Overproduction
Transcript:
A comic in four panels:
Panel 1. A gothic sorceress enters a small magic shop, approaching the counter. The gothic sorceress explains her problem to the old seller. She shows her wand with a stone broken on it.
Old Seller: Welcome! How can I help you?
Gothic Sorceress: My magic stone is defective, I need a new one.
Panel 2. The old seller put a gem stone on the counter, the gothic sorceress is in shock.
Old Seller: Alright, that'll be 600 gold coins.
Gothic Sorceress: What?! It used to be 40!
Panel 3. The gothic sorceress thinks, the old man explains the price increase and a wider view angle show the shop full of Avian Intelligence Parrot.
Old Seller: That's because of Avian Intelligence: we need these stones to make them.
Panel 4. The gothic sorceress tries to understand. The old man gives up; the angle is even wider showing more of AI Parrots, a huge pile of them.
Gothic Sorceress: And you're going to sell all of these?
Old Seller: What do you think...
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47 comments
rgbunny@urusai.social
the sad thing is, at least they produced the extra avian intelligence units.
the gpus and datacenters irl, on the other hand, have not been produced and yet they already have such a drastic impact on prices...
★nini@oldbytes.space
@rgbunny They brought stones, they expect they'll make them magic at some point so they can go into the avian intelligence units but they pre-bought so many there's now a scarcity of stones and magic stones now command a pretty price.
UpLateGeek@bitbang.social
@nini @rgbunny exactly. RAM, GPUs, SSDs, HDDs, they’re all available, they just jacked up the prices in anticipation of a shortage that may never eventuate. That means fewer people are buying them, so they’ll end up with a glut of hardware once the bubble bursts, and a market that’s used to holding onto their old hardware or finding a second hand deal instead of buying new.
zlatko@social.zlatko.dev
@rgbunny no they produced all the fake images.
MichelPatrice@jasette.facil.services
J’aime comment le commentaire politique apparaît dans votre univers autrement fantaisiste et hors du temps.
★feff@comicscamp.club
this hurts so much
brunogirin@mastodon.me.uk
@feff indeed
Minski@kinkycats.org
My Avian Intelligence told me selling Avian Intelligences is REALLY profitable...
jdoe@freeradical.zone
@Minski I confirm. My avian intelligence says the same thing.
RoboePi@mastodon.social
@jdoe @Minski Uh? No, no. My Avian Inteligence tells me that more profitable than that is selling bananas. When asking it to detail it a little bit more, it also says something about cat litter to be the next most profitable thing.
Your Avian Intelligences should learn from mine.
BigShellEvent@toot.cat
Hi I'm quite new to the series, is this also part of Pepper and Carrot included in the hardcover bundle? If not where can I buy the paper form?
davidrevoy
@BigShellEvent Hey, thanks for joining! No, MiniFantasyTheater (MFT) is a weekly series a bit new, not part of Pepper&Carrot, but I'm keeping this series in my fantasy world (named Hereva, a parody of a serious world building).
You can read them here: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomics/miniFantasyTheater.html
Maybe I'll have a look later this spring at offering PDF/Epub/cbz of MFT and a print on demand version too. I have to study if DriveThrewComics POD have a square format. I'll keep news about it here and on the blog.
6 ★BigShellEvent@toot.cat
amazing thank you! Cannot wait til I can have the print form, but I understand it takes so much work!
★bit@ohai.social
By Darwin, please stop hurting me with these comics.
I need to buy some RAM soon. 😭
4 ★davidrevoy
@bit me too. 🥲
That's what inspired this one, btw: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1117/the-ram-nightmare-how-i-lost-my-sanity-and-almost-my-deadline
5 ★yuki2501@masto.hackers.town
@bit What a coincidence. Around 2 months ago I stumbled upon a RAM error that randomly crashed my Firefox tabs and videogames.
I had to do a lot of research to find out how I could mask away that defective RAM.
★szakib@freeradical.zone
This needs a "later that night..." followup ;)
Jain@blob.cat
:blobcatgiggle2:
ariarhythmic@ohai.social
Camera pans to the buzz lightyear aisle except it's all avian intelligence parrots
mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
I notice that the shopkeeper DOESN’T have an Avian Intelligence sitting on his shoulder…
raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie
A friend writes
"Well I don't know the details. You would think some one would ensure they are actually building stuff."
(Artificial shortage of Western Digital drives & East German 4th generation male sheep).
pak0st@fosstodon.org
rent * not sell 😅
kitkat_blue@mastodon.social
Casting the "ai" as a mechanical *parrot* is freakin genius!
davidrevoy
@kitkat_blue Thank you!
★kitkat_blue@mastodon.social
★aww! :D thank you too for your wonderful art and comic! I never miss a single one!
ToonLink@fandom.ink
Aww... Based on a true story. :blobcatmelt2:
I bet the cauldrons use up a lot of magic stones, too! They're pretty big, and the stones are pretty small.
davidrevoy
@ToonLink Yes, My defective RAM gave me inspiration 🥲
A good news: G.Skill accepted the warranty return, and sending new ones. The bad news: they wanted the 'couple' of RAM stick I bought at that time, so I'm returning 16GB, and run right now with only 16GB. For real; it's ok: with a little RAM monitor on my systray bar, it's to start to close things when consumption is too high.
Oh yes, the cauldrons use way more resources 😺 I need to show this as well. 😊
3 ★ToonLink@fandom.ink
Ohhh, that's good to hear! I was worried that they would decide your sticks were too old and maybe only offer a discount on new ones. >__> Though I suppose that would still be better than paying full price.
Hehehe, yes, I know what you mean. There's a flaw in my motherboard that only lets me use two sticks out of four, so I'm stuck with 16 GB, too It's doable, but when my client wants me to do huge formats, it's impossible. :blobcatmeltcry:
Hopefully your new ones will work well!
★NeroBurner@fedi.at
soooooo. hoch much for an AI-Parrot?
could be less than 600 gold and could be scraped for parts 😁
★Sibshops@mastodon.online
This is nothing short of an amazing analogy for the current state of things.
★mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world
:akkolol: Note que en faite les Intelligences Aviaire ne sont pas encore produit, mais déjà vendue et pas payer :akko_derp: 🖼️ b4f3ad2cfe98b016.webp
ooignignoktoo@shitposter.world
@mangeurdenuage c'est une arnaque. ils savent que le produit n'a aucun valeur et ils gaspillent la monnaie en espérant que la gouvernement va les sauver avec notre argent en style de bailout comme ils ont fait pour les banques dans les années 2000.
davidrevoy
@ooignignoktoo @mangeurdenuage Et oui, tout est misé sur le "Too big to fail" et sous-tirer de l'argent publique pour perfuser cette industrie qui ferait trop mal si elle s'écroulerait...
★eldadoinquieto@mastorol.es
Well done, and painfully real.
cerement@social.targaryen.house
so … how easy is gutting an Avian Intelligence?
(ya know, just askin’)
stux@mstdn.social
Yip.. yip....
bearmine@gamepad.club
I feel like an extra panel for this would be her asking if she can just get an AI for cheaper and just take one of its gems, and the shop keep being like “sorry, we grind those gems different for Avian Intelligence, they’re useless for wands.”
2 ★davidrevoy
@bearmine 😆 True.
− 👩 "...and how much for a AI Parrot?"
★− 👴 "Oh, take it, and take these 100 gold coins too. That's the AI industry paying you to inflate their total number of users. They desperately need a growth curve to keep investors on board."
VANTABlack2000@mastodon.gamedev.place
Nice way to call out the Hardware situation. Great comic as usual.
★iagondiscord@wetdry.world
it's my genuine belief that what's going on with the computing industry amounts to fraud
★shaknais@mastodon.social
@iagondiscord
How is buying up an entire supply, not triggering an anti-compete...?
★TritTriton@shelter.moe
“All of them are already sold. Plus, all of the future stones scheduled for the next years are currently sold out, too.”
★yuki2501@masto.hackers.town
Me: finally, a new comic NOT about AI! 😃
Two panels later: Dammit! 😖
😅 It's fine, tho, keep up the good work!
★dragonfly@sunny.garden
I love this so much thank you! :oh_no:
★dgouttegattat@social.incenp.org
Well, if a magic stone used to be worth 40! gold coins, at 600 gold coins they are now much cheaper…
(Sorry! I’ll see myself out. 😅)
★davidrevoy
@dgouttegattat 😆
drgroftehauge@sigmoid.social
Heh, this was chat today talking about hard drives. What do you mean Western Digital has sold all their SSDs for 2026? How is that a sentence?
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