility.
A BBC report presented a trough of information about the piggy players, sourced from a research paper published in a journal entry on Frontiers in Psychology. The document details an investigation into whether pigs are capable of playing a joystick-operated video game task, with four pigs – Hamlet, Omelet, Ivory, and Ebony – trained to move a joystick with their snouts to steer an on-screen cursor.
The pigs were required to move the cursor to make contact with randomly-positioned walled targets, and a reward was provided if the cursor collided with a target. However, researchers noted that the pigs exhibited a “high level of social motivation to perform the task,” and continued playing the game even when a food reward was not dispensed because of social encouragement from the trainer.
Image Credit: Eston Martz / Pennsylvania State University
“This sort of study is important because, as with any sentient beings, how we interact with pigs and what we do to them impacts and matters to them,” said Dr. Candace Croney, lead author of the study.
The data analysis from the gaming sessions showed that neither Hamlet nor Omelet achieved significant performance on three-walled targets but performed “above chance” on one-walled targets and two-walled targets, with “78 and 70% correct responses” on the latter. Ivory and Ebony were both more successful than expected by chance on three-walled targets but had a bigger gaming gap on the one-walled targets.
Ultimately, researchers were satisfied that the pigs had the capacity to acquire the joystick-operated video game task, though they also noted that future studies into the cognitive behaviors of domestic species may benefit from the use of touchscreens or other advanced computer-interfaced technology due to dexterity and visual constraints as all four subjects, in this case, were far-sighted.
Similar experiments have been conducted with chimpanzees and monkeys, who have proven to be even more skilled, with their opposable thumbs and individually moving fingers giving them an advantage. It remains to be seen, however, what might happen when a monkey plays video games in its own mind. Elon Musk might have the answer for us soon, as he claimed that one of his companies has implanted a device into a monkey’s brain, and hopes to make it play “mind pong” with another cyborg monkey.
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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.
CBS has handed out a formal pilot order to the long-gestating True Lies TV reboot, three-plus years after the series was greenlit at Fox.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, it was revealed late on Wednesday that the network had commissioned a pilot adaptation of the 1994 hit action movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis as Harry and Helen Tasker, a dysfunctional married couple who must simultaneously save the world and their relationship.
James Cameron and McG are both still attached to the project despite the series being dormant for many years. Cameron, who directed and produced the 1994 action-comedy, is on board to executive produce the potential series alongside McG who has also been lined up to direct the pilot, which is coming from the Disney-owned studio 20th Television.
Burn Notice scribe Matt Nix has also joined the team as he will be handling the scripts on the now back-in-development series. The story is said to follow the same concept as the ’90s action flick.
The official logline reads the same as the movie: “Shocked to discover that her bland and unremarkable computer consultant husband is a skilled international spy, an unfulfilled suburban housewife is propelled into a life of danger and adventure when she’s recruited to work alongside him to save the world as they try to revitalize their passionless marriage.”
McG’s Wonderland Sound and Vision president Mary Viola and frequent Cameron collaborator Rae Sanchini of his Lightstorm Entertainment banner will also executive produce the reboot.
In recent years, an abundance of movies have been adapted for TV, with the likes of Terminator, Hannibal, and Psycho, all having made the transition to the small screen, with varying degrees of success. McG was also previously involved in another TV remake of an action classic as he served as an executive producer on the Lethal Weapon TV reboot and directed some of its episodes.
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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart has been targeted for the first half of 2021, but Sony has now announced a release date for the upcoming PS5-exclusive shooter-platformer. It’s coming on June 11, and will cost $70 for the standard edition and $80 for the Digital Deluxe edition.
As noted in the announcement, preordering either version will get you the Carbonox Armor and Pixelizer weapon. Participating retailers will sell physical editions with these preorder goodies included as a voucher. Both the Carbonox Armor and Pixelizer have been updated for the PS5, with the Carbonox armor showing off high-definition textures and ray-traced reflections.
The Digital Deluxe edition will also include five more armor sets, 20 Raritanium for upgrading your weapons, a sticker pack for use in the photo mode, and a digital artbook and soundtrack.
