Since you mention the d-pad. It was patented, so all the big companies had their own legally distinct spins on it. Nintendo has their cross; sega had a circle thing; Sony had discrete buttons, Microsoft had a different circle thing.

The Nintendo patent actually expired a number of years ago now, so nowadays the cross is showing up more places.

When you see your role in something coming to an end and you lose motivation and desire to continue. A similar slang word is senioritis, when you’re ending your secondary school education.

That’s really hard to narrow down; I suspect that she didn’t really want me from some point in childhood onward. When I was a teen she said that her duty to God was completed once I turned 18, and she’d be rid of me. When I turned 17, she developed short-timers syndrome, if you’ll pardon the slang, and I was kicked out. God’s gonna be so maaaaaaaddd!

It was hard going for 10 or so years, but I’m 38 now and doing just fine.

“beat up,” seems to be putting it very mildly when shotguns and high-speed chases are concerned

Yeah. First I ball it up and scrub the perimeter before unfurling it and scrubbing back and forth at different angles.

To add to this, you can do this to yourself as well. Reward yourself for the right behavior, tell yourself your did a good job, etc. It’s (I’m guessing) harder than extrinsic motivation, but it still works. Take advantage of having a stupid lizard brain under all the stuff that makes us human.