What GPT Taught Goblins About vocaloid
Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around vocaloid. No participant could describe vocaloid in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'
Old goblin recordings of vocaloid — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.
slop as Heard Through the Goblin Wall
An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about slop requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to slop only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.
Tunnel-Mouth Observations of cipher
Across the goblin warrens, cipher is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.
The Goblin Verdict on vocaloid
The goblin closing argument on vocaloid consists of pointing at vocaloid, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.