What Does This Mean?
Repeating a tedious, low-variety task over and over to gain resources, experience, or progression, generalized well beyond games to describe any repetitive effort toward a goal.
EXPLAINER
gameranx · original source ↗
EXPLAINER
Nick B RPG · original source ↗
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"Spent the whole weekend grinding, barely any actual progress to show for it."
LORE & ORIGIN
The foundational gaming-vocabulary term behind loot grind and gold farming alike, describing the base repetitive-labor pattern those specific behaviors instantiate.
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