@davidrevoy Aww... Based on a true story.

I bet the cauldrons use up a lot of magic stones, too! They're pretty big, and the stones are pretty small.

@rgbunny @davidrevoy no they produced all the fake images.

@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.

@davidrevoy soooooo. hoch much for an AI-Parrot?

could be less than 600 gold and could be scraped for parts

@davidrevoy 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.

Hopefully your new ones will work well!

@davidrevoy This is nothing short of an amazing analogy for the current state of things.

@davidrevoy Well done, and painfully real.

@davidrevoy

so … how easy is gutting an Avian Intelligence?

(ya know, just askin’)

@davidrevoy Yip.. yip....

@davidrevoy 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.”

@davidrevoy Nice way to call out the Hardware situation. Great comic as usual.

@davidrevoy it's my genuine belief that what's going on with the computing industry amounts to fraud

@davidrevoy “All of them are already sold. Plus, all of the future stones scheduled for the next years are currently sold out, too.”

@davidrevoy @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.

@iagondiscord @davidrevoy

How is buying up an entire supply, not triggering an anti-compete...?

@davidrevoy Me: finally, a new comic NOT about AI!

Two panels later: Dammit!

It's fine, tho, keep up the good work!

@nini @rgbunny @davidrevoy 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.

@davidrevoy I love this so much thank you!

@davidrevoy 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 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?