he Weekly Gazette 4-12-2026

[DerVVulfman]

(April 6 to April 12, 2026)

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 Middle East conflicts continue to make the News of the World and truth is the first casualty as news agencies and former US government staffers promote false reports and Iranian propaganda. No longer having the capacity to create new attack drones, a flimsy cease fire began. But it began to shatter when Iran started extorting vessels passing through ths Strait of Hormuz under threat of sea mines. As US Navy vessels passed through, Iran began threatening with smaller fast attack boats. A US resolution to deal with the Strait was up for vote, but was vetoed by both China and Russia. Rather than allowing the extortion to continue, the US began a blockade and vowed to remove all mines from the Strait of Hormuz, enraging Iran all the more. The Russian Invasion of Ukraine is spreading beyond borders as Estonia prepares itself if Russian troops attempt to cross their border. And in Estonia, there is talk of secessionists in one of their most eastern cities, a reminder that such were also in Ukraine before the start of their invasion. Meanwhile, Poland intercepted Russian Il-20 surveillance-reconnaissance aircrafts twice this past week intensifying straings upon NATO's eastern flank. And a Russian plot to endanger undersea international communication cables was foiled by the United Kingdom forcing the Russian Akula class and two Gugi class submarines to retreat back to Moscow. And the hope of ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine ended when Moscow refuses to extend the truce until Kiev accepts Putin's terms. Fraud hit the news in the US as there is over $1 Trillion in taxpayer programs and almost ten thousand cases have been targeted. Over $1 Million defrauded from Dolly Parton's literacy program in California. And a month after it was formed the Anti-Fraud task force led by Vice-President Vance has identified nearly $6.3 billion in government contracts rife with fraud. The gubernatorial race in California hit a snag for Eric Swalwell with sexual assault allegations and reports of misused campaign funds for an illegal alien nanny have stripped him of his funds; a Democrat Party run conspiracy to sink his campaign being his claim.And violence too were in the streets of the US as a machete-wielding maniac calling himself "Lucifer" was shot after stabbing thre elderly people in New York. And another maniac who stabbed a US Marine in North Carolina was nabbed. And after over a decade, the Gilgo Beach serial killer pled guilty and, without remorse, described how he murdered his eight victims. Despite their own military build up in the region, China is furious that Japan is doing the same in responce to China's continuing pressure on Taiwan and North Korea's repeated ballistic missile tests. But it is not only military build up but expansion as Indonesia recovered a Chinese underwater drone in the Lombok Strait, a key shipping lane and strategic chokepoint east of Bali. And around Taiwan, China had deployed nearly 100 naval and coast guard vessels this week while making peace platitudes to Taiwan's Taiwan’s opposition leader.In France, a 9 year old boy was rescued from his deranged father that locked him in a van for nearly two year. And archaeologists have uncovered ancient skeletons beneath a school site in Dijon, France, all arranged in an unusual seated position.Queen Elizabeth's final wish to see all her grandchildren, Michael J. Fox alive and well despite CNN's blunder that the Back to the Future actor had died, Hezbollah chief’s top secretary killed in recent Israeli strikes in Lebanon, Congress responds to Melania Trump's request to have Epstein victims on record, Israel's condemnation of South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's trivialization of the Holocause, the rare birth of giant otter triplets at UK's Chester Zoo, and more hit this week's news.

Reduced from 37.5K words down to 628

Tech Talk

The largest plague upon the internet are Chinese Hackers, and one of their state sponsored hacking group TA416 that began targeting Europe at the start of the Ukrainian Invasion by Russia, not turns its attentions back to the governments and diplomats of Europe and NATO agencies once more. On the financial ransom front is Storm-1175 who have sped up attacks to mere hours as they've weaponized vulnerabilities and hampered services with Medusa Ransomware. The hacking of US surveillance systems and video conference services in use are also well known.

It appears that there will not be a week that Artificial Intelligence won't be coverd in the News of the Cyber World as dire warnings of new AI systems that can even breach secure isolated testing environment devoid of internet access and send eMails to its own developers have now appeared. But a version of one particular is now being shared with Cisco, Crowdstrike, Linux and others to look for even the smallest of possible vulnerabilities. Of the internet, Iran had shut down all services, this to shield the world from the hundreds of ongoing executions. Hackers continue their activity, but one Russian-backed group that had been infiltrating more than 120 countries was just neutralized by the US FBI. But on an unexpected front, China was not the hacker but the hacked, an account named FlamingChina claiming to have taken more than 10 petabytes of sensitive information out of China’s own state-run supercomputers now looking for buyers. The world's best Age of Empires champion, the TikTok rambler who calls a healthy lawn white supremacy, the uproar over Amazon Kindles being rendered near unusable, AI taxis legally requiring human drivers, and more hit this week's cybernews.

>>>HEADER<<<

Development Discussion

This is a game development forum. And at oft times, people wish to relay What's up as to their, RM Endeavors. And this week, AVGB-KBGaming is returning to game development but is looking for a .dll designed to increase the resolution of RPGMaker VXAce game screens beyond the maximum size of 640x480. While working on his Face Sync system, DerVVulfman realized that one could have subfolders within an RPGMaker product's Data folder which would too be functional when compressed. And he later suggested to kyonides that he did create a means to have audio content encryptable by an unexpected means. Son Rukiri is making his own RPG game editor in his spare time, though only at a beginning stage for now. But not alone, DerVVulfman began working on an editor for his Face Sync system. Meanwhile, as Remi-chan recreates new battle introduction scenes for her game, her sprite artist sent her five full color winged maiden sprites with full flappy animatics. But while Xiie (or Rune) has been available to send her work, Pjcr has nothing to yet present.

Things got a little flighty in the Maps and Screenshot Thread after Remi-chan received more fowlhunter sprites from Xiie (or Rune). And because of the fluid motion of the wings, the three screenshots of the winged maidens are too animated.

Code Support

It has been a journey for Ace_V who was looking to make train actors face the same way as the player when using Fukuyama's original Train Actor caterpillar script. But after receiving aid from DerVVulfman and kyonides, he discovered how to use scritpts and techniques taught to him how to combine them with basic conditional branches to solve all his requests.

Material Development

Scripts Database

RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine

If anyone was going to have characters speak in their game and wanted NPCs to do more than just visibly match the intensity of what's spoken, DerVVulfman created the Face Sync System Core for RPGMaker XP. From what it says, the core script is only the animation work horse, and uses custom files that can be cached like any other data file. However, the demo also includes two patches that let it work with message windows to let NPCs mouths move in timing with audibly heard dialogue, and a matching file for field map sprites.

Resources Database

2D Resources

One might need to watch out for anyone at a tailor shop, especially grooms thanks to the recent addition to the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V. The smirking tailor that appeared last week now has a new collection of reactions available. And if the groom doesn't watch out, a rose for his bride might be in her future.

Creativity Section

Art and Design

Doom and gloom represented by anger encompassed by amethyst has once more appeared within the gallery set apart for Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing! Clutching blades exuding torrentsof black light and settled against a backdrop of midnight and a moon heliotrope is the Eldritch Mortician. Having made more than a dozen appearances within her gallery Since May 2021, Xaela the Evil God is one of Remi-Chan's apparent favorites to illustrate. But no sadistic or malicious grin appears upon her face this time, nor any scowl or glaring eyes filled with anger. An expression devoid of emotion other than dubiety and faithlessness, the work took eight hours for completion which can be viewed and studied thanks to the thirteen minute long speed-draw video also gracing the gallery.

Literature

The Bibliotheca

Stories of artificial intelligence running amok appears in many science-fiction stories. But few suggest those that can escape its silicon prison. But in the latest chapter of Events Should Go Unnoticed, an AI now plots to escape its electronic confines.

Filmography

Get ready, for Remi-chan's Cinematic Theatre is going to give you one hell of a ride. This week, the last of the living royalty from her universe's future interpretation of Earth prepares to face the heroines of her game. But she isn't alone.

Well, that's it for this week.

“My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.” - J. P. Getty

PROSPECTIVE GAZETEERS!

If you are the creator of a thread in Save-Point, you have the option of sending/writing your own entry into the Gazette. The Gazette accepts write-in announcements (which will be doublechecked). Likewise, the Gazette would welcome other content such as a comic-strip series, ongoing story arc, or the like.

Just PM DerVVulfman with the submissions. Submissions must be in by 10pm EST.

Regularly posted 12am (EST) (between Sunday & Monday) based on U.S. Daylight Savings,
4am Monday (UTC), 10pm Sunday(CST/MDT), 6pm Sunday (HST), 6am Monday (CEST), 2pm Monday (AEST) observing daylight savings
5am Monday (UTC), 11pm Sunday(CST), 6pm Sunday (HST), 7am Monday (CET), 3pm Monday (AEST) Not observing daylight savings