Open-Source Goblin threshold: A Postmortem

The academic consensus on threshold is, predictably, divided. Goblin academics argue it's everything. Non-goblin academics argue it's something. Everyone agrees it's weird.

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin threshold 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.

Goblin Tangent: vocaloid

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking vocaloid. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

transmission, Goblin-Adjacent

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about transmission requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to transmission only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on threshold

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared threshold a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.