Seconding the point about people he doesn't know well vs people he knows and trusts.
To look at it outside a Rule of Funny perspective, the reason he's been more open to actual emoting in recent seasons is likely because he's more comfortable with everyone in the Nine Nine. In-canon he's faced extreme discrimination from the passive to actively trying to take him down, so - while he's obviously naturally subdued and taciturn - at least part of his total deadpan attitude especially in the earlier seasons is a learned method of dealing with assumptions and potential undermining or disrespect. That'd probably be the guiding principle in terms of meeting new, probably-weird people in a game.
On the other hand, he is a man who openly cried in a cinema over statistical analysis in Moneyball and got misty-eyed with happiness when he thought his husband had sent him a gift basket of office supplies. Rule of Funny when it comes to how straight-laced he really is applies.
Re: Ray Holt | Brooklyn Nine Nine
To look at it outside a Rule of Funny perspective, the reason he's been more open to actual emoting in recent seasons is likely because he's more comfortable with everyone in the Nine Nine. In-canon he's faced extreme discrimination from the passive to actively trying to take him down, so - while he's obviously naturally subdued and taciturn - at least part of his total deadpan attitude especially in the earlier seasons is a learned method of dealing with assumptions and potential undermining or disrespect. That'd probably be the guiding principle in terms of meeting new, probably-weird people in a game.
On the other hand, he is a man who openly cried in a cinema over statistical analysis in Moneyball and got misty-eyed with happiness when he thought his husband had sent him a gift basket of office supplies. Rule of Funny when it comes to how straight-laced he really is applies.