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[โ€“] 2 points 11 months ago

It's the same sense of the word. In language terms, meta is self-referential. In gaming terms, the metagame is the game within the game.

Often, games turn into a rock-paper-scissors format where three different strategies fight for dominance to the exclusion of anything non-meta.

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