The Center is a diverse and exciting map in Ark Survival Ascended, which makes it ripe for bases both beautiful and practical. Let’s go over the best I’ve found. Table of contentsBest base locations for The Center in Ark Survival AscendedThe Center Island baseCliffside Cavern baseUnderground World baseTropical Island baseJungle TempleSnowy Glasslands base Best base locations for The Center in Ark Survival Ascended Here is a collection of the best base locations I could find in Ark Survival Ascended The Center. These either excel in practicality and/or aesthetics. So have a look and choose your favorite! The Center Island base I had to start with the Center Island. This island is so large that you could spring up a base atop it and/or inside it. The island is bursting with resources of all kinds, and it is only a short commute to grab the couple it’s lacking. Screenshot: PC Invasion You can find the Center Island at these rough coordinates: Lati...

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Who could resist an ancient elephant-like creature that roamed the Earth long before humans came onto the scene, especially after multiple Ice Age films made us fall in love with Manny.  But do you know your mammoths from your mastodons? It's time to take a closer look at the differences between these two ancient beasts. Mastodons, modern elephants, and mammoths are all related, belonging to the order Proboscidea. The ancestors of elephants and mammoths separated about 5 million years ago, while the mastodons branched off even earlier at 25 million years ago, according to the American Museum of Natural History. The oldest mastodons lived around 24 to 28 million years ago during the Oligocene and are the older of the two ancient elephant-like creatures. American mastodons (Mammut americanum) evolved later and roamed around in Central and North America during the Pleistocene, spending a lot of their time eating vegetation. Other species of mastodon were also widespread across the world. Their name, “mastodon”, comes from the naturalist Georges Cuvier, who so named them because of the shape of their teeth, which were said to resemble breasts or nipples. This is one of the key differences between mastodons and mammoths, as mastodons had teeth with unusual cusps specially adapted for eating woody plants, while mammoths had – and modern elephants have – typically more flat ridged molars for chewing grasses. Mammoths are probably most famous for the impressive woolly coats of Mammuthus primigenius. Underneath all that hair, however, they would have looked similar to a living Asian elephant with small ears. Asian elephants and mammoths are more closely related than either is to a living African elephant.Both male and female mammoths also had tusks, unlike the mastodon, in which only the males carried tusks. Mammoth tusks grew in a curve, while mastodons had straighter ones. Though both mastodons and mammoths resembled modern elephants, mastodons were the smaller of the two. The San Diego Natural History Museum suggests female mastodons would have been 2.1 meters (7 feet) in height and males over 3 meters (10 feet); they could even have weighed as much as 6 tons (5443 kilograms). The largest species of mammoth, on the other hand, would have weighed around 10 tons and stood at 4.5 meters (14.7 feet) at the shoulder. Mastodons' habitat is thought to have been pine forests, or even large boggy areas with a lot of larch and spruce trees, with their toes splayed to allow them to walk on such a surface. In comparison, mammoths would have grazed in grassier regions.Both are now extinct, but mastodons are thought to have done so roughly 13,000 years ago. Wooly mammoths, on the other hand, began to go extinct around 10,000 years ago, with only isolated pockets surviving until around 4,000 years ago – though some scientists are looking at whether we could bring back them back.All “explainer” articles are confirmed by fact checkers to be correct at time of publishing. Text, images, and links may be edited, removed, or added to at a later date to keep information current.  

Two separate Christian families in Vermont are suing the Vermont Department for Children and Families (DCF) after the state blocked them from fostering children. Brian and Kaitlyn Wuoti and Michael and Rebecca Gantt filed the suit on Tuesday after the state alleged that they’d be unable to be foster parents, as they wouldn’t follow leftist ideas when it comes to gender identity. An exclusive report by The Daily Signal noted that the state of Vermont is in need of more foster families. In 2023, Vermont DCF noted that there were roughly 1,060 kids in state custody and only about 900 licensed foster families. Both the Wuoti and Gantt families noticed this need and wanted to fill it.  The Wouti’s became foster parents in 2014 and ended up adopting two “precious brothers.” When they chose to renew their license in 2022, they were described as “AMAZING” and “wonderful” according to case workers.  But, as the lawsuit states, “But when the Woutis politely shared that they were Christian and that they could not say or do anything that went against faith-informed views about human sexuality, Vermont revoked their license anyway.” The Gnatt family had four biological children and began fostering in 2016. DCF asked them to take an emergency placement for a newborn baby, born from a homeless woman addicted to drugs, but they never ended up getting the baby. DCF had sent out an email letting families know that they were required to sign a form indicating that they’d adhere to the state’s view on gender ideology “even if the foster parents hold divergent personal opinions or beliefs.” The Gantts, given that they support biblical standards when it comes to gender and sexuality, wouldn’t sign the form. “The Gantts responded that they would unconditionally love and support any children placed with them, but they would not forsake their religious beliefs that people should value their God-given bodies,” the lawsuit states. The Gantts never received the baby. Both the Gantt and Wouti families insist they would've loved whoever was placed in their care, but that they’d not be open to taking any children to things like pride parades or using preferred pronouns.  “We were offered to be reeducated and given the choice that they could either revoke our foster license or we could take some education materials, and they could give us up to a year to change our faith,” Mr. Gantt said, according to The Daily Signal. “And I said, ‘No, we are not going to change our faith in the next year; absolutely not.’” This story proves that Vermont’s DCF is more focused on ideologies than actually helping orphaned children. A similar case happened in Massachusetts when the Burkes, a Catholic family, were denied foster care licensing. At the time, here’s what I’d written about the situation: Many kids who enter the foster care system suffer from mental health difficulties and challenges. After all, many of these children grow up not knowing their biological parents or bouncing from home to home. It’s definitely a challenge and they should be loved and cultivated throughout those challenges.  Affirming a delusion is simply going to add to these kids' struggles and push them down a long life of trauma, confusion and suffering. The fact that the Burkes would try to prohibit that from happening indicates that they would be great foster parents.  Not to mention, growing up in a home that encourages kids to trust in God when life gets rough, or to acknowledge that they’re adopted by our father in heaven or that in Christ - no matter what they go through in the foster system - they’re not alone, would be great things for kids in this position to know.  Sadly, our current administration couldn’t agree less. In September 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released new guidelines for the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) noting that it would transfer “LGBTQ” foster kids to homes that will “affirm” them. The Biden administration, Vermont, Massachusetts and likely many other states care more about pushing a delusion than about putting a roof over kids heads.

A coalition of leftist groups published a dishonest attack on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito just prior to the announcement of the verdict in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial last Thursday and in the midst of  the Supreme Court announcing numerous opinions this June and July — among them a case involving presidential immunity. A number of the involved groups received millions from leftist billionaire George Soros, not that the leftist media will care anyway.  On May 29, 25 radical leftist organizations, including seven groups that have received at least $19,512,000 from Soros between 2016 and 2022, wrote a letter to Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) calling for Justice Alito to be investigated for “recent conduct,” suggesting Alito “recuse himself from cases where the public has a clear reason to doubt his impartiality.” The letter used a distorted history of a flag from the American Revolution and a separate recent flag nontroversy to claim that Justice Alito should be investigated.  Politico, which did cover the story, did not spare even one word about Soros’ generous financing of seven of the signatories. Instead, Politico legitimized the attack, referring to flags flown at Justice Alito’s house as the “latest ethics black eye.” These radical groups ludicrously asked Durbin to investigate Justice Alito “for the public’s long-term faith in the rule of law,” but went on to rely heavily on a time Justice Alito’s wife flew the American flag upside down and a separate time when the family flew the “Appeal to Heaven” Revolutionary War flag. Their ridiculous argument dishonestly refers to a historical and patriotic flag as “another flag also closely linked to the January 6 attack.” On this absurd basis, the signatories claimed that “Justice Alito’s clear lapses in judgment call into serious question his ability to fairly judge cases concerning the 2020 election.” The groups outrageously provided a nakedly political reason for Durbin to go after Justice Alito, referencing “a leaked opinion drafted by Justice Alito overturning decades of constitutional protection for the right to abortion,” an issue jealously guarded by the left as evidenced by leftist calls for court-packing following the overturn of Roe v. Wade in Dobbs. The signatories were led by the radical Supreme Court-packing advocacy group Demand Justice, which was largely responsible for pushing Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination. The group spent a million dollars pushing for Jackson’s confirmation. Demand Justice received $5,837,000 from Soros just from 2018-2021 alone. Demand Justice has repeatedly clamored for adding seats to the Supreme Court, whining about the six justices appointed by Republicans while lauding the three justices appointed by Democrats.“[A]dding four seats is the only way to restore balance to the Court immediately,” Demand Justice fear-mongered.  But this wasn’t an isolated incident of Demand Justice demanding additional judges on the high Court. Demand Justice also pushed for court-packing to ensure that states cannot protect unborn lives from abortion. Demand Justice wrote that, “Democrats who support reproductive rights need to see the Republican justices’ writing on the wall and stop standing idly by as Roe v. Wade slowly but surely falls,” before using this as proof of the “urgency” of expanding the Supreme Court.  The letter was also signed by another advocate of court-packing, Take Back the Court Action Fund, which received $400,000 from Soros between 2021 and 2022. Take Back the Court Action Fund warned that a “hyper-partisan, right-wing Supreme Court majority is leading an assault on democracy and striking blows against reproductive rights, racial justice, climate action, voting rights, and more.” The organization also appeared to parrot the language of Demand Justice, that the Court must be expanded by four seats for “balance.”  Another signatory, the Reproductive Justice for All Committee, a new name for the blood-stained abortion advocacy group NARAL, received $4,500,000 from Soros in a single donation. Other signatories that received funding from Soros include the People’s Parity Project ($200,000), People for the American Way ($1,375,000), National Women’s Law Center ($825,000) and the Center for American Progress ($6,375,000). The Center for American Progress is currently run by the former president of Soros’ Open Society Foundations, Patrick Gaspard.  Conservatives are under attack. Contact Politico at 703-647-7999 and demand it report fairly on Soros-funded groups working to undermine the Supreme Court.

In Episode 352 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger hike the trails of Mt. Mansfield in northern Vermont in search of the elusive Wampahoofus. Said to be a cross between a deer and a boar, the creature circles the mountain either in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction. Are there any left? Read the episode transcript. BECOME A LEGENDARY PATRON: https://www.patreon.com/NewEnglandLegends CREDITS: Produced and hosted by: Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger Edited by: Ray Auger Theme Music by: John Judd SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST FOR FREE: Apple Podcasts/iTunes | Spotify | Pandora | Amazon Podcasts | TuneIn | iHeartRadio JOIN OUR SUPER-SECRET: New England Legends Facebook Group

So long, Dragon Age Dreadwolf, we hardly knew ye. The upcoming RPG from Mass Effect, Baldur’s Gate, and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic developer BioWare is, at least name wise, no more. Just days before the first gameplay trailer for the new Dragon Age game, BioWare announces that the sequel to Inquisition will now have a new name, inspired by the team-based, character-driven gameplay and plot we can expect once it launches. Is the new title for Dragon Age 4 better or worse? Decide for yourself. Continue reading Dragon Age Dreadwolf is no more, as BioWare suddenly changes name MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best RPG games, Dragon Age 4 characters, Dragon Age 4 release date rumours

Out of the many casualties of the tumultuous launch for Fallout 4’s next gen patch, none cut more keenly than Fallout London being delayed. The hugely ambitious DLC-sized mod was all set to emerge blinking into the post-apocalyptic daylight only to suddenly be struck by a game-changing patch which upended everything. As a result developer Team FOLON decided to push back the launch indefinitely but there’s now light at the end of the tunnel. Continue reading Fallout London has a new release date, developer teases MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Fallout 5 release date, Best games like Fallout, Best Fallout 4 mods

If you’ve been tempted by Diablo 4 Season 4 but haven’t yet stepped back into Sanctuary, it might be time to change that. Starting today, the Diablo 4 March of the Goblins has begun, giving you the opportunity to claim a bunch of free gifts for the Blizzard RPG’s first anniversary, along with a whole heap of bonus gold and experience over the coming weeks. With the Loot Reborn overhaul, there's a big temptation to return and see what’s changed, and there’s no better moment to do so than now. Continue reading Diablo 4 bonus XP, gold, and free items can be yours if you’re quick MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Diablo 4 builds, Diablo 4 review, Diablo 4 classes