Sentient Pedestals

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Originally Posted by PayneTrain

<REDACTED>Using this idea here where you spend 32% of matches waiting for the trashcan to glow, you are spending $1600 to stare at a translucent white trashcan and not go insane thinking about the action you are performing.

<REDACTED>I wasn't actually counting but I did turn around and politely asked the trashcan "WHY IN GOD'S NAME AREN'T YOU LIGHTING UP" twice before it actually lit. That was 15 seconds of match time, or 1% of total match time granted. Still, that's paying $50 for one team to watch a trashcan illuminate itself in one match. The object itself had to cost no more than $50 to even make. It's stunning, to say the least.

"I think that one was about to say 'I love you.' They ARE sentient, of course. We just have a LOT of them." - GLaDOS

You aren't going crazy, the pedestal is watching you, judging you, and silently laughing as it makes you wait.

What do they want from us? (reply with your theories)