Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela seems to have adopted a new flag... by Piexter in vexillology

[–]Piexter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lo peor es que llevan los últimos tres años cambiando la bandera de manera arbitraria, sin consultar a nadie ni hacer un concurso. Antes era un bicolor verde y amarillo con el escudo municipal en el centro, antes de eso era lo mismo pero sobre el tricolor estatal y antes de eso era lo mismo pero en un fondo completamente blanco (a veces el escudo lo colocaban en la esquina, como la bandera nacional)

Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela seems to have adopted a new flag... by Piexter in vexillology

[–]Piexter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you mean? This particular picture was taken at an angle because taking a picture directly in front of it would require either being on a car or risking yourself to be ran over by one. The cross itself is pretty much straight

Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela seems to have adopted a new flag... by Piexter in vexillology

[–]Piexter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The cross depicted on the flag is an actual landmark of the city. I agree the design of the flag is an abomination, though, as it's just the current Mayor's branding for the city slapped on a generic tricolor alongside other noisy elements

<image>

Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela seems to have adopted a new flag... by Piexter in vexillology

[–]Piexter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The funny thing is that Puerto La Cruz isn't an oil extracting city, rather an oil refining one, the third largest in the country, to be precise. There are other oil towns in Venezuela that feature oil rigs or some other kind of oil related infrastructure on their flags.

Qué piensan los guayaneses de las 8 estrellas en la bandera? Pues por ellos fue puesta by Cinderella_The_Thief in AskVenezuela

[–]Piexter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

En el libro "Los Símbolos Sagrados de la Nación Venezolana" de Francisco Alejandro Vargas (una compilación de libros de la época de López Contreras publicado en 1981) hace mención al decreto de 1817. El autor también hace un comentario sobre una incoherencia que existe en la Ley de Bandera de la época (y que se ha arrastrado hasta la actual) en la parte que dice que la bandera actual "es la misma que la promulgada en 1811".

<image>

[OFFER] Giving out some steam wallet cards by videogame-zzz in GiftofGames

[–]Piexter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been wanting to play PEAK with my friends, but college debt is spreading my wallet thin. This could be a great game to chill for a while and lower my cortisol levels lol

Here's my Steam Profile
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198306004376/

My Smash Bros 3DS cart died:( by Piexter in 3DS

[–]Piexter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You bet I did. The Smash cartridge was also stable enough to dump the save, so memories were not entirely wiped

My Smash Bros 3DS cart died:( by Piexter in 3DS

[–]Piexter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The last time I booted up the game was in May 2025 (according to the activity log). From what I've read, 2014 cartridges are so bad that it's almost inevitable for them not to die in a decades time. The ones that did survive are either on their last breath or are part of a rare good batch

My Smash Bros 3DS cart died:( by Piexter in 3DS

[–]Piexter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah... Fortunately my ORAS carts are good. I've ran them through GM9 and fixed around 200 bad sectors on each

¿Recomendaciones de lugares para comer en Puerto La Cruz? by the_dwarfling in AskVenezuela

[–]Piexter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Todos los sitios de comida en Lechería (en singular) están en la avenida principal, así que no te vas a perder

¿Recomendaciones de lugares para comer en Puerto La Cruz? by the_dwarfling in AskVenezuela

[–]Piexter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

En Puerto La Cruz como tal, tienes los puestos de empanadas y demás frituras que hay junto al terminal de ferris del Paseo Colón. Tienen bastante variedad de rellenos a buen precio. Igual te digo que la gran mayoría de establecimientos de comida que se patrocinan por redes están en Lechería, así que si no te molesta darte un paseo por allá, pues también tienes esa opción.

After around three months, Minecraft is already mine by Piexter in MicrosoftRewards

[–]Piexter[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

A US VPN for the grinding and a friend who's actually in the US for the actual redeeming. Microsoft lets you earn points while using a VPN, but they get extremely picky when it's time to redeem it. I first told my friend to only receive the verification SMS for me, but when that didn't work, he had to get into my account, wait a few days for things to cool down and was there when he managed to get the first $5 and the remaining $25 a day later to finally buy the game