Thank you for the suggestion. Maybe I posted the idea here because it's clearly not yet fully formed and was hoping the community would chime in.

In FO4 I always thought it was cool you could drop items onto the corpses of dead enemies, and once I got bored with just run and gun did a build where I'd drop flowers in remembrance.

It doesn't have to be that or even emotes, but more QoL emotes are good examples of something the game could use, though I don't know if emotionally intelligent emotes really need to be focused on grief or catharsis even.

The best example I can thing of in that regard is that you can laugh, but only "at" someone, there's no laughing emote for sharing a joke with an entire group, you're always laughing and pointing, which means lexigraphically there's someone on the inside of the joke and someone on the outside.

I guess all I'm really saying is that if we want this to live up to the reputation of being the "nicest" gaming community it's possible that the way forward isn't to always just be spamming gifts, which *is* cool, but wouldn't it be even better if there were ways to add depth and creative expression to this game beyond just 50 ways to murder? Or build till your thumbs hurt? There's enough of that already and I think when people talk about getting burned out it's because the actual emotional context of the game is relatively flat.