Welcome to Friends List! If this is your first episode, Friends List is a daily web series where we have one-on-one talks about a single question related to video games. The goal is to give both Polygon's many team members across the globe and those involved in covering, designing and releasing games, an opportunity to speak with you. Today on Friends List, Opinions Editor Ben Kuchera and Reporter Alexa Ray Corriea ask: Why do we try to impress the fictional characters in our video games?