The Weekly Gazette 08-03-2025

[DerVVulfman]

(July 28 to August 3, 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

Announcements and Updates

This week, it was discovered that the RPGMaker Community needed to say Farewell to HBGames. The indie game website lasted nearly two decades accoeding to DerVVulfman, but closed up shop. The site's URL is now a redirect to the site's discord service, so the community still exists. But the forum itself and all the resources are gone.

General Chat

This week, there was world-wide shock as video of a near skeletal Hamas hostage digging his own grave hit the News of the World. What the terrorist organization thought would be psychological damage may enflame and spur nations more against Hamas. And while Iran demands financial compensation from the US, the US levies even more sanctions as it and many allies have accused Iran's government of sanctioning assassinations and attempts. There has been no progress with Russia in peace talks, Moscow launching more missile and drone attacks, unveiling their new glidebomb. But in retaliation Ukraine launched its own attacks against Russian oil depots, submarine bases and air bases. Simultaneously, US nuclear were sent out, and the US Congress begins readying sanctions against Moscow ahead of the 10 day deadline. In the US, there's more fallout against members of the Russiagate Conspiracy as official documents reveal ties confidential talks between the DNC and George Soros, and Hillary Clinton's sanctioning of the Trump/Russia smear campaign. And prosecutor Jack Smith is now under the gun for attempted interference with the 2024 Presidential election under the Hatch act. China's race to stop their population numbers from plunging further, US President Trump re-establishing the Presidential Fitness Test that began in 1950, the horror of a mass baby grave exhumed in Ireland, a Russian volcano erupting for the first time after 600 years, the spread of a flesh-eating parasite in Mexico, three charged with assault in connection with viral Cincinnati brawl while the police chief slams social media as 'out-of-context' whilst bring it attention, another California wildfire, Jimmy Hoffa, and more hit this week's news.

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Tech Talk

Problems with AI had been revealed within this week's News of the Cyber World, whether one's private conversations become content within Google searches, advice they've given sabotage women and minority salaries, and the 500% increase in crypto scams. On issues of data breaches, Microsoft's Sharepoint was hacked with thousands of firms exposed, the users of Tea were revealed, a MTA board meeting interrupted by a hacker with porn, and even Russia had pharmacies endangered by such cyber attacks. And there have been both gains and losses among major players. Sales of iPhones blew expectations. But Google lost its appear in the Fortnite Anti-Trust lawsuit and Tesla ordered to pay $243 Million due to a deadly autopilot incident. Probes into the EU and Biden administration in Spotify censorship, a young woman dying from a heart attack with 26 iphones glued to her, and more hit this week's news.

In the realm of Chinese Hackers, even Covid Research was not immune as Zewei Xu was just arrested in Italy, Xu working for the CCP to steal any and all information on the vaccines. Microsoft's own alert systems may have been at fault, whilst notifying the public of Chinese hack attempts, actively had a security flaw in itself that permitted a recent breach in its own SharePoint service. And of alerts, Microsoft now claims China's Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon breached the Sharepoint service used by the US Nuclear agengy.

Games Development

Development Discussion

If curious as to What's Up among other RMers, DerVVulfman relays once more that spriting left-handed poses seems to take longer than expected, still engaged with the Obi/Sash-Belt.

Complete Projects

Work continues on the re-release of Rave Heart as Starmage is thrilled to reveal new battle sprites for the playable characters.

Code Support

This week, Starmage put forth a request for assistance as she is having difficulty with Note Tags not working with Actor Voices by diamondandplatinum3. An RPGMaker VXAce project, she also includes a google-drive link to her project's data file for examination, and has hopes that issues with Actor Voices not recognizing the note-tags can be resolved.

Creativity Section

Art and Design

It was last week that Demos "Rise Evil" Kerrigan added two bickering beauties to His art deck. A pencilwork render of characters from Remi-chan's gaming universe, the vignette of the lovely ladies lounging at the beach has now been rendered in gorgeous color.

Well, that's it for this week.

"I cannot tell a lie, I did eat the last piece of cake." - George Washington (1732-1799)

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