(Forewarning: This is why I should go to bed at 10:30 PM and not 1 AM, and why I shouldn't sneak out of bed to eat fruit)

So Hussie's recent newspost about God Tier death got me thinking.

If the Heroic/Just system for God Tier regeneration is as rigid and definite a game construct as he says it is, it should only operate within the bounds of the game, right? And the same should also go for God Tier abilities, right?

Well then, where does the game begin and where does it end?

And how much else of Homestuck is just game constructs?

The God Tier abilities have been shown to work within the Genesis Frog universes. Who's to say that the universes created in the game, within the Genesis Frogs, aren't game constructs? The lifeforms in these universes seem to all be just permutations of the same basic forms, with a dominant humanoid race that speaks English and uses a 26-letter Roman-equivalent alphabet. Fauna following some basic guidelines, with things like spiders, crabs, and whales, among other things, and even creatures that don't appear in one universe can appear there as mythology, like dragons.

On the opposite end of the spectrum we have the Horrorterrors. They seem to have a vested interest in the game sessions and how they turn out, even serving a mechanical equivalent purpose in the game to Skaia, but for the Derse players. Their domain, the Furthest Ring, also allows for the use of God Tier abilities, and the Green Sun, which resides in the Furthest Ring, appears in the game's lore as well as being the source of the abilities of the First Guardians in the Genesis Frog universes.

So if the universes and the Furthest Ring are both game constructs, that means all of reality known to Sburb players is a game construct of some sort, meaning that either Sburb is the entirety of reality, or the game, universes, and Furthest Ring where it all resides within, exist within something larger. It's possible that the various Incipispheres are bubbles produced ('glubbed') by the Horrorterrors, but it's known that the Horrorterrors are against the creation of universes, so I don't see why they would act against their own interests and create Sburb sessions.

This all leads me to believe that reality as we know it in Homestuck is a simulation of some sort by some other intelligence, for what end I do not know.