The Weekly Gazette 02-04-2024

[DerVVulfman]

(January 29 to February 4, 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

This week's News of the World had some question what response U.S. President Biden's would be following the death of three soldiers in Jordan. That question ended with three days of U.S. and U.K attacks upon 100+ Iran-backed terror sites within Syriaa, Iraq and Yemen. Of Iran, October 7 Victim families plan to sue the regime, and Chinese nationals have been charged with smuggling US tech to the terror sponsoring state. Crime was very prevalent this week among immigrants worldwide, be it machete wielding youths in the U.K., an stabbing spree in Paris, gang rape in Italy, or the attack on police in New York with the state's own D.A. catching ridicule for their no-bail release. Despite this, the U.S. Biden Administration and DHS Mayorkas currently facing impeachment for violating immigration laws continues supporting the flow of Illegal aliens while the Texas is projected to win the showdown over border security. Of course, Venezuela threatens to take back illegals if U.S. sanctions over Maduro's assault on fair elections. Other instances of politics attempting to subvert law and order have also appeared; Russia jailing the opposition and a Belarusian rock band threatened with deportation and arrest by Russia. But in the U.S., things may be changing, Squad Member Cori Bush now under a criminal investigation, Judge Engoron reconsidering the verdict in Trump's fraud trial, and Fani Willis's case developing all the more. Another plagiarist in Harvard uncovered, a pro-Israel U.K.member of Parliament leaving duty under death threats, a movie showing the UNRWA's terrorist ties, farmers blocking entrances to the French capital, the death of Rocky star Carl Weathers, the last days of the store that inspired "Toy Story" and more were in this week's news.
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Tech Talk

This week, Crypto Currency hit the News of the Cyber World, though you may wish to avoid them as one was a Venezuelan scam, another the other was an attempted restart of the failed FTX now working to repay its investors their losses, and a third pair of brothers running crypto scams, Covid relief scams, and more. Also involving crypto-currency is the recovery of $90 milliion Hamas crypto currency sent by the UNRWA itself. Hacking too hit the cyber world news as the U.S. federal government warned Apple about a severe vulnerability, all while an ex-CIA coder is sentenced for 40 years for giving Wikileaks hacking tools. TikTok's side deals and getting kicked out of Tennesse, Eln Musk's Neuralink tech, lawsuits against Google Maps, and British Columbia's Class-Action lawsuit against Apple and more also hit the cybernews quite prominently

There is a lot to fear from Chinese Hackers within the U.S., as a new report by the FBI revealed that the Volt Typhoon Chinese hacking group penetrated many critical systems through mainly routers nearing warranty end, all while warns of China's plan to use TikTok to interfere with the 2024 election.

Forum Games & Nonsense

If you thought you found an item that turned out to be useless, consider what it would be like if every magic item you found was garbage. With this week's pen-n-paper based RPG tale that DerVVulfman discovered, The Artificial's Bag you may find a list of terribly laughable items. And what's worse is that the bag is actively making them in that manner.

Games Development

Upcoming Projects

You can see video after video of the mercenaries encountered within Heroes of the Seasons, the game by Starmage.

Material Development

Scripts Database

This week, kyondes wrote a script entitled RealEkuipment which prevents the player from removing select gear from their person without actively replacing it with matching gear. As such, a hero cannot drop a sword and fight unarmed, but may only change weapons within his/her suitable list. It took no time for kyonides to port the script towards all Ruby-based engines, and then later to have an RPGMaker MV port.

There was a small fix needed within RandomReward when someone reported encountering a bug within the RPGMaker VXAce port. A simple fix by kyonides, moving the call to the main method makes it run smoothly.

As of now, the KustomShop script by kyonides may let you set various colors to custom window fonts.

If you intended to exploit a bug that let heroes select items even when the counter reached 0, kyonides discovered that little exploit within his Battle Item Count script and fixe it up. And with that, he finally ported the script for RPGMaker XP.

If you have need for a few duplicate troops, monsters or objects on the map, the Copy Events XP released by DerVVulfman may be for you. Based on an RPGMaker VXAce script by Fomar0153, it lets you make one or multiple copies of events and place them where you wish, even events from other maps.

Creativity Section

Music and Audio

If you are in the mood for some cyber-styled tracks for your horror or science fiction product, then give Eric Matyas a try as he continues Sharing His Original Music and Sounds. He crafted a pair of fantasy works entitled "Grump Monster's Nap-Time" and "The Bog of Eternal Stink" which would fit in with any game similar in spirit to Ridley Scott's "Legend". And for those thinking that outer space is their thing, then consider "Crash Landing", or a new video that Eric produced showing how well last week's work, "Ancient Mars", may fit your game.

Well, that's it for this week.

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