I assume he has no trouble keeping the Supplicants at bay, though

He has spent so much time time traveling that he doesn't know how to act in the here and now.

You guys couldn't hear me, but I was laughing pretty hard through that :)

"What? You can open the portals by standing on top of the pillar, instead of just standing next to it?"

-Flawless Raider Cody Miller, 2014

Careful, you can also jump off them too far and fall off the map. :P