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Another month, another Monthly Report. Info on this month's stories: 1. Discord Suspension Wave Machinimists from the Team Short 64 Discord server were affected by a sudden wave of Discord account suspensions on July 10. Accounts were suspended for . While Koop the Koopa reported getting a suspicious account access email around the time of his account suspension, similar reports for the other account holders weren't seen. Affected individuals were forced to create brand new accounts. Sources: ShortCD, Koop the Koopa, yogurt Master64, VSM44, various Discord servers/groups 2. Saturn Updates A new Saturn update, made available on July 7 brought brand new chroma keying features, enhancements to the custom eye texture system, and an advanced character positioning system to the program. Chroma keying can now be turned on within any level, rather that being only accessible in Saturn's Chroma Key Stage. The stage hasn't gone away though, and still loads when Saturn is launched. Individual eye textures can now be set for Mario's Open, Half-closed, and Closed eye states, making using blink cycles with custom eye textures a new possibility in Saturn. Saturn also now supports copying and pasting of the in-map coordinates of the character model's location. Sources: Saturn, Rise Realm Discord server 3. Team Moon Team Moon, a brand new machinima group channel, made their public launch this month. The team's content will consists of a variety of machinima videos, from tutorials to casual bloopers. Team Moon YouTube channel: @TeamMoon64/ Source: Team Moon 4. Drama Events Two notable drama/controversy-related events occured within or closed to the SM64 community this July. A less active extension of the Niall/JFM321 drama of months prior made its way into July when it was discovered that a Discord account by the name of “Guy64“ belonged to JFM. The account appeared in servers from which JFM321 was previously banned during the time that the user's identity was still unrevealed. In a seperate series of events, it was revealed that prominent SMG4 community member Jakoralt was guilty of highly inapprorpiate behavior involving a minor, among with various other accusations, including a number of offensive remarks. Sources: various Discord servers/groups 5. Other Releases/Tutorials Links to the month's resource releases and tutorials: -Shy Guy and Bandit by Team Toad (MrGameAndSketch/Enkal): -CM9 Animation's Elephant Mario model for Saturn: RoboBloopers64's iOS machinima tutorial: -Chain Chomp model for Saturn by Team Toad (MrGameAndSketch): -MrGameAndSketch's Bob-omb model for Saturn: -Lollino Damb 64's character for Project64: -Several releases by Lazym12: Uncle Sam Mario: Big the Cat: Alphadream Mario: Chaos Sonic 64: Odyssey Outfit Pack 6: Professor Pickle & Sir Charles 64:
