Playing video games with my 22-year-old son has brought me to tears | Dominik Diamond
But we are having so much fun’ … Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Illustration: APView image in fullscreen‘We fail. We barbecue meat and analyse Tarantino movies.
- ▪But we are having so much fun’ … Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
- ▪Illustration: APView image in fullscreen‘We fail.
- ▪We barbecue meat and analyse Tarantino movies.
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| Publication time | Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:30:48 GMT |
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‘We fail. We fail again. But we are having so much fun’ … Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Illustration: APView image in fullscreen‘We fail. We fail again. But we are having so much fun’ … Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Illustration: APGamesPlaying video games with my 22-year-old son has brought me to tearsDominik DiamondI’ve been holed up in an flat, affectionately dubbed the ‘brotel’, with my son for weeks – and we’ve revisited the first game we ever played togetherFri 25 Sep 2026 07.30 EDTLast modified on Fri 25 Sep 2026 07.33 EDTShareI have spent the last three weeks living with my 22-year-old son in a two-bedroom flat he has dubbed the ”brotel”. We cook curries and watch Lanterns. We barbecue meat and analyse Tarantino movies. We get pizza and we play video games.
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