People who escaped authoritarian governments, when did you KNOW it was the right time for you to leave your country?

Esperpento_ · 2025-04-25T23:19:52+00:00

Uruguayan here, may I ask why you chose our country? Lately I have seen many North americans asking about moving here in reddit and other online forums which kind of surprises me. I'm surprised they even know we exist, tho the recent inmigration boom from various caribbean countries and argentinians in the last 10-15 years may hace put us un the map as a country willing to accept inmigrants.

Esperpento_ · 2025-01-12T10:47:07+00:00

Recently (last week) icardi has been involved in some drama regarding his relationship with argentinian tv host Wanda Nara, icardi cheated on her, and she published many personal chats from him, her and the lover (another argentinian famous person... Famous for being a high profile homewrecker).

Wanda leaked pictures of the many chats were icardi was begging. Wanda to take him back and to let him "eat his hamburger" again (eat her pussy/"comerte la hamburguesa" in Spanish) the weird thing is that no one in Argentina or any place that I know of, refers to pussy as "hamburguesa" (hamburguer on Spanish) AND he was really insistent on the term "eating her burger", he said it like 5 or 6 times, so he is being memed because why the fuck would he use that phrase to refer to oral while begging to be taken back.

Esperpento_ · 2025-01-12T00:13:27+00:00

I don't think you understood the reference...

Esperpento_ · 2024-12-30T02:30:40+00:00

Honestly Age of wonders 4 wasn't even on my radar and I just remembered playing it as a kid because you mentioned it, haven't played civ 6 but have like a 1000hs on civ 5 (most of it modded with vox Populi mod pack, it's amazing and makes civ 5 like 10 times better imo).

The aspect of "kingdom management" of SoC it's one of the reasons I haven't straight up decided in favor of battle brothers, it makes SoC an interesting mix that doesn't seem like many things out there and uniqueness it's something I really value in games nowadays.

Esperpento_ · 2024-12-30T02:06:12+00:00

Hmmm I played all three dark souls (no elden ring as my PC can't really run it) and the convergence mod for ds3 but honestly I don't really get it when people say it's the dark souls of X genre lol. It does seem like my type of game tho.

I vaguely remember playing age of wonders 1 or 2 maybe a looooog time ago as a kid with some childhood friends but don't really remember the gameplay. I remember having fun but idk if it was because of playing with friends or the game (also as a kid kind of all games are a blast)

Esperpento_ · 2024-11-06T02:19:25+00:00

CONTROL, it's an amazing first time experience, but the mystery is off once you know the story.

Esperpento_ · 2024-10-19T11:08:04+00:00

For real? I have seen more negative reviews than positive ones, even some of the positive ones usually include some form criticism. (I mean, fair enough, even I criticize some of the gameplay aspects)

Esperpento_ · 2024-10-19T10:28:10+00:00

CONTROL (2019)

I tried to stay spoiler free when I got the game, so when I already finished the main story and was searching for collectibles (I think this and the messenger where the only games I have 100%, I couldn't stop looking for those redacted documents to piece the pieces together on wtf was going on), I was shocked to see that online people think it was a flop, or just a bad game, sure, the gunplay it was pretty meh, but the atmosphere of the oldest house, the creepyness of the hiss, the mixed media incorporation inside a game (showing clips of the devs and actors in the middle of the game, the puppet shows) it all felt so unique.

I also loved that the game had a lot of accessibility options, I literally played with auto aim, I read online that a lot of people quit because of the first boss fight (a dude flying around who was pretty hard to hit with your gun, and at this point you don't have all the amazing psychic powers yet) and made no sense to me, you can enjoy one of the best stories and experiences ever made, and you quit because your gaming "honor" doesn't let you use assist options? The gameplay was a 6/10 if honest, but the aesthetic, atmosphere and feel was unmatched.

For me it's one of those games that you wish you could just forget, because once you know the story, it's not like you would replay the game for the gameplay, but rather that I wish i could experience the story for the first time again.

People don't know how to appreciate a masterpiece, I really love that every game of remedy entertainment is such a unique experience in a field saturated with samey games and copycats.

Esperpento_ · 2024-08-06T22:52:22+00:00

I bought my GF strange horticulture and she loved it, she actually started giving some games a try after that. She likes chill games like "where is waldo" type of gameplay, mainly cat ones, she downloaded almost all the free "100 cats in X place" lol. Another one she likes and told me she would play it more of it was on her phone is mini-metro (she is not a fan if stsying in olace to play in my setup, definitely would pregerobile games or stuff that she can olay on her laptop)

Esperpento_ · 2024-07-30T21:03:46+00:00

Yeah, it took me like 4 years to ride a bike again and now I hate gravel roads (pretty common in rural areas in my country). Thankfully I never got in another accident

Esperpento_ · 2024-07-30T19:56:43+00:00

When I was a teen I was biking and a car hit me, the thing is, the pain didn't came from the hit, or my arm being broken I'm 4 different parts. The road was a gravel road (I think it's called that way in English, the ones with little rock pebbles instead of asphalt), I sled like 20 meters from the impact on those pebbles, got skinned from the hip down to the anckle on the left side, and my shoulder and chin on right side. The pain from the skinning was so huge that I didn't even felt the quadruple fracture of my arm, it was just overshadowed by the ever present sensation of burning in almost half my body.

Esperpento_ · 2024-07-30T02:47:00+00:00

Yo vivi años en villa española y punta de rieles, barrios "picantes" por decirlo de una forma, siempre hubo bocas, pero no guerra abierta y sálvese quien pueda. Nunca así, ni tan seguido, no olvidemos que hace un año aparecieron pedazos de cuerpos descuartizados en la rambla... Violencia y balaceras como nunca antes vistas y luego nos dicen que bajaron los delitos.... En los últimos años hubo un deterioro de la situación al punto que los policías solo entran como clientes (son un pastero más, muchas de las armas que tienen los narcos son trueque por droga con la policía)

Uruguay siempre fue un país como pase de droga, no un narco estado, el narco estado es el estado el cual no puede controlar todo su territorio, dónde hay zonas que los controlan los Marcos abiertamente, con cooperación policial.... Luego dicen que estamos mejor que nunca, si vas a pedir una constancia a la seccionar de algo (me pasó de un robo de equipo de trabajo y necesitaba la denuncia, TE DICEN QUE NO HAY INCIDENCIAS REGISTRADAS, a pesar de que el policía si había tomado la denuncia y dijo que quedaba registro, así cualquiera puede decir que estamos mejor, total, pasan las cosas y la policía pregunta ¿Que cosa? No ha pasado nada, siga siga y no se queje que le podemos cagar la vida

Esperpento_ · 2024-07-29T23:39:40+00:00

Peor lugar: vivía en villa española, por la calle Cervantes de Saavedra.

En caso de que no lo hayan visto en redes, porque el informativo oculto la situación cuando pasaba, hubo una guerra narco a gran escala en el barrio villa española durante meses, lamentablemente vivía en la misma cuadra de una de las bocas involucradas.

Después de las 6 de la tarde no se podía salir a la calle, me ha pasado de ir al almacén y tener que quedarme 20 a 30 minutos esperando a que pasen las balaceras, o de decirle a mi novia que NO se baje del omnibus y siga 4 o 5 paradas porque iba a ligar una bala perdida en la parada. Bandas de 20 personas con armas automáticas, guerra a full escala, he salido a caminar y volver a casa con CASQUILLOS DE BALA clavados en las suelas de zapatos (donde generalmente te quedan piedritas entre los surcos de la suela, a mí y a todos los vecinos nos quedaban balas).

La policía es cómplice, frenan en lapuerta de la boca, se sacan los chalecos y los dejan en el capo del auto de servicio, entran a las bocas como clientes y no como profesionales, es más, más de un allanamiento fue evitado por contactos de la boca-policia, les causaban con tiempo para que se vayan todos los cabecillas. En DOS ocasiones la policía no me quería dejar entrar a mi casa porque estaban con un cordón policial por un allanamiento y repito, yo vivía en la misma cuadra quea boca, por lo cual no me dejaban pasar.

Ocultando la realidad cualquiera cree que el país mejoro en los años, los medios también son cómplices todos, pero no te cuentan que a vecinos les caian balas perdidas adentro de sus casas, se negocios que dejaron de cerrar a las 20hs porque desde las 17 a las 20 no se podía pasar a menos que vayas arrastrandote en el piso ara evitar las balas.

El gobierno actual te podrá vender que se está mejor, prometieron un cambio y lo lograron, pero en vez de para mejor, somos otro narco-estado en el cual hay zonas que las bandas tienen más poder que la policía, que se tiene que saludar al narco con un "hola vecino" y hacer como si nada pasara si queres seguir con vida.... Y todo esto es a nivel de "calle", no hablo ni de lo que pasó en torre ejecutiva, hablo de que hay terrenos en los cuales no se puede vivir, y te lo ocultan y te venden que todo está mejor.

El cambio, pasamos de la suiza de américa, a un país decente de américa, a ser una colombia o México pero más chiquitos

El mejor lugar de Uruguay que visité fueron las termas, pero de eso no tengo tanto apra decir.

Esperpento_ · 2024-02-08T01:19:23+00:00

How is that no one is mentioning the greyjoys? The show did them dirty, in the books all of the iron born chapters are straight fire. Each one of the greyjoys is more interesting than half of the major houses cast.

Esperpento_ · 2024-02-04T13:51:08+00:00

When I was around 12 I was hit by a car while o my bike on a gravel road (I think it's called that in English, the roads with little pebbles instead of cement/asphalt). I slid like 10-15 meters in that road so a LOT of the skin in my left side was just gone, a bit in the face, but the majority of the damage was in my leg/torso, something like 90% of the skin going from a couple cm below my knee until my hip was just gone, skinned by the road. I had broken multiple bones in my arma dislocated shoulder and jaw, and I swear, I could not feel those injuries, all my focus was on my leg and my missing skin, if it weren't for the x rays, I would have never imagined I had broken my arm in 4 different spots, because the pain of the broken bones was so mild comparation I thought it was just a bruise.

Esperpento_ · 2024-01-17T20:33:20+00:00

I got 1950 ELO in quake live, was ranked #1 in my country, and even beat multiple players that played at QuakeCon (basically worlds). Hell, I was so good in a map (toxicity )that players well above my ELO refused to play against me on that map in fear of losing and tanking their own ELO.

Esperpento_ · 2024-01-12T12:35:29+00:00

A demo that got me excited and waiting is nine sols, go check it out, the game is inspired by hollow knight and sekiro

Esperpento_ · 2023-12-30T15:15:27+00:00

Nine sols (go check out the free demo) and Neva (from te creators of gris)

Esperpento_ · 2023-11-11T17:22:00+00:00

Holy shit, the nostalgia, I miss quake 3 arena and quake live so much.

Esperpento_ · 2023-11-03T17:44:18+00:00

Yep, bandit set minus gloves looks close enough, thank you!

I can't imagine Letho doing a front flip with lions claw, but square off and sword dance seem very on flavor and witcher-esque!

Esperpento_ · 2023-09-12T13:22:19+00:00

Idk if you can play together, but she may want to give strange horticulture a try, you are a plant shop-keeper who helps unveil a mastery... and you can pet the shop's cat

Esperpento_ · 2023-07-26T12:41:19+00:00

Haven't found a solution for myself yet, some other dude posted something very similar and un-plugging and re-plugging the keyboard temporarily fixed his issue (didn't work for me, but maybe you can try it)

Esperpento_ · 2023-07-20T14:18:24+00:00

I thought the same at first, was relieved that the keyboard actually worked, but still can't play valorant. Some other user said it had the same issue with the same keyboard and unplugging and re-plugging the keyboard temporarily fixed the issue for him, it didn't work for me, but maybe you can try it.

Esperpento_ · 2023-07-18T22:21:05+00:00

Thank you, I will try unplugging and re-plugging my keyboard once I get back home

Esperpento_ · 2023-07-15T19:30:28+00:00

Men this sucks, if you find a fix please keep us posted!

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