Getting to Gnome Mode - by Venkatesh Rao
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Or, how do you revitalize a rundown world?
I learned about “goblin mode” a few weeks ago. I’m apparently getting bad at keeping up with these things because it went mainstream before I spotted it. Here’s NBC news defining it for the normies: …Goblin mode, which refers to a person who is generally messy, likely unshowered and acting "feral" due to laziness or an aversion to going outside, has been used on sites like Tumblr and Urban Dictionary for years. On my map, Goblin mode sounds like the degenerate bottom of what I tagged the domestic cozy trend in March 2019. My personal favorite illustration of goblin mode is the last stage…
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