Now single player i will always still to a games soundtrack. Online however i'll often lower the background noise -especially with grinding activities- and supplement my gametime with some other background noise. Do you? and what shows do you listen to?
Lately i'm really into "Last Podcast on the Left" which is just some none PC commedians talking about monsters, cryptids, creepypasta, true crime and wierd horrific bullshit and also being pretty funny while they do. Makes the grinding downtime of mmos a lot more bareable and i can recommend it.
But what do you listen to?