Golf = The game of the bourgeoisie. Mini Golf = The game of the proletariat.
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Damn communists stop me from watering my golf course near Phoenix
Golf courses are a waste of space and water, so good riddance.
Only because they don't have enough wildflowers and trees which would make for a much more challenging course.
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.
I unironically want to abolish golf. At least in the form it currently exists
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
"You know why they call it golf? Because the word shit was already taken."
Nice riddance
Were communism to take hold, golf's not going anywhere. Private country clubs on the other hand...
Sure, we’ll get gulags and bread queues, but at least there’ll be an upside.
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?"
I don't follow your thoughts here.
But. The state would likely regulate them away except maybe in climates that aren't very burdened by golf courses, if that's even a thing. Communist governments don't inherently take full control of all businesses. They simply eliminate private property, which is not to be confused with personal property.
A communist golf course might look like this. You roll right up to the course. You either pull out your own clubs or borrow some from the facility. Someone maybe informs you which courses are more or less busy, helps you understand how to play and what etiquette is expected for the pleasure and safety of yourself, other active and future golfers. And then someone maintains the courses when... whenever they're maintained now probably.
Golf: 🤮
Holf: 😎
As if we wouldn’t still have Wii sports golf
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