Colm Ahern

Curries, postcards, discreetly packaged sex toys: the delivery driver is often the link between you and happiness. Anyone who has played Death Stranding can see that designer Hideo Kojima clearly has a fascination with the person who takes a box from one place and brings it to another. As a child, so did I. That’s why I became a postman. I was enthralled by the freedom, the open roads, the black and white cat.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare wants you to feel uncomfortable as you pull the trigger in a Piccadilly Circus full of tourists; it wants you to pause before you fire in a North London townhouse full of innocent people. The window for reflection is brief, mind, as the weight of war is lifted by the thrill of nailing a headshot from 400 metres away, or popping a few baddies with your silenced pistol from the cover of darkness.

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