In HL2, My compulsion involved picking up any and all weapons, ammo or exploding barrels and just carry them through the level or until I needed to reload.
Incidentally, in Episode 2, there's an acheivement called "little rocket man". This involves lugging a garden gnome through almost the entire game. Pretty sure this was made for people like me.

He's got a board, with a NAIL in it!

Probably...
"The used game market is canibalizing our sales, they must be stopped!"

In an all electric car?
Would these cut into range compared to primarially analog dials and switches with displays only for navigation/ stereo readout?
Also, note the displays in place of the guage cluster.

Just burning candles for me, thank you.

I raise a glass in his honor for his work.

That said, I wonder how his folks felt when they heard the following...

"Mom, Dad, I just finished Harvard Medical School, and now I'm going to be a writer"!*

*Before anyone says it: yes, I know he wrote The Andromeda Strain while in med school.