skyrim is amazing because you can have spent hundreds of hours playing and you’ll still always stumble on new and interesting bugs
and sometimes after you spend hours trying to troubleshoot a bug with no success, you get desperate and start trying anything
“i have no clue why wearing dragonscale armor during this particular quest would cause the game to crash to the desktop, that sounds too obscure to be the problem, random internet stranger. but at this point i’ll try anything, so sure let me stick my dragonscale boots in a nearby chest before walking through this door just to rule it out and–”