Yep, slamming those buttons extra hard was the way you were supposed to play video games. Sometimes controllers got broken. It happened.

It was close to happening now.

"It's not about my pride."

It really wasn't, but he wasn't about to admit it was more about overcoming terror and feeling insecure about taking his brother out there after what happened. That would've meant having to admit he'd been scared and that he was being overprotective.