Perhaps a misinterpretation on my part. I know you as somebody who collects Platinum trophies on PS3 games, and from what I've heard, you need to do some fairly egregious things to get a lot of those. As I recall, when you reviewed the aforementioned Resonance of Fate, even though you said you found it terribly dull, you said you had played it twice for trophies. I couldn't imagine how anybody could do that, unless they've got a ridiculous tolerance for grinding.
You're confusing my willingness to OCD mash a few buttons while I'm simultaneously watching a TV show or listening to a podcast with "tolerating" grinding.
As for Resonance of Fate, I played that sucker on New Game + for the Platinum because I could beat it in 5 hours skipping all the tedious sidequests that padded my first playthrough to well over 100 hours. When a game is
that bad (and Resonance of Fate is one of the worst games I've ever played), I like walking away from the experience knowing I thoroughly "beat it" if that experience is reasonably attainable. Then there are games like Dark Void, which are
so terrible and so terribly programmed that I went for the Platinum just because I wanted to see
if it was possible since I refuse to believe that Sony's certification process on that game was very thorough.
But yeah, podcasts and TV shows are what get me through grinding sections and games with little or repetitive audio (like 100+ hour RPGs), so I only have to somewhat pay attention to what's on-screen.