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I’ll be writing about my experiences living in Socialist Venezuela during these tumultuous times, as well as personal projects, video games, and everything in between.
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Aw yeah boys and girls, 2019 is the year were the Venezuelan government turns the tide. This is going to be the year of our definitive economic recovery! Our Worker-President, Driver of Victories, and Son Read more…
Here we go, we’re now in 2019 and let me tell ya—I feel fine. I’m actually confident that this will be a bright year. Sure, this country’s ongoing disaster is showing no signs of slowing Read more…
And thus 2018 comes to an end. Without a doubt, this was the longest and most complex year of my life. I lost my mother and my life was turned upside down, everything just fell Read more…
Here we are, December at last! Deck the halls with boughs of holly, t’is the season to be jolly; I wish I could say that without sarcasm. I really wish from the bottom of my Read more…
“If you truly wish to make someone suffer then put them through the torture of obtaining any document at a Venezuelan public office.” —An acquaintance. Imagine for a moment that you’re the Revolutionary, Bolivarian, Anti-imperialist, Read more…
Music for the Masses Oh yeah! It’s that time of the year again! The office of the Mayor of Caracas has covered all corners of the Libertador Bolivarian Municipality in joyous celebration. Get your dance Read more…
Venezuela might as well be a synonym of inflation and/or disaster. Inflation has been a long-standing problem that predates my birth. However, officially speaking, this October marked our first official year of hyperinflation—and boy let Read more…
It’s no secret that every aspect of Venezuela’s infrastructure is in a dire state. Our Internet network is no exception. In fact, it is a perfect reflection of the state of this country: held together Read more…
Six months. It has been six whole months since the worst day of our lives took place, the tragic day when we lost the most precious and pure thing in our lives—our mom. It only Read more…
Ah, video games, an ever-stable plateau in my otherwise turbulent and unstable life. It was through them that I was able to learn the majority of the broken English that I wield today (along with Read more…
Boy oh boy! I’m not kidding when I say that there is never a dull moment in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. These past couple weeks have been quite the nonstop wild ride: A new Read more…
Life is complicated, it is coalesced randomness in its purest and most distilled form, it is both fair and unfair at the same time; a conciliation of warring forces and often uncontrollable circumstances that when Read more…
We’re approaching the twentieth anniversary of the rise to power of the Bolivarian Revolution. Twenty years, something that’s easy to say, but those words convey a heavy toll on every Venezuelan. I can’t believe two Read more…
World of Warcraft, despite its flaws, dubious modern “casualization” design choices, and aging gameplay is still the flagship MMO in the market. Sure, the MMORPG genre as a whole has been going through a twilight Read more…
wew lad, just wew There’s never a dull moment in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela; I was trying to get some sleep after being awake for almost 24 hours (hello insomnia my old friend) and Read more…
Update: There is now a narration of this article courtesy of Finnigan Morris. Check it out below. Venezuela, that little place in South America that once upon a time was a shining diamond in the region, Read more…
We finally did it lads, at last, we’re all millionaires in Venezuela! We got so much money that we deal and trade in millions like its pocket change; one slide of your debit card into Read more…
During these two long, drawn out, and exhausting decades of “Revolution” in Venezuela I’ve been witness to the birth of not just this asphyxiating and draconian Socialist regime—sold to us as “XXI Century Socialism”, but Read more…
This past month has been quite taxing for me, both physically and mentally. From bureaucracy, depression, a little bit of anxiety with regards to the whole panorama, some personal regrets of my own, other personal Read more…
Once upon a time, before World of Warcraft became the King of Massively multiplayer online role-playing games, the genre dared to offer unique experiences and gameplay mechanics despite the technical limitations of the time. Games Read more…
It has been one month since my mother passed away, I still can’t believe it’s been a month already, time is certainly fleeting; while I’m glad she’s finally resting in Heaven after three long torturous Read more…
There is an overall sense of malaise permeating this country; we know it’s there, we know what’s causing it, but we can’t do anything about it. After the 2017 protests were over we’ve collectively resigned Read more…
I don’t know how to begin writing this, I’m also writing this as I suffer through chickenpox. March 2018 was the most complex month for my mother’s health, it was also her last. Over the Read more…
I’ve never had a ‘normal’ life—far from it rather. Back when I lived with my Father his family despised me, my mother, and eventually my brother for the unforgivable sin of existing; I was scorned Read more…
This post is long overdue, I’m running out of options here and I would be lying if I said I don’t feel desperate and powerless—more often than before. My mother is a Doctor with an Read more…
Life is the ultimate rng game, its chaotic, random, unpredictable. You don’t get to choose your starting stats, your passives, character sliders, and racial bonuses; the best you can do is make up with what Read more…
I remember, twenty-something years ago, back when I was a but a mere child fascinated with shows such as Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles, Spellbinder, and many other superheroes and sci-fi shenanigans; happily enjoying the wonders Read more…
The Bolivar is dead, and everyone knows it What little value it still retained evaporated throughout 2017, a currency that once was worth more than the United States Dollar is now not even worth Read more…
I still remember it as if it was yesterday, it was a few months into my Jedi Outcast adventure when my clanmates told me some exciting news. “They’re making new Jedi Knight Three!” They said. Read more…
w e w l a d I did it, I survived through another year in this glorious Socialist Revolution. 2017, Anno Domini MMXVII, Twenty Seventeen, Two Thousand Seventeen, Heisei 29—whatever you prefer to call it, Read more…
August 2002 With the Attack of the Clones craze still latent on the environment, I was gifted a burned copy of Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. I loaded the disc into my brand-new desktop computer Read more…
It is now well-known that Venezuela is currently sliding through a hyperinflationary maelstrom from which there is no easy way out. The banknotes that were introduced in 2007 are now beyond worthless; they’ve become nothing Read more…
I must confess that when I first read about Destiny back in 2013, I was entranced—and quite thrilled—by its ominous and grandiose presentation. Bungie’s first post-Halo game got me hooked with its post-collapse futuristic setting, Read more…
Welcome to the first #SwapACommie update. Before we delve into the subject matter of this article I would like to thank each and every one of you for your heartwarming support, words cannot express how Read more…
Venezuela is the country with the biggest proven oil reserves in the world, this is a fact that our Government loves to remind us at least once per day in one way or another, it Read more…
Good evening, and welcome to the first post in the “Life in Venezuela” series — let me begin this series by addressing the elephant in the room: Our now miserly salaries and how they fare Read more…
Once upon a time, a there was a country that lived under the subjugating boot of the Spanish Crown, this small country had but a simple dream: to be free from the shackles of those Read more…
Greetings. I’ve always strived to be a force of good in this world, to help the needy and ultimately contribute as much as I humanly can to Make the world a better place™ In that Read more…
Hello there, welcome to my humble corner in the Internet, a central hub and foundation for many great things to come. Here’s some of the things you can expect on this website: Life in Venezuela: Read more…