We have implicated all ranged weapons to ranged_weapon which then implies weapon so I think we should do the same with melee weapons too.

Currently all of the melee weapons simply imply weapon, completely bypassing the melee weapons tag, and melee weapon does not imply weapon.

I don't really want to have the melee weapon tag invalidated so I'd like to propose the following implications:

melee_weapon -> weapon
axe -> melee_weapon
club -> melee_weapon
dagger -> melee_weapon
mace -> melee_weapon
sword -> melee_weapon
polearm -> melee_weapon

Any thoughts?

aurel said:
*throws an axe*
*throws the sword*
oh, wait aurel, those are still melee weapons... they are just being used differently.
*throwing axe*
*throwing blade*
... could tag those as ranged weapons too?
i dunno lol
*clubs someone with a crossbow*

especially those damn spears, they are both thrown and used for melee.

lol I did consider those things but I figured that, for example, a gun is still a ranged weapon even if you are beating someone over the head with it. XD

Club might need to be club_(weapon). As you can see, there is currently a mix of cudgels and nightclubs in the club tag.

Or rather, nightclubs in the club tag need to be moved over to nightclub since club is already implicated to weapon.

chdgs said:
nightclubs in the club tag need to be moved over to nightclub since club is already implicated to weapon.

Yeah, I think that's the best way.

Edit: I just took care of the bulk of those but there are some posts that I'm not sure why they even have the club tag at all, for example:
post #652255
Could it be a character name or something like a 'boys club', etc?

Axe may be problematic since it may be a throwing axe, but I'm not sure if we got many of those.

DragonFox69 said:
Could it be a character name or something like a 'boys club', etc?

Apparently they are staying at the "Cub Obedience Center and Kindergarten", though not sure if that sounds like a club of any sort... And can't see anything obvious at the source

Cub misspelled as club perhaps?

Anyways, +1 to using melee_weapon. I think any pseudo-melee weapons (spear) should be stuck in with melee weapons for simplicity. If we want to specify non-melee versions of the same weapon, throwing_<weapon> could be used to distinguish them (e.g., throwing_axe, throwing_knife, etc.), but I doubt it will be much of an issue unless we want to be overly pedantic about it.

Edit: lightsaber?

I found a crate of (non-gunpowder based) weapons in the garage.

Don't forget about the war_hammer, the proper term for a small hammer (i.e. one that you can actually carry and swing).

parasprite said:
Cub misspelled as club perhaps?

I doubt it, since the same person added both club and cub on multiple posts.

parasprite said:
Edit: lightsaber?

Can be used as a throwable weapon as well as seen on numerous cases in media/games :P

TheGreatWolfgang said:

• warhammer ("copyrighted" weapon)

Chessax said:
Don't forget about the war_hammer, the proper term for a small hammer (i.e. one that you can actually carry and swing).

I think we should probably do war_hammer_(weapon) and/or warhammer_(copyright).

Chessax said:
I doubt it, since the same person added both club and cub on multiple posts.

It isn't uncommon for people to upload comics all with the same set of tags, especially if they haven't uploaded here before.

I think it can safely be ignored though for the purposes of this thread at least.

Chessax said:
Can be used as a throwable weapon as well as seen on numerous cases in media/games :P

throwing_lightsaber :P

TheGreatWolfgang said:
I found a crate of (non-gunpowder based) weapons in the garage.

That's a handy list, thanks for that; I'll be sure to use it to make implications. :)

Some of those are pretty niche but I don't mind as long as they end up in the right place (I suddenly feel like a hypocrite for implying bardiche -> polearm and not m1001_gnocchi_hand_cannon :V )

Brb, gonna start drawing all my characters with throwing axes just to fuck with this implication!

Lol, no, I'm far too lazy for that.sounds like a good set of implications to me!

Alright, I've made the following changes:

parasprite said:
sabre - Doesn't seem to be tagged for swords, and just as likely to get tagged for sabretooth felines

It is more commonly spelled as saber, but that tag is a mix of weapons and characters. And most of those swords could be re-tagged as cutlass or simply sword. So no need for an implication, I think.

Genjar said:
It is more commonly spelled as saber, ... And most of those swords could be re-tagged as cutlass or simply sword.

*Resists urge to request implication of sabre, epee, and foil to rapier*