"Once you're over carry capacity, it becomes ridiculous that you cannot carry more, and you must make every argument for being able to that you can think of."

I don't know if the joke about every adventurer having rope as standard is still relevant, or if I'm even remembering that detail about default equipment in at least one RPG correctly.

If I'm not, then, um... This ISN'T a reference to anything, what are you talking about, this is just a thing with the specific unspecified RPG that they're playing.