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*space alien person is the proper nomenclature, dude.
Extraterrestrial persons is their preferred label though.
That’s so Terra-centric 🙄
bogos binted?
ppl dont trust google sites or github sites just send them the raw html files
Perhaps!
Sorry, I only care about the space aliens that are not people.
So how many tentacles we talking here?
Ok, someone please help me. The definition of meta changed, and I no longer understand it.
It used to be an adjective, now it’s a noun?
It’s from video games. People started using it because you might have an optimal strategy but then people started using strategies to counter the optimal strategy. A meta strategy. It makes sense when you have PvP but it’s also used to indicate general strategy now. Meta might change if the game changes or if someone figures out a more optimal strategy. So it means “the currently perceived optimal strategy, taking into account other strategies”.
Oh. So they just noun-ified the adjective. Neat. I like it.
I’m pretty sure that form of meta doesn’t actually have anything to do with the prefix/adjective. In games it’s just an acronym for “most effective tactic available” i.e. in your example the first strategy would be called “the meta” until the second one came along.
edit: I realize you kinda mention acronym thing at the end of your comment. Not originating from the prefix “meta-” is my main point though.
This is the first I’ve ever heard of it being an acronym, and it seems unlikely to me. The origin was around tournaments where there was a degree of changing one’s own choices based on the likely match-ups you would face. E.g. for something like magic, if everyone is on a slower control deck, you can take advantage of metagame knowledge and run a aggro deck even if the cards are not quite as powerful in that card pool.
That’s absolutely not true. It’s a clever backronym, but not the origin of the term.
It’s a shortening of metagame
I’ll try my best but it’ll probably be wrongish.
It usually relates to a notable thing happening in a closed community or specific subject.
There was PM spam from “the fediverse chick” a while ago, and that became the Lemmy meta for a bit.
Nicole fell off, millions of lemmings must conspiracize!
to me the biggest bummer about lemm.ee shutting down is that when i made my .zip account i lost my messages from nicole.
I remember seeing some posts by that user. Genuine schizoposting.
space alien people.
as opposed to land alien people, and the water alien people.
checks out.
