...just because people can't install quake on their locked down corporate greybox nightmare rectangle they are forced to stare at all day while wearing something approximating a suit while being constantly bullied and a cool hack is to take the supplied corporate greybox software and hack it into a game you can share via email with fellow humans at the bottom of the glass tower caste-system.

At least that, along with a total and passionate refusal to "just print out and enter the data with the keyboard" is why I learned to program and chose excel VBA a couple of decades back. Then came a redhat CD on the cover of a magazine because windows95 sucked so badly I was willing to try anything else, but that's another chapter... We've all got our origin stories!! :-)