Anyone else plan on never using the "emotional" dialogue?

My Ryder is going to get pissed off SO OFTEN...

My Ryder's just going to let his assault rifle do the talking.

I wonder if there will be people uploading full length 'let's plays', in which they demonstrate exclusive usage of just one type of response through the whole game.

Oh, i never get to gif.

I'll probably use it often.

Can't afford to have emotions when you have to massacre a truckload of sentient lifeforms every day.

That's what my Ryder would tell Dr. Lexi

Well, with facial animations not really up to the challenge of conveying emotion I will pass on this option.

I tend to find attempts to distance oneself from emotion to be the more childlike impulse.

I disagree.

Well actual irony would be intentional, I think, and there wasn't any intentional irony involved. If you're using irony as a gentler term for hypocrisy, then ouch, but still no. When people look down on emotion it reminds me of school children mocking one another on the playground for being crybabies. I see it as a relatively primal defense mechanism, one that we learn really early and can eventually grow out of when we become confident enough to feel vulnerable.

What is the irony?

I'll use it when I feel it's appropriate. My Scott isn't a robot.

We're each talking about different actions..and probably different ages of children as well. When I say distance, I don't mean recognizing an emotion and refusing to let it control you, I mean stigmatizing emotion itself as weakness. The way a twelve year old starts to harden on the outside and berate anyone else for letting their feelings show. It entails trying to ignore emotion as an aspect of who they are, and lying to themselves.

The act you describe, or identifying oneself as being emotional and then controlling that emotion, actually embodies the opposite of what I was talking about. I agree that's it's usually a marker of maturity.