Well, I found out about Knights of the Old Republic when I viewed the Gametrailers Top 10 Star Wars Games list, when I was watching YouTube. I first played the game when one of my therapists, Natalie, took me to her friend's house, and he let me play KOTOR on his Xbox. The save I played on was Taris, and I didn't really get anything. I saw a Sith Trooper, and I was like, "Wait. I didn't know that Sith used blasters or swords."
Later on, I binge-watched a lot of gameplay videos of KOTOR, mostly those of JediShemL. Eventually, I got both KOTOR games for Christmas, and I was starting to adjust to the WASD keyboard system. At the time, the computer I used to play KOTOR didn't have internet, so when the eventual need for mods arose, what did I do? I used a zip drive, where I downloaded KOTOR mods and saved them there, and then I placed them on my computer, and installed the mods. I had a fondness for cheat codes, unfortunately. Don't judge me, I was like nine or ten.
I had heard of the vast amounts of cut content for KOTOR II, but at the time, I didn't think that it was a prerequisite. Eventually, I decided in 2012 that I needed The Sith Lords Restored Content Mod, where I still heavily used cheats and other mods.
I had stopped playing that walkthrough on the HK factory, and so it would be months before I got back to playing it again.