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That took less time than I expected.

The current admin recommendation is to edit the table code so that it starts with just "[ table ]" instead of "[ table=collapse ]" (without the spaces. I need those so the tags don't actually function like they're supposed to here.)

By taking out the "=collapse" part everything else should function as intended and require minimal other fiddling for you. They don't expect that there's going to be a global fix for that collapsing table functionality anytime soon.

EDIT: One thing that has been noted is that for whatever reason, the new updated forum software is a bit squirrely if you try to copy/paste cells out of excel or a similar spreadsheet program into an HF post. Sometimes it works if everything is left justified. Sometimes it doesn't work at all and breaks spectacularly. So the best thing to do there is not copy/paste anything anymore because it's highly likely to not work as it should.
 
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The Nemesis said:
@drunksage
That took less time than I expected.

The current admin recommendation is to edit the table code so that it starts with just "[ table ]" instead of "[ table=collapse ]" (without the spaces. I need those so the tags don't actually function like they're supposed to here.)

By taking out the "=collapse" part everything else should function as intended and require minimal other fiddling for you. They don't expect that there's going to be a global fix for that collapsing table functionality anytime soon.

EDIT: One thing that has been noted is that for whatever reason, the new updated forum software is a bit squirrely if you try to copy/paste cells out of excel or a similar spreadsheet program into an HF post. Sometimes it works if everything is left justified. Sometimes it doesn't work at all and breaks spectacularly. So the best thing to do there is not copy/paste anything anymore because it's highly likely to not work as it should.
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Thanks for the response! SNOG tables will be back in action later today.
 
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@The Nemesis i don’t remember if you liked Supernatural, but I just gave it a shot and I’m a fan.
I could always watch these one-off episodic hardly plot driven procedurals like Burn Notice or White Collar or Mando s1.

Only reason it took me so long to give the show a shot, is because I wasn’t a fan of Dean from Gilmore Girls (who confusingly plays Sam, Dean’s brother) or that I expected this to be typical CW teen romance show with the tall good-looking men.
 
WTFetus said:
@The Nemesis i don’t remember if you liked Supernatural, but I just gave it a shot and I’m a fan.
I could always watch these one-off episodic hardly plot driven procedurals like Burn Notice or White Collar or Mando s1.

Only reason it took me so long to give the show a shot, is because I wasn’t a fan of Dean from Gilmore Girls (who confusingly plays Sam, Dean’s brother) or that I expected this to be typical CW teen romance show with the tall good-looking men.
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I did watch it all the way through, though I kinda checked out near the end and even accounting for covid restrictions scuppering some of their plans I thought the finale was dumb. It was really, really good for the first 5-7 seasons though. Be aware that it loses some of its episodic structure a few seasons in and really starts leaning heavily into story arcs and building its own mythology that sprawls and starts to consume everything.

There is some romance along the way, but not a lot because that's not the focus and because this show very much leans into the Joss Whedon show maxims of "happy people are boring" and "anyone can die for the drama" (which is a sorta mildly spoilery: Nobody is safe.)

The only other thing is that the longer it goes and the more different showrunners and major creative forces it changes hands between, the more it can depart from what it was at the start to something really different. At any of those points it's probably better to pull the chute and get out instead of sticking around and hate-watching it hoping for change. I know, for instance, that the series creator left after season 5 and the completion of the story arc he plotted out from the beginning of the show, so that's the first massive potential departure point.

I got kind of annoyed near the end when they really started to get meta and cater to the hardcore fans by explicitly referencing things like shipping wars and leaning into fandom obsessions about relationships that had nothing to do with the plot. Not because I thought the relationship ideas were bad (save for one) but because it just felt pandering and lazy and not earned. The only excellent thing to come out of those last couple of seasons were, and I'm dead serious, a crossover episode with Scooby-Doo of all things that was hilarious and far better than it had any right to be.

I did also like that it was filmed in Vancouver and much of the surrounding area so there were lots of familiar locations and scads of Canadian actors that popped up.

If you like that you might also check out Grimm. It's not as dark and grimy as Supernatural was, but it's that same sort of episodic fantasy monster story. It aired on NBC originally so maybe it's on Peacock, and I think it might be on Amazon Prime now.

The gist of the story is that a detective in Portland discovers that he is the descendant of a line of monster hunters (each of whom is called a "Grimm" because the namesake brothers who wrote the old fairy tales were some of the earliest in the line) and that the world is full of people who are actually of different humanoid species around which most myths, legends, and fairy tales about supernatural creatures are based (they all have the ability to pass as purely human to most eyes, but can become their more monstrous forms when provoked, stressed, frightened, or on command, but the Grimms posses the ability to see them in that form even if they're hiding it) and so his police work then gets intertwined with finding out that a lot of crimes may involve these "wesen" (the German word for "creature") and he has to figure out how to fight them if it turns out they're actually evil.

For instance in an early episode he meets a meek guy that repairs clocks and it turns out that he is a wolf-like wesen that are the inspiration of most werewolf and wolfman type stories (up to and including things like Little Red Riding Hood or The Three Little Pigs) but is mostly benign. From that the main character, Nick, learns that for wesen communities, The Grimm is the monster they tell their kids about to scare them and keep them behaving. :laugh:
 
WTFetus said:
@The Nemesis i don’t remember if you liked Supernatural, but I just gave it a shot and I’m a fan.
I could always watch these one-off episodic hardly plot driven procedurals like Burn Notice or White Collar or Mando s1.

Only reason it took me so long to give the show a shot, is because I wasn’t a fan of Dean from Gilmore Girls (who confusingly plays Sam, Dean’s brother) or that I expected this to be typical CW teen romance show with the tall good-looking men.
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I'll stand by the first five seasons of Supernatural being legitimately good. It goes seriously off the rails after, but still has some entertainment value. I liked some of the recurring characters they added in later seasons and there were some really interesting plot points that were worth watching for even if they weren't executed great.
 
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