{"id":884180,"date":"2026-06-22T05:14:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T05:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/884180\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T05:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T05:14:24","slug":"25-good-things-that-were-ruined-by-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/884180\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Good Things That Were Ruined By Popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      15.<\/p>\n<p>      &#8220;Paintball. My first time playing was in 1988. We all used Splattermaster paintball pistols (10 shots, then reload and change the CO2 cartridge). These were fun games. A true survival game. When you had the chance to capture the flag, you had to find a way to get back to your station fast. It was so fun and exciting, and out in the woods, you never knew what to expect. Then, during the &#8217;90s, companies started making full-auto and large-capacity models so they could sell more paintballs. Not fun anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t played in over 30 years. It just became a high-capacity shoot-out: no strategy, no stealth tactics, no fun. Maybe if I had never experienced paintball so early in its time, I might think what became of it was good, maybe. I miss the &#8217;80s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Anonymous, 59, Massachusetts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"15. &#8220;Paintball. My first time playing was in 1988. We all used Splattermaster paintball pistols (10 shots, then&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":884181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,2095,46331,38066,44111,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-884180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-evergreen","tag-flipped","tag-foodfb","tag-geekyfb","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116792057271649985","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}