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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It used to be something good back in ancient Greece, before we had the need to make a supershow out of fucking everything and each time trying to one up the last in pyrotechnics and gimmicks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't ancient Olympics a supershow of their time?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Sure, but supershows tended to be less wasteful back when there wasn't so much to waste I guess

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It might have been badly worded by me. I know that the Olympics were bad when I was young. I was just naive