Meta
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Run, dear girl;
your followers found you.
Disappear
or else they’ll hound you.
Kaya strike
them off, away their plan.
Interfere
as, it seems, only you can.
Save the day
like you’re dressed as a hero.
Stop them.
You’re Nomi’s champ, not a zero.
I don’t know how you do it. Amazing, as always.
Diolch yn fawr iawn.
Team Rocket aren’t heroes except when they’re facing someone worse than they.
I’ve heard they protect the world from devastation and unite all peoples within our nation.
People who try to expand their own nation to rule all other peoples tend to cause a lot of devastation.
I do say ‘LIKE’ you’re dressed as a hero.
For some reason, my brain kept trying to read this to the tune of “Run Boy Run” by Woodkid…
But it doesn’t quite work like that….
So no idea why my brain keeps doing it anyway….
Nomi’s ‘friends’ are back. So purchasing the Alien Queen did not hurt her reputation. Although, right now Nomi could probably drown kittens without loosing their admiration.
New fanfic! Near Basketball
This one’s kinda short, but cute. Comment/kudos here or at AO3 (requires login)
Agh! Nerfed the link!
Near Basketball
Hobbies are hobbies.
Decks are decks.
With the price of some cards,
Some players may say “what the heck?!”
And Nomi’s classmates have tracked her down.
There are some free to play, pay to win games where people routinely spend in excess of $50k US to “win”. By comparison, TCGs are cheap.
There are a few of those people who I feel like it makes sense for them to spend so much on it. They make Youtube videos about the game and have millions of subscribers, and have Patreons and Ko-fis and various other funding options. So playing the game and learning how it works is their job, so spending on it makes sense. But it’s my understanding that most of those players, in addition to spending in excess of $50k per month on the game are also paying undisclosed amounts to those few people to get tips on how to best spend their money and hone their game ahead of the general public.
Personally, I feel like they could probably find a better use for their money. That said, I understand for some corporate executives, it’s important to relax on the weekend with a nice, easy game “who can pay the most money for a video game?”
To be clear, I play one of those games. I pay no money for anything in it, because I’ve read the terms of service which state that nothing I buy from them is actually ever going to be mine. Why would I pay money to them? But other people have other thoughts on that.
Mimikyu! One of my absolite faves ^^
Interesting how the term Meta has evolved(it didn’t used to be an acronym/backronym, it was sourced from Ancient Greek, though the use remains similar to the use decades ago ^^). And yeah, following the Meta is pretty financially rough… -_-; I always preferred to just get a ton of cheap stuff and see if I could make something functional. Occasionally I’d look at single cards that might help my builds, but I was into like 10 TCG/CCGs, and even if I could only play 3-4 with anyone other than friends, devoting tons of cash to those didn’t seem worth it, unless I wanted it to be my job.
When you have to get a job to afford your hobbies! I’ll just stick to my single player video games.
There is not, to my understanding, a hobby on this planet that involves the creations of other people, which doesn’t require money. If you HAVE a hobby, you have to get a job to afford it.
Some maybe call for more luxurious jobs than others, though.
I’m pretty sure “most effective tactic available” must be a backronym. (That’s not a complaint. Backronyms are fun.) When I looked up “off-meta” to understand what Mikey was saying, the explanation I found was that this sense of “meta” is a clipping of “metagame”, meaning “the game outside the game” or “the game of gaming the game”, semantic-shifted into “the conventions of a gaming community”.
100% a backronym, yes. The modern uses of meta both in games and sci-fi find their roots in ancient Greek. The prime uses of meta- generally refer to “ouside/’after’-X” e.g. “outside the game”, or, iirc,occasionally “field that studies of itself”.
Nomi is quite young, and the comic takes place around when the acronym started to appear, so I’m guessing she just heard these things from others and took them as fact.
The dopey Mimikyu must be pretty powerful if it’s so expensive… Maybe that’s why it’s confused, that its value is mind-boggling?
A trademark safe Mimikyu! The artist’s really going in for the Pokémon references here. So that’s what Kaya was “foxing” about, and I can see why! $1,400 dollars for a a single card?! I really don’t like it when groups or companies auction off their services, especially transportation. Kaya now knows what the Meta is (for this card game, has it been named yet?) thanks to the brainy little Lemur girl, Nomi! Her nickname is pretty accurate if you’re familiar with Japanese; nomi, short for nomisen, means brain or brain tissue. And her brain must be full of as much information as possible about her interests.
The return of Lemur princess Nomi’s faithful friends, Agnes the Horse girl and Rachel the human! I wonder what’s got them so excited that they’re shouting to Nomi about… Or are they trying to say Nomi Nomi no Mi? Either way, this might be a distraction for Nomi regarding her allowance and hobbies.
“I really don’t like it when groups or companies auction off their services, especially transportation.”
Holy non-sequitur, Batman. What in the world does “companies auctioning off services” have to do with “people who buy cards reselling those cards based on how valuable they are for the card game”?
Five bucks says they signed Nomi up for the tournament anyway.
Ah, the reason I never got into CCGs in one six-panel comic.
Q: What is the difference between crack cocaine and MTG
A: One is highly addictive and will burn through all your money and the other is an illegal narcotic