My friend is really into grinding He got 900 rupees from that

>He evolved his starter before the first gym.
Are we talking the 1st evolution or second?

>>378226940
I like grinding, nothing that hard out though, although I have spent many hours on item drop grinding for various games.
The most grinding I did (not for an item drop) ,probably could've been avoided but I beat DQIX with one person.

>>378227049
Second. He's fucking hardcore.

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>>378226940
I'm not like it, but I have a friend that does that autisticly. It's annoying sometimes because he is really full of himself and thinks he sooo good at video games, even if he spends x10 grinding compared to anyone else and breezes past stuff.

I recently discovered Cladun X2 for myself, and after 50 hours I can say: maybe I do like grinding?

>>378226940
Childhood is grinding so you can beat anything in the game.
Adulthood is not grinding and enjoying the challenge of being underleveled.

>>378226940
I enjoy comfy grind if I'm making clear progression with my grind like with DQIX where putting 100 points into each class's specific tree gives permanent benefits from then onward, but I've never been autistic enough to boss abuse for more than a few levels in FE.

I did get Nils to level 20 on the 2nd last seize chapter in Lyn's mode once though. I've also arena abused, but that's not as fiddly as boss abuse.

>>378226940
I hate grinding in any game

>>378227507
Childhood is grinding so you can beat anything in the game.
Adulthood is grinding because you enjoy it.

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>>378226940

Yes, in games that have a certain leveling mechanic that interests me. For example, leveling skills in Star Ocean 2 or Final Fantasy Tactics. When there are so many different ways to build up your characters, it's easy to get carried away.

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>>378226940
Just got my 500 day login reward.

>>378227258
There's a fair chance that your friend is autistic.

>>378226940
I once spent around 40 minutes digging the same red ruby out of the dirt outside of links house in the minish cap since it respawns.

>>378228576
Oh yeah definitely. I've known that since we were kids.

>>378228104
Fight the good fight, brother.
I may rejoin you in grinding Valhalla sooner than I first thought.

>>378228785
I believe fully evolving your starter before the first gym might take more time than finishing the whole game normally. Holy shit.

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>>378229039
Oberon Prime in a couple of days bro.

>>378226940
you should introduce him to League of Legends, he'll feel right at home

>tfw ground the stockmarket in X3 until I had billions to found my own self sufficient meatpacking complex

>>378230264
>Not grinding your money up by doing manual trade runs, then buying more trade ships to trade autonomously, then buying factories to fill holes in the supply that you caused, so eventually the NPC universe relies on your services to function
>Not creating a thousand-station closed-loop energy complex with energy cells set to minimum and 300 TSs supporting it to distribute energy cells across the universe, eventually causing all factories to become full of wares that they can't shift because the equipment docks are full, so the AI starts to remove "unprofitable" and "stagnant" stations, leaving just your own factories and the trade stations, shipyards and equipment docks of every faction in the game
Casual

>>378226940
I like grinding while listening to podcasts/music


I might be autistic

>>378230264
>>378230758
stuff like this sounds fun. i recognize my own autism when i see it. why don't you channel that autism to making money in the financial market. i'm being completely serious here.

>>378227921
does anyone have the gamefaqs thing uli did for some final fantasy game where he comments on how the game felt kind of trivial when he just grinded all his shit to level cap in like an early area of the game and stomped the rest?

Grinding is only good if it doesnt feel like grinding. A good example is kingdoms of amalur.

Its a difficult balance to strike