No. Ratcheting stops are one form of winch break (and definitely the most common in modern winches) but it’s not a mandatory inclusion. A winch is just a rope around a drum.

Also with no ratcheting preventing backspin every once in a while that poor sap in the wheel would miss a step or something and then go for one hell of a ride.

SC has so much potential. There is real magic in some of the game they have produced; the aesthetic is fantastic and the fundamentals are solid… all of which makes what they’re doing to run the game into the ground so fucking disappointing.

Yeah the “86 means murder” thing is wild to me. I grew up in the 90’s when that term was weirdly common and it never meant to kill someone; just to kick them out.

As always: fuck the DNC.

I will never forgive them for denying us a Bernie candidacy and they haven’t made any move to redeem themselves since.

It still seems like you have to be doing a lot of looking at the controls to use them, which is the whole complaint about a lack of physical buttons.

I mean… Joel is hand picked for a solo extraction mission to bring the last hope for humanity across the country.

“I know a computer word so I’m smarter than an entire generation of people”.

In the beginning it was even customary to go by your own name.

That’s just crazy talk.

What a fucking chode.

If you need it to be legal to deepfake to manipulate politics you’re the problem.

Dual wield ultra greatsword jumping attack does indeed go bonk.

Same

That logo is terrible.

Like, a core component of a good logo is that it’s easily identifiable at a glance at all shapes and sizes and on various backgrounds… complicated photorealistic logos basically lack all of these criteria by default.

This is why you need someone experienced not some ai slop.

Why doesn’t the weight of the part cause the hook to distort the red hot metal?

It is a very slim minority of very loud people who are actually evil, who have inveigled a regrettably large number of people who are not necessarily evil but are short slighted and easily manipulated into acting against their own self interest.

Being an American does kinda suck these days though as a result.

SV is too real. I was close to Bay Area tech when I was watching it, and that show hit too close to home sometimes.

IT crowd maintains a humorous distance from the really shitty parts of tech and I’m here for it.

What? The whole charm of the IT crowd is that it’s pretty spot on for how IT people act with each other. It’s hyperbolic for sure but I felt like it was the most authentic representation of tech people in the media.

I also thought the joke was about fragile masculinity… but I can see it being off putting anyways and I’m open to being wrong.

What did they do to little Billy?!?!?!

No, they’re not.

They’re not discussing what the appropriate penalties should be—which, by the way, is typically done at the end of a trial during the sentencing phase, after all evidence has been presented and a guilty verdict has been delivered, because punishment is supposed to be reflective of the evidence presented—they’re saying that they’ve already decided that the target penalty is death.

That’s a clear nod that they want to make an example, a concept divorced from justice.