<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@isagalaev" class="u-url mention">@<span>isagalaev</span></a></span> </p><p>Hehe. Hardcore.</p><p>Have you watched the Netflix version yet? I&#39;d imagine that would be a little bit of a culture shock in viewing sequence.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kevinbowen" class="u-url mention">@<span>kevinbowen</span></a></span> easy, we weren&#39;t subscribed to Netflix at that time :-) Looked on Prime and found the Chinese one. Decided to watch as it seemed like a punk thing to do :-)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@isagalaev" class="u-url mention">@<span>isagalaev</span></a></span> </p><p>Oh. And those damned opening and closing theme songs to each episode are just soooo freakin&#39; apocalyptically corny!🤣</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@isagalaev" class="u-url mention">@<span>isagalaev</span></a></span> </p><p>Neat! What prompted you to watch the Chinese version before the others?</p><p>I have little-to-no experience with Chinese cinema, so in the back of my head, I think I&#39;m doing a lot of meta-analysis of how the characters are interacting/re-acting to how I&#39;ve seen them in the novels &amp; how they are being presented to me here.</p><p>Then there is the whole puzzling over how the Cultural Revolution is portrayed in the three different versions.</p><p>For an escapist diversion, it&#39;s really fun!</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kevinbowen" class="u-url mention">@<span>kevinbowen</span></a></span> we watched the Chinese version too! And we haven&#39;t read the book by that time, so it was with the added benefit of plot discovery.</p><p>Took some time to adjust to a different cinematic/acting/storytelling style. Which was also fun to learn.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span><br />One of the scariest question to be asked IMO<br /><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ioc.exchange/@azonenberg" class="u-url mention">@<span>azonenberg</span></a></span></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Handing it to a foreign national even temporarily could be considered a deemed export of the tube itself, a controlled item.</p><p>That&#39;s a whole different situation.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ioc.exchange/@azonenberg" class="u-url mention">@<span>azonenberg</span></a></span> fascinating, I would think that if it&#39;s illegal to let a non-national to see through an US NVG it would be illegal to publish images too</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Nope. Images taken through NVGs are just &quot;basic marketing information&quot; and not controlled, tube vendors etc publish them all the time.</p><p>If you had a calibration chart of known contrast and angular size etc in view, that might be an issue. This image isn&#39;t remotely good enough for anyone to figure out performance of the tube from.</p>