2011年11月17日 · Meta is, as best as I can describe it, data about data. So if the data you are concerned with is say, the name of a person, any additional data related to that data is meta-data. Main Data: Person's name. Meta Data: Origin of name. Meta Data: Name meaning. Meta Data: Derivations of name.

2017年6月26日 · That's for the original definition, but the word is being used much more vaguely. The concept of meta is quiet subtle (I'm pretty sure I don't understand it myself, and I've studied mathematics and read books on the idea of meta and self-reference). As a result, people have a tendency to use the word meta whenever self-reference is involved.

"Meta" is a prefix meaning "referring to itself." This has evolved into a variety of meanings that are used today. In games, the "meta" is referring to what are the strongest strategies currently. For example, in League of Legends the "meta" is a phrase that means whatever champions are strongest at the moment.

2021年7月27日 · The "meta" component would be more obvious if you were talking more about that game flow, when it's more like, "I'm trying to predict what the player does, rather than strictly think about how the units interact" by doing things like faking out, or doing bluffs like taking a third base in a place where people usually take the 4th, to bluff ...

2022年11月8日 · Merely making a reference to something does not make that reference meta, there has to be some level of self reference. The third is just a deep analysis. Meta analysis is an analysis of analyses, a study of studies - analyzing the socioeconomic era in which a book was written is not a meta analysis. The fifth is just plain irony.

To expand on some of the other comments here: In reference to gaming "meta" is playing from outside (or beyond) the game itself. for example in a role-playing game such as dungeons and dragons, you as a person may know something that your character would not and making your character act with that knowledge. e.g. you saw the hidden door in the Dungeon Master's …

The "meta" is short for "metagame". "Meta" is a Greek prefix meaning "beyond". The idea is that there is each individual game you play - you queue up with an opponent (or team) and try to bring your opponent to 0 health or get some other objective. You employ a …

Meta can often take place in a piece of work’s own meta, which in this term is like knowledge base, lore, or world. Deadpool is an great example of meta humor, where he will reference how they can’t afford certain X-men, how some characters might sound more DC, etc. Breaking the fourth wall is considered in some cases as “aware of meta ...

2019年8月17日 · Here's the definition of meta - pertaining to or noting a story, conversation, character, etc., that consciously references or comments upon its own subject or features, often in the form of parody: A movie about making a movie is just so meta—especially when the actors criticize the acting. OR

2011年10月9日 · The slang use of "meta" comes from a book called Gödel, Escher, Bach, (or GEB for short) by Douglas Hofstadter. One of the things Hofstadter talks about in GEB is that it's possible to use language to talk about language itself. And this works even for special languages with strong rules, like mathematics or computer programming languages ...