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<\/a><\/p>\nWell, there were forums almost everywhere, but the ones at Gaming Outpost were significant, big deal forums in the gaming world for a while, and then not so much but still important to me and to many of those who read my work and played Multiverser<\/i>. They were probably then the most reliable way to reach me, and there were plenty of discussions, not to mention quite a few games played, on those forums.<\/p>\n
Then they crashed, and all of that was lost.<\/p>\n
I can’t promise that this won’t happen to these new forums, but we’re going to make an effort, with the help of our Patreon<\/a> and PayPal.me<\/a> supporters, to keep them up and running, and to pay attention to what is posted here.<\/p>\n I arranged the forums in alphabetical order; I was going to arrange them in reverse alphabetical order, because I have always hated being the last in line for everything, but as I installed them the software put the next one on top, and although I could see how to resequence them, I realized that that would put Bible and Theology<\/i> on the bottom, and while I’m not a stickler for silly formalities I could see that some people would object to that, more so than anyone would object to any other forum being at the bottom. It is probably appropriate that it is on top. The forum categories correspond roughly to the web log main topics, with a few tweaks and additions.<\/p>\n I long wished for a place to discuss time travel and time travel movies, and that’s there now. I don’t expect most of the discussions will wind up here, but perhaps at least some will, and that will make it worthwhile. I’ve also made a home for discussions of the Christian Gamers Guild Faith and Gaming<\/i> series, and for the upcoming (this December) Faith in Play<\/i> and RPG-ology<\/i> series there. There are music and ministry sections, space for logic problems discussions, law and politics pages, space for games, and a place to discuss my books, if anyone is interested in any of those topics.<\/p>\n I have also added a Multiverser game play forum. I have in the past been overwhelmed by the number of players who wanted to play, even with my rule that I would only post one time per day to any game thread and expected players to observe the same courtesy (except for obvious correction posts). Please do not presume that because you want to play Multiverser<\/i> you can just start a thread and I’ll pick up your game. I will give first priority to people who have played the game with me before, whether live or online, picking up where we were; I will also open the door on an individual basis to people who have wanted to play for a long time but for various reasons have not been able to do so (such as Andrew in South Africa). Beyond that, well, talk to me and I’ll see what kind of time I have–after all, I have no idea how many of my previous players will return, or how much work it’s going to be to get back up to speed on their long-interrupted games.<\/p>\n My thanks to Kyler and Nikolaj, who have already helped me track down some of the bugs and fix them. I’m told that if you are not registered, the link on the top left<\/i> corner of the page will work, but the one on the top right<\/i> corner will not<\/i>–unfortunately, I can neither see either link while logged into the site, nor find how to fix a lot of those problems. But I am working on it, and there is a forum specifically for contacting me about problems, and a link to my Facebook page if you can’t even get as far as that.<\/p>\n I look forward to seeing you.<\/p>\n [contact-form subject='[mark Joseph %26quot;young%26quot;’][contact-field label=’Name’ type=’name’ required=’1’\/][contact-field label=’Email’ type=’email’ required=’1’\/][contact-field label=’Website’ type=’url’\/][contact-field label=’Comment: Note that this form will contact the author by e-mail; to post comments to the article, see below; or visit the site forums.’ type=’textarea’ required=’1’\/][\/contact-form] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is mark Joseph “young” blog entry #197, on the subject of Launching the mark Joseph “young” Forums. Once upon a time, what now seems a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there were forums at Gaming Outpost. Well, there were forums almost everywhere, but the ones at Gaming Outpost were … Continue reading #197: Launching the mark Joseph “young” Forums<\/span>