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The Weekly Gazette 12-21-2025 - DerVVulfman - 12-29-2025

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(December 22 to December 28, 2025)

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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
When this week began, it was seasons greetings that wereon the mind of Ace_V. And he wished everyone Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas.

When the Christmas Season is upon us, is there anything more rousing than Jingle Bells? That is a question that can be answered if you but ask DerVVulfman What are YouTubing?. But if carols are not your thing for Christmas, DerVVulfman found someone celebrated Christmas with lights and music in a different fashion.

In this week's News of the World, Moscow issues more threats to NATO as Europe supports Ukraine against the Russian Invasion. This threat among many they've previously issued while Poland had to scramble fighters "of a preventive nature" as Russia launched more attacks, such as the 650+ drone volley. And while Ukraininan President Zelenskyy assumed Moscow would attack Kyiv on Christmas, he was partially correct as the latest Russia attack blew up the home of the composer of "Carol of the Bells", a song prominent in the Christmas movie Home Alone. But with all the attacks, Ukraine had struck back. Russian General Fanil Sarvarov was killed in a car bombing in Moscow itself, three others killed from another bombing not far away, destroyed another oil refinery, and delivered stunning defeat against Russian troops taking back the railway hub and key eastern city of Kupyansk. Despite this, Zelenskyy stated the 20-Point Ukraine-Russia Peace Plan has a good chance and is open to a demilitarized free zone with Russia, this as US President Trump is willing to travel to Ukraine to pitch the ceding of land to Russia in a bid to end the four-year long war. In the United States, the calls about embezzled funds in Minnesoda grow louder as nearly one-hundred mayors sent a letter citing fraud while hiking tax rates on the citizens, all placing blame on Governor Walz and the supporting Democrats. Over one-thousand illegal aliens, most with past convictions of murder, rape, and statutory abuse were rounded up by ICE agents. Following this, a report based on records from 570 law enforcement agencies showed a major drop in crme throughout US, with 1500 fewer murders than the year before under the Biden administration, and almost half that sprung up from the George Floyd riots. More of the Epstein files came out for public viewing, though US President Trump slammed the release of embarassing pics such as those of former President Clinton, creepy pics of ex Prince Andrew and the compromising pics of Ghislaine Maxwell. But compromising pictures were but a taste as eMail dumps and a fake Austrian passport under the name Marius Fortelni with a fake New York address. In an action to attack global censorship, the Trump administration banned five Europeans who have led organized efforts to silence American viewports or viewpoints in general they oppose. And with approval by the Nigerian government, the US military hit ISIS terrorists in Sokoto state targeting Christians with “numerous” deadly airstrikes. Pressure against the Maduro Regime in Venezuela continues to build as the blockade against continues, and two separate raids were led on oil carriers but days apart. Cuba lent counterintelligence forces to President Nicolas Maduro's aid, with Cuban agents acting as personal guards. Despite this apparent alliance, US President Trump gave Maduro warning despite knowing Maduro has stolen the previous two presidential elections to remain in power. And Anti-Semitism is on the rise, California's Mayor Eduardo Martinez justifying the atrocious October 7th attack by Hamas attack at a pro-Palestinian conference. Professional protester and former climate activist Greta Thunberg was arrested Tuesday in Central London with the Palestine Action Group that used hammers and red paint to damage a building on Fenchurch Street, said group also responsible for several acts of vandalism even at a Royal Air Force base. A former Hamas hostage by the name of Eli Sharabi warned Australian leaders about rising hatred before the deadly Bondi Beach shooting in Australia. And in Perth, Australia, a man who praised the Bondi Beach massacre was arrested after police found six rifles, about 4,000 rounds of ammunition, and banners belonging to terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah inside his home. Vermont's Bernie Sanders blocking cancer treatment for children unless his conditions are met, Politico now claiming Christmas Celebrations as a Far Right Spectacle, Australia's invitation to Israeli President Isaac Herzog in wake of Bondi Beach mass shooting, Russia's plan for a nuclear powered lunar base by 2036, and more hit this week's news.
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Tech Talk
This week, Elon Musk's technology and warfare became the topic within the News of the Cyber World. In an effort to keep an edge ahead of others, the US Department of War reached out to Musk so his AI would be used by both military and civilian personnel in all operations. However, Russia sees Musk's technology as a threat since the launch of Starlink satellites that had aided Ukraine since Russia's invasion and matching communications attack in 2022. As such, its believed that Russia is considering the volatile option of peppering the orbits of Starlink satellites, weaponizing space in a manner that could likewise cause severe damage to any Earth launched spacecraft, manned or otherwise.



Games Development
Development Discussion
If you look at the art within the RPGMaker line, its all in the perspective. Or at least, that's what it appears if you asked Steel Beast 5Beets What's up, RM. After his appreciative comments on works made by Remi-chan's sprite artist, he compared the original farmhouse battleback that comes with the RPGMaker XP RTP to another which he scaled to fit a full 640x480 area and noted that the rescaled version was more attractive in appearance.


Complete Projects
What makes a traditional hero ina modern era RPG game? Would it be the un-kempt hair? Perhaps it may be the apparel like a sleeveless shirt or some wrist bands. But then again, a piercing glare may be perfect for the classic outsider types. For those that believe, all that does fit Klein, a character within Rave Heart by Starmage, as she received a bit of fan art from or game's official artist just in time for Christmas.


Upcoming Projects
After a brief hiatus, KDC is back and inspired to give Memorie the attention it deserves. Beginning with a chapter card display, he intends to continue with the game's development and has in mind the story arc and the way it is to unfold.



Material Development
Scripts Database
RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine
A few years ago, kyonides brought to RPGMaker the Knives script, a work that lets your character wield a few special knives with custom effects into battle. But this week, the script received a new update that allowed their custom effects to be disabled by way of an updated status ailment.

If you were wondering if more can be done with skills in RPGMaker XP, kyonides created BattleAktionFX so spells may do the unexpected. Skills that repeat. Skills used by an enemy now yours to wield. Skills that are not part of your hero's repertoire. Such may become those availabel to your party, whether they be useful or not.

RPGMaker VX/VXAce (RGSS2/3) Engines
It was in 2023 that Knives for RPGMaker VX and VXAce appeared, a work by kyonides that lets your character wield a few special knives with custom effects into battle. But this week, kyonides repaired a long-standing issue within and added a status effect that can disable the knives custom effects. He had to revisit the scripts not long after, only because he needed to give the State class a little nudge.


Resources Database
2D Resources
As Christmas approached, the gift of a new sprite appeared among the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V. But you had no need to unwrap it to know it would be another nurse, he with dark blue hair parted in the center and eyes the color of russet. With all the past nurse sprites the past few months, it made kyonides begin to wonder if Ace_V had a gig in a hospital ward.



Creativity Section
Music and Audio
Just in time for Christmas, three new works of his Mental Pain Relief score had arrived within the music halls of DoubleX's Music Room. Beginning with the low and haunting duet of a Double Bass and Tuba was "Bitterly Cold", DoubleX's fifty-fifth composition which emotes the feeling of being homeless and exposed to the elements; only with the departure of the bass and arrival of cellos and violins some time after the bridge to represent helping hands to make the ordeal more bearable. Hollow sounds of wind insturments and taps of a piano reflect what was lost within DoubleX's "Not Lost Forever", his fifty-sixth piece that would remind us that what had disappeared may return. And the latter use of a Tuba for the compositions theme, epitomizing the memory of an elephant, acts as such an example. And the third work released on Christmas was "Repairing Broken Hearts" which begins wih light tap and haunting flutes to tug at the listener, only to be accompanied by deep tones of brass to address where love is lost. However, rapid and consistent piano melody intrudes to soothe and ease the loss. Eventually, DoubleX's use of chims and woodblocks returns to bring one into a better place where they can remember, but not feel as hurt.


Art and Design
Things are heating up within the mural laiden galleries of Save-Point this week as Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing! is ablaze in vibrant crimson, aureolin and fittingly dragonfire. Fore standing proudly with arms and demon wings outstretched is the embodiment of power herself. Clad in scarlet with golden highlights and accented by pyramid jewelry is the Daystar, Wi Hellrider. This rendering took approximately fourteen hours to craft, and even its accompanying speed draw lasts over twenty minutes for those wishing to see the process of her craft.



Well, that's it for this week.

"Fantasy is just reality waiting to happen." - Stanley Martin Lieber (Stan *The Man* Lee) - 1922-2018


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