The Weekly Gazette 03-03-2024

[DerVVulfman]

(February 26 to March 3, 2024)

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

For the U.S. backlash over Laken Riley's murder by an Illegal Alien hit the News of the Word[/Highlght], President Biden refusing to speak of her at his visit to the Southern Border while vowing to use her death for gun bans despite her death not gun related. The Biden name appears to be hitting more hot water, $40K oc Chinese funds going to President Biden through his brother James, former Hunter associates confirming phone calls with Russian Oligarchs, and Biden's son claiming the inability to remember questions of text messages and eMails during his closed-door deposition this week. Towards former Preident Trump, the appeal against the New York Civil Case was filed, legal scholars calling the $355 Million fine extreme and abusive. And while news comes out about the Georgia AG going after Trump and her staff, and that Illinois filed to ban Trump as a candidate, the Supreme Court stated it would make a ruling if Trump was Immune for prosecution. In other elecoral news, Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gets slammed for Doxxing rival candidates, admitting he didn't care if laws were even broken. Hundreds die and thousands become violently ill in Indonesia from stress related medical conditions working the 2024 elections. And the Ayatollas vow to eliminate elections in Iran for national security. The Iran-backed Houthis stepped up their game, actively sabotaging and cutting vital underwater communication cables and sinking a cargo ship in the Red Sea, celebrating their ability to disrupt the seas. But that is one factor in the world-wide issues with terrorists, Hamas calling for Terror during Ramadan. While Arab states apparently want Hamas and Hizbulla destroyed, and as reports of a shootout occuring in Russia with ISIS terrorists, US President Biden plans aid relief drops in Gaza in which a New York Times admits would likely be stolen by Hamas alone. Towards Ukraine and its war against invading Russia, President Zelensky made claim that Ukraine received only 30% of the munitions recently promised. And after references of French, UK and German Troops in Ukraine, Moscow hinted to war with Nato and the use of nukes. Documents proving China illegally arming criminals in the US with machine pistols and illegal Chinese Fishing Fleets stripping South American resoures,Politico blasted for calling Christians believing in god-given rights 'Extremists',China-Led BRICS Coalition crumbling under expectations of a second Trump Presidency,the UK's loss of farming land and 'Food Security' to Green Energy policies,South Korea seeks criminal charges against nearly 9000 doctors on strike, Argentina's war against woke changes to the language, and another historic record snowfall in California hit this week's news.
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Tech Talk

Issues with Artificial Intelligence continued to hit the [Highlight]News of the Cyber World[/Highlght], with more flak hitting Google over its AI's apparent bias and its team leader Jack Krawczyk 's predisposition. Worse yet, Gemini AI could not even criticize offences such as pedophelia. But recently, it was found that Meta's own AI has its own issues with AI Image generator. Despite this, the The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) plans to use AI to form news headlines, and the UK use AI to eliminate 66,000 Civil Servant jobs. And while nations such as the U.S. have considered the use of China-Owned TikTok as a national security threat, China is citing that US President Biden's use of the platform reflects a double standard. Lawsuits against OpenAI over its abandonment of its non-profit mission, and news organizations lawsuit over OpenAI and ChatGPT's use of copyrighted content without renumerations, and more hit this week's cybernews.

Games Development

Development Discussion

The inability to release the upcoming demo for Fantasia was [Highlight]What's up with the RMer[/Highlght] known as Remi-chan. However, she made mention the upcoming release of a new Junked demo, Junked being one of her earlier ventures. And she stated that Flight would too be receiving some new game content.

Material Development

Scripts Database

For those wanting enhanced flexibility with the fog system, DerVVulfman presented the [Highlight]Unlimited Fogs[/Highlght] script for RPGMaker XP. Originally by game_guy, this script lets one add additional fogs to the system while the original fog system remains intact. He added some protective features, mainly preventing the system crashing if fog textures are missing and allowing the main feature that adds fogs function in parallel processes with no issues.

Venturing back to 2019, kyonides looked into his [Highlight]KScenario XP & Gosu[/Highlght] scriptset, mainly reworking constants for RPGMaker XP usage and the inclusion of graphic resources. He later returned after adding lighting and face-image options and repaired directory errors.

A while ago, kyonides released [Highlight]KPrankster XP[/Highlght], a script that lets enemies prank the heroes in battle by stealing/swapping out the heroes items. Now, enemies may now inflict a random state upon their targets.

Over a year ago, kyondes wrote a script that could deliver repercussions if a hero used a skill in combat too powerful to maintain. But now, [Highlight]KBackFire[/Highlght] now allows the player to wear special gear to protect the user if their skills go out of control.

The recent updates that kyonides made to [Highlight]FancyChoices[/Highlght] allows one to have up to 8 choices shown on the screen, first for RPGMaker XP and then for RPGMaker VX.

Creativity Section

Music and Audio

For those working on world-spanning games and have need of music to play within island vistas, then you will love that Eric Matyas continues [Highlight]Sharing His Original Music[/Highlght]. His latest piece, "Windle Pixel's Seaside Adventure", is a lively piece for music along the beach shore.

Art and Design

For ten years, Eric Matyas had crafted his SoundImage website. And as a celebration, his [Highlight]Massive Library of Free Images[/Highlght] now boasts two new wood textures of a light tan grain within his Tileable wood texture page. And while he still shares his music in MP3 format for free, he released a Gumroad Audio link for his paid Ogg music.

Literature Section

While other demos are in the works, [Therad=8405][Highlight]Remi-chan's Writing Snippets[/Thread] reveals a heart-to-heart with the once-feared architect and the three heroic systers fighting for their imperfect future. Though fated to fight and not hold back, the demon with triangle eyes admits to herself and the three her doubts, her feelings and her life.

Filmography

Though Fantasia isn't being released on March 14th this year, Remi-chan's Cinematic Theatre presents battles within the game, both new and already present. After that, some artwork of characters within the game had followed as well as an apology for not making the 3/14 deadline for which she strives to always reach.

Well, that's it for this week.

"This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it." - Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974)

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