Used to be all about the full sleeve life for every single game I touched, honestly. I had this weird mental block where I thought anything without a sleeve was getting ruined just sitting in the box. Then I saw a buddy at a game night who just bags his tokens and only sleeves the card decks that actually get shuffled, and it blew my mind a little. Tried it with my copy of Dune Imperium (which has way too many cards to sleeve fully), and now I only protect the conflict deck and the main draw pile. Saves a ton of money and a ton of space in the box too, not to mention time putting them all back on after a game. It really does make you think about what you actually handle versus what just sits there looking pretty.

That Haworthia in a south window in Phoenix is basically a death sentence, bet you learned that the hard way. So when you see people online swearing by "full sun for all succulents," do you think they're mostly parroting what works for their climate without testing it, or is it just easier to give one-size-fits-all advice? Because I've noticed the folks actually growing stuff like lithops or split rocks in the ground here rarely tell newcomers to blast everything with direct rays.

Right? Makes you wonder if we're all just paying for fancy ways to avoid learning the basics.

500 in one month is insane!

Yeah same thing happened at our shop last fall, the old timers always have paper backups and it saves the day every time.