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SWORDS BROKEN: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

October 22nd, 2024 ― A story about psychic communion with giant bugs, colossal flesh golems, and our spiritual relationship to fungus may not immediately cry out to you for any sword-focused analysis. I would agree that Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) is not really asking you to think about the swords, and the reason I love it so much has almost entirely to do with the bugs, the fungus, and the golems. However, there is a lot of talk in Nausicaä about materials for weapons and armor―the actual substance of swords breaking...

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John Sham Kin-Fun (aka John Shum) being cartoonishly attacked by five dudes with swords in a scene from the 1985 Hong Kong action film 'Yes, Madam'

Veney Ideas Megapost 2025

January 17th, 2025 ― Veney has been dormant for a while. In my lackadaisical, mixed approach to spitballing 1. improvements on the “main” game, 2. variant rules, and 3. experimental proof-of-concept twists on basic chess concepts toward my sorta overall thesis, I’ve ended up with an unwieldy, disorganized list of crazy ideas. It’s been over a year since the last veney update, and I have a blog now, so I figured why not dump ’em here? Enjoy!

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