Slash'EM Extended/Trivia

Trivia about Slash'EM Extended includes:

Broken Base: The game has been a source of controversy among the community since release due to perceptions of excessively juvenile and edgy humor, signs of Fake Difficulty, and Amy's attitude towards perceived censorship - but in 2021, a larger schism occurred between the variant's author Amy and much of the NetHack playerbase: it was discovered that Hot Coffee Minigames and other features could potentially involve monsters that either were or resembled minors, this went practically unnoticed for ages, likely due to the sheer volume of content. Upon one server's owner being made aware of this by an offended player, he removed the variant from his server, declaring it a dealbreaker that this was ever present to begin with; there had been no reason to vet variants prior to this, and SLEX was the only variant to have ever ventured that far with those features. Amy took this as a cue that she had become Persona Non Grata in the community and abandoned most of the IRC channels - her case that likely wasn't helped at all by her reluctance to describe exactly why the removal happened while angrily posting about both it and the wiki purge (see The Wiki Rule below). While Amy still develops the variant and communicates with a handful of players several months after the fact, it's clear there's still a grudge being held against a few other community members.
Throw It In: Much of Amy's philosophy design is informed by this mentality, resulting in a lot of fairly unique features and monsters not seen in any other variants... but as per the entry above, it also resulted in some poorly-thought out combinations.
The Wiki Rule: Slash'EM Extended was one of many variants covered by the NetHack Wiki prior to a player discovering especially unsavory content within the game; after the variant was removed from some public servers when the author refused to budge on removing the offending content, much of the wiki coverage - which was already far from complete due to the absurd amount of stuff within the game - was subsequently slashed as well but not removed entirely, since it was still a significant part of NetHack variant history and has influenced various other features. Amy copied over an earlier revision of the article to the github page for Slash'EM Extended (which was marked as mature around the same time period), and has been updating the repository wiki on and off since.

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