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I still think it's worth watching from season 1 - there are a couple of pretty good episodes and it sets up some stuff that comes back later on, like building the park in the vacant lot. Plus, it's only 6 episodes IIRC.

It does, it's still a fun heist thriller with a great cast an excellent soundtrack.

Yeah, from the movie Sneakers.

Disagree about the Holdo maneuver but I will say it really should've been Leia. It would've made so much more sense for her to go out that way.

My assumption was they were trying to shoehorn in the gang as a throwback to greaser hotrod culture (by way of mod scooter culture) since George Lucas was into that when he was a teenager, but it was so jarringly bad in an already bad series that it just came across as cringy and laughable. It didn't help that those scenes were filmed incredibly clumsily and all the scooter gang characters were annoyingly tryhard.

"You know, I could've joined the NSA... but they found out my parents were married."

Even though it's obviously a completely shallow copy of the original, it's still a fun watch for the following reasons:

• All of Egon's lines.
• All of Venkman's lines.
• Peter MacNicol's character.
• The whole "World of the Psychic" scene
• The whole courtroom scene (as you mentioned).
• The overall concept of the haunted painting is pretty fun, but I think in combination with the mood slime idea it overcomplicates things. However, there are some fun moments with the slime.
• Louis and Jeanine's romance has some funny dialogue, though that storyline kind of wastes time that could've been spent on more fun supernatural stuff.

I mean, if you want recommendations for other movies like this then you should probably check out Shane Black's very similar precursor called Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

The Kid Detective is great! The revelation at the end that significantly changes the tone works surprisingly well, IMO.

Other people have mentioned Tutanota; as a user myself I can point out a few pros and cons:

Pro:

• Extremely privacy focused - everything is encrypted and even they don't have access to your email content.
• Pretty cheap for a pro subscription (although they recently changed prices and I'm not sure exactly what the new ones are like).
• Pro subscription you can use custom domains and set up a few aliases.
• Generally works fine.

Con:

• Can only use their custom mail clients (in addition to the webmail interface), because they use their own encryption algorithm.
• Tutanota is so extremely hardcore about security that it seems like a detriment to their user experience. I used to follow the Tutanota community on Reddit and there were so many posts from people who tried to sign up or access their email and were blocked, and they had to go through quite a process to get unblocked. I myself went through a period where I kept being unable to access my account on my phone and it turned out to be that they were blocking me because of "too many IPS connecting to my account from the same IP". I have 2 devices connecting - my PC and my phone, so apparently 2 devices is too dangerous for them. That happened 2 or 3 times for a few days to a week each time, but I haven't experienced it for a while now, though.
• The user interface is not for everyone. I don't mind it myself, but I've seen a good number of people complain that it's too sparse and/or ugly.
• Search is annoying - because everything is encrypted, emails can't be searched on the server side so the clients have to do the searching locally which requires building an index. If you happen to clear your storage you have to reindex everything again. It's also pretty slow and annoying to index further back than a few months.
• You don't get much storage (like, only 1gb or something) and you have to pay to get more.

Overall, if privacy and control over your own email is important to you then Tutanota is a great choice. Just be aware that usability can be kind of a hassle.

It wasn't amazing but IMO the first 2 were also just ok, so I generally enjoyed the 3rd about the same.

/r/askhistorians. The only truly good subreddit.

He corroborated it himself in the press at one point, before a lot of the bad press about him got out and the mine story started to become a liability for him.

They're a lot of fun. Just don't go in expecting balls to the wall action and goofy one-liners like the movies; as someone else said they're more spy/detective stories than action adventures. That said, there's still plenty of action and they do move along at a pretty good clip.

One thing that stood out to me when I went through a period of reading a whole bunch of them is how much they focus on Bond's likes, dislikes and interests. It's not just shaken or stirred vodka martinis and Walther PPKs, the books often go into a fair amount of detail about what Bond takes for breakfast, what kind of products or activities he likes and so on.

Dyldam sound like a bunch of dildos

As someone who has recently started the diagnosis journey and who is yet to be actually diagnosed, reading things like this I'm curious (and a little anxious) about how a professional is likely to interpret my experiences.

For example, I have no problem interpreting facial expressions or gauging the mood of a group of people, but I do find myself getting hung up on explicit/literal interpretation of rules, I get fixated on a single subject, and I do get overloaded as soon as I walk into a situation with more than one activity to focus on.

However, I also have issues ignoring distractions, focusing on non-stimulating tasks, forgetfulness and fidgeting.

I'm curious what peoples' experiences are with symptoms that cross (I guess, for lack of a better phrase) "fields of diagnosis"?