The Weekly Gazette 10-22-2023

[DerVVulfman]

(October 16 to October 22, 2023)

Welcome dear readers to the latest issue of the Weekly Gazette! Here in the Gazette, we give you the news in brief of what occurred in the past week as well as provide any news happening in Save-Point itself

Official Area

General Chat

DerVVulfman found something fitting to watch if you wanted to go Youtubing, fitting for those who are thrilled for the release of Baldur's Gate 3. But the spin on the video is something unexpected.

It is without a doubt that Israel's war against the Hamas Terror group was forefront in the News of the World this week, evidence proving that a rocket that struck a hospital was indeed from Hamas, Hamas preventing and even killing citizens trying to leave Gaza, and evidence of Iranian backing of Hamas. Though the border with Egypt is not open to refugees wishing to leave, the U.N. is sending humanitarian aid across. Shockwaves of the war, and protests legal and illegal, expanded worldwide. Many protested the BBC over its refusal to call Hamas out as a terrorist group. Meanwhile, a pro-Palestine insurrection protest at the Capital was found to have terrorist links. Bomb threats in France shutting down airports and Verssailles, deaths in Brussles, riots in Berlin, and so much more. A U.S. Pentagon aid accused of spying for Iran put on leave, a former German Chancellor with ties to Putin blaming Biden over no Ukraine peace deal, Greta Thunberg once again arrested for an illegal protest, the Mother and Daughter hostages released by Hamas, and well over a dozen more articles hit this week's news.
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Tech Talk

Google once more appeared within the News of the Cyber World, the mainstream media now demanding full transparency from the tech giant in the sixth week of Google's Anti-Trust trial. And of another trial, a judge in Colorado ruled the use of Google to narrow down suspects. While the U.S. forsees a threat of Artificial Intelligence used for malicious activity, China creates its own initiative to control AI development, all while North Korea uses it to perform cyber-warfare. A conservative sentanced for posting a joke meme during the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign, President Biden now joining Trump's Truth Social Networking service, six-thousand counts of censorship revealed across various online platforms, and more hit this week's cybernews.

Since revealed that Chinese Hackers breached Microsoft's cybersecurity, the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) is now investigating the company since it also failed to reveal the May 2023 breach until recently.

Games Development

Development Discussion

For those who endeavor to let readers know What's up as an RMers, DerVVulfman's work to recreate windows-styled objects continues, finishing hls combobox. And not long after kyonides tested a harddrive identifying script, he quickly crafted a Drive listbox thereafter. Once done, he began working on a directory listbox that can depict a project's available folders. Because of lacking resources and a problem with the character maker he had been using, KasperKalamity suggested he may need to start over and queried about other RPG makers. Both DerVVulfman and Remi-chan suggested RPGMaker MV over MZ, but DerVVulfman, kyonides and Melana argued against restarting as other resource options exist.

Creativity Section

Music and Audio

Do you need something reminiscent of Dillinger or BabyFace Nelson? Or maybe you find that a darkness resides under the city streets. If so, consider that Eric Matyas does have Original Music and Sound FX which is available for free. He also has released some low fidelity editions of some creepy music for those working on games for Halloween contest events. But do remember that he also offers high higher-quality Ogg music packs for a fee.

Art and Design

A foreboding entity had appeared within Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread, a maiden in a dark lavendar rainment of asian influence. But do not think her frail for her petite appearance. The scythe within her grasp is but a mere shade to the lethality of the smiling demoness. Along with the portrait of this evil, Remi-chan also delivered another speed draw of her work.

Well, that's it for this week.

"My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them." - Mitch Hedberg

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