Guns? Actually just throwing rocks at high speed.

Nuclear bomb? Throwing a special, spicy rock.

It really is just rock chucking all the way down, projectile combat completely broke the meta

I'd argue we're still just throwing (highly processed) rocks but much much faster using gunpowder to accelerate them through the tube of handheld devices

RUN THE FUCKING ANIMALS OFF A CLIFF

Invent fire.

Invent guns to throw specifically shaped stones at 1000fps using fire.

Except for the time we tried poking with pointy sticks and swing sharp sticks. It worked for a while, but then we got even better at throwing sharp sticks further and hit all the stick pokers before they could get close.

Griefers. We have griefers who for some reason, we voted to lead us.

Well, except the ones we just drove over cliffs with fire by the hundreds so we could harvest the good bits

I have to separate my cats for feeding and one of them isn't fond of the process so she runs away from me. I simply follow her at a walking pace saying, "You cannot defeat the persistence predator," until she gives up. It never takes long.

Working fine for the best predator in the sea, even before the dawn of trees. So, meta is the issue.

Like humans don't just spam walk strats

it's like when your buddy backs you against the wall in mortal combat and just spams low kick

Relative to size but not overall.

Most predators are built for short bursts of speed so they can rush prey. Prey animals are a little slower but with better endurance so they can outlast that burst of speed. If a lion doesn't catch a gazelle right away, then it will realize it's hopeless and give up. The gazelle will also be alerted to the lion and will have demonstrated that it's healthy and fit, so the lion will just look for easier prey. That's the standard "meta."

Persistence hunting is a niche that kinda "breaks the meta" by not caring about speed at all. You expect the prey to "get away" multiple times. You can't really do this as a pure carnivore, but as an omnivore, you can gather food while in persuit (helps if you're nomadic anyway). You also need to be able to have other ways to protect yourself from predators, since you have no chance of outrunning them. Early technology (like spears and fire) make the approach more viable, and those are human-exclusive.

If you drop your whole build to try to counter what humans are doing, you're going to get eaten by a lion (if gazelle) or not catch anything (if lion). And persistence hunting gets fewer kills compared to pure carnivores so it's not really worth it.

I'm sorry but I don't understand. Could you explain what this image and your comment are meant to be about?

Carbon and nitrogen isotope testing prove that we ate animals.