User blog comment:Willbachbakal/Co-Op Plasmids: Presto/@comment-3567720-20110805091210/@comment-1330314-20110805093635

Because, obviously, you have direct access to my brain and have ascertained how I figured my own Plasmid would work. The answer is, no you don't summon it the same way. In the case of Insect Swarm, the elemental flamethrower/freeze/electric hand thing and the rest, those effects are directly generated by your body. You can see it in BioShock 2: when you use Incinerate! at level 3, the fire is coming directly out of your hand, and the same happens with level 3 Electro Bolt and Winter Blast. When you use Insect Swarm in BioShock, you can see the bees coming out of your skin. With the case of Jet Spray and Solid Fuel, however, your body itself does not generate the fluid, instead it would come out of the air a few inches from your palm.

You've got to understand, this is my Plasmid, not yours. The main reason we seem to argue is because you get this idea into your head how X should work and then oppose it against my version of the thing, even if X in question was mine to start with. I'm not saying you're not entitled to your opinion, however, I'm simply trying to explain to you that you cannot form a valid argument based on what you think something should be, as opposed to what it actually is.

Take this argument right here: you're trying to start one based on the ridiculously inconsequential (and erroneous) assumption that two of the above Plasmid iterations involve bodily-generated objects, as opposed to having them come out of thin air (which is functionally the exact same thing), which somehow makes my entire idea bad since it contradicts your (also erroneous) convictions on how my Plasmid works. The fact that I, the creator, am explicitly telling you what I had in mind on how the above works and how it was intended to do so does not help your case.