As someone pointed out on the site, that is not actually a game disc, it's a scratched CD-R which was used in the article as an exaggeration.
I'm in the exact same situation right now, but haven't finished F3 yet. Hope I can persevere as well as you. It's like you wrote the article I was going to write for me.
As someone pointed out on the site, that is not actually a game disc, it's a scratched CD-R which was used in the article as an exaggeration.