Danbooru

Tag alias: controller and game_controller

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When I think "controller", I usually do think of video game controllers. However, there's also remote controls for TVs, air conditioners, RC toy cars, etc., so the alias might not be such a good idea.

I'd suggest just editing the applicable ones over.

UnderneathTheWaves said: Maybe we should also have game controller, remote control, etc., implicate controller?

Done. Went ahead and edited controller to game_controller. Maybe some were wrong but at a glance it didn't seem like it.

I'm a bit confused by the discussion at the end. Are we against aliasing remote to remote_control because they are supposed to be two separate tags (if so, then how are they different? There is no wiki for the latter currently), or is the problem just that the latter implicates controller? (if that's the case, why not remove that implication and then alias?) Needs some clarification, particularly with there being many shokuhou_misaki images lately.

My main concern is what we are doing with the general controller tag (which doesn't have a wiki currently). If remote_controls should not implicate controller, as Hillside Moose says, then the tag is pretty much mostly redundant with game_controller. I just did some cleanup, going through controller -joystick -game_controller -wii_remote -remote_control -remote and adding in more specific tags wherever I could.

joystick: Doesn't implicate controller.
game_controller: Implicated to controller.
remote and remote_control: Same exact thing (one should be aliased to the other), but the former is not implicated to controller while the latter is.
wii_remote: Should these be tagged game_controller, remote_control, both, or neither?

What's left after the cleanup is:
*Madoka flash games (don't want to bother with playing just to find out why it was tagged controller)
*Whole boards of controls (post #1255594, post #934834): the former should be tagged mixer, I think?
*Box-shaped robot controller (post #1197258, post #1163910, post #731701)
*Unsure (post #859514)
*Playstation Move (post #804133): Same question as the Wii Remote, I guess?

I agree with Toks in that, at the end of the day controllers control something. The other terms we use, remote controller, game controller and the like specify what type of controller that is. Personally, I think having a general controller tag on all of it and a more specific tag would make more sense but that could be me.

EB said
joystick: Doesn't implicate controller.
remote and remote_control: Same exact thing (one should be aliased to the other), but the former is not implicated to controller while the latter is.
wii_remote: Should these be tagged game_controller, remote_control, both, or neither?

1. Will implicate controller.
2. Wlll alias to remote_control. Will implicate controller.
3. Will implicate game_controller.

create implication joystick -> controller
create alias remote -> remote_controller
create implication remote_controller -> controller
create implication wii_remote -> game_controller

jxh2154 said:
create alias remote -> remote_controller
create implication remote_controller -> controller

Should be remote_control and not remote_controller for them.

Updated

EB said:

Should be remote_control and not remote_controller for them.

Ah right had game_controller in mind when doing it. Fixed.

create alias remote -> remote_control
create alias remote_controller -> remote_control

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