Skyrim developers spent countless hours trying to figure out why the game's opening carriage ride kept violently launching into the stratosphere during development.

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Skyrim developers spent countless hours trying to figure out why the game's opening carriage ride kept violently launching into the stratosphere during development. It turned out that a single bee, which had been accidentally programmed to possess physical collision properties, was crossing paths with the cart and causing an unstoppable kinetic explosion. This means the legendary Dragonborn's grand entrance was repeatedly thwarted by a tiny, invincible insect. It perfectly encapsulates the modern gaming industry: billions of dollars in cutting-edge technology defeated by a software bug that was literally an actual bug