The Weekly Gazette 02-25-2024

[DerVVulfman]

(February 19 to February 25, 2024)
Late 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

Occasions

This week, MrsDebauchery joined the forum as she's been on the search for RPGMaker XP scripts. Not unfamiliar with RPGMaker, she endeavors to work on an open-world styled game. She was greeted by DerVVulfman who let her know that not all RPGMaker XP scripts were old.

General Chat

The migrant crisis was one of many topics in this week's News of the World as violence from illegal migrants continues to erupt, attacking more NYC police officers and organized crime from illegal aliens surges in Pennsylvania. Along with this, its been revealed that un-vetted teens released by HHS (Health and Human Services) have violently attacked foster homes. Combating this, Texas's governor is now suing to shut down a non-profit group that is assisting in this illegal human trafficking practice. And the Mayorkas Impeachment may soon hit the U.S. Senate. But terrorism is abroad, as the migrant who performed a Chemical Attack in the U.K. on New Year's Eve had just been discovered, washed up in the Thames. And in Quebec, 100 officers have been deployed over a war over drugs between drug dealers and rival biker gangs. The judgment against former President Trump to pay half a billion before he can appeal has sparked criticism, a court case that many see criminalizes the every day practice of real estate valuations. And now revealed, the judge in the Fulton county case donated to AG Fani Willis, and Nathan Wade was revealed to have likely appointed WIllis as D.A. And despite rules of full disclosure, more filings by Jack Smith enrage Trump Lawyers who want to prepare for the trial. Photographs taken reveal that medicine meant for Israeli hostages taken by Hamas were never delivered, discovered in the Nasser Hospital at Khan Yunis. This after Hamas moved the hostages to Rafah. And despite the repeated counts of violence, the U.N. attempted to vote for a permanent ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. Despite China ignoring U.S.'s President Biden, Canada's Trudeau now pleads with China to ask Iran and the Houthis to cease activity. And as U.K's Prince william also pleads for the hostages to be freed and an end of hostilities, U.K's House Speaker had blamed terror threats to be at the heart of political threats to Parliament. The war between Russia and Ukraine continues, Russia jailing another U.S. citizen as a possible hostage while threatening nuclear attacks on the U.S. and U.K if they lose. This while the U.S. issues 500 more sanctions against Russia while Ukraine has now eliminated 21 naval ships, 102 aircraft, 2700 tanks, and more. Of course, the death of Putin's rival Alexei Navalny is still looked upon as suspicious, only China accepting the story of his sudden death. China is in a bit of economic peril now, their top diplomat claiming to pull out of China is a mistake. This as Volkswagon considers moving operations over the Uyghur slave labor, and 83 household products made have now been define as such. And North Koreans under slave wages occupied a Chinese Factory that produced clothing, food and medicines (Really? All three?) and beat the manager to death over unpaid wages. San Francisco police chief's refusal to charge Activists who assaulted Riley Gaines despite police witnesses, farm tractor protests in Spain and Greece over Green policies strangling farmer's livelihoods, recovered eMails showing Canada Officials deleted reports of dangerous COVID-19 vaccine impurities, more plagiarism scandals hit Harvard, and much more hit this week's news.
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Tech Talk

Early this week, it was revealed within the News of the Cyber World just how biased Google's AI had become, its chatbox generating historically innacurate renders such as a female pope, black vikings and gender-swapped versions of famous paintings. Also in the middle of the week, Nvidia's revenue had soared as it has become a standout developer in GPUs capable of handling AI workloads. It isn't a good week for Electric Vehicles as Mercedes Benz now drops the EV initiative, and the US commerce secretary now warns against China's EV power. China's become a large global threat as they acquired US firewalls and routers in the early 2000s to see how to break through their protections. This, and more hit this week's cybernews.

A cache of recently leaked document found on GitHub by Chinese Hackers containing manuals, employee lists, and details about foreign infiltration. Said information from a Chinese cyber-security company known as I-Soon. A victim list is included in the leaked documents, showing that I-Soon has targeted telecommunications companies, hospitals, universities, organizations, and government entities from all around the world. And Senator Marco Rubio warned that the outage that affected AT&T on Feb. 22 would be much smaller in scope than what China could now accomplish.

Games Development

Development Discussion

If you wondered What's up among fellow RMers, Remi-chan decided to focus upon releasing a new demo for "Junked" on the 14th of March, an earlier side-view game under her belt since resources for Fantasia have not yet arrived. A new character, a working crafting system, and new enemies visible within a youtube video are present for viewing.

Material Development

Scripts Database

A new update to kyonides' KDirtyShop now allows you to now eliminate specific items, weapons and/or pieces of armor from the system that lets shopkeepers overcharge.

The KMustSurvive scirpt by kyonides allows you to try to keep some helpless targets alive while fighting enemies was now upgraded. And along with that, two more ports were made to it so all three Ruby-Script versions of RPGMaker are covered, and not just for RPGMaker XP.

The Choices Change Events scriptette created by kyondes allows map events to be immediately changed or updated as the player cycles through options within any Show Choice menu. It didn't take long before he made this system work for all three Ruby-script versions of the RPGMaker series.

For both RPGMaker XP and RPGMaker VXAce, kyonides crafted the Tileset ID Checker. This simple script allows you to acquire the ID of the tileset in which your heroes are currently wandering.

Creativity Section

Art and Design

Caution is highly advised when approaching Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing as she presents her latest work based upon one of her most malicious and brutal incarnations. However the pale-skinned of Remi-chan's subject is being depicted in a different art style than her norm, using bold lines and sharply defined and distinct solid colors rather than soft blends and lighting effects. After that, Remi-chan presented four renders of a character for a game she's had in the works with characters inspired by Cartoon Network's "Codename: Kids Next Door". This was then followed by photos of Remi-chan at an art exhibition which presents her in front of a display of some of her more recent works.

Literature Section

A terrifying glimps of the future awaits one of the three heroines within Remi-chan's Writing Snippets. Unable to wake up from a nightmare controlled by evil incarnate, the fifteen-year old sees her world being decimated, the lands upheaved my meteor showers as deathly black entities appear through tears in reality. And all the while, a lithesome form approaches radiating malice.

Filmography

While it is within Remi-chan's Cinematic Theatre, the recent posting is a youtube music video. Based upon the fantasy sci-fi universe of hers, the piece entitled "Be There for Me" is a duet as sung by two of her principle characters whom are both voiced by Remi-chan herself. However, Remi-chan could not give a full range of vocals as the microphone she is currently using doesn't have an adequate enough decible threshhold.

Well, that's it for this week.

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