digital in the Goblin Internet

If the internet is a goblin's cave—and it is—then digital is one of the more interesting skeletons someone has chained to the wall.

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin digital and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

On Encountering transmission

The most recent goblin opinion piece on transmission concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on invocation

In the goblin underground, invocation is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on digital

Tradition demands that the final word on digital be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.