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The Correct Incantation (i.ibb.co)

submitted 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) by King@blackneon.net to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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A comic in four panels:

Panel 1: The gothic sorceress, dressed in dark, flowing robes, stands in the middle of a desolated land. She gazes at the colorful mechanical parrot flying near her shoulder: the Avian Intelligent Parrot. The sorceress asks with a hint of curiosity.

Gothic sorceress: "Hey, Avian Intelligence, what's the incantation for summoning a fireball?"
AI Parrot: ":sparkle emoji: The correct incantation for a fireball is "IgnisMe"."

Panel 2: The gothic sorceress cracks a wicked smile, her eyes shining with anticipation as she raises her hands in front of her, fingers spread and ready to cast.

Gothic sorceress: "Alright, let's give it a shot... IgnisMe!"

Panel(small insert in previous panel): Only the eyes of the gothic sorceress are visible in a large flame.

Gothic sorceress: "?!!"

Panel 3: The gothic sorceress is burnt, her face contorted in a mix of shock, anger, and pain. Flames and smoke dance around her, her dark robes burnt and tattered, revealing exposed parts of her anatomy.

Gothic sorceress: "You #*$%@& bird! You gave me a self-immolation spell instead of a fireball spell!"

Panel 4: As the sorceress facepalms, the Avian Intelligent parrot replies with stoicism.

AI Parrot: ":sparkle emoji: You're absolutely right! The correct incantation for a fireball is "PyroBolus"."

Source here

Open Source Web Comic by David Revoy.

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[–] King@blackneon.net 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Are you sure it's not slow internet which resulted in the photo to not finish loading?

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 9 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)

Must be a lemmy problem.

Gave it plenty of time to load on my gigabit internet.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

That's weird. I tried https://old.lemmy.today/post/42532735

And even inspecting the page source (on Firefox), all I get is an embed of the ibb.co image.

You got served a lemmy.today cache image though... Are you on mobile, by chance? Or using any non default configs/extensions?

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

This one is fine for me, but I've had others with the same issue. I assumed it was a quirk in the app I use (Boost).

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Click image, Top right click HD. Boost tries to save bandwidth on some images but I haven't noticed a real trend behind what images it chooses to downscale or not.

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Thanks, I'll try that next time I see one.

[–] JelleWho@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Yhea my boost sometimes also seem to make things blurry. Dowloading it does show it is a clear one. But I didn't had problems with this one

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Which client?

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Just using firefox and old.lemmy

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Odd, does not do that for me.

But it could be an extension or flag requesting a bandwidth optimized image.