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Helius

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How does a movie mean America is back? I'm amazed that the alt-right isn't complaining about the diversity of "Top Guns" in the movie. Maybe because they're still in the background. Highly unrealistic in reality where most fighter pilots in the US are white. Non-white fighter pilots are few and far between let alone being Top Guns.
From a more technical standpoint on the film's accuracy, leaving aside the Navy would allow a 60-year-old (or 57 to be specific since Top Gun 2 was supposed to release in 2019) to be on active duty flying frontline missions still,
that he's already crashed a jet not once but twice (the F-14 and the Dark Star) would've surely had his wings clipped and not be allow to return to flight status.

First time he was exonerated, a case could still be made to let him continue to fly. But the second time? After he'd already disobeyed a direct order to stand down, took the only experimental prototype and intentionally over-stressed the hull beyond its designed limits so that it disintegrated mid-flight yet still managed to physically bail out while travelling at Mach 10+ and somehow came out unscathed?

Yeah you're done flying. He was lucky he wasn't court-martialled and dismissed from the service at the least.
 

ficker22

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Any good Chinese language series or movies to watch? I am trying to learn the language.

I watched The Wind blows from Longxi recently although it is lenghty at times.



If you are interested in animated stuff, I'm watching Fairies Album right now. (Is on Bilibili too, but paywalled behind premium membership, there are sites where it is for free)

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The guys at Lightchaser Animations with the Dieselpunk Nezha film are also quite active. The new Jiang Ziya film is also a goody.

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One of the weirdest, but in a good sense, films I watched ever is Da Hufa.

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Been trying to learn Chinese for 12 years now, on off, and I am certain I'm not even HSK 3 ;)
 
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