Just Leap In

I've been pottering about in JLI for (what seems like) ages, but I haven't really got up to much although I like it a lot for some reason. It's in the early stages, and some things are not quite evolved yet, but there are things that are nice:

The places are nice - you can have more than one choice, and retexture things and add objects.
You can add links.
You can play two minute videos.
You can make static pictures.
You can add moving NPCs.
You can upload images, short videos, and music.



I've made a bit of machinima there, but not much. I never chatted with anyone before today when I went to an open house, so I was really learning the social interface, which has a way to go before it's ready for the big time. I have trouble with object manipulation because I can really only rely upon one hand, but last week for ages I kept trying to raise an object up = FAIL FAIL FAIL only to discover today that my right shift + drag does nothing - only my left shift + drag moves things up. I'd got disconsolate thinking that I just couldn't manage it, but it's more within the bounds of possibility now that I've figured it out. And when in the chat space the up arrow accesses history, which stymied me for a bit until Zero Linden asked about it and Oly explained. I always think problems are just me malfunctioning ;-D

It's not a comprehensive world like SL - it's more a social place, at least now.

There's a light-heartedness running through it all that is fun, and the people making it are very nice.

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