[–] 1 point 1 week ago

Too much risk, I worked with win32 and it was wrong about the reason for failing a lot in the case of drives. If windows can’t diagnose and handle drive failure properly, I don’t think Steam will have a more reliable answer. Again, I’m assuming a vague error is better for them than a verbose error in this case.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    What you’re not understanding is how hard it is for an operating system to diagnose a problem with a drive.

    You’re expecting from Stream they write a full diagnostics tool so the program can figure out what went wrong, which could range from permission issues or formatting, to failing sectors/drives.

    In theory you could make something that works, in reality you’ll be getting false positives, for example: a permission error message while it’s actually a physical write error. The ‘wrong’ message is worse than a ‘vague’ message.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 week ago

    Spoiler AlertIt’s exactly how you make friends. Don’t go out looking for a spouse, that’s off putting. Make friends first and see where that leads. Worst case is you end up with a friend group, which is an attractive quality by itself.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Do structures get preserved well when covered with sand? Some pyramids and sphinxes were preserved wonderfully, but those were massive stones. I'd assume structures like this wouldn't break down completely right?

    There's probably entire ancient villages buried in a millennium of sand.

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