Humor, jokes, memes about TTRPGs
This fundamentally depends on the people and dm you are playing with. The group I play with has decided that common enemies your players would know how to deal with weaknesses etc. Just like a person from Australia knows which spiders are poisonous or not.
Uncommon enemies you know you have to pry for weaknesses. We also play shadow dark so character longevity depends on the experience gained from previous encounters and PC deaths.
I'll take a meta gamer over someone with "my guy" syndrome any day. At least they'll progress the plot.
My guy syndrome?
There's more than the two alternatives of playing "Myself, a person who games a lot and knows things a veteran gamer would know, but with D&D powers" and "The personification of chaotic stupidity that is my alter-ego, an insufferable piece of shit, but with D&D powers".
The "My Guy" syndrome is the inexperienced person's experimentation of Improving in RPGs. The meta-gamer is the experienced-but-tactless person's desire to play the game straight up as a board game, rather than a social experience.
There's a third - even more experienced - kind of player, who can seamlessly integrate the rules they're very familiar with into the story of their character that they're trying to tell. The player who says "I'm going to play a kleptomaniac Rogue" and proceeds to steal the belt off a rampaging Ogre to trip him with his own pants as a combat maneuver. Or the player who says "I'm going to play a Stubbornly Self-Righteous Knight" and is as rigid in his morals as he is tankie in his ability hold the line when the party needs it most.
These players lean into their conflicts for a comedic interlude, then squad up to form a deadly duo when its time to crack heads. And that makes the game both more fun for everyone at the table (especially the DM) than someone mired in the technicalities of a feat description or obsessed with being the center of attention.
I get around this by having the memory of a goldfish for metagaming knowledge.
That's why I always play half elves. I mean, they're like 60 to 80 years old. They have seen some shit. They have learned some shit. They've been in human society that entire time, even if they're only physically in their early 20s.
Reasonably, I have enough local background knowledge to address myriad situations.
slightly neurotic diviner who almost always knows what's optimal, and struggles between doing the obviously ideal thing or rejecting that and knowingly doing something suboptimal so they aren't just a puppet to the magic
Is this meta- metagaming?
I played all of Death Stranding 2 with BOOBA written on my back because I thought it was funny.
My low wiz eldrich knight that keeps touching blatantly cursed shit and just rolling with it.
My tiny tortle sorcerer is obsessed with putting gems in his mouth. The DM knows this. The party knows this. It makes for some very funny conflicts
Some people just like rolling up new PCs 🤷🏼♂️😅😶