I didn't understand it either, because it literally doesn't make sense. The author used it as a vehicle to show how hard the protagonists were working in a few

I didn't understand it either, because it literally doesn't make sense. The author used it as a vehicle to show how hard the protagonists were working in a few different occasions. It's a story of two people who like each other, but refuse to communicate (because they're both broken in their own ways). It's set on a backdrop of gaming history over a few decades, maybe 80/90's to current day-ish. There are a few anachronisms and weird tech issues (they do crap with computers that wouldn't be possible at the time), but as a whole I'd recommend it.