Egoism strictly defined is the habit of valuing everything only in reference to one's personal interest. It’s a kind of selfishness and it’s opposite is altruism.
Metaegoism takes this a step further and finds a way to enshrine one’s egoism thus formalizing it. A good example of this would be to get your Urban Dictionary contributor’s name as an Urban Dictionary entry.
Jus sayin’.
In an act of total metaegoism, Mindhunter the Profiler added his Urban Dictionary contributor’s name to the Urban Dictionary. That’s some meta fo’ yo’ ass!!!!!
1. Meta means about the thing itself. It's seeing the thing from a higher perspective instead of from within the thing, like being self-aware.
2. A term used in mmo meaning the Most Effective Tactic Available. It's basically what works in a game regardless of what you wish would work.
1. There's a lot of bad examples here, so I'll fix those.
Making a movie about the film industry isn't meta. Making a movie about making movies is.
Using a footnote to explain another footnote isn't meta. Using a footnote to explain what footnotes are is meta.
Metaphysics, probably the most common use of meta, means that instead of talking about the physics of the real world, you're talking about the physics itself (for example, why should there even be gravity).
2. Ninja in FFXI wasn't meant to be a tank, but it ended up being one in the meta because it's evasion was so high.
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brownwill also be accompanied by a dark soda.
When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flexcash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.