It strikes me as unrealistic that Melody, with her super intelligence, couldn't communicate better using her low-tech talking board. (I've re-read sections of the book and I think it's Draper's overuse of exclamation points that makes her characters sound inauthentic and corny to me.)ģ. Other things that I think will date this book: MySpace, TiVo, and Nintendo Wii. Now, I still say things are "the bomb," but I'm a lot older than the kids in this book. I've never heard anyone say, "She is tripping," without droppin' the g. an adult's version of what she thinks modern kids sound like). In fact, a lot of dialogue struck me as unrealistic (i.e. Do kids in the year 2010 say "tight" anymore? I think Draper is trying to make Melody sound like an average kid, but to me she sounds like an adult trying to sound like a kid. This line was probably meant to sound poetic but comes off as a failed metaphor to me.Ģ. If a snowflake is melting in your hands, you've touched it. The phrase "untouched in my hands" really bothers me. soldier should do the opposite.Many people love love love this book, so I'm going to skip the praise for now (you can read plenty of it elsewhere) and go straight to criticism:ġ. The idea was that whatever Snafu did, the U.S. He’d dig his trench wrong and get run over by a tank, or leave his gas mask behind and die in an attack. In the cartoons, Private Snafu would screw up, and often die. During World War II, the Pentagon commissioned several cartoons starring Private Snafu. This wouldn’t be the first time a military has used cartoons to help train soldiers. But the video enforces that war isn’t a game, that these tips can mean the difference between life and death, and that your gun won't have a readout telling you how many bullets you have left. The animation style itself is reminiscent of the tongue-in-cheek cartoon tutorials in the Fallout series. Several of the minute-long videos use imagery from video games, including an inventory selection screen, an aim-bot style outline of soldiers, and an electronic ammunition counter. Laws in the country once required draft notices to be delivered in person, but Putin signed a law earlier this month that made conscription legally binding the moment they’re electronically registered.Īs more poorly-trained Russian soldiers hit the frontlines in anticipation of a Ukrainian counter-offensive, it makes sense that someone in Russia-if not the Russian government itself-would create a cheap cartoon to get them up to speed on the basics. Russian casualty rates are high and the Kremlin is desperate to fill the ranks, resorting to conscripting thousands of prisoners and snatching men off the street. Troops sometimes end up on the frontline days after they’ve been recruited.
Moscow’s training of the soldiers it's sending to Ukraine is famously bad. Putin has long claimed that his war is about fighting Nazis in Ukraine.
The zoomed-in face of a Ukrainian soldier reveals that his helmet has an SS symbol on it. A gunfight between a Russian and Ukrainian soldier plays out in a sunflower field, the national flower of Ukraine. The videos are also drenched in the iconography of Russia’s war in Ukraine and play to the specific fears of the Russian soldier. Okhlobystin and the narrator from the video.
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