The line comes from Stronghold, the 2001 castle-building strategy game by Firefly Studios, in its Polish edition sold as Twierdza. Whenever the player orders a building without enough timber in stock, a villager reports the shortage with this exact phrase. Polish players heard it thousands of times while managing their keeps, and the deadpan complaint stuck in gaming culture long after the game's release. It now circulates in memes, stream clips and strategy-game edits as shorthand for any plan collapsing for lack of resources.