Megan, can you undo this?
I sure hope so.
Mauricio and I had dinner at the restaurant here at our hotel in Santiago, and we got to talking about Second Life. I offered to show him how it works, which of course I barely know since my wife handles all the heavy lifting in SL.
I stumbled around our house a bit, then showed him a few other places, and then I decided to buy something to leave in the house to surprise Megan. So I bought a Roland keyboard similar to the one we have at home, and put it in the corner of the living room.
But it was a bit too close to the wall, and the seat stuck through the wall. So I moved it toward the middle of the room, but there was a remnant of the seat sticking out of the wall. I thought it was a copy, so I tried to delete it. I got a message about deleting multiple items, and I thought “well, the keyboard and the seat are multiple items, that makes sense,” and I said to go ahead.
And the entire house immediately disappeared. All of the furnishings Megan had so carefully set up are still there, but the house itself is gone. And based on what I’ve read, I think it’s not undo-able.
Here’s a picture of Orcmid commiserating with me in the new open-air living room a few minutes later …
Sorry, Dear.
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on May 5, 2007 at 9:45 pm Megan wrote:
It’s fixed, sort of. No time to fine-tune it tonight. I’m hanging out with Molly and Querido. They’re laughing at you.
on May 6, 2007 at 6:08 am Doug wrote:
Glad to see things back to normal: the house is there, and my sister-in-law laughing at me. Also nice to see your sexy new outfit. Bay Area influence, no doubt.
For my fellow SL chumps, here’s the lessons learned:
1) Clicking on an object that is intersecting another object can yield confusing results;
2) When you accidentally delete something your wife owns, it shows up in her Lost and Found. (If only RL had this safeguard.)
on May 6, 2007 at 8:31 am orcmid wrote:
Well the Roland is cool. Now we need to figure out how to script it so it is playable.
[When I shut down I was in your phantom living room, so I reappeared there the next time I logged in and ‘lo, the house had returned. Megan was a little startled. I must be more careful where I am when I log off.]
on May 6, 2007 at 5:31 pm Tom wrote:
Wow. When you fall off the roof, you really get back at it!
on May 6, 2007 at 5:46 pm Lom Hax wrote:
Welcome to the Horus Oosp Club. I hope things have been straightened out by now.
on May 6, 2007 at 7:59 pm Doug wrote:
Thanks, neighbor.
I learned my lesson, but now that I know Megan will find things in her Lost&Found if I delete them, I may get more reckless instead of less reckless.
on May 7, 2007 at 12:54 pm Megan wrote:
I’ve revoked your edit rights, dear.