| 10 Jan 2024 |
|  abciq changed their profile picture. | 23:02:52 |
 genghiskombat | Well, to go back to the operating system metaphor, imagine going deep into the assets for a distribution of Linux and roughshod editing it on the fly to jury-rig it into behaving like an entirely different distribution. | 23:04:00 |
 karmacolorcat | if you want to get fancy about that, I'd argue Prime was yanking the radiation that caused the power suit to turn into the Phazon suit, which explains why it reverts back to Gravity | 23:04:09 |
| karmacolorcat | that would also go in line with how Samus got the Phazon suit in the first place | 23:04:39 |
| karmacolorcat | how that radiation turns into Dark Samus is a whole can of worms in itself | 23:05:10 |
| karmacolorcat | something something DNA something something Suits database something something? | 23:05:28 |
| karmacolorcat | * how that radiation fused with Prime turns into Dark Samus is a whole can of worms in itself | 23:05:47 |
 monody | The Prime is technically Chozo biotech just like the suit, even if heavily corrupted.
It could theoretically be somewhat compatible with suit modules, like how Samus's suit took on anatomical features from the physiological traits in her metroid DNA in Dread. | 23:06:15 |
| karmacolorcat | ... | 23:06:23 |
| karmacolorcat | OKAY that kind of explains everything | 23:06:34 |
| karmacolorcat | also can we talked how the feds manage to engineer a funking Plasma Beam and Power Bombs among other Samus trinkets? | 23:08:04 |
| abciq | yea software updates are a thing for the suit if you look at the reboot screen when it gets hacked by the sanctuary robots, it shows a version number for the software it uses. | 23:08:18 |
| genghiskombat | Yeah, that's kind of what I was getting at. Whatever Prime screwed up by forcibly removing a suit upgrade as significant as the Phazon Suit (something I doubt the Power Suit was originally designed to handle) had to get "healed" like how Samus's suit heals between Fusion and Dread. The funky shape is a result of that, and probably eventually reverts back either after the events of Prime 3 due to similarly funky Phazon nonsense recovery...or due to something that happens in Prime 4 we haven't seen yet. | 23:08:25 |
| karmacolorcat | You'd think that means they now have the means capable of producing weapons of the same caliber, but I think they solely created Samus-only software while missing the hardware that makes it work | 23:08:57 |
| abciq | * yea software updates seem like a thing for the suit if you look at the reboot screen when it gets hacked by the sanctuary robots, it shows a version number for the software it uses. | 23:09:07 |
| karmacolorcat | * also can we talk how the feds manage to engineer a funking Plasma Beam and Power Bombs among other Samus trinkets? | 23:09:15 |
| karmacolorcat | * also can we talk about how the feds managed to engineer a funking Plasma Beam and Power Bombs among other Samus trinkets? | 23:09:30 |
| genghiskombat | I would...well, actually sort of flip a coin as to whether or not Prime 4 has an explanation ready for why Samus's suit looks different in Primes 2 and 3, admittedly. Heads, we get it explained. Tails, Prime 4 goes right back to the pre-Prime 2 look and acts like it was just always that way. | 23:09:57 |
| karmacolorcat | * You'd think that means they now have the means capable of producing weapons of the same caliber, but I think they solely created Samus-only software while still not having the hardware to make it work | 23:09:58 |
| genghiskombat | Because whatever English words Sakamoto seems to know, "consistency" ain't one of 'em. | 23:10:14 |
| karmacolorcat | you sure like to Dunk on Sakamoto | 23:10:32 |
| karmacolorcat | I dont understand it, he conceived the series, you should have a bit of respect to him, it's as if I'd dunked on Miyamoto for- | 23:11:01 |
| karmacolorcat | actually nevermind | 23:11:05 |
| karmacolorcat | I get it now | 23:11:06 |
| karmacolorcat | carry on | 23:11:09 |
| karmacolorcat | * you sure like to dunk on Sakamoto | 23:11:30 |
| monody | IMO the flat-top visor design in ZM, Prime 1, M2, and Super is the "funky" affectation and the Primes 2, 3, and Hunters design is what a Varia Suit is supposed to look like without the custom modifications they did for her. | 23:11:39 |
| genghiskombat | IMO you may want to check the calendar, because it's not Opposite Day - AHEM... | 23:12:16 |
| karmacolorcat | I think the suits appearances can be solved by saying art direction didnt take consistency into account | 23:12:56 |
| karmacolorcat | kind of like how Samus (the chick) looks different in every game up until ZM | 23:13:48 |
