Some of you say you don't have the skill and maybe you don't. But until you try you can't use that excuse. I'm pretty certain that many of you will see that most things don't involve much skill but rather time. Time to read, time to experiment, time to 'think outside of the box'.
For me it's all about the challenge. I love diving into something I have no clue how/why it works only to figure out a clue here, a clue there. Pretty soon after many of these clues and/or inadvertant discoveries along the way the answer just pops out and whacks you upside the head. It's at that time you realize how simple the answer was and now that can be applied to something else you wanted to do/problem to solve. And then the cycle repeats. After every iteration of this cycle you get more excited and your enthusiam grows. At that time you have been bit by the modding bug and there's no turning back
