NetHack 5.0.0 (is still guidecore)

NetHack is the strangest game that I regularly get sucked back into. Recently, the DevTeam released version 5.0.0. The version I’m most familiar with is 3.4.3, which seemed to be the “definitive” version when I started playing as a teenager (c. 2008) and development had already long slowed to a crawl. I long considered the changes in 3.6.0 and beyond to be a bit disappointing: they mostly served…