It's been a long time I played through Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's infamous mission, No Russian, and for the first time, I just walked. I didn't shoot a bullet until the final segment, and even that I did hesitantly. I distinctly remember playing through the game all those years ago and finding it fun, if anything. A digital playground to mow down faceless, lifeless beings, not even questioning the context. In the modern-day, it's much more harrowing. Maybe it's because of the prevalence of mass shootings, the horror of which gets echoed and repeated near-infinitely by social and traditional media alike. Maybe it's because I feel more empathy than my teenage self did. Maybe it's because these hollow, digital people look much more like real people than ever before.