Okay, pulling out of the driveway, so we know what that means.

It's time for drive to work.

Okay, today's show, I thought I would try.

I keep experimenting with this podcast because I've never done this before.

And I'm trying to do different topics.

Early on, I was doing a lot of sets I that worked on, but I realized pretty quickly that,

well, I worked on a lot, I would run out of them. So I've been trying to expand. So today I'm going to

try something a little different. I'm going to talk about a mechanic. Today I'm going to talk

about cycling. So why did I pick cycling? Well, for starters, it is a mechanic we've used more than any other mechanic, I mean, barring

evergreen mechanics.

It is the, you know, the mechanic that we brought back the most number of times.

And so it's an interesting mechanic.

It's interesting to design for.

So I thought I talked a little bit about the history of the mechanic, and then I talk about

sort of how we design for it. Mostly what I'm hoping today to be

is talk about kind of the evolution of a mechanic, and talk about how, you know, once upon a time

when magic first began, we tend to think of mechanics as disposable things. Like you'd have a

mechanic, you use it up, throw it away, done. And eventually what we got to the conclusion of, okay, that's kind of dumb.

Like these are good, I mean, not all mechanics necessarily want to be repeated,

but when we get a good mechanic that we think there's, you know, a lot of design space for,

why wouldn't we want to do it again? And we started thinking them more of tools.

You know, that for a certain job, you need certain tools,

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