What did you make?

Also people that do this at the airport. Go sit in the cell lot, that's what it's for.

I've been keeping a roughly monthly Shadows of Brimstone game going for years (on TTS during the pandemic, in person before and since) and have had a long time to get setup and space optimized. Minis have clear cases, map tiles also get a flat case per set. All the flat stuff goes into an accordion file case. Cards go into their own case and the specific sets used at any given moment go into a vertical holder. We use character sheets and dials instead of the large character cards, tokens, and smaller cords to keep track of inventory and stats, though there's some things like character abilities that we still use small cards for. As many of the charts as possible are kept electronically. Because I've got about 5 base sets (ice, swamp, fortress, other fortress with conquistadores, other ice with vikings) and a bunch of expansions, it does add up. Over the years, I've are added some nicities including 3d printed token organizers, a deck of cash, poker chips for experience. With all that, it does take two large folding tables for a game with 6 people plus a smaller side table for the stuff that's going to be used but isn't it play yet. Everybody gets a job to do as well, so somebody runs the monsters, somebody hands out cash, somebody takes care of the deck and maps. Storage for all the stuff would take up about 8 cubes in an IKEA shelf thingy. So it's definitely not a small game after all the additions, but my group has gotten it down when it comes to set up, play, and teardown. Usually takes a few hours at a casual pace with lots of food and socializing going on as well. But it did take a bit to get there, both for organization of stuff and the play.

This happened to me IRL. As a kid one of my relatives heard I liked frogs. Every birthday, Christmas, etc., frogs. For years.

The shady thing was people interested in Linux that were ignorant of its licensing? Because of a cover image?

56k modems weren't even commonplace until the late 90s. Even if you could guarantee full download speeds then, you're looking at over two days for an ISO while your phone line would be occupied. And not everybody had a CD burner. If you value your time and disk space, it was worth it.

Go find something else to be angry at for no reason.

I'm under the impression don't really understand the culture or history of obtaining Linux. Yes, anybody can sell a disk with Linux on it. You can also download that same software for free. The data transfer rates back in the day meant that getting a physical disk was the quickest way to get 500Mb of packages etc. Plus not everybody wants to bootstrap from a tarball and chroot into a system to finish installing from files on their current OS. Flash drives and CD burners were not common yet. Physical media were a way to spread Linux, not make a quick buck off it. There was nothing shady about it.

Desiccant packets will help with moisture. You can just buy a bunch and dispose when they're full, but there are also some that you can refresh by baking them.

Buy some white pants, put them on, and just keep pulling them up. Congrats, you are now a Fresno nightcrawler.

My friend puts on an annual Halloween one shot RPG using dread (jenga tower pulls instead of dice rolls). Yesterday was his 13th. He gave us lab coats and safety goggles to get into character and had made some great props. It was a blast trying to piece back reality before we disappeared due to an experiment gone wrong.

Do some have bubbles in them, too?

The full fat one is the only one my partner will drink because it's actually creamy without using a bunch of gums on the ingredient list.