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 some of the cheerfulness was quasi mandatory and forced by Maduro’s regime. Regardless, I sincerely 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. If I may be honest, I did not lived them to its fullest, squandered too 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 it all crashed into stagnation and exhaustion, not just Venezuela, but my life as well. 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 know which version of the game to buy, censorship, Scam Citizen, predatory microtrans—wait a minute, 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 it. In my personal case, the loss of my mother earlier that year meant that—well, 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 lull and stagnant period in the country after what was a very heated and convoluted 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 such a large influx of players with the release of their latest expansion, Shadowbringers, the 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 Battle Suits that the main cast employs as they fight the forces of the Ashen 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 see mentioned through this upcoming novel series: The Absolute Doctrine. Disclaimer: these previews aren’t 100% 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 I focused most of my writing time to my novel project’s lore and to other Read more…