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The Weekly Gazette 4-26-2026 - DerVVulfman - 04-27-2026

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(April 20 to April 26, 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
General Chat
The shocking third assassination attempt on US President Trump hit the News of the World this week, the would-be killer who labeled himself "The Friendly Federal Assassin" teken into custody after firing multiple rounds before fleeing. From California, gunman Cole Allen flooded social media with rhetoric targeting the US President and roughly all members of the administration. Not the only shootings to take place, there were the two gunment involved in the shooting near Indiana Universary, the ex-Cop plotting to kill black people in Louisiana, the Virginian transgender substitute teacher plotting a schoolyard murder spree and bragging about it online, and the revelation of singer D4vd's murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas. And in US politics, the Justice Department filed an 11-count indictment against the outspoken Southern Poverty Law Center for paying hate groups $3 Million to stoke racial hatred. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis challenges Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to try and go after their state redistricting after Virginia's Governor Spanberger works to strip all but one district from Republicans. And two months after House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer demanded answers following her reported massive wealth discrepencies the California winery owned by Representative Ilhan Omar's husband was shut down. Regarding the conflict in the middle east, Iran initially refused to attend a second round of talks. For US President Trump, there was no rush on his part as he knew that the blockade would soon cripple their oil production itself. And of the one ship attempted to run the blockade that was seized by the US, it was found to have ties to China as a long-time oil transport. And after Iran fired upon three ships in the Strait of Hormuz, the US captured three more sanctioned Iranian oil tankers, this time in Asian waters. As an apparent result, Iran's top negotiator arrived back in Pakistan for talks. Not to be dismissed is the Russian Assault on Ukraine, and the recent bombing run with dozens of missiles and over 400 Iranian designed Shahed-type killer drones targeted civilian populations once more. And once more, Russian bombers skated NATO airspace. But in response, France, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Denmark and Romania, fighters flew to identify and monitor the situation. Meanwhile, Ukraine used lethal drone technology to eliminate the latest incursion of Russian Troops, this time on horseback. Different from last week's use of motorcycles, the drone operators felt really sorry for the horses. And while the European Union finally approved a long-awaited $105 billion loan to Kyiv, Prince Harry, though stripped of his title as Royal highness, called on the United States to do the same. In Mexico, the week began with a gunman shooting tourists at the Teotihuacán pyramids, killing one Canadian tourist and wounding six others before shooting himself. The shooting itself took place on the anniversary of Columbine shooting and on the birthday of Adolf Hitler. And from reports, the Hitler-obsessed gunman, Julio César Jasso, planned the massacre for 2 months in an attempt to recreate the gory rituals of the ancient people who built it nearly 2,000 years ago. Meanwhile, a car crash killed two Mexican officials and two US Embassy officials, however it ws found the two US officials were working for the CIA and alongside Mexican authorities to crack down on narcotics and just raided the largest drug laboratory in the state of Chihuahua. In response, Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum denied knowledge of any collaboration between Chihuahua and the US. This while the Director of Chihuahua’s State Investigation Agency sent his condolences for the the tragic loss of two US Embassy personnel. In the UK, a former high-school teather is on trial for the rape and subsequent murder of the a boy just over a year old he and his partner were in the process of adopting. Two teenage men, ages 19 and 17, were arrested in relation to the attack on the Kenton United Synagogue. This brings it up to 15 arrests related to six attacks on Jewish targets and a Persian-language media organization critical of Iran’s government. Meanwhile a cadet was suspended from the Royal Air Force for commenting during a question-and-answer session that Islam was the greatest threat to the UK. This despite being in a training course which required presentations including what they perceived as the biggest threat. Retired rear admiral Chris Parry, who has been critical of the RAF over shutting down critical thinking of new recruits, himself stated its not Islam but the violent extremist elements. Senator John Fetterman blasting his fellow Democrats for appearing to be pro-Iranian sympathizers, Japan scrapping a long-standing ban on weapon exports infuriating China who itself has been aggressively making its own presence felt in the region, the glamorous Iranian business woman arrested at LAX after discovery she was an illegal arms seller, the arrest of a Nigerian Migrant for cooking a cat at a children’s playground in Italy, the monster who raped and impregnated stepdaughter denied parole despite Gavin Newsom's elderly parole law making him eligible, The discovery of Homer's "The Iliad" in the belly of a 1,600 year old Egyptian mummy, the growing list of deaths or disappearances of U.S. experts in advanced space, defense and nuclear fields in recent years, the recovery and return of a priceless ancient Romanian Helmet stolen while on loan at a Dutch museum last year, and more hit this week's news.
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Tech Talk
Big tech cutting their human workforce for AI hit the News of the Cyber World this week as Meta plans to give out 8,000 severence packages while Microsoft begins its first voluntary employee buyout in its half-century long history. Elon Musk may have some financial hurdles to overcome with its upcoming release of the CyberTaxi. But he probably found the news that Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin space tech company unable to place a customer's satelite into the correct orbit refreshing. And when the news broke out that Anthropic was releasing its ClaudeAI, a team that cracks unreleased AI models had already breached their security and acquired a copy. The google update the is killing android phone batteries, the price drop in XBox Pass and more hit the cyber news this week.



Games Development
Development Discussion
The continuous job of creating an editor appear to be What's up with a fellow RMers named DerVVulfman. Early in the week, he supplied a screen capture of his editor's updated graphics page with a sample image in the editor window. At the same time, he said he was going back and forth between various parts of the editor as it dawned that new loaded file content was required. However, that may have been solved as he later returned with an uploaded mp4 file. Upon downloading, you can see that he added the ability to cycle between loaded character porraits, and a rudimentary color changing option to the editor window which works with those same portraits.



Material Development
Scripts Database
RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine
For those who have been following the development of DerVVulfman's Windows Widgets!, a package that can let on create interfaces similar in appearance to Windows Applications, more updates have been made. The Image displaying widget now offers more options to change the underlying background. And the list system now had both safeguards and bar scrolling options for those changing what the index position within a list may be. Meanwhile, it appears he has plans for another object for use, and renamed some content for that possibility.


Resources Database
2D Resources
Why is it that the only traveling saleperson within the RPGMaker XP RTP appears as but a man with a backpack and a purple cap? There is little equality present, and no woman playing the trade. So for those who feel the need is present, the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V now corrects that oversight with the latest character stepping up. Bent over from both age and burden, she is the orange-shawl wearing grandmother character (122-Civilian22) whom decided to give up baking cookies for the roads outside the town and the travelers she may barter with along the way. What does she sell? Trinkets along the way, food for the weary, or juicy gossip or vague histories that only the elderly may recall? The choice is yours.



Creativity Section
Art and Design
The museum of art within the forum was gifted another work for display. However, the curator was confused at first when the request was for a frame suited more for landscapes than poitrait which is normally her wont. And upon viewing what was to be added within the gallery for Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing, portraits were expected. However, what is showcased this week is that of a single maiden couched in the art of homicide, two aspects of the same lithe and lethal form. Brandishing her sentient and murderous Crowsythe, Berk, this wispy teen appears in a side-by-side depiction of her relentless ghost form of gold, and her bloodthirsty ravenhaired appearance in raisin and wine. A longer work than normal, not for replication of young Mira, but to re-address different styles of garb, it took thirteen hours to complete. However, you can watch a new speed-draw of her effort compressed to a mere twenty minutes.



Well, that's it for this week.

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