| ▲ | mindslight 3 days ago |
| It's big ball bowling. The ball is nearly as wide as the lane, so it knocks over all the pins. QED. Candlepin and mini golf are the more advanced versions of their respective sports. Fight me. |
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| ▲ | copypasterepeat 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| I've never heard of candlepin bowling before this, but now that I'm reading about it, I'm surprised it's not more popular. It looks like a lot of fun. The fact that fallen pins are not cleared seems like it would lead to some interesting strategies. |
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| ▲ | RandallBrown 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What about mini golf is more advanced than regular golf? |
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| ▲ | ktallett 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I have not considered it enough to form a view yet but I expect he would be referring to the precision required for mini golf. | | |
| ▲ | RandallBrown 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Seems like there is more precision required for regular golf since it includes all of the precision of miniature golf (putting) with the added difficulty of multiple player surfaces, longer distances, and the difficulty of hitting a small object with another small object at speeds around 100 mph. |
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| ▲ | dpc050505 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | the commentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULP0cbGXU8k | |
| ▲ | mindslight 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | The plumbing, for starters. | | |
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| ▲ | Rooster61 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Ehh, 10 pin and candlepin are challenging for differing reasons. I wouldn't say one is more difficult than the other. It's kind of like comparing NASCAR to rally racing. |
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| ▲ | mindslight 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Sure, ten pin can be fun occasionally. But the world record in candlepin is a score, the world record in 10 pin is a quantity of perfect strings bowled in a row. I don't really get NASCAR either, fwiw. | | |
| ▲ | Rooster61 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > the world record in 10 pin is a quantity of perfect strings bowled in a row While I see what you are going for, judging an entire game off of an extreme is an intrinsically narrow set of criteria. I'd argue that the consecutive strike aspect is not what gets folks excited in 10 pin, its the ability to clean up one's spares and string together solid scores consistently. Regular Joe league bowlers get far more excited about someone picking up a greek church or some other wacky spare than hitting 7-8 strikes in a row. > I don't really get NASCAR either, fwiw. Understandable. NASCAR is an example of min maxing sort of in the same way D&D can be run different ways. Some groups like role play and story driven elements, some like to squeeze every bit of efficiency out of a character. NASCAR's draw is not in the fact that they go around an oval 200 times, its the small details and tweaks that differentiate HOW those cars go around those 200 times. It definitely does not appeal to everyone. |
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