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[–] [email protected] 102 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Golf = The game of the bourgeoisie. Mini Golf = The game of the proletariat.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Golf isn’t the problem, it’s golf courses

If you took any random forest or mountain and put a cup at one end then just said go things would be fine

(I know foot traffic is bad, it’s better than bulldozing the whole thing)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You've basically just described golf's superior cousin: disc golf

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Disc golf - the game of the revolutionary

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

False! Mini golf is the game of the savant and the cultural elite 🧐

Edit doubly so if it’s at night and there are glowing things involved

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Damn communists stop me from watering my golf course near Phoenix

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

Just get a better job, if you can't afford water!

[–] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago

I see this as an absolute win

[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Golf courses are a waste of space and water, so good riddance.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Only because they don't have enough wildflowers and trees which would make for a much more challenging course.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Maybe some windmills and a big dinosaur too

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Challenge? Are you aware of what kind of sport golf is? The ball's not even moving when you have to hit it ffs. (I do enjoy the act of golfing, but holy cow is it a pathetic "sport")

[–] meat_popsicle 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It’s the only “sport” I know of where “top-tier athletes” can get viciously drunk while actively playing in tournaments and still do alright.

Thanks, John Daly, for proving what a farce golf truly is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

a mustachioed cyclist sitting in the corner hides away his Pabst Blue Ribbon

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

If they wanted to make it a sport, it would be full contact, everybody would go at the same time, and your time would be the scoring metric. Full football (American) gear, played in the summer. Now that I'd pay to watch.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Dens of badgers would help too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Sounds like frisby golf

[–] [email protected] 42 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I unironically want to abolish golf. At least in the form it currently exists

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I have never played golf. But I enjoy VR mini golf way more than I would like to admit. It's so fun and creative.

[–] funkless_eck 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

the argument is: a single game requires a minimum of 200 acres of sculpted fancy gardens, non-native plants, little help to polinators, a fuck ton of water, fertilizer and pesticides, and is protected from the general public not only with a fee but also a vetting process, often built at huge expense in an area that would be better served with affordable housing, transport and public amenities.

And it's entire purpose is to extract money from already rich people and enforce a class culture of haves and have-nots while essentially turning the land into a green desert.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Mini golf is the shit, you ought to get out to a real one with a friend or two some time. Guaranteed you'll enjoy yourself

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

My friends said mini golf is for children and laugh when I asked to try it out. I'm 30yo tho, so yeah they might be right about that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

naahh, they're wrong. Tipsy mini golf is the shit, especially if there's a theme (darkroom/pirates/whatever)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

For real, get high and go to a glow in the dark mini golf course. There's one in every failing mall in the USA.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

You need a better friend! I'm 28 and still go mini golfing on every now and then. Let your inner child free, life's too short to worry about the acceptable age range of mini golf

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago

Marx couldn't made up a better argument to root for communism

[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago

Funny, because where I live, municipal tax dollars have been repeatedly used to save a golf course that doesn’t bring in enough revenue to sustain its own existence.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago

conservatives love to threaten us with a good time.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago

Wtf I love communism now

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago

Don't threaten me with a good time

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago

"You know why they call it golf? Because the word shit was already taken."

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

They allowed capitalists to win and they bought golf.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2023/jun/13/saudi-arabia-golf-pga-tour-public-investment-fund

That's the capitalists:

The tragic paradox is that for the most part the people who care about sport do not own it and the people who own it do not seem to care for it at all. It is of no consequence to Saudi Arabia whether or not you like golf. Eventually, it will find the thing you do like and your views will not be of interest to them. No, they will not be taking questions. No, you will not be kept up to date on progress. As ever, you will find out what’s happening whenever it decides you need to know.

And if you think "I don't care about golf, no loss" they already have bought all kinds of other tournaments including e-sport.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

One of my favorite indie games was bought out by Gearbox, the corporation that's behind the Borderlands movie

I think this will negatively affect the game I like, but I'm happy the developers got serious money. I'll find a new indie game, and hope that the next generation of indie devs gets serious bank by selling their game next.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Gearbox is also the developer of the borderlands games. Doesn't seem impossible they'll just let the studio do its thing, and inany case they're far from unrelated to game dev.

Though I'd also be concerned any time something I like is bought by another company.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah, I just thought it'd be funny to imply that's what they're known for, like "Barack Obama, Husband of Michelle Obama"

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago

i wouldn't mind that :3

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Excellent disposal.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Were communism to take hold, golf's not going anywhere. Private country clubs on the other hand...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Eh, I can see the Proletariat deciding to direct the vast amounts of land destroyed for golf being used for public housing or returned to nature, rather than being a wasteful hobby for the elite

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Sure, we’ll get gulags and bread queues, but at least there’ll be an upside.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I know we can joke about how this is a good thing. But isn’t it much more likely that the State would own the courses?

Or just that there would be less of them and anyone could do it instead of the "elite?"

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[–] carpelbridgesyndrome 8 points 8 months ago

Where do I sign up?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As if we wouldn’t still have Wii sports golf

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[–] brown567 5 points 7 months ago

A small price to pay for the eradication of golf

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago
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