I'm not pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time from the drive to work,

coronavirus edition. Okay, so many years ago, I did a series of podcasts called R&D vocabulary,

where I talked about different vocabulary words that we used. I recently did another article

updating them, so I thought I would do another of these podcasts.

I think this will actually be two podcasts, but I'm going to do one now, and then I have a bunch of

Comagonian Dynasty podcasts I need to do, and then I will do my other one.

But anyway, so I'm going to take some words.

I'm going to talk about where the word comes from, and then I might, for some of these, explain, like, where the slang came from.

Some of these are official words that do get used in the game. Some of these are slang in R&D.

And anyway, but these are just vocabulary that we use every day in R&D. Note, in the article and here,

I've had previous article slash previous podcast

where I've gone over other vocabulary.

So I'm not going to repeat vocabulary

that I've gone over in other places.

So a lot of the idea of this podcast

is that you listen to all of them.

So I'm just continuing talking about new

stuff that I haven't talked about before. Okay, that said, on with the definitions. So first up is

ability word. Okay, so one of the things that's a little complicated is that when we use the term

mechanic, that really refers to anything that has a mechanical sort of definition to it,

usually that's repeated in some way. But not every mechanic is necessarily named.

Sometimes we do mechanical things that are connected, that maybe we connect the names or the

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