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* [[Ascended Fanon]]/[[Official Fan-Submitted Content]]: Generally known as YANIs ([[Fun With Acronyms|Yet Another New Idea]]). Ideas from [[Game Mod|patches and variants]] frequently find their way into the vanilla game, with the Monk being one of the most notable examples; other examples the blessed scroll of fire being a one-time targetable attack and the oilskin sack auto-identifying if water slides off it. YANIs designed to be cruel or difficulty-increasing in some manner are generally called EPIs (Evil Patch Ideas).
** There's more than a few lists of YANIs maintained [https://nethack-yanis.github.io/index.html on github] and [https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Category:YANI on the wiki].
* [[Author Existence Failure]]: Founding DevTeam member Izchak Miller passed away in 1994; the 3.2 series was dedicated to his memory, and he was memorialized by a special game-end tombstone, which is still available as a compile-time option. 3.2 also added added a shopkeeper named Izchak, who has unique dialogue compared to the others and always runs a lighting shop in Minetown. [[Video Game Caring Potential|Players consider it very poor form to mistreat this particular shopkeeper, despite the extent to which his co-workers are maligned by everyone]]; often, he is even spared by [[Kill'Em All|extinctionists!]]
* [[Development Hell]]: Version 3.4.3 was released in December 2003. The next version, 3.6.0? [[Saved From Development Hell|Finally released...]] in '''''December 2015'''''. Before that, the largest such gap was the three years the release of 3.2.2 and 3.2.3/3.3.0;<ref>Both of the latter were released concurrently in December 1999.</ref> for a time, the community at large believed any future releases after 3.4.3 to be [[Vaporware]], which has spawned [[NetHack 4]] and a few other [[Game Mod|variants]]. Thankfully, newer versions have come far quicker in comparison since then.
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