Feel free to close this thread if there was already one about this topic as it is fairly old news at this point (I think it happened a couple weeks ago), but I don't recall seeing one and it was pretty darn funny.

Anyway, Polygon's Editor-in-Chief Chris Grant had a bit of a Twitter meltdown after he believed that while showing his friend Zelda BotW his save data was overwritten. This infuriated him, leading to some rather lovely gems on Twitter (which were all deleted the following day):

"Not exaggerating when I say this: Zelda just dropped from a top 3 for me this year to not ranking at all. Nintendo is straight up delinquent."

"The Switch is an amazing console marred by a dinosaur of a company refusing to honor its own consumers."

"I can promise you with 1000% confidence that I will never play that game again. What a        disaster" (his spaces, not mine, to indicate "fucking" without saying it lol)

From there he begins going on the offensive against his own followers who are either suggesting he's overreacting or trying to explain how he's mistaken:

"My favorite part of this is all the         who stutter to exclaim 'user error I didn't do that!'" (now using spaces to call his replying followers assholes/dumbasses or something of that sort without actually typing it)

(In response to suggestion that this is a knee-jerk reaction and Zelda is still a top three game:
"Games that don't work properly aren't qualified for celebration"

This is rather funny for a number of reasons. First, most obviously, this is an editor-in-chief of a gaming journalism website that is behaving like a spiteful teenager and throwing one of the pillars of his industry under the bus for an error he believed he made himself.

Second, in their review Polygon stated themselves that BotW features backup saves and that multiple saves are possible by creating another user and playing it. In fact, to fully overwrite your normal game save you'd have to save five times in a row, including load times.

What makes it particularly hilarious, though, is this: His save data wasn't actually deleted.

(Speaking of his friend who he believed had overwritten his save file in "under 3 seconds")
"He started a new game IN MASTER MODE. My empty save slots were empty MASTER MODE save slots. When I switched back to normal, they were there."

So in the end, the editor-in-chief of Polygon went on the attack against both Nintendo and his own followers when the only person in error was Chris Grant himself. He of course went on to delete the earlier rant tweets, but this being the internet some managed to screenshot them first. Amusingly, even after discovering this he posted about how it's scary that this could potentially happen so easily (even though it can't) and never apologized for anything that he said, simply sweeping it under the rug and moving on.

While this does seem quite revealing of how Chris Grant likely had been feeling even prior to that night (he certainly seemed to have some negative, formulated opinions that just needed the proper goading to finally be spoken), what I find most interesting about this (as suggested in the youtube video I'll link at the bottom of the thread) is both the lack of accountability for how he spoke out in anger publicly and even attacked his own followers (I imagine most underlings would be on the hot seat and potentially fired), but more so than that is the complete pass his peers among "gaming journalism" have given him for this outburst.

It's been a couple of weeks now and if you google this incident you'll still have trouble finding screenshots, might find one or two youtube videos, and will see that not one major gaming journalism site has said a word about it. This seems like quite the double standard, of course, as they routinely cover precisely this sort of thing about everyone outside of their industry, especially among the popular youtubers. There is virtually no chance that someone outside of the major outlets making a fool of themselves like this publicly with the screenshots available to prove it would go completely unmentioned.

Anyway, I just thought it was a rather hilarious flub, and given no one else seems to be talking about it I just felt like sharing it here. :p

Screenshots: https://steemit.com/gaming/@trave160/news-story-chris-grant-had-an-accidental-rant-about-nintendo-in-twitter
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aMzSj3EY9w&t=478s

It's Polygon, nothing funny about it at this point.

Well, the game gives you a warning if you try to start a new game again, so if that happened it was your fault. But, yeah, the fact that he didn't notice that he didn't delete anything at all was hilarious. That kind of reflects my views on gaming community sometimes. It's too overreactive to anything gaming-related.

I accidentally have overwritten my saves in the past include the cloud saves on PSN. Only I am to blame for it. Not Sony not Nintendo, no one.

In my opinion as long as a game has a "Do you wish to overwrite your save file?" prompt or something, that's plenty. 

You can't have multiple save files? Wow.

Hilarious meltdown though. I feel his pain.

Did you read anything beyond the first sentence?

Well when I overwrote my cloud saves. A quest or something got corrupted and well I needed to go back in time. Not understanding the concept of how back I had to go I accidentally over rid older saves. 

If i'd only read the first sentence how would I know the meltdown was hillarious? I skim read everything. But yeah you can't have multiple save files (on one account) by the sounds of it.

The backup saves is interesting though, how does that work?

I remember watching ReviewTechUSA's video. The editor-in-chief at Polygon overreacted really bad.