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Dude, calm down, no need to get heated.
The most obnoxious thing you can do on the internet is assume how other's feel, I am calm, I'm just being blunt as **** now, kinda the pass the point of being subtle, your argument is headcanon, relies on numerous assumptions, contradicts what info we do know, and so on, and even if we did go with your numerous unfounded assumptions, it'd scale anyway because she tanked a hit from it while this very same enemy was using it so even if it was amped, she tanked the amped version, whether you like it or not.
I just think the ice beam being amped makes sense because the other weapons were amped like the bomb.
You realize this is an awful argument when the majority of the tech that was taken WASN'T amped, EXPLICITLY at that, Screw Attack? Wasn't amped. Plasma Beam? Wasn't amped? Missiles? Straight up stated to be worse compared to hers because the dude using them was an idiot. If you want to go this route, you're actively arguing against yourself because the majority of the "other" weapons were explicitly NOT amped. In fact they were seemingly inferior to Samus' own version.
I wouldn’t have to assume that if a source was provided saying that weapon size correlated to lack of control as opposed to a change in power level.
Bad argument, we know that's not the case in Metroid, we even have a shitty game revolving around that in Federation Force, where despite being the same weapons and even larger, they're actually inferior to Samus. And again, you fail to realize that the WHOLE FACILITY was being POWERED by the Ice Beam. The facility's ENTIRE output came DIRECTLY FROM the capsule, it wasn't magnified, that's just you making guesses that the source material never states or even hints at, and when your argument is "well it's bigger so it MUST be better", in a verse where it's an actual plot point where other factions suck BECAUSE they need extremely large things to even ATTEMPT to mimic the Chozo tech, yeah, try again.
Them stealing her tech doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t have the capacity to improve it,
Yeah dude that's why they improved the Plasma Beam? Screw Attack? Speed Booster? Etc. And the inverse is true, if they had the the capabilities to improve it, they also wouldn't be so far behind, just take a look at the Federation, they got their hands on Samus tech, and the best they could do is mimic it, nothing to say magnifying it by magnitudes like you're trying to say about this backwater faction that just got lucky.
having Samus’s tech by default increases their capabilities,
Yeah, it does. Because they got her tech. Nothing more, nothing less. Having her tech doesn't magically make them smarter or know how to **** with it beyond what every other civilization could.
and Samus’s tech has been improved by the Federation before (the PED Suit being notable). If there could be confirmation that Greed didn’t amp her gear significantly, I would accept that.
False, the PED suit wasn't the Federation improving Samus' tech, it was them adding a completely unrelated thing onto to that just so happened to be critical because it was phazon tech in a game filled with phazon. You're arguing something akin to "The federation added a gun to Samus' suit, so they improved the suit", no, they just added a ******* gun to it. The PED shit isn't even Samus exclusive, all the bounty hunters got one if memory serves kinda proving my point, all the PED is was extra fed equipment that Samus was using.
And no, that isn't on me lad, it's on you to prove the backwater faction that had to steal her tech in the first place could amplify her tech by literal magnitudes despite no such statement or even implication existing, this shit is on you to prove, because as far as I'm concerned, the very fact they explicitly state everything they're doing is thanks to Samus' tech and we straight up see that the moment the capsule, which mind you, they straight up say is thanks to the ice beam and the capsule isn't shown altered, and the moment it's taken everything ceases, is good enough and far more evidence that it's doing what they say it's doing, not all this other shit you're claiming.
Hell, Occam's Razer lad, you're spiting in the face of it.