How has Principia shaped your life?

Starting this thread to hopefully hear some interesting stories from "OG" community members that have been with the game since the early days, because I know there are a lot of people that, like me, grew up around Principia and have it to thank for their interests or even career (Though if you've come across Principia in later years it is nice to hear from you too).

I'll start:

I got the full version of Principia back in Christmas of 2013, I was 9 years old at the time. While I had played Apparatus before, getting the full version in Christmas of 2012 and playing the LITE version before that, Principia was undoubtedly more influential for me. It shaped a lot of my interests and was most likely what really got me into programming and related things afterwards. And now I'm 20 years old studying software engineering at university.

Principia was also very much the thing that later made me come back in 2020 to reverse engineer the game and create principia-web as an (at the time) unofficial community site replacement for the game (more about it in this blog post), which later led to the open source release of the game which I now maintain. Sometimes it felt like it was destiny, and I would not have it any other way.