In lieu of still owning an N64, and because I had a credit note from trading in Battlefield Hardline, I recently bought GoldenEye 007: Reloaded, Eurocom's re-imagining of Rare's classic 1997 first-person shooter.
As I followed the rise of the extremist Buddhist movement Ma Ba Tha while Rohingya abuse escalated, I compartmentalized their hardline views as those of a noisy fringe movement which didn't enjoy widespread traction (as American progressives did with white nationalists until last year's election of Donald Trump as president).
"I am a hardline Darwinian and always have been very publicly when it cost me status and respect - in fact, I am more hardline than you are, because I don't buy into this meme bullshit but put everything - especially including ethics - in the language of genes".
As we sit in his garden at sunset, Diana Krall crooning coolly in the background ("CAT 1," indeed), he admits with uncharacteristic doubt that he is only "fairly comfortable" with his new life: "I was a hardline Marxist from the age of 21 to 36," he says, "and a part of me will always be a socialist.
That is why I believe a hardline approach would likely end in failure.
"I have two children and it's not like I am some kind of hardline feminist but I do not agree with somebody depriving me of the right to my own health or that of my children.
They're a little more hardline, but I haven't made up my mind.
The most hardline group I saw was called "Leave Facebook Before the IPO," which had 170 members.
"Citizens of Vadodara have given me a grand welcome and I thank them," the hardline Hindu nationalist, widely tipped to emerge as prime minister when results are published on 16 May, told reporters.
I hope the current hardline Israeli government listens, and is able to stretch its imagination to envision an Israel living alongside a Palestinian state.
