Best experience of my childhood was bonding with my father while I watched him play New Vegas. He gave me the players guide and let me pick what perks he selected and where he’d allocate his points. I’d read and reread what the abilities did while waiting for him to level up.

It felt like we were a real team. I was never that good at sports which I think disappointed him since he was a huge baseball fan. But I loved videogames and even though he never played them growing up, he got into them so we’d have something to bond over.

I remember telling him to take the perk that caused bodies to just explode in gorey detail on enemy’s death. My parents were usually pretty strict about not showing me that sort of stuff but my dad just winked and said ‘don’t tell your mother’. It was our secret, haha.

That made it all the worse when he began sneaking into my room at night to touch me. ‘Don’t tell your mother’ he whispered in my ear. It was our secret.