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Here you’ll find posts 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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When I say that my life has been most atypical I’m not gloating or exaggerating at all, quite the opposite. I’ve been alive for over three decades now and there are still things that I Read more…
The third month of Venezuela’s lockdown has just started, the quarantine has been extended until June 12 and boy, it has felt like an eternity so far. What better way to celebrate this continued reality Read more…
Well, here we go, Sword of the Nation’s third draft is still fresh after getting out of the metaphorical oven a week ago, and other than the name of one particular character that I’m still Read more…
We’re approaching the end of the second month of this ongoing Coronavirus lockdown, I guess it’s time for some personal ramblings in a continued effort of opening up to the world after living so many Read more…
At long last, I’ve managed to complete work on Sword of the Nation’s third draft. I’d celebrate this milestone with some alcohol and torturing people on Discord singing with my terrible voice while inebriated but Read more…
And just like that, in the blink of an eye, we’ve reached the first month of Venezuela’s ‘Social Quarantine’, can’t say its been a blast. Just like with other extraordinary occurrences in our past, such Read more…
March 31st, 2020. It has now been two whole years since my mother’s tragic passing. I’ve honestly had a hard time coming to terms with that realization, to the point of being sorta obsessed with Read more…
These sure are trying times for the world. So much for “it’s just a flu”, eh? This Coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic is no laughing matter indeed, and it has seriously impacted everyone. Curfews, shortages, layoffs, Read more…
There’s an old saying that goes: “Éramos muchos y parió la Abuela”, which literally translates to “We were many and then grandma gave birth”, in other words “As if we didn’t had enough problems already.” Read more…
Hello, I’d like to give you all an update on Sword of the Nation, as well as share with you all a general initial roadmap and plans for the entirely of this project. I. Sword Read more…
The second month of 2020 came and went so fast that I’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact that we’re already in March. This past month of February shared much of the Read more…
Man, that sucked. Battle for Azeroth, World of Warcraft’s seventh expansion pack, is winding down. While the last planned content patch, 8.3:Visions of N’zoth, is barely a month old, the expansion is effectively done content-wise for Read more…
Of all the goals that I’ve set upon myself to achieve in the immediate future, being able to migrate legally to another country while being able to take my brother along with me is by Read more…
Greetings and welcome to Sword of the Nation’s first public preview. This preview is comprised of the Prologue and the first eight chapters of this tale (out of a planned twelve), which I hope will Read more…
New year, new life, same old country. Venezuela tried its best to celebrate Christmas, while it wasn’t filled to the brim in holiday cheer and joy, the ambient sure was more festive than 2018—even if Read more…
And thus here I stand, at the end of a decade and waiting on the impending start of another. inb4 “ackshully, it starts in 2021”. The past ten years certainly were most atypical and chaotic. Read more…
Finally, 2019 is about to be over, time to exhale, at last. This was a very volatile year overall. 2019 started simple, optimistic, and straightforward, but it rapidly escalated into something most unstable and haywire—until Read more…
The MOBA fad, survival zombie crafting early access, battle royale, games as a service, lootboxes, season passes, excessive use of FOMO, locking content ransom behind a preorder, selling to the Chinese, needing a chart to Read more…
It’s (barely) the most wonderful time of the year Last year’s Christmas was certainly a monochromatic one in Venezuela; a very bleak holiday season that lacked much of the joy and cheerfulness that comes with Read more…
Towards the end of 2019 I’ve found it hard to write up my thoughts about Venezuela’s current situation in a new, fresh manner because quite frankly, nothing has changed. The past months have been a Read more…
Welcome to part three of my ongoing Final Fantasy XIV adventures as a WoW Refugee™. In this one, I’ll ramble and give my own thoughts on my first foray in FFXIV’s Savage Raiding. With FFXIV receiving Read more…
Hello and welcome to the sixth Lore preview for Sword of the Nation. This time, I would like to showcase a bit of information regarding the chromatic protagonists of this tale: The Nightingale Series of Read more…
Hello and welcome to another Lore preview for Sword of the Nation. This time, I would like to share with you a few tidbits of information about a term—or rather, a concept that you will Read more…
Alright, September of 2019 is thankfully over, another monthly spin of the cycle in whatever is left of this country. Since I had to dedicate most of my time to certain real life nuances and Read more…
Welcome to another Sword of the Nation preview, this one is a little different, a lore preview rather than a character one, focused on the Nasivern. While the Nasivern’s tale is of peripheral importance to Read more…
Welcome to Sword of the Nation’s third preview. In this one, I’ll be presenting you with a brief look at the villains of the story: The Ashen Reckoning, and their leader, Dogma. Once again, I Read more…
Hello, and welcome to the second of a series of Sword of the Nation previews. This one is focused on another set of characters: The Royal House of Starsong. Before we start, I would like Read more…
Greetings and welcome to Sword of the Nation’s first character preview. This, the first of several planned previews will give you an initial glimpse of the heroes of the tale: The Gestalt team. Please be Read more…
Hello, it’s been a while since I last wrote anything about my novel series, and for that I apologize, it’s been a most chaotic year. I finished the first draft of Sword of the Nation Read more…
Numerous are the wonders that this Bolivarian Socialism of the XXI Century has graced us with. Endless blackouts and water shortages that I’m sure some will say they help preserve the environment, shortages that help Read more…
We’re now in the month of August of 2019, the eighth of this year’s twelve months; sixteen months since our mother passed away, and more than halfway through my 31st year of life. Time, or Read more…
Allow me to go back to Monday, the 22th of July. It started as your regular run of the mill Monday; nothing extraordinary despite having a rather exhausting morning and sparse raining. I walked around Read more…
There has been many cases of failures throughout the video game industry; some of a higher profile than others—especially in the MMO market and its desire to replicate World of Warcraft’s original success. However, there’s Read more…
The seventh month of 2019 is upon us, a whole six months after the start of Venezuela’s latest political crisis. Time certainly flies, 2019 is halfway done and it has been quite the exhausting journey Read more…
I don’t have a good relationship with time; the ability to manage it, along with proper rest, and a working circadian rhythm are some of my biggest personal shortcomings. I recently sat down on my Read more…
Hyperinflation, institutionalized blackouts, endless gasoline queues, cash shortages, an accentuated collapse of utilities and public infrastructure—these are all but some of the problems that have plagued Venezuela for around a decade now, none of them Read more…
The lines lines lines. You love those lines, you shove them straight—straight to my face. The societal and cultural damage that Venezuela has suffered through the past twenty years is almost irreparable. With every new Read more…
Bear with me here, publicly talking about myself is still somewhat difficult for me, just trying to get some much-needed catharsis. For the past fourteen months, I’ve been driven by a promise and all my Read more…
It finally happened, didn’t it? You finally quit WoW — you are finally free. It’s no secret that Battle for Azeroth has been an unmitigated disaster from day one and that its shortcomings are numerous: Read more…
The taboo of the ‘almighty’ Dollar is one of the byproducts spawned out of 20 years of Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela; heck, just the mere mention of the word can cause quite the array of Read more…
The Venezuelan blackout saga is far from over, it’s going to be one of those long story arcs from the looks of it. Most of the country is now suffering through a very strict “Load Read more…
Today marks the first year anniversary of our mother’s passing. I’m still trying to grasp my head around the fact that a whole year has come and gone; our lives haven’t been the same without Read more…
And thus here we stand, two weeks after Venezuela went through the worst blackout in its history. We still do not have an official and formal explanation of what happened; Maduro’s regime has adhered to Read more…
There really isn’t a dull moment in Venezuela; in my previous post I mentioned an unsustainable “Snapshotted reality” and how everything seemed to be stuck and unable to move forward. I’ve also mentioned in the Read more…
Note: This post was meant to go online before the two long blackouts that took place in Venezuela, so with that in mind I suppose that it didn’t aged well lmao. March of 2019 is Read more…