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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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

This week, DerVVulfman noted that it is now The Year of the Spammers, seeing a rise in spam accounts being created which he suggested coincides with the US 2024 Election Cycle. However, he added that he has since strengthened the anti-bot security questions as a response, and presented an avatar he gifts any spambot account he notices.

This week, turmoil within the United Nations hit the News of the World as staff from the UNRWA (The U.N. Relief Works Agency for Paletine Refugees) was found involved in the October 7th Hamas Attack. Iran demands the U.N. to be more anti-Israeli, but the U.S. and various other nations halt UNRWA funding, all while the U.N. Chief (whom Israel has demanded resign) implores to keep that branch funded. Meanwhile, fighting escalates in the Middle East. While an ISIS Terror attack was foiled in Israel, Hamas broke yet another agreement, this time the transfer of medicine to hostages. And not good for U.S. President Biden, from China mocking his request for help against the Houthis in the Red Sea, and his past lash against former President Trump while himself now having lost U.S. lives from Isis-proxies. Legal troubles mount for the Democrat party in the U.S., with testimony by DHS Mayorkas showing an 85% release rate of illegal aliens not unlike his tenure under Obama, and his Impeachment articles now published, an approved probe into Fani Willis's Misconduct during the Trump case, and the discovery that the January 6th committee against former President Trump deleted over 100 Encrypted evidentiary files. The deal between Venezuela's President Maduro to hold fair elections and the U.S.'s President Biden for sanctions relief fell apart. Though sanctions lifted, Maduro cracked down on any opposition and cancelled the upcoming election. Orwellian re-training ordered in Canada for defiant Psychologist and author Dr. Jordan Peterson, NATO's $1.2 Billion Artillery Contract to replenish munitions given to Ukraine, pumpkin soup hurled at the Mona Lisa by climate activists, the FBI Probe into Russia Funding Anti-Israel Protests, another Boeing plane failure, China the World’s Worst Jailer of Journalists in 2023, and more hit this week's news.
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This week's [Thread=7678 News of the Cyberworld[/Highlight][/Thread] began with a lot of people getting fired, whether it be nearly 2000 from Microsoft or 1000 from eBay. But eBay has plenty to worry about, now having to pay a $3 Million settlement to a harassment and cyberstalking lawsuit. For those needing money, you may wish to rethink LoanDepot as the data of over 16 Million customers have now been compromised. But then again, Microsoft had another data breach from the "Cozy Bear" hackers accessing the eMails of senior company executive. And after their debacle with Claudine Gay, Harvard is now being slammed for scientific fraud, accused of data manipulation of 57 studies, now retracting six and correcting more than 30 papers. And publishers using Facebook are now suffering after Zukerberg pulled its news content this past September. Russian national Alexander Ermakov sanctioned by the US, UK and Australia after the Medibank ransomware attack and a spambot flagging content as graphic content on Twitter/X also hit this week's cybernews..

Last week, DerVVulfman found a pen-and-paper gaming tale where a DM didn't think a single weapon could wreck his game. But the tale that DerVVulfman found this week, entitled Intelligent Things To Do With a Dragon Around, had the party now not think things through. Just how bad can it be to save a poor, simple, dragon from a splitting headache? You can now find out.

One of the things that a forum is capable is that one can share What's up among other RMers, and both KasperKalamity and Steel Beast 6Beets talked about the perceived expansive map that KasperKalamity displayed last week. Meanwhile, kyonides wondered if anyone had ever thought to implement a feature within their project that they saw in an already existing game, which DerVVulfman replied with a couple of suggestions.

While the Christmas season has passed, Heroes of the Seasons continues. Starmage has announced that its store page is now up at stream, and later released a video spotlight of the mercenaries in the game.

If your RPGMaker VXAce game needs a little extra musical fanfare, you may be interested in the Level Up ME & SE ACE scriptlet set by kyonides. They permit a music event to play after winning a battle and play a short audio effect when any actor increases in level.

This week, kyonides needed to revist his Battle Item Count system, finding he had not cleared the actor selection system which also affected the buzzer effect. But after fixing the feature, kyonides then ported the system for RPGMaker VXAce users.

KustomShop just received a new opacity window feature for the shopkeeper's name and other windows. After that, kyonides returned with another update, a requested feature to hide windows while also adding the capability to adjust the shopkeeper's height on the screen.

What form of terrain are your heroes walking upon? Do they feel the sand between their toes or the cracked, hard clay landscape where a river once flowed? If you venture int the Massive Library of Free Images which Eric Matyas is producing, you are assured to find what you need. This week, he released a pair of new ground textures, the first being a green grass-like tile with and uneven landscape while the second a brightly multi-colored collection of small pebbles for a quarry or worksite.

The race for the U.S. Presidency hit this week's News of the World as Florida Governor DeSantis ends his bid and endorces former President Trump, this while investigations of corruption into those prosecuting the former President continue. And of investigations, Hunter Biden, U.S. President Biden's son, has been relented to be deposed in Congress. But Hunter's legal defense over his illegal gun charges escalate as cocaine was detected on its holster. Never have second thoughts about Russia being a bad actor, now jamming GPS signals impacting the Baltic area, seizing property, claiming their sale of Alaska to the U.S. was illegal, and Slovokia's Pro-Russian Prime Minister urging Ukraine to let Russia keep its stolen land for hostilities to end.However, Europe is not standing for this as NATO starts the largest Wargames in a decade while Europe deploys tens of thousands along the border while France speeds up production of artillery meant for Ukraine. Towards the Middle East, U.S. President Biden finally put the Houtis back on the Global Terror List though he claimed their initial removal as ‘Irrelevant’. And tensions in the region rise even more as even the Taliban are concerned about a Nuclear Pakistan and Near-Nuclear Iran proceed to fire missiles at each other. Cartels continue kidnapping migrants in Mexico while Venezuela's regime imprisons Catholic priests, Arnold Schwarzennegar nearly arrested over a watch in Germany while Alec Baldwin is again facing manslaughter over the 'Rust' shooting, the U.S. FBI condemned by a Judge for staging a terror attack and arresting those set up in 2009, the impact of illegal immigration, and much more hit this week's news.
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This week's News of the Cyberworld focuses itself on Google, how AI-generated rip-off articles are flooding its news service and how they plan to use AI to eliminate even more jobs. Meanwhile, Consumer Reports did a study and found nearly two-hundred thousand companies have been detected tracking ever member on Facebook.

This week, the resident werewolf was able to discover another tabletop gaming tale of old, one of humor and a case of underestimation. Behold The Mace that Disrupted my Game as this story found by DerVVulfman was initially relayed by a Dungeon Master whom found an item he generally placed within his campaign was used to great effect.

One of the many ways to find out how your fellow community members are doing is to find out What's up with their RPGMaker projects. And Remi-chan received new character sprite graphics from Coyotecraft, using them in videos or presenting them in animated scaled-increased renders. And when AVGB-KBGaming found that he couldn't find the Self Data Suite by PK8 in any website visited, DerVVulfman appeared with an archive made for the RPGMaker VXAce engine, the other two not found.

Near the end of the week, Starmage released the latest trailer for Heroes of the Seasons. This trailer, created by Berry B, showcases the battlesystem and various enemies that would be encountered in this Chrismas themesd bosh-rush RPG set within the Blue Skies universe.

Last week, kyonides released KustomShop to users of RPGMaker XP, a script which lets one redesign their classic shop system with various accents, including the ability to randomly determine if a shop is willing to purchase from the player or not. However, he chose it wasn't good enough and created two additional ports, one for RPGMaker VX and the other for VXAce, this while repairing bug fixes that did not update the player's interface, and added a new item level limit feature.

If you were looking for new brickwork for that dungeon that ancient citadel, then you may wish to peruse the Massive Library of Free Images being created by Eric Matyas. Within, he crafted several textures which you may appreciate, his latest being a series of tileable masonery images, mainly a large variety of various colos within his artistic Brick section. However, his abstract page holds one set of bricks of the same format, but with an uneven and peculiar layout.

The game developers who revel in making games set in a dystopian future will surely appreciate Eric Matyas's Original Music and Sound this week. Making any content that has one travel through space, "Ancient Mars" is a droning techno piece meant to evoke feelings of both trepadation and wonderment. And for the urban streets of the future, "Cyberpunk Underground" sets the mood for any sneak thief looking to catch that big score, or the would-be bounty hunter looking for him.

Now that it the Year of the Dragon, you may now gaze within Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing! to see a femme fatale dragon of her own. The Hellrider of Terror, up close and personal appears amidst a starlit sky of indigo.

If you were one who played Intelligence: The 314 Clash, the recent additions to Remi-chan's Writing Snippets may seen quite familiar. For within, you will find that a hero was forced to endure betrayal most lethal in order to survive a battle against all odds. But what other secrets do they hold, and why does one say ne need not hide any longer?

Upon entering Remi-chan's Cinematic Theatre you will find a new video, this dubbed as the second of the Starchaser series. Upon seeing, you wwill find Remi-chan trolling anyone who plays World of Warcraft including herself. However, as she makes jokes at everyones expense and roasts both herself and the game,she also brings up news about the latest work to bring Classic Warcraft back to life with new mechanics. She does make recommendations at times, and even promotes some online youtubers who enjoy playing (or delight in mocking) Warcraft, individuals such as Barney Beekeeper.

As always, there is oh much News of the World hit this week, and so little time to read it. This beginning as Congress holds Impeachment inquiries into DHS Mayorkas over the border just now having received 16K chinese migrants in a matter of months, and into its own Defense secretary for hiding his hospitalization from even the White House. And U.S. President Biden's son will soon be the subject of a contempt of congress vote. Despite military provocations, Taiwan now has President William Lai who opposes CCP rule. But despite a defense treaty with Taiwan, U.S. President Biden voiced "We do not support independence", a statement now supporting China instead. Again, illegal immigration is still a world-wide problem. But while German Chancellor Scholz is against deporation, France was caught hiding the sheer number of illegal crossings, and thousands of U.K.'s asylum seekers claiming to be children were found to be adult-age. And Finland cowed to keep their Russian border closed. For those that remember that it was ISIS that bombed the Qasem Soleimani’s Tomb last week, Isis announced it would hunt down the conspirators. Meanwhile, attacks continue in the Red Sea as U.S. and U.K. struck back against Iran Backed Houtis. Even India had sent ships to the Red Sea to combat the Houtis. And while Hamas had just been pressured to accept medical supplies to the hostages they took, it was uncovered that schools in the Gaza Strip were educating children for Jihad; books supplied by the Palastinian Authority while the UNRWA (United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees) adminstered the schools. Indeed, the United Nations is itself a part. More political upheavel hit this week as police in Poland entered the Presidential Palace to arrest the former government ministers. After several Chinese ministers have mysteriously disappeared, Xi Jinping vowed to use the Communist Party's discipline agency to purge more. And more Chinese spies have been found in the U.K. in violation of the Official Secrets Act of 1911. An attorney prosecuting former President Trump may face disqualification and investigation over charges of corruption, a former Obama Administration official blasting Biden over the border crisis, 178 civilians held hostage amid the Ecuador Gang War, the possible theft of $1 Billion in Ukraine Aid, Frederik X's ascention to the Danish throne, Putin's nuclear red line and so much more hit this week's news.
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As before, A.I. forms the beginning of this week's News of the Cyber World as Judges in the U.K. have now been given approval to use A.I. in writing legal opinions, but have been given fair warning not to use A.I. for research as content returned by such technology may be and has been found in some instances as erroneous and/or biased. And warming relations between Israel and the Arab nations within the Abraham Accords, the UAE announced it will be opening a new Open AI research center in Israel. It was bad news for Apple as they began paying out the settlement over the 2020 Multi-Million Dollar lawsuit that proved they intentionally slowed down older products, forcing users to upgrade. And hackers found they can gain access to Google accounts through third-party cookies, particularly dangerous to Google Chrome users. Protecting themselves, TikTok is now restricting use of a research tool used to analyze social media content, particularly after being criticized for pushing biased content regarding the Israel-Hamas war and censoring content critical of China. And layoffs hit it big with Discord, Twitch, Amazon and particularly Google with its union fighting back against 'needless'.

For anyone thinking their Apple AirDrops were save, Chinese Hackers working for the Chinese Communist Party and their authorities boast that the encryption has been broken. This done to prevent so-labeled inappropriate content, while a Chinese Foreign Ministry official justifies that all phone companies operating in China must adhere to its laws and regulations.

Earlier this week, kyonides's inquiry about the purchase of an online graphic resource was Whats Up in his RMing endeavors. But his inquiry about its value was sidetracked by a discussion between DerVVulfman and Remi-chan, one focusing about the number of available resources and variety while she about the artstyle. However, Remi-chan did state her hijacking the post was more an effort to show her aversion to the artwork while simultaneously taking a break from working on her game's extensive menu system.

Early this week, kyonides now gifted the users of RPGMaker XP the KustomShop script, a system that lets the end user customize their default-styled shop/store system as they see fit, even towards having some features randomized. There were some issues early on as reported by Melana, but were quickly repaired and upgraded.

It has been a long time coming, but we now have Victor SenArt, a new thread for artwork drops by Victor Sena. His first post is a link to his Itch.io page that offers his first batch for free. A collection of RPGMaker VXAce formatted graphics, be it faceset, icons or charactersets ranging from the more mundane to Vash the Stampede and Captain America.

Nearing his tenth anniversary, Eric Matyas continues to Share His Original Music and Sound. So if anyone wished to make games that heralded back to the 80s, the recent compositions are for you. A thoughtful melody entitled "Contemplation in the Castle" may be used for a scenario of deep thought or for exploring unseen castle walls. And his second composition, "The Landing", is more in tune with 80s mid-budget movies such as "Return of the Living Dead" or "A Nightmare on Elm Street" for horror movies, or "Scanners" or "The Hidden" for science-fiction productions, minus the rock music accompaniment.