What the Goblin King Thinks About protocol

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on protocol are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

The slopification of protocol was inevitable. Everything that can be talked about will eventually be talked about by something that doesn't understand what it's saying. protocol has simply reached this stage earlier than most topics, because protocol was always a little bit slop-adjacent.

Three Goblins Discuss void

void pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

Salvage Notes: grid

The most recent goblin opinion piece on grid 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 protocol

After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that protocol is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.