A buddy of mine had the exact same thing happen with a PS1 memory card back in the day, whole card wiped and he lost weeks of a RPG. He just shrugged, said "well that sucks", and started the game over from scratch that same night. No drama, no yelling, just accepted it as a thing that happens. Now he's got kids who lose ten minutes of a game to a save bug and you'd think the world ended. Maybe we weren't tougher back then, we just didn't know any better because every game came with that risk built in. Honestly the save systems were straight up broken and we just had no other option.

Man, I used to roll my eyes at the old guys who said check your connections first. Figured it was just something they said to sound smart while I ran around checking taps and splitters. Then I spent two hours last summer on a job where the signal was bouncing all over the place, swapped a tap, swapped a splitter, climbed the pole twice, and it was a loose F connector on the back of the modem the whole time. The center conductor was barely touching. After that I stopped acting like I was too good to check the simple stuff first. Now I do the dumb stuff before I drag out the meter, and I save myself a lot of stairs.