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| - Metagaming refers to the act of playing the game on a higher level, above the actual gameplay or story. The "Meta Game" is the Community surrounding the game, the strategy the player takes, and any other player actions relating to the game, but outside the actual gameplay itself. The Meta game features a large cheating community, and many utilities.
- Meta Game is a 2009 novel by Sam Landstrom. A story of a man who lives in a post-Singularity world that is ruled by a computer called the OverSoul, and a point-based economy where people earn points by playing games, spend the points to buy things, and - for the lucky few who earn enough points during their lifetime - earn their way to immortality. Tropes:
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| - Meta Game is a 2009 novel by Sam Landstrom. A story of a man who lives in a post-Singularity world that is ruled by a computer called the OverSoul, and a point-based economy where people earn points by playing games, spend the points to buy things, and - for the lucky few who earn enough points during their lifetime - earn their way to immortality. Tropes:
* Bittersweet Ending: The main character dies... sort of. His Love Interest, however, does not.
* Immortal Life Is Cheap: Averted. Immortality in this case is actually just brain transplantation, which means that even for the Immortal, brain-death is death.
* Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: Lily was designed for this, and it is the final quest of the Metagame, with Lily as the quarry.
* Interrogation by Vandalism: How D_Light learns of the Night Harvest from Hal.
* Lego Genetics: Given the fact that the genomes of most species have been documented, all you need to do to create a customized creature is grab a template from a living organism and tack on all the behavior and appearance genes you like!
* The Singularity
* The Plague: Backstory. The TerriLove virus killed off a significant fraction of the human population by targeting the genes that genetic engineers had used to make people smart and beautiful, providing the impetus for the creation of the OverSoul.
* Robot Buddy: The familiars; pretty much everyone has one. They interface with brain chips.
* We Will Spend Credits in the Future: points are the currency they use
* We Will Use Wiki Words in the Future
* What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Products, which are specially genetically engineered to be just below the DNA-similarity mark between humans and chimpanzees. Apparently, killing one is, and I quote, "like destroying a very expensive piece of furniture".
- Metagaming refers to the act of playing the game on a higher level, above the actual gameplay or story. The "Meta Game" is the Community surrounding the game, the strategy the player takes, and any other player actions relating to the game, but outside the actual gameplay itself. The Meta game features a large cheating community, and many utilities.
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