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• Jordan's weapon of choice, a guitar controller, ^{[dead link]} 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.'"

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