Wednesday, September 7, 2011

The Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming...

Kotaku has images from the upcoming WWI-era Call of Cthulhu iPhone game.

Let me repeat that: The upcoming WWI-era Call of Cthulhu iPhone game.

Whaddayathink? Could a battalion of doughboys take a shoggoth?
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12 comments:

  1. DrangSeptember 10, 2011 at 1:51 AM

    Please, please, please let the Doughboys have Lewis guns instead of Chauchats!

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  2. Ian ArgentSeptember 13, 2011 at 11:28 PM

    "They’d be moving out in a matter of minutes and Sullivan sensed the room was nervous, kind of bouncy and tense. It reminded him a little of the Great War, in those few awful seconds before the whistle blew and they’d jump out of the relative safety of their muddy trenches and run screaming into Maxim gunfire, barbed wire, and the Kaiser’s zombies" - Larry Correia's Grimnoir Chronicles

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  3. Ian ArgentSeptember 13, 2011 at 11:30 PM

    The Käiser's Zömbies is the name for my heavy metal cover band.

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  4. elmo iscariotSeptember 14, 2011 at 8:38 AM

    I suppose it's even worse with pickelhaubes.

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  5. Ian ArgentSeptember 14, 2011 at 8:56 AM

    http://parksstephenson.com/misc/zombie_sm.jpg

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  6. Ian ArgentSeptember 14, 2011 at 9:02 AM

    Also, I've been advised there was a typo in the band's name, it's supposed to be The Kaïser's Zombïes. You may blame Neal Stephenson.

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  7. elmo iscariotSeptember 14, 2011 at 9:13 AM

    Since there's no I-umlaut in German, I guess that makes the diacritical symbols English diaereses, indicating that the vowel pairs don't form diphthongs. Sooo... "the Ka-ee-zur's Zom-bye-es"? ;)

    (Also, very impressed that Chrome's spellchecker knows "diaereses". Saved me from having to look it up.)

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  8. Ian ArgentSeptember 14, 2011 at 9:37 AM

    It's a 2-umlaut hair band, I don't think the rules of orthodox orthography apply.

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  9. elmo iscariotSeptember 14, 2011 at 10:26 AM

    Clearly not. But the rules of being-a-pretentious-English-nerd _always_ apply.

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  10. Ian ArgentSeptember 14, 2011 at 10:29 AM

    So, Teke-lï-lï is right out, then?

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  11. elmo iscariotSeptember 14, 2011 at 10:40 AM

    No, that's okay. In this case, the word is in Aklo, a language unpronounceable with a human vocal apparatus.

    In Aklo phonology, ï represents the open-mid trilabial rounded vowel. To pronounce it correctly, I would have to pull out your tongue.

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  12. Ian ArgentSeptember 14, 2011 at 10:43 AM

    Only if I was the next contestant on "the stars are right"

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