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Gymnastics, Olympics, is meant to be a celebration of the human body and spirit. The micro-optimizations ruin it, because they break the alignment between casua
by sdwr 3y ago
Gymnastics, Olympics, is meant to be a celebration of the human body and spirit. The micro-optimizations ruin it, because they break the alignment between casual participants and the best.
Regular people exercising should be inspired and uplifted by the elites, but it doesn't work when they're playing a different game entirely at the top.
- nottorp 3y agoSo is chess tbh. Even excluding computer chess. You can play it by ear at an amateur level, but if you want to compete you have to memorize those openings. Which sucks all the joy out of the game.
- hiAndrewQuinn 3y agoMaybe everything has an amateur level that's just hard enough to be challenging, but still easy enough to be played primarily by ear. Maybe that's most people's careers.
- sdwr 3y agoU really gonna call me out like that in front of all these people