Anyone else into online golf?

[PTmowerMech]

I used to play "Winning Putt" til they shut it down. I think that was in about 2018. I haven't played anything online since. But an old friend of mine from that game sent me a message the other day (haven't heard from him in years) and said he's playing "Shot Online." He likes it. So I thought I'd give it a shot. I just signed up and have only played a few rounds.

It's not as good as Winning Putt, but it seems to be pretty fun.

 

[Scrubcadet10]

Golf people are wacky... Even though I had the highest score they still said I lost... ?

 

[Hammermechanicman]

My dad always call golf cow pasture pool. I played in a work league years ago. I pretty much sucked. Only thing i was good at was smoking a cigar and drunking beer at the 19th hole. I had a habit of hitting the ball fat and taking divots. A guy said my clubs were the sod buster model from John Deere. HAHA. I used to piss of the anal guy in the league by using tees in the rough.

 

[bertsmobile1]

You are well advised to void all on line game , particularly the free ones.
Most of them are just fronts for spy wear.
While you are lining up your shots, they are downloading you address book, passwords , browser cashe, reading your emails . checking that all of your apps are genuine and checking what app you have in there, when you used them and for how long what you bought on line & who from.

Back in the days when games came in boxes & geeks could backwards engineer the code to see what it was really doing these sorts of spy wear were rare.
Now when you play "on the cloud" this can not be done so easily .
Very soon after I got my first box a riding friend who wrote protection soft wear advised me to set the computer in "child safe" mode to prevent stuff being uploaded accidentally.
I did this and was stunned when years latter I was trying to play an internet game and an "authentation required" window continually popped up .
The reason for this is when I hit the "change weapon" button on the screen, the application actually was "allow access to ???? & change weapon ".
So what I saw on the screen & what the computer "saw" were two different things.
The geek friend invited me to his place where he had a 3 screen set up and got me to start playing the game to show me what was going on.
On another screen was the code which was running which he froze from time to time .'
The "change tool button" was actually a "go to sub xyz" and when sub-routine xyz was found it gave permission to open my email app, open all emails read then send them to the game server plus rotate the tool .
That was the last time I played anything on line.
I did not have kids at home but he advised me if they came and wanted to play some internet game, set up a computer with nothing on it but the internet browser and let them use that hooked up directly to the modem.
If the computer had an internal modem , use that if not set it up on a different network to the rest of the computers.
When they were finished, restart the computer from an external drive then wipe the entire disc and do a fresh install of the system soft wear.
The real killer was when I did this there was better than 20Gb of extra used disc space after he had been playing most of the day.
That was the last time any one ever played interactive web based games on any computer I owned.
The old mac got loaded up with games that had come on discs and it was off line & on a different network to the rest of the computers.
When they go the HD is wiped reformatted with a different number of partitions then the games reinstalled .

Remember, nothing is free on the web, some one is paying for everything and in most cases you are the product and your personel details is what is paying for your "free" browsing .
Now the nice ones are just phishing for details so you can be targeted by advertisers.
The naughty ones can be hyjacking your computer to distribute spam or even download child porn so the ultimate user can not be found.

 

[PTmowerMech]

You are well advised to void all on line game , particularly the free ones.
Most of them are just fronts for spy wear.
While you are lining up your shots, they are downloading you address book, passwords , browser cashe, reading your emails . checking that all of your apps are genuine and checking what app you have in there, when you used them and for how long what you bought on line & who from.

Back in the days when games came in boxes & geeks could backwards engineer the code to see what it was really doing these sorts of spy wear were rare.
Now when you play "on the cloud" this can not be done so easily .
Very soon after I got my first box a riding friend who wrote protection soft wear advised me to set the computer in "child safe" mode to prevent stuff being uploaded accidentally.
I did this and was stunned when years latter I was trying to play an internet game and an "authentation required" window continually popped up .
The reason for this is when I hit the "change weapon" button on the screen, the application actually was "allow access to ???? & change weapon ".
So what I saw on the screen & what the computer "saw" were two different things.
The geek friend invited me to his place where he had a 3 screen set up and got me to start playing the game to show me what was going on.
On another screen was the code which was running which he froze from time to time .'
The "change tool button" was actually a "go to sub xyz" and when sub-routine xyz was found it gave permission to open my email app, open all emails read then send them to the game server plus rotate the tool .
That was the last time I played anything on line.
I did not have kids at home but he advised me if they came and wanted to play some internet game, set up a computer with nothing on it but the internet browser and let them use that hooked up directly to the modem.
If the computer had an internal modem , use that if not set it up on a different network to the rest of the computers.
When they were finished, restart the computer from an external drive then wipe the entire disc and do a fresh install of the system soft wear.
The real killer was when I did this there was better than 20Gb of extra used disc space after he had been playing most of the day.
That was the last time any one ever played interactive web based games on any computer I owned.
The old mac got loaded up with games that had come on discs and it was off line & on a different network to the rest of the computers.
When they go the HD is wiped reformatted with a different number of partitions then the games reinstalled .

Remember, nothing is free on the web, some one is paying for everything and in most cases you are the product and your personel details is what is paying for your "free" browsing .
Now the nice ones are just phishing for details so you can be targeted by advertisers.
The naughty ones can be hyjacking your computer to distribute spam or even download child porn so the ultimate user can not be found.

If they hacked into my bank account right now, they'd probably leave a few bucks.

Where the game company makes money is the stuff you have to buy in the game to be competitive with the big shots. It's called "Pay to Win." I learned with Winning Putt ways getting around all that. As in, one guy who could drive 500+ yards, usually still had to chip on the green. Where as I was maybe hitting a 7 or 8 iron to land the green. Either way, we were both on the green in 2. Some of those guys have spent thousands on better clubs, balls and things to make the hit farther. I spent a couple hundred before I realized what was going on.
Then I started a "newbie" guild, that only allowed new players to join. There, me and the ones I'd taught the tricks to, would advise the newbies. Plus when we'd get a better set of clubs, we'd always pass them down to someone at a lower tier.

As far as the hacking thing goes, people can probably get into my computer any time they want. I try to have security stuff going. But there's people who know how to get around anything I've got.

 

[PTmowerMech]

My dad always call golf cow pasture pool. I played in a work league years ago. I pretty much sucked. Only thing i was good at was smoking a cigar and drunking beer at the 19th hole. I had a habit of hitting the ball fat and taking divots. A guy said my clubs were the sod buster model from John Deere. HAHA. I used to piss of the anal guy in the league by using tees in the rough.

I gave up the real game a long time ago. That's why I got started on winning putt. And now Shot Online. I like the social part of it as much as the game itself.
My favorite game is Battlefield 4. But I don't get a good enough internet connection at the house to play it.

 

[bertsmobile1]

If they hacked into my bank account right now, they'd probably leave a few bucks.

Where the game company makes money is the stuff you have to buy in the game to be competitive with the big shots. It's called "Pay to Win." I learned with Winning Putt ways getting around all that. As in, one guy who could drive 500+ yards, usually still had to chip on the green. Where as I was maybe hitting a 7 or 8 iron to land the green. Either way, we were both on the green in 2. Some of those guys have spent thousands on better clubs, balls and things to make the hit farther. I spent a couple hundred before I realized what was going on.
Then I started a "newbie" guild, that only allowed new players to join. There, me and the ones I'd taught the tricks to, would advise the newbies. Plus when we'd get a better set of clubs, we'd always pass them down to someone at a lower tier.

As far as the hacking thing goes, people can probably get into my computer any time they want. I try to have security stuff going. But there's people who know how to get around anything I've got.

The sorts of problems that happen is the IRS kicks in your door at 3 am to confiscate your computer and investigate you for fraud.
You then find out you are a director of a company you have never heard of that has suddenly closed down oweing the investors & government millions .
Then you are in the position of having to prove the perpetrator who has used all of your personnal details is no you .
When it comes to company law, just walking into your workshop and realizing it wasn't you does not cut the mustard because they have financial trails from your computer to overseas tax havens .
A person who I use to go riding with got sucked into the big child porn investigation we had back in the 90's.
While he had nothing to do with it, his computer had been hyjacked and was being used to access peer to peer video downloads.
HE got named so his life was over , the marriage broke down, he was a teacher so got laid off and the last I heard of him he was picking fruit under false names ( so paying 60% tax ) and moving every couple of weeks.
HE was found innocent but that cost every cent he had in the bank + some more .

Just think what you would do if tomorrow your name was headlines in a cover story "Child porn ring broken".

Last year an accountant was done for falsifing documents, & tax fraud.
They initally found it when liquidation investigators found a homeless man who according to the government was a director of over 200 companies who owed hundreds of millions to the tax office & had committed massive investment frauds .
The homeless man obviously was not guilty but he got arrested & gaoled for over 3 years before being exhonerated .

You have little in the way of assets so would be considered to be a flight risk so would be remanded in custody till the trial came up .
How far is the USA justice system behind on corperate fraud ?
How long could you survive in a remand prison ?

Another riding friend had his phone stolen in Singapore better than 5 years ago.
All of the people on his contacts list still get scams originating from that phone .
The first was the "help me I have been mugged & lost everything so need $ XYZ urgently to pay hotel bill so I can leave to go to the consulate
Then the similar one I need $ xyz to pay for new documentation so I can come home .
And yes several people were stupid enough to send money .
The latterst one was just this week when I got messages addressed to me on my old mobile that what was my old land line number will be turned off due to NBN upgrades.
That one included the name of the phone company as well and was very convincing except the land line was disconnected last year .

People do not take cyber security as seriously as they should it is more than just a nuisance they can easily become critical .

 

[PTmowerMech]

My luck is rarely good. But never as bad as those guys.