I See You Using The Word Meta!
#1
Posted 17 February 2016 - 02:58 PM
Meta...meta..meta...
Sounds like a pseudo-intellectual to me!
You know...a real wannabe!
#2
Posted 17 February 2016 - 03:05 PM
#3
Posted 17 February 2016 - 03:07 PM
You might be right on the concept, and have some great insights, but get a buddy/friend to help you review things like these before posting on someplace where they will be stuck for a long time.
Good luck bro.
#4
Posted 17 February 2016 - 03:13 PM
It's a topic that gets discussed a lot and typing out "optimized chassis specific laser loadout in the current balance iteration" gets old quickly. Instead we say "the meta".
We have a lot of appropriated words here. A sort of local nerd dialect.
#5
Posted 17 February 2016 - 03:18 PM
Ah, those were the golden days....
#6
Posted 17 February 2016 - 03:29 PM
#7
Posted 17 February 2016 - 03:30 PM
That's life, it's one giant meta, and it's how things work.
Edited by Realizer, 17 February 2016 - 03:31 PM.
#8
Posted 17 February 2016 - 04:21 PM
Why bother playing a build you enjoy when you can play something boring that doubles your match score? Unless for some reason the match score is the thing that is fun to you of course....
#9
Posted 17 February 2016 - 04:32 PM
its annoying i know. the best thing you can do is stand resolute and use exact language and not fall into the trap of using four letter words to describe everything. you will be doing everyone a favor. this is why i prefer "optimal" instead of meta to denote a mech that is in the best config it can be in, and i also use the words like "strategy" or "tactics" instead using meta as a stand in for same.
Edited by LordNothing, 17 February 2016 - 04:41 PM.
#10
Posted 17 February 2016 - 04:35 PM
https://en.wikipedia...wiki/Metagaming
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Recently the term metagame has come to be used[citation needed] by PC Gaming shoutcasters to describe an emergent methodology that is a subset of the basic strategy necessary to play the game at a high level. The definitions of this term are varied but can include "pre-game" theory, behavior prediction, or "ad hoc strategy" depending on the game being played. An example of this would be in StarCraft where a player's previous matches with the same opponent have given them insight into that player's playstyle and may cause them to make certain decisions which would otherwise seem inferior.
Edited by Gyrok, 17 February 2016 - 04:36 PM.
#11
Posted 17 February 2016 - 04:45 PM
Edited by LordNothing, 17 February 2016 - 04:47 PM.
#12
Posted 17 February 2016 - 04:52 PM
#13
Posted 17 February 2016 - 04:53 PM
Any subject can be said to have a meta-theory, a theoretical consideration of its properties, such as its foundations, methods, form and utility, on a higher level of abstraction. In linguistics, a grammar is considered as being expressed in a metalanguage, language that operates on a higher level in order to describe properties of the plain language (and not itself)
Meta is also gaining currency as an adjective, as well as a prefix, as in the work of Douglas Hofstadter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta
People who deny such ways of thought, in my experience are generally people who think diet soda is good for you. (Just trying to be as honest as others seemed to be in this thread.)
Edited by Realizer, 17 February 2016 - 04:54 PM.
#14
Posted 17 February 2016 - 04:54 PM
Cion, on 17 February 2016 - 03:07 PM, said:
You might be right on the concept, and have some great insights, but get a buddy/friend to help you review things like these before posting on someplace where they will be stuck for a long time.
Good luck bro.
I was just going to post the same thing.
#15
Posted 17 February 2016 - 04:55 PM
#17
Posted 17 February 2016 - 05:31 PM
For instance, if you know that the enemy will probably be doing a light rush in CW, and tell everyone to grab SSRM boats, even though you are dropping on Boreal Vault, that is playing meta. You are being effective based off how others are likely to play the game, rather than strictly what makes sense based off the map, numbers, or what would make sense if you were to be "going in blind" so to speak. Meta continues to build on top of itself as people continue to anticipate each other.
#18
Posted 17 February 2016 - 05:51 PM
Its a game play it as you see fit, if that angers others so be it.
#19
Posted 17 February 2016 - 05:57 PM
Percy Veer, on 17 February 2016 - 02:58 PM, said:
Meta...meta..meta...
Sounds like a pseudo-intellectual to me!
You know...a real wannabe!
Ah, look at you, all trying to sound smart and special. Emphasis on trying.
Someone must have been given a shiny new dictionary for their birthday, and feeling like all kinds of a special princess, eh?
You know the word "gay" actually means "happy, carefree" and "shambles", a meat market, whilst "******" means a bundle of sticks. I wonder why nobody reacts to those terms in "their intended" definitions?
Crazy, right?
Oh, but linguistic evolution and contextual use changes things, you say? Yes, indeed it does. Even when one says "meta".
Edited by Bishop Steiner, 17 February 2016 - 07:08 PM.
#20
Posted 17 February 2016 - 06:52 PM
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