[lloeki]

> mimicking the current meta

Probably "Most Effective Tactic Available. It's basically what works in a game regardless of what you wish would work.", a gaming term.

Imagine a PvP game, there are rock-paper-scissors rules and devs try to balance the game, but inevitably mistakes are made and the game has an imbalance leading to a rock-paper-scissoss-well situation (the well always wins or ties), so people end up mimicking that, gaming the game, otherwise they don't stand a chance, which ruins the game itself. Then devs adjust that by cheesing the weapon or whatever, but may introduce another imbalance. So there's a game atop the game (a meta-game), which is "how to game the game" by finding meta-strategies that are almost guaranteed to work.