The Rapture Logs/Shout-Out


 * Jordan's weapon of choice, a guitar controller, is a shout-out to the guitar-wielding protagonist from FLCL.
 * After asking for advice on dealing with zombies, "One person even suggested the double-tap."
 * The "rabbit holes."
 * "SEES ME AT THE TOWER" in the May 26th entry.
 * "Like.. like Ace, from Ruby Quest."
 * "Gtheru. Like.. Cthulu and Guitar Hero."
 * "Or maybe QI told me the “white” was actually a lie or something."
 * "So I guess this is a pigmask."
 * "IT’S MY BODY, DOGSCAPE. AND IF YOU’RE TOUCHING ME IN A WAY OR PLACE THAT MAKES ME FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE, THAT’S NO GOOD."
 * Double-whopper: "GREAT DODONGO OF THE CONGO"
 * "Thunderbirds. Like the TV series."
 * "It’s time to do this shit like Gordon fucking Freeman."
 * "Dear sweet fhqwghads, The Cheat is to the limit."
 * "..I’m gonna knock on the door and ask to be let in. It didn’t work for Solid Snake, but it might work for me."
 * "I asked who they thought. He said “George Jetson.”"
 * "Mistress wants to know if I’m going to invite her in for some hot coffee."
 * "What’s the “B” stand for? “Bake?” “Bovine?” “Burninate?”"
 * "And then Donnie was slender man."
 * "Four-thousand degrees Kelvin" is a reference to Portal.
 * When Jordan dons his sunglasses during the example for One-Liner, it's a reference to CSI: Miami.
 * The June 18th entry refers to "Jordan's thread in OTC."
 * Same entry, "Steve Merchant had the best lines ever in Portal 2."
 * In the same entry, Jordan finds some "slender man porn." He can't tell what's even going on in it; there's too much distortion.
 * Shortly after, he finds out that Marble Hornets has actually continued, despite the apocalyptic conditions. "Holy shit. The first minute is just Jay grabbing a shotgun and shooting the Operator in the face. Well, the lack of face." And later, "The Operator will be back, and in greater numbers."
 * Same entry! Jordan rambles a lot about Loids are not Christmas.
 * June 19th entry, "Welcome to the Whoa Zone."
 * "Holy cock. I woke up in a hotel. I don’t remember anything from the past several days. I mean, I remember being in that city, and running from that.. giant screaming face. And then I went down an alley and.. motherfucker. It was the slender man. It’s like motherfucking Marble Hornets Part 2. What the fuck."
 * "HELLO, LIVERPOOLIANS! WE ARE THE BEATLES, AND WE'RE holy fuck flying zombies"
 * The chef in the Exodus arc, "Zach Gusteau," is named after both Jacques Cousteau and Chef Gusteau.
 * The doctors are John Jackson and Jack Johnson.
 * "He told me to get my guitar thing and come with him. We're going to open some fucking windows."
 * "IF YOU COULD TALK, YOU’D BE SAYING “MY LEG!”"
 * In the July 5th entry, Jordan writes in a Friendship is Magic journal.
 * Same entry, Jordan describes The Harlequin as a "puppet who just wants to watch the world burn."
 * Same entry, "FUCK YOU AND YOUR VOLVO, I HAD THE RIGHT OF WAY" references the 60s spider-man image macro meme.
 * "Novelpol" from the July 6th entry is an example of newspeak.
 * The Divided Countries of America share an abbreviation with DJay's previous extensive writing project.
 * Same entry, "'We'll meet again on the battlefield.' 'Battlefield.' Battlefield Earth. How appropriate."
 * "Remember the Agon Wastes from Metroid Prime 2: (Dark) Echoes? Yeah, this place is like that."
 * "PALE-FACED BRUNETTE HORROR MOVIE GIRL CRAWLING OUT OF THE MIRROR THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE A WINDOW"
 * "Okay, you know Silent Hill, both the video game series and the film?" The scene Jordan encounters is an homage.
 * The protagonists encounter a thick fog and hear things flying around them. This was one of the original suggestions for what would become EAT in the overall mythos.
 * "I can hear the hum of mechanical dragonflies, of marble hornets."
 * "This book contains the secrets of the secretcity," secretcity is a puzzle-based map series for Half Life modification Sven Co-op, and it happened to be the map series various locations in Xanadu are taken from.
 * "Can you see the three circles? Look again. The circles are now diamonds."
 * "Exit, stage left! waitwaitwait lemme do this right. I'll be there in three, two, one, aaand KICK THE DOOR DOWN" is a reference to the crappypasta story "Hawaii 50."
 * The Noga Wastelands are a reference to the Agon Wastes from Metroid Prime 2.
 * "I turned a corner, and all of a sudden we're not in Kansas anymore."
 * "Like the Bridge of Eldin, from.. what was it, Twilight Princess? It was in Brawl, I know that."
 * "THE SPIDERCLOUD IS CRAWLING WITH HEADCRABS"
 * "..oh god Moonside not bawesome."
 * "..this is vaguely reminding me of something I once wrote."
 * "Let me specify, journal. And this is gonna sound crazy. It’s a Guitar Hero highway."
 * "SHIT, that was like some kind of sonic rainbow.. boom thing. A sonic rainboom, I guess."
 * "And that homeless person said Eric and I looked like ''The Blues Brothers."
 * According to the August 12th entry, Anna and Donnie are Homestuck fans. Jordan is not.
 * "and then a skeleton popped up. But the skeleton was alive, and it said. 'TO GRIND YOUR SKIN.'"