Make Mii a general tag

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BUR #59545 is pending approval.

remove implication mii_brawler -> mii_(nintendo)
remove implication mii_gunner -> mii_(nintendo)
remove implication mii_swordfighter -> mii_(nintendo)
category mii_(nintendo) -> general

Mii being a character tag is very silly, it's a type of customizable avatar with a recognizable art style, making it closer to a race than it is a character. Especially with the explosive popularity of Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, it makes no real sense to be a character tag, since it applies to things like post #11275129 and post #11385959.

I still think the fact Miis are not a gentag is very very silly, though alas I do agree on posts missing chartags being an issue. Perhaps a viable solution would be to come up with some kind of tag for "miscellanous" miis that don't fall under any other chatags?

Damian0358 said in forum #439802:

Last attempt at this was in topic #30192, and NNT responded thusly, calling in mind topic #19866, which he also mentioned in forum #432159;

Posts like post #11224376 and post #10912294 would be left without a chartag, just as it would've been the case for something like Miqo'te without Warrior of Light (FF14).

I think with TL:LTD, I'd have to disagree with the take of them being closer to a player character, as now there's tons and tons of posts that are just existing characters as Miis. We have tags for named Miis and the classes of the Mii Fighter already, and I don't think it's necessary for every post to have a character tag. In the examples you mentioned, neither of these are a defined, existing character, and they certainly aren't the same character. They're original characters, definitionally, and most posts with OCs do not have any chartags at all.

The only case I can think of where this would really matter is generic Miis, but looking at the cases where they pop up: Miitopia has character tags for its classes (which I created), the default Mii (post #11230109) could reasonably be tagged "default_mii_(nintendo)" (he has a tag too, it's Guest C (Mii)), and others would still be findable regardless since all this does is change where the tag is in the list.

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