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Transcript:
A comic in four panels:
Panel 1. A serene parc outside the University of Magic under the great teapot moonshine. The gothic sorceress and her blond elf new friend, and a magician, are all sitting and chatting, smiling around a little fire. All the little group don't have their AI (Avian Intelligence) Parrots and have books, sketchbook, a knitting kit, and sit under a banner: "The NO AI Club". In the background, the headmaster walks with a lantern with his AI Parrot flying near his shoulder is shocked at the small club.
Panel 2. Shot on the headmaster, in anger, his face red with indignation:
Headmaster: "Why don't you have your Avian Intelligence with you? It's the future! You can't stop it!"
Panel 3. The Gothic Sorceress turns around, holding her arm out like a weapon towards the headmaster, and casts a spell, emitting a magical light from her fingers.
Gothic sorceress: "Muteo!"
Panel 4. The same view angle as in panel 1, the gothic sorceress smirks and she is proud of herself. The headmaster continues to scream at them in distance, but his speech bubble now only has a 'mute icon' in it.
Gothic sorceress: "Can't stop it? Please, that was super easy!"
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kit@m.tripulse.link
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org we love to see it
★greenCoder@functional.cafe
Simple and clean is the way you are making me feel, tonight. 🎶
pecet@f3d1.eu
Birds are human too tho
josebernard@mastodon.social
@pecet `Birds Aren't Real`
fell@ma.fellr.net
I wonder if you could make one about the recent hardware price hikes.
Something like magic ingredients getting more expensive because they are all bought up by whoever makes these birds. 🤷♂️
3 ★davidrevoy
@fell Hey! Yes, this one is already written (scenario only, art will be made next monday+tuesday) and will be the one for next week if nothing more important in the news interrupts this theme.
26 ★fell@ma.fellr.net
Woohoo! 🙌🏻
★KronoGarrett@meow.social
@fell Well, the amphora certainly has had a lot of books and arcane material dumped into it…
★YvanDaSilva@hachyderm.io
brilliant.
technomancy@hey.hagelb.org
ah, this must be why slack refuses to implement /ignore, wish I could do this at work!
★jenesuispasgoth@pouet.chapril.org
@technomancy what?! Why on Earth would you like to ignore co-workers?! 😱 If they talk on Slack, it must be because it's very important!
(I'll see myself out, don't push 😬)
★rune@sound-city.dk
@technomancy slack has the weirdest moderation feature. I've "hidden" a colleague and it effectively just puts a content warning on everything he posts like "you know this guy is awful, you sure you want to see this?"
vampirdaddy@chaos.social
wouldn’t that mean „I change“ if that’s supposed to be Latin?
„shut up!“ probably is more like „sile!“ ?
But then again my Latin is quite rusty, and I don’t have any knowledge about chaosiahnish at all…
🤓
davidrevoy
@vampirdaddy hehe, thanks for telling me this means something else in Latin; yes, my "magic language" here is often way more basic: mute+o → muteo.
I have made way worst in the past; like the famous "Allus...! Yuus...! Needum...! Est... LOVIUS!" from Pepper&Carrot episode 36 :shibathinking:
vampirdaddy@chaos.social
Thanks for teaching some chaosiahn magic incantation etymology!
🥰
I liked all, allusyuus… and ignisme,too (the latter had me suspect Latin as reference).
Looking forward for more of your work. 👍
★mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
@vampirdaddy latine est "tace!" (vel "tacete!" pro pluribus)
★vampirdaddy@chaos.social
@mirabilos
tacere, silere: quid est differentia?
mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
@vampirdaddy silere nescio, solum verbum "silentium". Possibile est, sed nōn usunt multa populi.
(Latinum meum nōn bonum, utinam dimitteas erratas meas.)
stefan@akko.lightnovel-dungeon.de
If you just could do that with Techbros. Just collectively ignore their ramblings and tell them to fuck off.
nlupo@amikejo.xyz
Now I've finally got subscribed to you.
NeroBurner@fedi.at
such simple and effective resistance!
does someone know what's up with the teapot in the first panel? 🤓😅
davidrevoy
@NeroBurner Thank you!
About the teapot moon, it's something from the Pepper&Carrot (my series with longer episodes) "Hereva world" ; and a reference to the Russell's teapot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot
mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world
J'ai le cerveau mal placer, j'ai pas vue une planète au première aperçue, par contre j'ai bien vue la référence du guide du voyageur galactique qui ma tout de suite remis dans l'axe :akkolol: ★
mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world
>Russell's teapot
Ooh, ça pouvait être une référence au film du guide du voyageur galactique aussi. ★
davidrevoy
@mangeurdenuage A zut, j'ai pas vue le film (mais lu tous les livres), j'imagine que c'est aussi une ref des concept-artist à la théière de Russel.
mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world
A la place d'une chaussure type snickers comme dans le livre, qu'on peut voir dans la série de la BBC, ils ont prit une théières anglaise pour le film. 🖼️ 337fa365c9a8c390.webp 🖼️ 10465354a63afcb5.webp ★
NeroBurner@fedi.at
what a nice reference! This feels SO Discworldy to me. Terry Pratchet would be proud!
is it mentioned in the Pepper&Carrot comics or is it a background oddity there as well?
I thought I read all of P&C comics. But that unfalsifyable teapot slipped my mind 😁
davidrevoy
@NeroBurner Thank you for reading them! And oh yes, Terry Pratchett influence is strong on my work
The master. (Douglas Adams too).
The teapot moon appeared the first time on panel 1 of the episode 4 in 2014 https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomic/ep04_Stroke-of-genius.html , and can be seen after here and there (ep30 from the top of my mind).
4 ★VANTABlack2000@mastodon.gamedev.place
Great comic. Is there a name for the young witch? Now that I think about it I am not sure if the main witch has a name either.
davidrevoy
@VANTABlack2000 Thank you. Yes, I have to find a name for the young small elf blond; her codename in my sketchbook is Free-ren or FreeLibre-ren , a pun about a free libre derivation of the Frieren proprietary character.
For the Gothic Sorceress, her codename is Cepper. For "Cepper&Parrot" an anagram for "Pepper&Carrot".
So, as you can see, nothing serious.
3 ★VANTABlack2000@mastodon.gamedev.place
Ah nice. I like seeing Free-ren as a reoccuring character. It makes a nice story between Cepper finding her using Avian Intelligence for lessons and then being in a No-AI Club with her.
★Candaceoriel@mastodon.social
👋
★tichodrome_colvert@piaille.fr
This is basically a more aggressive version of this meme.
🖼️ 6b9f2a4493dbd3c0.jpg 4 ★mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
yasss! This relief is something we’ve all been waiting for!
★adra@fedivers.al
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org I just love they way this story line is going
★mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world
En temps que sorcier de 35 ans je me sent cibler X) ★
davidrevoy
@mangeurdenuage 😆
voxel@infosec.space
Can we have the "Muteo" spell in real life please? 🥺
★ozzelot@mstdn.social
@voxel I once said "well tell me again when it's the present." The conversation has then shifted away from AI, miraculously.
★davidrevoy
@ozzelot @voxel I'll save the tip!
3 ★sloanlance@mastodon.social
, thank you! That was excellent.
Also, thank you as always for using #altText4Everybody.
stuartl@longlandclan.id.au
… hands up who *hasn't* wanted to do that to someone even before the age of "AI".
★Ray_Of_Sunlight@mastodon.social
I want that spell
★KronoGarrett@meow.social
It was probably difficult to resist casting “power word: sap” on the guy.
★yuki2501@masto.hackers.town
please please please make it so that the maker of the Avian Intelligence runs away with a huge pot of gold after his giant cauldron explodes and an angry mob chases him for swindling everyone.
That would be the perfect ending to this arc.
★yuki2501@masto.hackers.town
Or perhaps it would be more appropriate if the parrots started talking gibberish and the giant AI pot had all its books turned into a giant letter soup that can't be fixed. That would make it a two-part comic 😅
★davidrevoy
@yuki2501 🙂 Lots of good ideas here, thank you for sharing, I'm taking notes!
4 ★chrisp@cyberplace.social
I need that for the "leadership" in my work meetings.
★gub
★Oui bonjour c'est pour savoir : cette magie est bien sous licence GNU GPL v3 ?
davidrevoy
@gub :blobaww: CC By-Sa!
★davidrevoy
@jesuisatire @scriptkiddie Are you serious?!
https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/making-of/039.mp4
★davidrevoy
@scriptkiddie @jesuisatire
Thank you for your words.
6 ★I don't think you are a bad person: feeling empowered by AI gen and LLMs was made addictive by design by companies. It's a very consumerism approach of ordering or prompting a quick result in order to short circuit your own ability to learn or feel able to do so. (Eg. citing your words "[...] I wouldn't be able to do on my own").
Making art is "to be", not "to have". You are the art. But with AI gen only, what are you?
lp0_on_fire@social.linux.pizza
, we're definitely losing something with that (mis)use of “super”. This loss looks ungood, possibly even double-plus ungood…
★davidrevoy
@lp0_on_fire Yes, I hesitated with "really easy", a safer option, but I wanted something a bit more original for her way to speak. I've heard "super easy" multiple times on Youtube videos. Esp. as a catch phrase for Ryan George's Pitch Meetings series on the Screen Rant channel, a Canadian writer and actor/comedian. Maybe it's a Canadian expression?
lp0_on_fire@social.linux.pizza
, possibly, but it seems like a USA thing to me which is very much finding its way… seemingly everywhere else. Personally, if there's “super easy”, why not also “sub easy” (which badly needs a hyphen) and the like too…
https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/dictionary/its-an-adjective-its-an-adverb-its-super/
https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/u5k4ta/american_english_anyone_notice_people_using_super/
and others (from search results for “origin of super instead of very”).
davidrevoy
@lp0_on_fire "super" is also an intensifier adjective in France for many decades. That's why probably it felt natural to me.
tomoyo@tech.lgbt
that's a goofy way to spell ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86 :D
j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz
The advantage of being on a social medium instead of in the Forgotten Realms is that you have access to both the Silence and Banish spell from level 1.
★The disadvantage is that casting Fireball is considered to be illegal 😞
hwll@sunny.garden
I should join a bookclub
RussSharek@mastodon.art
<3!
lazy@fedi.at
Yes, just until they decide you don't own your ears, so they can undo it whenever they wish ...
mhunt@socel.net
hey David, I read about your RAM trouble. Something good to have, due to deadlines is a backup PC, in this case, a mini-pc. In my case, a few years ago I build myself a 'steam machine' with a mini-pc, it's for gaming but in case of need, I could use it as a temporary solution if the main PC goes down. It's an investment t, of course. Best.
elgregor@librem.one
Have you considered a comic where an owner of a real parrot does magic and gets accused of using AI?
★davidrevoy
@elgregor Hey, thank you for the suggestion. It can be a challenge, especially to show the difference first between a Cyber AI Parrot and a real one, side by side and establish that before doing the critic (as a part of the audience already has trouble following what was previously established on other previous episode.) But I'll note it somewhere, in case I find a way to solve this while writing. 🙂
2 ★elgregor@librem.one
The AI ones you draw look robotic with the panel seams, star symbols and display in place of eyes. Their speech bubbles also have star symbols and different background color. A real parrot would look real, squawk, and have normal speech bubbles. It could preen (or even swear if it's owned by a pirate mage).
The owner of the parrot could also simply state that it's just a normal parrot.
★elgregor@librem.one
Ah, I misunderstood. Yes, both parrots should be shown so the viewer can notice differences. This could be combined with regular action though, to avoid losing one panel.
★bitpickup@tupambae.com
David Revoy wrote:
(as a part of the audience already has trouble following what was previously established on other previous episode.)What kind of of tools or system do you use , or are you envisioning, to give your audience the option to follow up on the previously established content and context)?
@elgregor
davidrevoy
@bitpickup @elgregor My timelines on various social media contains all of the previous episodes, with a tag so they are easy to list; and I also store them on my website: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomics/miniFantasyTheater__Avian-Intelligence.html
Next way I envision: CBZ, PDF, EPUB ebooks, and printing on paper.
bitpickup@tupambae.com
[edited]
Nice.
thx
Learning questions:
Do you have a diaspora* account?
[That question solved itself, looks like your account went down with framasphere, @mullana@pod.geraspora.de was last active like 6 years ago]
📎 originalI know that @mullana at least had one.
Would you be interested (have fun) in explore options inside the fediVerse, and eventually the federatedWeb (let's call the connection to D* that as that makes more sense)?
Have you tried and\or considered to create one large thread of all the chapters of an episode or season?
davidrevoy
@bitpickup I had a Diaspora account from 2016 to 2022 but I closed it; it felt a bit of a duplicate with my Mastodon account and my blog.
For the big thread; I can't here: On Mastodon, to create a thread, you need to reply to your first post. It makes all the replies inversely chronologically posted for the timeline of my followers. Imagine: posting dozen of comics like this. This is very self-imposing on the TL of other, I'm afraid such a practice would gain me lot of 'unfollow'.
@mullana
3 ★bitpickup@troet.cafe
🧵 1 \x
> It makes all the replies inversely chronologically posted
> Imagine: posting dozen of "comments" like this.
True.
Happens to me every once in a while when I try, or tried to do or invent something.
First of all there is the issue of "workload" to have in mind, so everything that I say or propose has to be taken with care.
@bitpickup@tupambae.com @mullana
bitpickup@troet.cafe
🧵 2\x
For a completed series there is a neat option that came to my mind by evolving the long comment above.
Creat a specific profile only for the series:
@Carrot&Pepper_01
Post all the chapters
Reshare the first one with your main account when you are done. Nobody will know until that profile goes public.
@bitpickup@tupambae.com @mullana
bitpickup@troet.cafe
🧵 3\x
As @mullana pointed out, several social media accounts are time consuming.
As a life time friendican (voreingenommen) I really think you should test such a profile and realize the options it gives you at hand.
In a second step you would need to get a hand on your own instance:
social.peppercarrot.com
That's your working station, don't follow anybody, only accept followers.
On friendica you can switch form one profile to another with two clicks.
@bitpickup@tupambae.com
bitpickup@troet.cafe
🧵 4\4
That means, you can create a profile for ever series, project even characters of yours.
Also friendica has bbCode editing and an own image gallery. If you visit the @bitpickup@tupambae.com on it's server you'll see a quite elaborated image gallery.
You upload images as not public and copy paste the URL.
You can embed the image where ever you want, as @utopiarte did just recently with your example how you created the muteo chapter.
Providers offer friendica for 6 Euro a month.
@mullana
bitpickup@troet.cafe
Last but not least, of course just work on as of now with that's your distributer for the posts from social.peppercarrot.com and the small talk with the audience..
You host the instance, you host the content, you own the data.
@bitpickup@tupambae.com @utopiarte @mullana
davidrevoy
@bitpickup@troet.cafe @bitpickup@tupambae.com Thank you for the feedback, I'll keep this notes around and study the idea for future plan of improving my social media.
@utopiarte @mullana
★mullana@chaos.social
@bitpickup
★I'm barely active on any social media besides Mastodon. (Just occasionally Instagram because of the "normal" people I know from "real life".)
Drawing comics takes such a lot of time and I've recently become more active in organizing local communities. I just don't have the energy for more.
bitpickup@tupambae.com
@mullana
I've recently become more active in organizing local communities. I just don't have the energy for more.In general terms I ask in the first place because of the experience of people like you.
And the interest is first of all about figuring out how the fedi can be of use and how the fedi could be implemented. Those things mostly evolve out of "learning and inventing by doing". To a certain extent a little bit like painting. Unless you do it and observe than the results, you wont be able to evolve or adjust that idea nore get new ideas.
The view point from over here (friendica), and the tools it brings to the table of the fedi are for example:
- A normal profile like @requeteche can publish a post like the following to a friendica forum page like @studi0:
- This post should be available on the mastodon instance any of you are on. You should find it by simply searching for the link on your instance.
- That post also shows up on diaspora:
(Original message has been truncated: read the complete original message here.)Link to the original post
bitpickup@tupambae.com
.. saved the page as HTML and uploaded it on an own subdomain:
requeteche.tupambae.com
It's not perfect, and all links point to diaspora-fr.org but it's actually a kinda neat and interesting option.
davidrevoy@framasphere.org on geraspora and diaspora-fr.org:
pod.geraspora.de/people/f36d0e…
diaspora-fr.org/people/f36d0ea…
Actually, looking at the profile and the options diaspora put's at hand, a profile that isn't and wasn't a follower could clean out all the reshares and even not desired comments, leaving the desired content for to preserve for history, download the resulting html, maybe replacing the missing avatar link with a valid image link, and create a davidrevoy@framasphereorg.peppercarrot.com subdomain and upload that HTML for relative eternity.
@mullana
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