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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davidrevoy
Not sure if I'll include this new Krita brush I created specifically for this episode in my upcoming brush pack, but it's fun to play with 😅🖌️🦜🦜🦜
While I'm here, check out the timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/making-of/040.mp4 This time, I took a more traditional approach: sketch, inking, painting the background, and then characters. Along the way, I think I found a good preset for inking.
160 ★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.
zeri@chaos.social
@rgbunny and before someone very smart comes along and pretends that soon we'll just have more 3nm clean rooms to produce enough wafers for everyone... that stuff takes like 5 years and that's if you can actually buy the tooling and have the money, so it's more like a decades.
InkySchwartz@mastodon.social
@rgbunny The data centers are being built with electricty access and public opposition as the bottlenecks. But construction is happening and manybare finished already.
Us view. https://cleanview.co/public/data-centers/us
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.
★mahlzahn@nerdculture.de
@RoboePi Nice reference to the RAM article ;)
@jdoe @Minski
★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!
★BigShellEvent@toot.cat
oh no me again. Tried to buy the set via OpenBookShelf, and after extensive back and forth with both my bank and the vendor, I think they will never be able to charge my cards as there seem to be some vague technical issues (per 2026 all technical issues are "oops something went wrong" so I can't even target and solve it).
Do you sell your printed books via any other vendors?
davidrevoy
@BigShellEvent Oh no, I had no idea it could happen. It was with DriveThruComics, right? (I know they have multiple name, same company).
There is this Italian Publisher "Silly Comics" that run a Kickstarter right now and prints also the English version. I wrote a bit about it on the blog https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1118/welcome-to-silly-studios-a-new-publisher ; except that, I don't have anything else.
BigShellEvent@toot.cat
Ah, got it. Seems like DriveThruComic has some ongoing issues with the cards and they are aware of it. Thank you for your help!
★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).
rupert@mastodon.nz
@raymaccarthy That kind of job (production planning) really hasn't existed since the MBA was invented.
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!
2 ★kitkat_blue@mastodon.social
★aww! :D thank you too for your wonderful art and comic! I never miss a single one!
lp0_on_fire@social.linux.pizza
@kitkat_blue , hmm, they're the wrong colour. They should be grAI.
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. 😊
6 ★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...
2 ★catbrainz@retro.pizza
@ooignignoktoo @mangeurdenuage trop mal a qui, vraiment? La plulart des gens autour de moi ont déjà perdus leurs boulots dans les deux dernières années. Ils se reorientent dans des secteurs hors de la tech, qui n'engage plus autant. C'est une arnaque de ponzi qui ne sert qu'à extraire encore plus de ressources de la majorité de la population pour les réinjecter dans les mêmes poches déjà trop pleines.
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?"
9 ★− 👴 "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."
Habrok42@chaos.social
@bearmine "Very well, then I take 6 AI parrots and one gem for my wand."
jaddy@friend.enby-box.de
@Habrok42 @bearmine
"I take 6 parrot, but I iwll only pay 50%. Oh, and a filleting knife" 🔪
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
★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.”
★mcpinson@mas.to
@TritTriton
But they've been paid for with gold that doesn't exist yet, linked to cauldrons that haven't been built yet, to solve problems that no one has created the spell for.
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 😆
mcpinson@mas.to
@dgouttegattat
Found the math nerd!
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?
★doraii@furry.engineer
@drgroftehauge I... thought it only hit the RAM... WHAT!?
drgroftehauge@sigmoid.social
@doraii Nah, SSDs are about twice as expensive as they were 3 months ago.
GPUs... well.
doraii@furry.engineer
@drgroftehauge Just checked my nigh 5 years old budget laptop (i3, 8GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, 720p screen) and HOLY SHIT, it's $330 to buy a used one!
TopazRabbit@oldbytes.space
hahaha so good
★kaitou@techhub.social
Probably shouldn't include it; that brush is strictly for the birds.
s;ns
★HuguesRoss@mastodon.art
Finally, the perfect tool for making AI (Avian Intelligence) Art! :squee:
It's even a nice red for making one of them No AI 🚫 signs if people still make 'em
★fell@ma.fellr.net
I was wondering if you drew each and every one of those 😅
★nilsding@pounced-on.me
gives me some :gimp_bell_pepper: brush vibes :D
★VANTABlack2000@mastodon.gamedev.place
This might be the ONLY "AI Brush" I would ever use lol.
★rival@mastodon.social
😆 🫶
★rgbunny@urusai.social
that's a horrifying brush :NepScared:
★nicorikken@mastodon.nl
You mean there are other ways then AI to work more effectively? (sarcasm)
Gazoche@mastodon.au
OH NO THEY’RE MULTIPLYING
★Footpad7747@mastodon.social
cannot unsee it 😵💫
mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
AIeee!
jerk@brettspiel.space
Such a true, but sad story.
★madeindex@mastodon.social
Your great art just got you your 1000ths favorite ;) This must be the most popular fedi post of the week or something hehe
★Linebyline@mastoart.social
The demand is going to skyrocket any day now. That's why it's so crucial that they stop producing consumer-oriented magic stones altogether to free up resources.
★iagondiscord@wetdry.world
this is a bad analogy, the datacenters these companies are hoarding all of this RAM for haven't even been built yet (and for that matter, I don't think the RAM has even been produced, either)
At least the Avian Intelligences are already actually made, even if they're going to just end up a total waste
gub
Ah ah bravo 👍
Prochain épisode, le marchand s'est fait remplacer par une IA qui se dit compétente mais qui s'avère finalement débile ?
fredurb1
@gub Oui mais qui s’excuse.🧐
davidrevoy
@fredurb1 @gub Tiens d'ailleurs, je trouve rigolo "une IA qui se dit compétente" et je me disais qu'a mes oreilles 'une IA compétente' sonne comme un oxymore. 😆
Aussi, le thème du remplacement du travailleur par l'IA est difficile à aborder. Ce que j'ai retenu dernièrement de certaines lecture de papiers, d'articles et de stats, c'est que ce n'est pas le cas: mais que l'idée est utilisé comme prétexte pour virer des effectifs.
2 ★fredurb1
@gub Exact.
gub
Je fais une vraie différence entre "compétent" et "capable".
Une IAg est très capable de faire des images, des textes… et très rapidement car c'est fait par un ordinateur. Mais c'est un travail sans compétence : avec les erreurs qui montrent qu'il n'y a aucune compréhension, que c'est juste du contenu recraché après une bouillie statistique, que c'est non fiable.
@fredurb1
gub
Par ailleurs moi je lis que le gain est généralement à très court terme. Quand il faut reprendre tout le boulot mal fait on perd beaucoup de temps… Mais pour moi la perte est bien plus grande ailleurs (que juste économique) : écologique, social, sociétal, éducatif…
@fredurb1
★gub
@fredurb1
Le gain de l'IA ne vaut pas la perte.
(Je vais tenter une allégorie pour exprimer le fond de ma pensée, attention)
C'est comme si une personne prenait sa grosse bagnole ultra polluante et bruyante pour traverser une ville à fond, en grillant les feux rouges et ne respectant aucune signalisation, écrasait des oiseaux et coupait par les jardins publics. Et quand on lui demande pourquoi elle n'a pas pris les transports en commun réplique "Comme ça j'ai gagné 30 secondes !"
sgtpepere@ludosphere.fr
Combien coûte une IA ? Parce que le plan, ce serait d'en acheter une autre, de la péter, d'extraire la pierre magique, non ? :)
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