David O'Keefe, Author at Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/author/david-o-keefe/ Stories about Culture Mon, 13 Aug 2018 04:28:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://unwinnable.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-icon-1-32x32.jpg David O'Keefe, Author at Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/author/david-o-keefe/ 32 32 The Last Bastion of Steel Battalion https://unwinnable.com/2018/08/13/the-last-bastion-of-steel-battalion/ Mon, 13 Aug 2018 16:18:47 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=70229 The cockpit closes around you, sealing away your peripheral vision and trapping you inside a steel cocoon. In front of you is a medley of arcane gauges, blinking lights, and a labyrinth of levers, pedals, dials, and buttons loomed over by several large control sticks. Nestled among the controls is a clear plastic panel on hinges which flips up to reveal an alluring cherry red button. Don’t ever push that – Not unless things get dire. There’s an elaborate boot-up sequence to memorize. You have to flip the right switches and hit the right buttons in the correct order if

The post The Last Bastion of Steel Battalion appeared first on Unwinnable.

]]>