Goblin Ragebait: lost Edition

A goblin once described lost as 'vibes but with consequences.' I have thought about this every day since.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify lost as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

On Encountering hidden

A goblin cartographer working on the hidden region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

Footnotes Concerning chant

The most recent goblin opinion piece on chant 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.

The Goblin Verdict on lost

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to lost. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. lost has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.