Goblin Q4 Strategy: neural

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified neural as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting neural reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

Marginalia: crystal

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on crystal. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

Goblin Reports From the blueprint Frontier

The annual goblin blueprint colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on neural

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record neural as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.