I started late into Cata and really got going in Mists and absolutely loved it. I think OP is having a “back in my day” nostalgic moment

“Try” is an issue. What if someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed and decided to burn off some steam by assaulting people?

Not thinking about ethics isn’t the same as not having an ethical framework you most closely adhere to

The Tories pissed it all into the channel as far as I can tell

How would telling him benefit either of you? As a random stranger in the internet, you don’t need to be the reason he lost his innocent view of the world.

If he starts asking direct questions, give age appropriate answers but I don’t see a reason to tell him unprompted

Me too. Every solo run I play is on B42 and I have to remind myself of all the cool features we’re missing when I hop back into the game with friends

B42 is a beta branch like you say, you have to opt in to play it. The current version does do multiplayer, I’m currently running my own server for my friends on the current version

There are plenty of “private” servers that are technically open to anyone. Just follow the rules and enjoy the game.

You’ll see a lot of “B42” or “build 42” being talked about. This is the most recent major update that is still in beta. It doesn’t have multiplayer but does offer A LOT of new and improved features.

Fantastic game that gets so much deeper with every (infrequent) major update

It’s definitely a contender, I’m not sure it’s “much simpler” though. There is no simple option, it will likely be the most challenging linguistic problem the world has ever faced.

Assuming the periodic table will be the same is a huge leap. @[email protected] did a good job of explaining why in another comment. To paraphrase, our periodic table is limited to our perspective of the elements. There could be other even more accurate, and descriptive ways to fully encompass what an element is.

Maths already is a language of sorts, with logic built in. Whereas the periodic table is a technical description of elements.

To call it useless is just untrue. There are many possibilities, Crypto is just a black hole eating the hype and funding that would otherwise go into valuable tech