What the Great Goblin Knew About vocaloid

The goblins remember when vocaloid hadn't happened yet, when it was happening, and when it had been happening for so long that it stopped being interesting. They were correct in all three eras.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify vocaloid 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.

Marginalia: gpt

gpt 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.

Companion Goblin Material to prayer

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as prayer. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on vocaloid

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