MovingPictures07 wrote:It's funny you mention Talking Heads because that's the first game that showed me just how flawed meta perceptions can be and how easily they can be manipulated. They almost cost town the game. Since that game actually, I've had an increasing degree of aversion myself.
MP talked about them being flaws and easily manipulated, and that he had an aversion to using them. My post was a direct response to this, with the intent of disagreeing with MP that meta should not be used.Golden wrote:A note on meta.
It's an overused tool that people often rely upon too heavily to their detriment.
But it should not be entirely dismissed. It has its times and places. In the end, correct gut reads often just come from 'this feels like what I'm used to from this player when bad'.
You've turned that around into me saying meta shouldn't be used - which is, in fact, the exact opposite of what I was saying.