Implicating looking_at_partner → looking_at_another
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Reason:

If a character is looking at their romantic/sexual partner, they are looking at another character.

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+1. It's impossible for this to not be true.

Related: forum #217389

+1, was about to suggest this.

Makes sense, though I'm not sure if it's necessary to keep both.

Looking_at_partner used to be aliased to eye_contact, but that resulted in a lot of mistags (...which reminds me: eye_contact could still use a good sweep, plenty of mistags left). So the alias got axed, which left looking_at_partner as a stray.

It's clearly been used, but I dunno if it offers anything that's not covered by 'sex looking_at_another'.

When I first read "looking_at_another".. I assumed it had something to do with like, cuckolding or whatever. Someone looking at someone other than who they're sexing.

Not that that's how it used, but yeah

Genjar said:
Makes sense, though I'm not sure if it's necessary to keep both.

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It's clearly been used, but I dunno if it offers anything that's not covered by 'sex looking_at_another'.

I would also use looking_at_partner for ~romantic_couple ~holding_hand -sex situations too, as appropriate.

looking_at_partner is only really good for tagging all the things, and looking_at_another already accomplishes the same, IMO. Then again, looking_at_viewer dwarfs all the looking_at_* tags in value anyway, and for that opinion I recuse myself from this case.

post #183923

Here's a fun question: is first_person_view looking_at_viewer also looking_at_another? I think yes, since the ubiquitous faceless_male and disembodied_penis are considered persons when counting characters.

abadbird said:
looking_at_partner is only really good for tagging all the things, and looking_at_another already accomplishes the same, IMO. Then again, looking_at_viewer dwarfs all the looking_at_* tags in value anyway, and for that opinion I recuse myself from this case.

Bear in mind that looking_at_another was barely used before 10/11/2016. looking_at_viewer has been around for a lot longer.

abadbird said:
Here's a fun question: is first_person_view looking_at_viewer also looking_at_another? I think yes, since the ubiquitous faceless_male and disembodied_penis are considered persons when counting characters.

It's probably better not to apply looking_at_another and looking_at_viewer to the same character to avoid overlap.

Genjar said:
It's clearly been used, but I dunno if it offers anything that's not covered by 'sex looking_at_another'.

sex looking_at_another covers more than what looking_at_partner does.

post #1240202

looking_at_another? Yes. (Mickey and Goofy are looking at Max and Pluto)
looking_at_partner? No. (Max and Pluto are not looking at each other)