The Weekly Gazette 02-23-2025

[DerVVulfman]

(February 17 to February 23, 2025)

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

Of which News of the World are you interested? Is it the peace talks that US President Trump is working upon between Ukraine and Russia? Despite talks being underway, the war rages and Russia loses four major refineries, and a spyware facility to drone attacks followed by a large scale drone attack that targeted Kiev. And while Russia was pushed back to their current position and did not take all of Ukraine as they planned, Putin is already orhestrating a "Victory over NATO" propaganda engine. But as Putin makes plans, NATO makes its own preparations for troops within the Ukraine to ensure stability. Within the US, a Biden Appointed Judge rejected the lawsuit to prevent Elon Musk's DOGE from Federal systems. Already, Doge uncovered 20 Million in fraud within the Social Security for people over 100 years of age, up to 150 years old having checks cut no less. And the new commerce secretary welcomes DOGE to find any instance of fraud such as that. China is not too thrilled with the US after the State Department removed text from its website, line of text suggesting the independent nation of Taiwan (the remaining original Republic of China) be reunited or returned to the CCP. But then again, China ignores maritime law and deployed forces against a Canadian warship in the Taiwan strait despite any a state's sovereignty ends after the 12 nautical miles from its territorial waters. And as Hamas frees more Israeli hostages, Iran begins becoming more aggressive, claiming to arrest two British tourists and an unnamed Israeli under charges of espionage. A Massachusetts Teachers Union under fire for anti-semitism, the FAA under fire from 1000+ applicants denied employment and racial discrimination under the Biden administration, the Tupak Shakur murder trial delayed till next year, Pope Francis's critical condition, L.A.'s mayor criticized for firing the Fire Chief by the United Firefighter's union, violence committed by women in California soars, a stabbing at Berlin Holocaust Memorial, and more hit this week's news.
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Tech Talk

This week the News of the Cyber World had good news and bad news for Elon Musk. While charges brought by the Biden Department of Justice for refusing to hire Illegal Aliens was droppped by the Trump administration, Musk's jaw must have dropped after hearing his rival's AI service recommend something worse than prison. For electric vehicles it is just unkind, as the US government is shutting down charging stations at their federal building and Walmart issued a recall on electric scooters after an apartment was sent ablaze over its lithium ion battery, the manufacturer actively ignoring calls for recall by the Consumer Product Safety Commission itself. Google to be hit by the European Union for moreviolations of the Digital Markets Act, Microsoft preparing a new GPT model, XBox pushing an AI model that developers actually argue against using, and more hit this week's cybernews.

Games Development

Development Discussion

Even though Remi-chan says she still suffers from burnout, asking her What's up would reveal that she is still getting some resources for her game, be it spritework from Rune or spritework from Coyote, In the meantime, she posted two more videos showing game footage reworked and revised.

Were you to venture into the Maps and screenshots thread, it would be a study in contrasts. Mel posted four scens from her game, an airship with both its interior and shot against a darkened sky with one image animated. And Remi-chan with four shots of her own with worlds, alien or otherwise as backdrops, whether a destoyed satellite-like outpost, an urban jungle or above a familiar blue-white sphere.

Material Development

Scripts Database

RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine

Though released only last week, The Steal and Peep Script had one more update, and it adds a feature where some custom gear can be used to improve the chance of either theft of peeping in respect to other gear of like stats worn.

There have been a number of scripts out there, but DerVVulfman compiled a number of the hidden class scripts, and reworked them for his SCREEN SIZE for RMXP collection. A part of a Re-Envisioned Game Set, the scripts were altered to let one develop a game beyond the traditional fixed resolution of 800x600. However, he did disable the ability to enter Fullscreen mode as that is something built into the Game.Exe itself.

DerVVulfman was looking for a tilemap script for his own uses, and found one that intrigued him. Thus, we now have Poccil's Tilemap Rewrite, a tilemap script that can support the increase/decrease of camera zoom if an appropriate script is used.

The last of the Re-Envisioned Game Set scripts is Poccil Map Zoom. Originally by Trebor777 and originally for SephirothSpawn's Tilemap script, it was rewritten for use with Poccil's.

Resources Database

2D Resources

If you like the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V, you will enjoy the fact that he updated the editor pin set he released last week. But for those who have a penchant for art, he turned the Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer into an actual characterset graphic for use.

Creativity Section

Music and Audio

If you are looking for some Low Fidelity work, fear not for Eric Matyas Shaed More Original Music, His "Game Menu" from 2016 now has that Low Fi sound, and the more energetic "Mind Bender" from 2017 now has its energetic Calimba in fabulous Low Fidelity.

Art and Design

It was surprise to Remi-chan this week when venturing through the galleries to see that Her Own Neato Arty thread thing! did not contain her Valentine's Day art. No longer the flat colors,the Angel shares a moment with the demon meek, set against a starry sky lit wine. As expected, a speed draw is included.

A perfectionist in his trade, Rise Evil Demos updated his Art Deck by providing updated color patterns to some renders of Raira, the electric Nekomimi. But as he did, he added a couple more works such as Raira climbing a tree. But what would you expect of a cat?

Literature

When ones delves through the hallways of the forum's center for the creatives, they may venture upon some of Remi-chan's Writing Snippets~. And this week, she released a few pages involving the villains and antagonests the players will unvariably encounter, a shadow queen whose existance is older than the universe, a cherubim facing down the Priestess of the Moon, and the shephard of Eden itself. If reading is not your style, you may choose the 'books on tape' option at the bottom of Remi-chan's latest post.

Well, that's it for this week.

"I’m so conflicted when my husband does the laundry. On one hand, he did the laundry. On the other, my clothes can now be sold at Gap kids." - Molly McNearney

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Just a minor correction for clarity's sake, Grok is X's AI. This means Musk's own AI wanted him dead.  How weird!