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Nono, sessions are not in frogs, only the home universes of players. The sessions are all within the confines of the Furthest Ring, and every universe is inside a session. When players activate their entry item, they are transported from their universe inside an incipisphere, to their own incipisphere. The green sun exists outside of all of the frogs.

If not just on the streets, at least SOMEWHERE besides neatly in parking lots.
It seems strange that everybody had their cars scrapped and swapped in for 50 pairs of fingerless gloves or whatever. If they're not on the streets, they could be at least in compounds or some other place cars go when they're totalled.

Actually, a scrap yard in general, containing vehicles without engines and/or wheels and such. It just looks odd when every few houses has a mechanics magazine, implying it to be a hobby in some way, but there are only cars in communal car parks, and very rarely at that.

(Extrapolated from the given first letters and following Jane's Crypts and Helium "burial and noble gas" pattern):

Dirk: Land of Pyramids and Neon

Roxy: Land of Tombs and Krypton

Jake: Land of Mausoleums and Xenon

You can extrapolate from the names

Could you explain how you worked that out?
That seems more like guesswork than an actual method.

Aurora Combat = Missiles, heh.

I've noticed this said around a lot.
But why?
What is it about missiles that makes them so vastly superior to other weapons? I would have thought them to be worse. You have a limited supply of them once you launch, they can cause damage if blown up inside your ships, and you need quite high tech to make them go fast enough to not be taken down.
Surely it would be a lot better to have a beam weapon, which cannot be intercepted because lightspeed, has effectively infinite ammo and can be useful at reasonably low levels of research.

I'll throw a vote in for Brightwater then, I found/find it thoroughly enjoyable to read.

My pet theory is that the ULTIMATE PURPOSE of the game is not the propagation of universes, but facilitating the emotional growth of a bunch of teenagers. The trolls didn't quite manage to learn the True Meaning of Friendship, so Skaia tosses another unkillable endboss at them.

Except trolls don't really make friends so much, being the violent recluses they are. The closest we've seen to actual friends under normal circumstances are Viska with Equius, and some of the ancestors too. The ancestors were mostly together because of fighting other people, and Vriska and Equius were both trying to backstab each other.
Is SBURB on the other hand is designed to have the players conform to OUR idea of friendship and acceptance and all that, then it's design is inherently racist to the extreme. Also, if that's the point of the game, how could the squiddle session fail? And why did scratching for the trolls create a MORE violent universe? Surely if that game is won by love and acceptance, why have both instances we've seen of a scratch caused the players to grow up in a more hostile and dangerous environment?

There IS a tileset. Although its not completely finished.

/narrowed eyes
We don't talk about THOSE around here...

Even then, he says that static tile-based graphics are "not really a game".

I feel your pain bro.
He's not even obsessed with graphics or anything, but he seems to have some problem with not being able to instinctively recognise what something is and how it works.
It's kind of frustrating when people refuse something based on the fact that they don't want to take time to learn.

Then I remember that I'm having more fun on Cataclysm than he is on Oblivion, so it's all cool.