Drill
Drill noun - An established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity.
Games
Both words in one sentence
- The rock drill from the original and chainsaw from multiple games also fall under their own tropes, but are also improvised weapons, being that they're not intended for use as weapons and your character just picks them up from the environment because they might need them.
Source: Improvised Weapon / Video Games -
Averted in the America's Army games, where the NPC Drill Sergeants, while occasionally deadpan snarkers, are generally pretty tame.
Source: Drill Sergeant Nasty - In case you don't know, both games have respectably-sized fanbases, so you know the drill.
Source: He Panned It, Now He Sucks
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