Dunno what your problem is or why you're insisting on conflict, but I said it's ok. The boardgame community owes Catan a lot for getting it more into the mainstream, but it's 30 years old and I've played it enough to have an opinion on it. In your metaphor, you're the guy that insists everybody should love 90s pop and anybody that doesn't is pretentious and hates you. That's not why people don't like you.

Anyway, I'm done interacting with you. Enjoy life and some newer board games.

I didn't downvote you, you ass.

It was all engineered by Aaron Spelling in order to make The House of Yes as a vehicle for Tori.

Getting into the later seasons of Stargate SG-1 and it certainly is getting meh. On the other hand, it's actors from Farscape, yay!

My first crush was a girl from another country I met on a short exchange. Nothing happened but the feelings were mutual. It was easy to romanticize and make her into something she wasn't. It took me years to get over the regret even after seeing the same scenario work out horribly for the other half of my exchange where he did the program for a year chasing after a girl to be dumped within a week of arriving. Eventually I turned regret into a lesson against inaction, but it took a long time before I finished mourning the imaginary path my life could have taken.

I've never been able to do something for the result if I didn't enjoy the practice itself. Because I know that about myself, quitting things I don't enjoy is nbd and I've been doing a job and a hobby (different things in case that's not clear) I really enjoy for over 20 years. Try something else and enjoy yourself.

I was completely surprised by how much different flgs have become. I went to a charity tournament for a game and the 20 tables we took up weren't even a tenth of what was available and it was about 75% full with a diverse crowd throughout the weekend. You could order food and drink from the attached restaurant. There were inclusive conduct rules too large to miss on the walls. It was downright pleasant. I've been missing out.

It's ok as a gateway drug, but I'm in the camp that always vetos it and cards against humanity in favor of one of the hundreds of more interesting games.

Not enough repeated bobbing.

What did you make?

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.