13th April 2007, 4:44 PM
Yes, I am seriously saying it's just a coincidence. In any large number (the total population of the US), there are bound to be some notable anomalies. That said, of course the more times you take the game out the more chances there are that you'll scratch it, but seriously, as I said, in a properly functioning drive (and I keep saying that because of course maybe your drive is screwed up somehow), just reading from the disk isn't going to "wear it out", because nothing is wearing AGAINST it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)