The Weekly Gazette 12-31-2023

[DerVVulfman]

(December 25 to December 31, 2023)
End of the Year Edition

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

Seasons greeting were on the mind of DerVVulfman who wished everyone both a Merry Chrostmas and a Happy New Year.

During the holiday season, you can always find something to watch and pick up your spirits. And if you asked DerVVulfman just What are YouTubing?, he found a Christmas light show wish a rock-based Carol being performed.

Turmoil during the holiday season hit this week's News of the World as Nicaragua arrests Evangelicals and a Catholic bishop before Christmas, a would-be bomber was arrested in London, an islamic terrorist identified in Germany, and France mobilizes tens of thousands as New Years Clebrations are under a high-teror threat. The war between Ukraine and Russia heats up as a Russian missile fired at Ukraine violated NATO air space. And Hungary might no longer be able to halt the EU deal for Ukraine Aid. And of the violence in the middle east, war crimes keep mounting for Hamas as Israel points to an Indonesian Hospital used as another terror base. And the U.S. merely shooting down Houthis missiles had come to an end. The U.S. Navy answered a distress call of a container ship under Houthis attack, sinking the three attacking Houthis vessels. U.S. President Biden sought aid from Mexico's president to quell the flood of Illegal Aliens, with Mexico suggesting it will instead increase unless the U.S. delivers funds. And instead of enforcing immigration laws, Biden has chosen to threatened to sue Texas who is doing just that. Meanwhile it was uncovered that Pakistan has a program to flood the U.S. with even more immigrants. Former President Trump's removal and returns to state ballots, India's defiant refusal to drop coal energy, Bolivia's false arrest warrants for a fake 2019 coup, International in Taiwan, El Salvador, and much more hit this week's news.
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Tech Talk

This week, Google dominated the News of the Cyber World as the tech giant may lay off their sales staff in favor of an AI run system, and settled a class action lawsuit where Chrome users who used the 'Incognito' (or privacy) setting were still being tracked without permission. Legal issues hit the A.I. world as the New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, the chatbox system using the Times's content without permission or compensation. And for the New York fraud case against Donald Trump, D.A. Bragg's case against the former President may be in danger, finding its key witness used A.I. to generate fake citations against Trump. And with shoplifing on the rise, retailers may be reconsidering the Self-Checkout stations which initially cut labor costs, bot now found shoplifing accounts on the rise as they depend upon customers to scan and register their purchases themselves. The pileup of unwanted electric vehicles, the trials and tribulations of Elon Musk, and more issues regarding Artificial Intelligence was in this week's cybernews.

Could things be any more inane than finding that the Chinese Hackers who flew the massive spy balloon over the United States utilized American internet services to send short burst transmissions of data to the Chinese Communist Party? It was originally suggested that the spy balloon made connections for navigation purposes, but an official assesment suggested otherwise. And the internet company, currently un-named, is denying its use during the matter.

Material Development

Scripts Database

This week, kyonides added a message display option to KBattlerEats. Before this, only a sound effect was used to inform the player when items requested by the feature became available to the party.

After a year, kyonides returned to update KBribe. As of now, the new edition can limit the number of times you may be able to bribe individual enemies. Options are available to let one determine when to reset counters, including after each battle.

Written a decade ago, and with but need for a scant bug fis in 2021, KTimers now returns to the forefront. This script devised by kyonides to control event control by way of built-in timers is now available in all three Ruby-Script editions of the RPGMaker line.

kyonides updated the SortData set allowing you to sort lists by ID, Name or item cost. And he of course provided a set of working demos.

Are you tired that the default shop system always the same regardless of shopkeeper? If so, then KDirtyShop may be what you need. Using a simple common event, you can be pressured to pay the store owner a fee just for browsing. It was originally made for RPGMaker VXAce, but was quickly adapted for the other two Ruby-Script engines.

If you have need for a simple lottery system in your game, then you may need to check out RandomReward by kyonides. Designed for all three Ruby-Script versions of RPGMaker, a simple script call is all you need to grand the player a reward. There was a minor bug detected. But while repaired, kyonides updated the reward display system with window position and font options.

If you have need to make your map events move about erratically, and you have need for it to be a scripted function, then you may wish to consider Random Move Type. Originally designed only for RPGMaker VXAce, it now works with all Ruby-based engines so you define events that move randomly in both two or four directions by way of script calls, and is suggested it may even control the player.

Creativity Section

Music and Audio

If a rough grainy texture, whether pitch black or sandy white is what you need, do not forget that Eric Matyas continues to Build a Massive Library of Free Images for Everyone. This week, six massive 2048x2048 tileable image were released, two of them extremely dark while four others if varied textures of sandy beach white.

Well, that's it for this week.

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