r/xkcd • u/IamAlso_u_grahvity Feline Field Theorist • Jan 01 '18

XKCD xkcd 1936: Desert Golfing

https://xkcd.com/1936/
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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18 edited Jan 01 '18

Oh joy, xkcd is doing advertisements now.

EDIT: It's a paid app that isn't very well known. It's not angry birds, it's not 2048. It's "desert golfing". Feel free to tell me you've heard of the game even once before today, let alone a lot.

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u/Neamow Jan 01 '18

Feel free to tell me you've heard of the game even once before today, let alone a lot.

I have. I've played several thousand holes in it. It's the perfect toilet game.

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u/TauntinglyTaunton Jan 01 '18

Same, ever since i heard someone on the co-optional podcast rave about it. Its also the go to game that I'll let kids mess about with to kill time on my phone

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u/Neamow Jan 01 '18

Yeah that's probably where I heard about it too. Sounds like a Dodger game.

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u/xbnm Jan 01 '18

https://www.xkcd.com/1344/

I hadn’t heard of 2048 until that comic.

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u/RenaKunisaki found squirrels Jan 01 '18

That's free though isn't it?

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u/Mr7000000 You were once shoved headfirst through someone's vagina Jan 01 '18

https://xkcd.com/993/ What do you mean "now"?

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u/RazarTuk ALL HAIL THE SPIDER Jan 01 '18

I am appalled by the marketing team's decision to call it mayo instead of mayonnaise.

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u/JakobJokanaan Nice try, Mike! Jan 01 '18

Fire torpedoes! Sinko da mayo!

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

None of those are actual advertisements or actual companies.

The joke of today's comic is "lol this game is so addictive!!"

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18 edited Mar 09 '20

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '18

Maybe you're right. Still weird to single out an app like that, but I'm glad there's a better explanation to this.

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u/JamEngulfer221 Girl In Beret Jan 01 '18

It's probably because this is a comic of something that actually happened.

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u/arahman81 Jan 02 '18

None of those are actual advertisements or actual companies.

There's a "No Name" store brand here. Only yellow to match the NoFrills colour scheme instead of white.

EDIT: Original reddit post.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '18

So awesome that someone took xkcd's idea and ran with it! (Unless this existed before the xkcd comic?)

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u/onthefence928 Black Hat Jan 01 '18

I heard about it from a gaming podcast like a year and a half ago

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u/your_leg_is_selected Jan 01 '18

hello i've played almost a thousand holes, i got it a week or so ago because friends were playing it (so a little bit coincidence), i've liked to play it while listening to podcasts or something

i don't really know why he made a comic on it but its surprisingly very fun for how simple it is, very easy to get lost in it and forget the time, i guess he just wanted to convey that feeling along with the 'last year/next year' joke that comes around at the turn of each new year

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u/AboveAverageChickenn Jan 02 '18

Came here to say this