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The Weekly Gazette 1-11-2026 - DerVVulfman - 01-12-2026

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(January 05 to January 11, 2026)

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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
Announcements and Updates
From the start of the new year, Save-Point received a glut of spam accounts, all that were found responsible for hundreds of recent spam attacks worldwide. But moreso, the bulk using an longtime eMail provider that has now deteriorated and had lost its formerly well established trust rating. As a result, the OP.PL eMail Service is now Banned, and no account may either register using it, nor change to it from another eMail service.


General Chat
Hitting hard in this week's News of the World are the riots in Iran. Hospitals are pushed beyond their limits from the vast number injured, and now protestors are arming themselves to battle police in Tehran itself. After the sucess in removing Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela and forming numerous peace deals in his first year, Exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi of Iran is urging Trump to intervene against the current regime. But a big question on everyone's mind would be 'Who would fill the vacuum when the Islamic Republic falls?' In the United States, billions in fraud are the news. The amount of healthcare fraud in California revealed is now surpassing the billions already under scrutiny within Minnesota's child care scandal. The Department of Health and Human Services froze money going to states with massive fraud which are being funneled away from the citizenry. However, New York is now filing a lawsuit to have US taxpayer dollars continue to flow, claiming it cruel to freeze child care funds. And of the two recent shootings by ICE agents, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey dismisses new ICE shooting video while ESPN commentator Stephen A Smith instead called it justified. And in Portland, tears formed on Police Chief Day's face when he announced that the two Venezuelans whom attempted to likewise run over ICE agents were from Tren De Aragua. Indeed, the use of vehicles against ICE agents have risen over 3000% in just a year's time. Last week's news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine held a claim by Moscow that Putin's resident was targeted. But with recent behavior out of Russia, the US and President Trump rejects that claim. And while a new 5-point security plan is being inked for Ukraine's security guarantees, said guarantees that include European troops from the UK and France numbering in the thousands is already being rejected by Moscow. Despite the troops being security after the war has ended, Moscow actively stated the European security troops would be viable military targets. It was just days after the US warned Ukraine of a pending attack that Russia launched a barriage against Ukraine’s power grid, leaving Kyiv powerless and without heat in zero-degree temperatures. Ukraine's President Zelensky issued a fresh call for U.S. President Donald Trump to take action against Russia. And while the US was able to remove Maduro, President Trump states that such a move against Putin should not be necessary. And since the removal of Maduro, Caracas began releasing political prisoners from two notorious prisons, one being El Helicoide slated to be closed immediately. And with Maduro gone, the US could soon lift sanctions on Venezuela which would help facilitate oil sales. But a new story came out of Venezuela. What was this mystery sonic weapon that quickly incapacitated Venezuelan soldiers over a week ago? Germany's open-terror investigation into infrastructure sabotage linking attacks to the Vulkangruppe (Volcano Group) whom had taken claim for 15 years of such destruction, A US-Denmark summit suggesting Greenland's sale in the billions despite the islanders refusal to be neither Danish nor American, Europe and the UK strengthening naval security in the north arctic amidst Russian activity, a protester briefly removed Iran's flag at its London embassy with the former flag flown before 1979, the attempted assassination attempt of Honduran's opposition leader, Gladis Aurora Lopez, at the National Congress, a swiss nightclub owner arrested after destroying the evidence of a horrific New Years inferno and fleeing with all the cash, the UAE removing British Universities from funding over fears of radicalized UK campuses supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, and more hit this week's news.
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Forum Games & Nonsense
Even with but two players this past week, the effort to Count to a million continues on. Will AVGB-KBGaming and DerVVulfman be joined by others?



Games Development
Development Discussion
If you're willing, you come in and share What's up with other RMers about your game develoment. Or you can read how Remi-chan is continuing her work on her current project, receiving bug reports from DerVVulfman, new character sprites from Xiie (or our forum's Rune), and her at-long-last returning portrait artist, Pjcr. kyonides discovered a lesser known game from roughly six years ago based upon Sakura Wars, and how people complained it didn't have cameos from the original. But DerVVulfman noticed that the game and subsequent anime was set seventy years later and even the youngest characters would be elderly by that point.

Now that she had received new spritework from her pixel-artist, Remi-chan revisited the Maps and Screenshots thread to release four captures from her game.



Material Development
Tools
Work progressed on the HiddenChest RGSS Player Executable as kyonides added support for customized key bindings, not only adding a new way to change the buttons and keyboard keys for gameplay rather than the drab F1 button that has existed since the dawn of RPGMaker XP, but streamlined the code, removed bloat and performed fixes where it was required such as when default key map files were not loading. Even so, classic key bindings options are a restored feature nonetheless.


Scripts Database
HiddenChest (RGSS1-3) Engine
Ever since enterbrain released RPGMaker XP to the public, users had the ability to change the keyboard and gamepad keys to suit their tastes. However the default keymapping screen that appeared when one pressed the F1 button was basic and aesthetically unpleasing. But for those are developing a game with the HiddenChest executable, kyonides's releas of the KChangeKeys HC script set is an aesthetic update which grants you more options including game controller axes or hats.

There were no corrections or updates made to kyonides's FileIni HC except for those pertaining to its use. The content was updated to deliver more clear insructions on use.

Following the updates made to HiddenChest, kyonides revisited the ClickableWindows script so it too was updated. Corrections were made involving the script's input system that are now handled by mouse mechanics.


Resources Database
2D Resources
Its the new year! And with it, another hoospital staff member appears among the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V. This week, the nurse has his glasses resting lazily low on his nose. And of course, this dark haired ponytailed nurse comes in the three styles of nursewear: basic, surgical mask, and zombified.



Creativity Section
Music and Audio
Once more has a new composition appeared within [Hi ghlight]DoubleX's Music Room[/Highlight], his sixtieth entitled "Unbreakable Vicious Cicle" and not one belonging to his recent Mental Pain Relief collection. But while DoubleX relays that the piece is meant to reflect one in a downward spiral, the music itself is more cheery that most. Playful taps on the piano at the very start, rising harmonies with brass and wood winds despite their instruments, and light chimes, only near the end with the synthesized choir does a hint of enmity even touch the work.


Art and Design
What art exists that does not bring forth discussion? Ad within Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing! there was such between Remi-chan and Solitaire over both her last artwork and the evoluition of a Remi-chan villainess. But all was not dialogue as presented that same moment was the Rising Hellstar who demands revolution. For this work, it took a mere 8 hours, and includes a 12-minute speed draw. But for Remi-chan, even that was not enough as a sneak peak for her next render was put on display.

This week, we got some more of Solitaire's CRAZY WILD RANDOM STUFF as she began this year off with a cute Harlequin. But she chose to not just render her pretty jester named Aries in mere illustration, but in a pixel-based sprite as well.


Literature
When the end of all things arrives with chaos and slaughter, will you scream and panic or will you laugh as if your life was an absurdity? Within the pages of Remi-chan's Writting Snippets, a lone survivor witnesses the aftermath of destruction wrought by one of Remi-chan's demonesses, the futility of the most advanced weapons of war and the trail of corpses in her wake.


Filmography
Over the years, there have been television shows that had chosen to have a single musical episode; Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Grey's Anatomy, Star Trek: Discovery. But this week, we had discovered that the same will hold true for gaming. For within Remi-chan's Cinematic Theatre, we hear the vocals of Loganne Digma (Ayu from Genshin Impact) as the demoness Mischevia as she breaks out in song when issuing a declaration of war.



Well, that's it for this week.

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