You're telling me team USA has thirty more medals than team China and that counts for nothing? That just doesn't make any sense to me
The weights should be 1, -1, -1. If you get a loser medal it should count against you.
The scores should be determined by dice roll. First place gets 1d20 with advantage, second gets 1d20, and third gets 1d20 with disadvantage.
There's no officially endorsed way to count medals, every country just goes with what looks best.
bring back the gold standard. turn the olympics into a contest to see who can bring more bullion home.
send like 50 times the number of people to participate than the rest of the world so it’s all pretty meaningless anyway.The US also allows their athletes to dope if they snitch on other players, and possibly sabotage them. I’m sure every country has massive cheaters, but if American athletes are taking down other dopers to secure their spot, those countries are at a cheating disadvantage.
There are a bunch of dumbass sports that no one gives a shit about like equestrian and golf and sailing lol.
There’s a reason why most of the highly covered sports are sports that theoretically can be mastered by anybody in the world regardless of financial situation and upbringing - aquatics, athletics, soccer, etc. Get rid of the bougie nonsense, and I imagine the US drops down by a couple dozen medals
Athletics and swimming represent roughly half of all US medals. Athletics, swimming, gymnastics, and wrestling respresent 75 or 80% of all medals. The bougie medals, equestrian, golf, sailing, fencing? rowing? tennis? represent 9/122 by my count.
also the us literally won gold in womens soccer. And got a medal in every track and field relay.
Swimming and athletics dominate the medal counts because they have
different events, just like speed skating in the winter olympics.
It’s like the money in a fantasy RPG: 100 bronze or copper equals 1 silver, and 100 silver equals 1 gold.
That always pisses me of. Gold should be about 8-15 (13) silvers. Unless the silvers are tiny and the golds huge. if it's in the iron age, bronze should be company script. If it's not, bronze should be very expensive, to the point many farmers still use flint tools because they can't afford bronze. Think of how during the trail of tears the amerindians had holy tablets made of copper, because for a neolithic society copper was immensely precious. The ratios can be a little of, but not too much or else the geology of the planet is going to be very weird. Gold is mined first, so if you are writing a story and put the ratio very low, as in 1:3 or 1:4 then your civilization is relatively new to mining.
The reason the prices are so messed up today are financial shenanigans.
I think it’s in the book “Games of Empire” where the argument is made that the worlds in fantasy games are usually just recreations of our modern capitalist world, aforementioned financial shenanigans very much included. These games often have the aesthetics of a kind of mediaeval feudalism, but in-game economies feature very modern things like decimalised currency, auction houses, arbitrage, consumerist alienation, instant payments, and so on, all of which would be very out of place in a feudal world. Fantasy RPGs show us worlds that appear radically different from our own at first glance, but upon deeper examination they are another example of the social imaginary restrained by capitalist realism.
Good post, good points. It reminds me of those early modern depictions of classical antiquity, where people are dressed like tercios, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HumiliationValerianusHolbein.jpg
Perhaps most depictions of the past tend to be anachronistic because we are too immersed in the super structure we are part of that we become unable to imagine anything different.
Then again this fantasy worlds and games created under capitalism have every incentive to do the bare minimum and just copy each other without any nuance or research. It's also likely that a truly accurate world would not resonate with audiences.
And indeed the half assed fantasies reinforce the prejudices of their consumer.
Ratings usually go by gold, then silver, then bronze. The US has a close to double China's silver and bronze medals so they should be counted above.
How the hell is Australia doing so well?
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https://www.google.com/search?q=medal+rankings
I've been ignoring the Olympics because I don't have cable and recordings of actual events never appear on Youtube or anywhere so fuck it.
