Thread:AlphaTheHD/@comment-30655593-20190722011907/@comment-29564364-20191004064901

AlphaTheHD wrote: (Edit: Alpha: Oh! And before I forget, since he's been reading the World Guides recently, he had to do a whole bunch of retconing for the pair to align more with the setting.) One of said retcons is that, since pure spirits are powered by the elements in their surrounding rather than generating them, PlaceHolder no longer serves as Alex's power source. Instead, without his Dyson Generator, his auxiliary computing unit automatically put him in power saving mode, which is why he can no longer physically perform or freely use his technological devices like he used to and is now relying on the vast amount of energy left in his battery for sustenance, and it is said vast amount of energy that powers PlaceHolder. HOWEVER, as vast as it may be, it is also depleting fast since his functions consume much more energy than a normal person's.

As a consequence of this, the second retcon has to do with Overdrive. Instead of simply supercharging Alex with electricity, PlaceHolder now circumvents the power saving mode by invigorating the electricity within Alex's battery so that he doesn't add more electricity to the system, but rather increases the power of the one that's already there. But much like an overdrive in real life, Alex's cybernetics are not meant to function on this "super electricity", so it damages them overtime. So basically, while Overdrive remains practically unchanged, the mechanism behind it is different.