I feel grinding is kind of the point of Pokemon games, tbh. Without needing to grind, how long would it take to just steamroll through the story, a few hours at most? Even as is with the difficultly assuming grinding, people are still speed running gen 3 in under 2 hours
And I think this is how people should start thinking of Lemmy communities maybe, or at least as an option for Lemmy communities; to be less like subreddit ls and more like personal pages frankly more akin to Myspace. Part of the appeal of Lemmy, to me at least, is the decentralization and reclamation of some level of ownership. So maybe lemmy is less a place where you go to join c/deathmetal and c/crotchet and c/vintagesmurfpornography, but instead it’s a place where you start c/yourusername and declare it your personal shrine to needlepoint, cannibal corpse, and blue cartoon-fuckery.
But I also smoke weed, so I might just be having a moment