For his birthday, I bought him a game that had been released that week. As a surprise gift one day, he brought home a new video card for my system. I felt special. We upgraded both of our systems instead. For Christmas we bought ourselves a digital camera.
Peripherals are the doorway to our happy place.
I understand when he's off in some fantasy universe blowing things up and doesn't talk to me for three hours, because I do the same thing. Our communication has always been great. That gets my attention where tossing a dirty sock at me won't. And yes, the socks are always dirty - his desk is near the mountain of laundry that we never get around to doing. We'd rather be playing online Euchre than waiting for the dryer to stop.