The Rapture Logs/Shout-Out

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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