Proposal to create a Playing Video Games tag

We currently have a general tag for playing games but no direct tag for playing video games. My proposal is to create a tag for playing video games so that it's easier to search for.

If there's not a negative flaw to this then I'll go ahead and create a favgroup and BUR it for voting purposes. Might take a little while due to the size of the playing games tag.

Related. It was brought up in the discord about the possible creation of other specific playing tags like playing with dolls. Thought I'd tack that on here too but I won't be focusing on that.

While playing games, I think, is mainly supposed to be for video games, in practice no it isn't and you can easily find card games, board games, etc in there too. Not that that's a misuse of the tag, but more to your point.

I wouldn't hate a playing video games tag personally.

NiceLittleDan said:

We currently have a general tag for playing games but no direct tag for playing video games. My proposal is to create a tag for playing video games so that it's easier to search for.

If there's not a negative flaw to this then I'll go ahead and create a favgroup and BUR it for voting purposes. Might take a little while due to the size of the playing games tag.

Related. It was brought up in the discord about the possible creation of other specific playing tags like playing with dolls. Thought I'd tack that on here too but I won't be focusing on that.

Quasi related, I've said it before but TTRPG's need a similar tag, the current TTRPG tag is a mess and is mostly just art from TTRPGs rather then anything diagetically to do with 'em.

Knowledge_Seeker said:

While playing games, I think, is mainly supposed to be for video games,

It's not, and it never was. The wiki has always stated it was for any kind of game.

BUR #51741 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

remove alias playing_video_games -> playing_games
mass update playing_games ~video_game ~game_console ~game_controller ~handheld_game_console -> playing_video_games

I was gonna do the insane thing of going through all of playing_games to favgroup before realising that playing_games ~video_game ~game_console ~game_controller ~handheld_game_console catches the majority with likely very few false flags (I didn't see any in the first 400 results).

There does seem to still be a lot missing according to a playing_games -video_game -game_console -game_controller -handheld_game_console search so some manual gardening will be needed after. I'm happy to do this but unsure on how long it'd take.

Not implying for now in case we want to change how we use the playing games tag as just this BUR alone accounts for two third of the tag.

Lmk of any issues with the BUR.

The bulk update request #51741 (forum #402904) has been approved by @nonamethanks.

BUR #51992 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

create implication playing_video_games -> playing_games

Not surprising that we didn't have this tag, danbooru is so old that it predates videogames.
Should be implied tho.

The bulk update request #51992 (forum #404208) has been approved by @nonamethanks.