i don't know what that means
me neither
"Meta-fiction" presumably refers to fiction that is "meta." As we all presumably know, "meta" means "change," or, "beyond/on a different level;"
Examples-
Metastasis: the movement of a disease beyond its original static location. A familiar usage being "a tumor has metastasized in the liver." The location changes.
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Metamorphosis, a very abrupt and conspicuous change of an organism's shape.
-As we are all familiar with games, we can point to a "meta-puzzle" (i.e., like a Zelda dungeon, where all of the puzzles are essentially subsets of a central dungeon puzzle)
-Or, "meta-humor," in which the humor places itself on a different level from itself. Humor about humor, using its own conventions to look down and refer to itself. Like how Hamlet, a play, had a play within itself; a play that was actually pointing out what was going on in the "overall" play of Hamlet. A play raised to the power of a play... exponential plays, each on a different level of reality.
So we can assume that a "meta-fiction" is some kind of changing fiction, or, more likely a work of fiction that refers to itself to be above "normal" fiction. Such as a fiction which pokes fun at itself or at the conventions of fiction, a parody.
An experiment! If this is the correct answer, then "metafiction" may be in a dictionary. If so, then that is all that is needed. If not, then the term still has a logical explanation.
... and a the quick check of the dictionary confirms the hypothesis.
met·a·fic·tion /ˈmɛtəˌfɪkʃən/
–noun
fiction that discusses, describes, or analyzes a work of fiction or the conventions of fiction.
[Origin: 1975–80]
God's Wounds! So we know the term. "Metafictive" appears to be an ad libbed adjective form of "metafiction." (I say "ad libbed" because another dictionary lists the proper adjective as "metafictionist")
Now then, the case is solved. We all know what hyperbolic means, it is a common word. It is no new term cobbled together from pop-prefixes, like the term "pop-prefixes." (See that? That was META-HUMOR!) It means that something is exaggerated to unreasonable lengths.
These words are drohne's tag. They somehow describe him or his actions. Did he once state these words, and an amused admin found them to be a fitting way to demonstrate drohne's gifted vocabulary, a little "metahumor" in and of itself? Possibly, but in lieu of any evidence of this, we must follow the simplest explanation: the words plainly describe drohne and his posts.
ERGO!
"Hyperbolically metafictive" means... that drohne's posts are exaggerated works of self-referential fiction! His posts commonly create, or are logically founded upon, the presmise of a fictional mindset or situation for a subject (fanboy, developer, publisher, etc.), and present a sardonic picture of that subject in some kind of cliched action or state which drohne views as fictional. Example: drohne believes that the concept of motion controls being useful preposterous; therefore, he will sarcastically have his fictional subject state that he/she finds motional controls useful. A parody which points out what believes to be support for his argument. But his parody goes too far! It is exaggerated, like all good parody, but it is too much exaggeration. He creates an absurd caricature to be laughed at in an appeal to ridicule, but his exaggeration of the case is flawed. Features of the exaggeration, either the extent or the part of the subject which he is mocking, do not follow from the facts. He exaggerates certain things too far beyond their reasonable boundaries, or exaggerates his own incorrect concept about the subject.
Such hyperbole is... well, hyperbolic hyperbole (metahyperbole, I wonder?). It is metafiction which ends up going too far in its examination; as it is picking itself on a different level, the metafiction destroys its own basic foundation. Quite literally, logical undermining. A parody which goes too far ends up being nihilistic and cynical, criticizing itself and everything; it is no longer a joke. It spirals out of control, exponent upon exponent upon exponent building up and pointing out the previous level's flaws in an attempt to joke. Self-referential humor grows old quick. The new DNA formed in the gametes of the sperm and egg, once it has become an embryo, immediately begins the long process of breaking down as the chromosomes divide and fray in each of the trillions of cell divisions, causing degradation of the proteins formed by the DNA's sequences; the process of getting old.
But a certain imperfection can happen at any time, causing something far worse to happen. The proteins do not lose just their quality; no, they lose their ability to die and quit when it's their time to go. When a joke gets old, it'll either fade away like a cell in apotosis at the end of its life... or it'll try to stay alive by referring to itself, milking itself for all its worth... like a cell that cannot stop dividing.
Drohne, you are under e-arrest. The tag of hyperbolic metafictive is evidence, which has proven what you are. Your metafiction is self-destructive to their humor, but that does not mean they literally vanish away. They stay on the boards, replicating themselves beyond reason as they are quoted and requoted, and as you milk it for all its worth by replying constantly to keep it up. They have lost their usefulness like a cell that cannot stop dividing, and as such does not stagnate and wait for death. Your posts...
are internet cancer!And yes, I realize the hypocrisy of criticizing you for milking a joke and pointless metahumor!
Yes, I realize that disclaimer was pointless meta-humor!
And that last one too!
And that one!
And that one!
And that one! ad infinitum
