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Fairway Hazards

Any game that requires you to strike a ball with a mallet with the intention of directing the ball into a plastic alligator’s mouth and out its ass is, by almost any standard you can imagine, a silly game.

You’re almost always embarrassed to play, but every time you do you have more fun than you expected. You can’t take it seriously, and yet you really want to get the ball through the windmill. You find yourself sincerely trying to decide whether it would be wiser to try to carom the ball around the giant skull or attempt to power through its jaws and make its red eyes light up. You weigh the risk of shooting through the narrow slot between the clown’s massive shoes against the reward of a low score.

The entire game is absurd. Ridiculous. A foolish fatuous infantile folderol.

Ain’t it great? Don’t you love it? Don’t you wish you playing it right now instead of doing whatever adult thing you’re actually doing?

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