Aliasing life_bar → health_bar
Link to alias

Reason:

Similar enough.

Genjar said:
Aliasing life_bar → health_bar
Link to alias

Reason:

Similar enough.

Against. Some life bars are representative of a function that is not health, such as Raziel's Soul Energy in the Soul Reaver series. Would rather suggest an implication for the tags in reverse if health_bar deserves to continue to exist instead of being amalgamated into life_bar.

By TWYS, what's the difference?

I'd be in favor of an alias in at least one direction

Genjar said:
By TWYS, what's the difference?

How can you know a life bar is a life bar? Usually because it has hearts involved, or you can't tell it is at all since it's just a (usually) red bar. Some health bars are green, or blue, or other colours, or shapes, dependant on other resources, not just the traditional red health green stamina blue magic bars. Thus why I say health bar since it is an indication of overall healthiness of the subject, regardless of *what* that health is comprised of.

Maybe just use HUD or status_bar?

Status_bar doesn't exist, and HUD is something completely different.

I maintain that by TWYS, there's no real difference between health_bar and life_bar. Taggers certainly shouldn't be expected to play the games to be qualified to tag those..

Genjar said:
Status_bar doesn't exist, and HUD is something completely different.

I maintain that by TWYS, there's no real difference between health_bar and life_bar. Taggers certainly shouldn't be expected to play the games to be qualified to tag those..

life bars can be health bars, but not all health bars are life bars. I stand by that re: TWYS; This said, "Status_bar" seems ike a reasonable tag for any bar that indicates a character's status.

I know status_bar doesn't exist, but we can alias or implicate both to it, that or hud_bar

123easy said:
This said, "Status_bar" seems ike a reasonable tag for any bar that indicates a character's status.

Not particularly.
These are a status bars: https://www.google.com/images?q="status+bar"

health_bar is far less ambiguous.

Rainbow_Dash said:
I know status_bar doesn't exist, but we can alias or implicate both to it, that or hud_bar

The HUD-tag is used for the actual head-up displays here, such as these:
post #98172 post #18932

Maybe you're thinking of GUI (graphical user interface)? But I think GUI_bar would be needlessly obscure as a tag.

Genjar said:
Not particularly.
These are a status bars: https://www.google.com/images?q="status+bar"

health_bar is far less ambiguous.

The HUD-tag is used for the actual head-up displays here, such as these:
post #98172 post #18932

Maybe you're thinking of GUI (graphical user interface)? But I think GUI_bar would be needlessly obscure as a tag.

Status_bar_(video_game). https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=status+bar+video+game&oq=status+bar+video+game&gs_l=img.3...7230.11049.0.11368.13.12.0.0.0.0.219.1129.7j4j1.12.0....0...1c.1.35.img..9.4.398.-cyjuGfkdKg

Status in video games generally refers to status effects.

DrHorse said:
Status in video games generally refers to status effects.

I literally linked the GIS search for status bar video game. LOOK. ffs.

123easy said:
I literally linked the GIS search for status bar video game. LOOK. ffs.

I did. Maybe 1 in 20 of the results were health bars and that was specifically looking for status bars in video games.

I think health_bar is fine. And really, 'health' and 'life' could mean exactly the same thing. Even if it's tracking something like how much of your soul is left, you could argue that having more soul means you have more life, OR that you're healthier. And if it's tracking something not related to staying alive, like an energy resource, then it wouldn't be called health/life bar in the first place, but something like energy_bar (but not the food?). Health doesn't necessarily imply physical body-wellness any more than life does. Plus, health_bar is a more commonly-used term than life_bar (at least in my experience).

tl;dr: Life and health are pretty much synonymous so let's just go with the more commonly used term (health_bar).

I'm for status bar as we can't determine what the bar is representing; could be life, health, mana, magic, etc, but all are statuses of the character, so regardless of the definition of status bar as it applies to video games, it would work here as an umbrella tag

No need to over-complicate things.
Those are minor tags and I doubt anyone would actually miss them if they were removed completely. I don't see why we'd need an umbrella tag for various types of bars.

Health_bar is perfectly fine for those, as can be seen from the GIS searches.