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Just past midnight on September 26th, 1983 — three weeks after the Soviets shot down a passenger airliner, with the Cold War at its coldest — a computer screen in a secret bunker lit up with one word: LAUNCH. Then another. Five American missiles, it said. Confidence: certainty. The duty officer had minutes, no second opinion, and one doubt.
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Two guys. One enormous dieselpunk spider-turret. A 1920s Castillian monarchy held together with hydraulic grease and bad decisions. IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator just became the number-one most wishlisted game…
It is July 16. The sun is a diesel-powered furnace welded directly above your skull by a malevolent engineer who clearly never had to work outdoors. Heat indexes are lying…
The Clockpunk genre has a problem, and that problem is that most Clockpunk games look like someone put a gear decal on a generic fantasy RPG and called it a…
The people behind the Great Dickens Christmas Fair have gone and done it again: they're turning Pier 35 on the Embarcadero into an 1849 Gold Rush settlement for two days…
At 12:32 AM on April 27th, 1986, HBO's movie dissolved into color bars and a message signed "Captain Midnight" — and one of America's biggest broadcasters discovered it couldn't take its own channel back.
At dinnertime on May 19th, 1998, ninety percent of America's pagers went silent at once. Doctors, hospitals, gas pumps — all waiting on one satellite, 22,000 miles up, whose brain had just died. Its backup? Dead too. And nobody knew.
One misplaced line of code shut down half of America's telephone network for nine hours. No hackers. No storm. Just a single "break" statement in the wrong place, and a recovery message that spread like a disease.
