Lots of good ideas here. This is my take:

Get a bunch of Velcro cable ties. Start grouping things together. As you go, you’re going to get better placement ideas. Once everything is organized, you can decide the next step. Personally, I would look at having the PC in the bookshelf, and look for a way to put the cables in the wall.

If you do that, I’d suggest having 2 cable runs with a string looping through so that when you change things up you can easily pull a new cable.

Zork, or any of the old text bases adventure games.

The leave button is right next to the share button. That’s my biggest complaint.

True, but if it annoys you enough, there are tools to help you remove the requirement.

https://github.com/YoteZip/LinuxCrackingBible?tab=readme-ov-file#6-drm-stripping-guides

There are other tools too.

Bill Gibson did Neuromancer. Steve Gibson did Spinrite. No relationship as far as I know.