gwern comments on The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover - Less Wrong

31 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 September 2009 05:21PM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 21 September 2009 04:13:16AM *  3 points [-]

I got an awful lot of the references but some I can't crack without at least some Googling.

Two references you really, really should have made, but didn't:

  • Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series.
  • The video game "Star Ocean 3".

Also, Rincewind is the Discworld character who got stuck dimension hopping (including a brief visit to the real world), not Vimes.

Comment author: gwern 22 September 2009 10:00:28PM 0 points [-]

Wouldn't Jake constitute a Dark Tower ref?

Comment author: CronoDAS 23 September 2009 05:04:53AM 2 points [-]

It's a different Jake. This one, Jake Stonebender, is from the Callahan's Crosstime Saloon stories. (I had to Google the name.) The Jake from the Dark Tower series is Jake Chambers.