Guy is 26, thinks his life is kinda sorted, right? Nice job, good money, living with his dad in this comfy house, cute girlfriend who looks innocent but you can tell she rides like a devil when she wants. Then this one shitty day hits him in the face. Everything crashes at same time, like the universe got horny for drama. Fight at home, tension with the old man, his girl acting weird with her phone always face down. He tries to just escape the whole city mess, jumps between trains and buses, then surprise, transport strike. Stuck. Sweaty. Pissed. Horny. Bad combo. He ends up at this hotel bar that feels like a limbo where only broken people and thirsty MILFs spawn.

The game really leans into that slow burn teasing, not just “ok, here’s boobs, click to continue”. You start as this guy who actually feels like a bit of a clueless virgin again, even if he had a girlfriend. All the confidence is gone. First time you meet the older woman at the bar, she talks like she already owns your dick, but she never gives you what you want right away. Just leans closer, runs her fingers around the glass, asks about your “little problems at home” while her dress keeps slipping a bit lower each drink. At some point she just grabs your thigh under the table and keeps smiling like nothing happens, and the game lets you decide if you pull away like a good boy or lean in to ruin your whole life. I picked ruin. Obviously.

What surprised me is how the romance thing sometimes feels sweet then two seconds later you’re fucking someone you probably shouldn’t even hug. There’s this scene in the hotel room, lights low, you’re kissing her and the animation shows every small move, hips grinding really slow, pussy getting wetter each stroke, and your phone keeps buzzing on the nightstand. It’s your girlfriend. The game doesn’t pause for it. You’re balls deep while her name flashes on the screen. I kinda hated that. I kinda loved it even more. The 3D style is not perfect, some faces look a bit plastic from certain angles, but then during vaginal sex scenes the way her ass jiggles when you slam in, it’s like TikTok thirst trap level, only without the annoying music. There is also a younger girl in the mix who flirts like crazy and keeps calling you “innocent” which is funny because at that moment you probably already cheated twice, but sure, pure angel energy. One thing annoyed me: the text messages in the mobile interface feel too tiny on an actual phone, and I kept misclicking instead of answering, like my fat fingers were drunk too. Never got used to that. Anyway, the whole story turns into this messy night of choices where you can try to stay loyal, or let the Goddess in the shadows twist you until you’re begging to fuck her raw, and honestly I forgot half of the plot once the hotel hallway scene started and she dragged you back into the room just by your belt.

Sam’s summer doesn’t start with explosions or some anime bullshit prophecy. It starts with him jerking off quietly in a cramped bathroom, hoping his mom doesn’t knock, while thinking about his own best friend in a way he definitely shouldn’t. That’s the vibe here. Ordinary high school, humid Asian heat, everybody sweating in their uniforms, and underneath it all everybody is horny, frustrated, and pretending to be “normal”. The game leans hard into that slow burn feeling where every stare in the hallway and every accidental touch feels like it could cross a line. One moment you’re helping Angela with homework, the next you’re watching her skirt ride up as she stretches on the bed and wondering if you should look away or look closer. You usually don’t look away.

There’s a lot of teasing and it’s not gentle. The bullies at school are assholes, they push Sam around, grope the girls when they think they can get away with it, and the game doesn’t try to moralize. Sometimes you interrupt, sometimes you don’t, and sometimes you pretend you didn’t see a hand slip under a blouse because the situation turns you on and you hate yourself for that. The nicest thing is that the characters actually feel like horny idiots instead of porn robots. Sam’s mom, Riona, walks around the apartment in these thin summer clothes that cling to her body, pretending she’s just “too hot” from the weather, and the camera knows exactly when to linger on her ass or the outline of her nipples. She acts like a normal caring mother, cooks, nags you a bit, then sits too close on the couch and you notice her breathing change when your leg touches hers. The game loves that “is this still innocent or not?” line and keeps poking it. It gets pretty fucked when the bullying brothers start eyeing her and your sister too, and the story quietly asks if you’re going to protect them or secretly want to watch things fall apart. Sometimes protecting them means watching something you can’t unsee. Sometimes not protecting them is even worse.

The sex itself ramps up from clumsy masturbation scenes to full-on sweaty summer nights. There’s that first time you manage to sneak into Angela’s room during a storm, lightning outside, her in a loose shirt with no bra, pretending she’s scared only of the thunder. You feel her thighs tense as your hand slides higher, she bites her lip, and everything feels messy and way too real. Vaginal scenes are shot very close, like you’re right there feeling every movement, and the game loves when someone might walk in at any second. The best part is also the most annoying: you get choices that look small, like peeking at Juno while she changes, or letting Riona drink a bit more wine than she should, and ten scenes later you realize those little “just this once” moments pushed everyone down a darker, more corrupt path. And then there’s that one tiny detail that stuck with me: the way Angela’s face shifts when she realizes you’re turned on by her humiliation in front of the bullies. She blushes, looks away, but her legs don’t move. It’s fucked up and hot and uncomfortable at the same time, which is exactly what this game is chasing, like a slow, sticky summer you kind of wish would never end and also kinda hope would.

Having just finished his studies, the young man makes his way home looking forward to meeting his close friends and stirring up nostalgic moments. However, his intentions get interrupted when he notices his neighbor - a woman whose allure has grown into something dangerously irresistible. Not just a simple acquaintance, she’s a mature seductress who has become the object of his lustful dreams.

Struggling with his own doubts and burning attraction, he asks himself if he could truly seduce such an intoxicating woman. What unfolds is a wild adventure of erotic tension, desire, and personal growth. The decisions you take will shape his path to conquering her mature charms.

Explore a narrative dripping with raw desire, where maturity fuels an intense sexual hunger. Step into scenes pulsing with anticipation, intimate confessions, and electrifying contact. Desire consumes them, leading to explosive moments of pleasure and surrender.

Is he brave enough to turn his fantasies into reality with this captivating woman? Guide him through this tangled web of lust and love to find out.

Embark on this sensual escapade where your choices ignite the flames - push him from longing to the peak of ecstasy. Will you be the one to write the story of their sizzling connection?

Now’s the moment to dive in deep, ignite the passion and lose yourself in this mature, seductive world.

UrbanHeat feels like someone mashed a horny summer slice-of-life with a lazy phone time-waster and then let an AI paint over it while slightly drunk. You’re this guy licking his wounds in a sleepy coastal town that pretends to be wholesome, but every time a girl leans over a counter or bends to pick something up, your brain just goes “yeah, no, this place is cursed.” The game really leans on that slow burn teasing. You’re not thrown into sex in five clicks. Instead it’s a lot of lingering shots of thighs, shirts that “accidentally” ride up, older women putting their huge tits basically on the table while they “ask” for help, neighbors who’re suddenly way too friendly with their hands. There’s this scene early on where you’re stuck on a balcony, pretending to scroll Instagram, and you can watch the woman across the yard stretching on her patio. She thinks nobody sees her, and she gets bolder, and you get dialogue choices that are basically: keep watching like a creep, try to look away, or take the risk and pull your phone up for a sneaky shot. I shouldn’t have enjoyed that as much as I did, but yeah, I did.

What actually surprised me is how much they lean into your character being kind of a perv in training instead of some smooth porn god. You’re awkward. Your hand shakes in some scenes. There’s a very specific moment where a mature neighbor “accidentally” presses your hand against her ass while you’re helping her in the kitchen, and you can either pull back or just leave your palm on that soft, huge curve and say nothing. The build-up to that touch feels better than some full-on sex scenes in other games. Later on, when she jerks you off under the table while talking about totally normal stuff, you already know that hand, that body, so it hits harder. The handjob scenes are actually weirdly detailed, too. They show small stuff, like her slowing down to stare at your face, licking her thumb before going back to stroking the tip, or using both hands around your shaft because, yeah, size difference. There’s one scene in a parked car where a younger woman leans over and starts teasing you with her lips but keeps stopping right before taking you in her mouth, blowing warm air instead. It annoyed the shit out of me but in the best way. I literally had Chrome on my phone in one hand, other hand busy, muttering “come on, just suck it already.” When she finally does, it’s sloppy and noisy and they actually let it run long enough that you feel like your character’s legs are about to lock up.

Since it is a sandbox, the pacing can go weird. Sometimes you’re doing small favors around town to “earn” scenes and it feels like you’re playing errand boy instead of pussy hunter. I got stuck for way too long trying to trigger one particular night event with a thick single mom in yoga pants, and it turned out I just had to poke at a random location icon that looked like background detail. That kind of stuff makes me grumpy, especially on mobile where your thumb misses tiny UI elements and you’re just tapping around like an idiot while some AI-generated milf is frozen in the same pose. Speaking of that, the AI art is a bit all over the place, but in an oddly charming way. Sometimes the tits are perfect heavy melons that look like they’d spill out if she breathed too hard, and sometimes a wrist is bent like a broken Barbie. Asses though, holy shit. They really nailed the big asses. Tight shorts digging into soft flesh, little panty lines, that deep curve from lower back to cheeks that makes you want to grab and bite. The voyeur side of it is where the game feels strongest to me: peeking through blinds at a shower, catching a glimpse of someone kneeling between legs, hearing muffled slurping through a thin wall. It’s not subtle, but it pretends to be. I wish the sound matched that energy more, the audio is kinda generic wet noises and basic moans, but after a few loops I stopped noticing and just focused on the visuals and the tension. And yeah, sometimes the dialogue is cringe, sometimes the AI CG throws a six-fingered hand at you for one frame, sometimes the sandbox flow gets in the way of the horny, but when you finally corner one of these big-titted, big-ass women and she drops on her knees, wipes drool off her chin with the back of her hand and keeps stroking, all that mess suddenly feels like part of the charm.

Feels weird to call Parasite Black a “game” when half the time it feels more like some horny, cursed holiday special I accidentally made into a tradition. I’m doing this goofy calendar-board thing on my stream where each day gets a theme, and this one ended up in the “Evil Santa’s Mistake” slot. Fits too well. You’re this poor bastard who survives a suicide mission and comes back with something inside you that really shouldn’t be there, and from that point on Mirnos basically turns into one huge “how ruined can this guy’s body and morals get” experiment. One second you’re plotting turn order in combat, next second you’re watching a milf sorceress ride you while her lactation literally stains the screen and you forget there was a fight at all. Not even joking, I missed a button prompt because I got distracted by jiggle physics and a smug dialogue line about “needing to relieve the pressure.”

What I liked is how filthy moments sneak in sideways. You open the map thinking “ok, sandbox, explore a bit, maybe loot,” and then some corrupted nun-type offers “blessings” that are basically: blow the holy guy, get tentacle’d behind the altar, then end up in a threesome where you kind of lose track who has a dick and who has a spell. There’s futa in there, but it isn’t thrown at you like a big neon sign. It just shows up in the middle of a foursome and you go “oh, ok, that’s happening now,” and it works. Same with the voyeur stuff: I was just checking a room for loot and accidentally triggered a scene where an older queen-ish gilf is getting railed by her guard, and the game straight up asks if I want to watch or join. Picked watch first, because of course I did. Regretted and didn’t regret at the same time. And the pregnancy angle sneaks up too: after enough raw fucking, some characters start talking about “consequences” and suddenly the netori scene you thought was just you banging a guy’s wife has real fallout showing up later in dialogue. That part actually stung more than I expected.

Combat is turn based but not sleepy. You actually think about who to target, where to burn skills, and there’s this fun tension because you know if you win there’s a decent chance the reward is someone stripping, someone getting their ass used, or some monster using your new “gift” in ways that are definitely not approved by any fantasy church. Sometimes fights drag a bit and I just wanted to skip to the anal or the harem event I knew was sitting behind it, especially when some early mobs feel like HP sponges. And yeah, a few routes are more polished than others. You notice it when one milf gets a full animated riding scene with different speed cycles, but the random village girl just gets a quick blowjob loop and a line that reads like a first draft. Didn’t stop me from reloading to see if I could corrupt her more though. Playing on phone is way too easy, by the way. I was on a fake “bathroom break” at work, thumb-tapping through strategy choices and then suddenly there’s this animated tentacle thing spreading a knight’s ass, and I’m speed-hitting the screen like I’m messaging on Telegram so no one walking by hears the audio. Audio that is a bit uneven, by the way, like moans are hot but some lines feel like they were recorded with different mics. Still, when you end up in a harem pile with a big-tits demon, a pregnant ex-priestess and a snarky futa elf arguing over who gets your cock first while the world is literally being eaten around you, you kind of forget to be picky. I just wish the calendar had a “too horny to function” day, because that’s where this thing belongs.

Danny McCroy feels like that dude you see in a bar on a Tuesday afternoon, a little too confident, a little too horny, and somehow the universe keeps putting wet, messy situations in his lap. The game throws you into his skin and just lets you stumble from one filthy encounter to another with barely any attempt to pretend this is “wholesome romance”. You get a bit of story, some light plot about his life, but honestly it’s just scaffolding so he can end up face-first between someone’s thighs or buried in a thick ass that probably defies physics. I kinda respect that. It’s like the dev looked at subtlety and just said “nah, we’re here to make your dick do the thinking”. You click through dialog, tease a bit, pick some horny options, and suddenly he’s got his tongue in places and his hands in places and occasionally both at once. When the first scene where he actually goes down on her happened, the build up was just enough to make it feel earned, but not so long that I opened Twitter from boredom. Good balance, for someone clearly very focused on holes.

What surprised me most is how unashamedly the game treats older women. The MILF in here isn’t just a side dish, she walks into the room and everything kind of rearranges itself around her tits and her ass like gravity got confused. She’s not written like some fragile mom fantasy either. She’s bossy, a bit mean, and when Danny finally gets between her legs, it feels like he’s working for it, tongue doing overtime while she pulls his hair like a handle. The scene where she makes him focus on her first, riding his face and grinding till he’s basically suffocating in pussy, was way better than I expected. Then later, when she casually reaches for a toy from the bedside drawer like she’s done this a thousand times, and tells him to keep going while she fills herself even deeper, that’s the moment I sort of forgot I was “reviewing” anything. The pacing there hits that sweet spot where you’re half annoyed by how long she teases and then suddenly he’s stretching her with his hand, knuckles disappearing, and you just think, yeah, that escalated nicely.

The game does have this thing where it really wants Danny to be a universal key that fits every lock. Younger girl, older woman, tight body, big tits, asian beauty with that careful makeup and soft voice that hides a real nasty side once she spreads her legs. He somehow always has the same cocky grin, whether he’s licking slow up a slit, tongue circling the clit, or he’s pushing in from behind and staring at the way her ass bounces when he slams her. There’s an anal scene where she pretends to resist at first, just a little, then that first moment when he pushes past and her face shifts from “no way” to “oh fuck” is honestly the best expression work in the whole thing. I wish they had that level of attention on every scene, but then there are moments where dialog feels like it was written in a rush, like a bad porn title got turned into a line. Still, when he’s got a toy buzzing on her clit while he fucks her from behind, watching her tits sway and her ass shake, it all sort of melts together into this messy, dirty, low-class kind of hot. It’s not elegant. It’s not trying to be. It’s like Danny’s whole world is just mouths, tits, asses, and holes to fill, and honestly, sometimes that’s enough.

Guy in this game is fucked up in the head from the start, which I kinda loved. He is not some shiny hero, he is a widower who is just… empty, scrolling through life like I scroll TikTok when I should work. House feels cold, family feels like strangers, and he is trying to be “good man” while his brain is full of porn memories from his teenage days. Then this old friend from the past pops back into his world, like that one horny guy in every school chat, and suddenly the main character remembers how his real talent was always fucking and cheating and doing stupid horny shit behind closed doors. Story goes from depressing to filthy in such a casual way that it felt weirdly real to me. One moment he is making breakfast for the kids, next moment he is imagining bending someone over the counter and filling her up like nothing else in the world matters.

The sex here is not soft, it’s messy and selfish and honest. You get those scenes where he is eating pussy like he is starving, sucking tits like he hasn’t seen a woman in years, then just rams himself inside and you know from the writing that he is not thinking about romance at all, just about that tight wet hole around his cock. There are scenes where he goes raw and doesn’t even try to pull out, just shoots deep and watches the cum drip out, and the game doesn’t pretend it is “accident”. He wants that. You want that. I liked how the story plays with cheating too. He keeps telling himself “I’m doing this for my family” and two clicks later he is balls deep in someone he absolutely should not touch, promising it is the last time while pounding her harder. There is this one scene where he has a milf bent over the sofa, big tits pressed into the cushions, while his head is full of guilt and his dick is full of her. He is trying to be gentle but then she pushes back on him and suddenly it goes from slow to animal, with him slapping her ass and stuffing her ass and pussy in the same playthrough like some kind of pervert speedrun. That part stuck with me, also because the cushion color looked horrible and distracted me every time and I kept expecting some option to change it, which never happens and kinda pissed me off more than it should.

What I liked most is how the choices actually feel like those old “choose your own adventure” books if they were written by a drunk porn addict. You pick if he resists or gives in, but even the “good” options feel dirty sometimes. There is a route where you try to stay loyal and still end up with a mouth around your cock because you were “just comforting her” and suddenly her lips are sliding up and down, drool running, his hand tangled in her hair, and the game is like, welp, too late now. Some scenes with the family get really close to that incest line and then hop over it like it’s a joke, and the writing doesn’t slow down to apologize. If that stuff turns you on, it hits pretty hard, especially when you already know the guy is broken and clinging to pleasure like it’s the only real thing left. But yeah, sometimes the pacing is random as hell: you go from emotional talk about loss to “open your mouth, I wanna cum on your tongue” in like two dialogue boxes, which is kinda hot and kinda stupid at same time. Still, I kept clicking, because each path feels like you’re watching this man slide deeper into a life where every woman with big tits is a target and every bit of self-control is just foreplay.

Winter nights make horny games hit different, you know? Everything feels a bit slower, darker outside, warm screen light, like you’re hiding in your own little sin cave while everyone else is posting family photos and pretending they’re not jerking off later. Jinxed Mark fits that vibe way too well. It starts with this dude Mark whose life just got kicked in the teeth: grandma gone, future kind of fucked, nothing stable. Instead of some heroic bullshit, he kind of stumbles into this new house, this new job, this new family... and the story quietly takes its pants off while pretending it’s totally about “personal growth”. Yeah, sure. Personal growth. Between tits and trouble.

The thing that hit me first is how openly the game treats the size of Mark’s cock. Not “haha big” but absurd, problem-level big. It becomes part of the entire mood. When he’s alone in his new room and the game gives you that first long, slow animated shot of him jerking off, you can almost feel that mix of shame and “holy fuck I could ruin somebody with this”. The jerk-off animation actually loops a bit too long, like the dev was as into it as you’re supposed to be. And then you go from that to walking into the kitchen and trying to talk to this busty older woman in a thin shirt, nipples almost poking through, and you can practically see Mark trying to hide the hard-on in his pants. The story plays with that a lot: he wants to be respectful, he wants to be useful, but the camera keeps lingering on asses, panties half showing when someone leans over, a bra strap slipping when she laughs. It’s not subtle. It shouldn’t be.

There’s this scene early on where you accidentally catch one of the women masturbating in the bathroom. The door isn’t locked properly, of course, and you get this full-on animated view of her fingers working between those big thighs, her tits bouncing slightly with every little movement. She’s trying to stay quiet, biting her lip, and you can tell she’s thinking of someone, but the game doesn’t say who. That’s where the voyeur part really clicks: you’re not just some camera in the sky, you’re the guy who has to look her in the eyes at breakfast after watching her cum all over her own hand. Later, when she pretends nothing happened and casually brushes against you while reaching for a mug, her tits pressing on your arm for just half a second too long, it hits different because you’ve seen what that body does when nobody is watching. It’s a small moment, but it nails that awkward, horny tension, like both of you are carrying a secret and no one wants to be the first to say “I saw you touching yourself like a slut.”

The cheating angle kind of slides in on quiet feet. There’s a husband, or a boyfriend, or at least some guy who is supposed to be “hers”, but he’s almost like background noise. You hear about him, maybe see him in a scene or two, but the game keeps pulling the camera back to Mark and the women orbiting him. You help with little things at first: fixing something in the house, carrying boxes, late-night talks in the living room with only the TV glow. Then a hand on your thigh that “stays there by accident”, a hug that turns into a slow body press, the first time somebody lets you grope her ass while pretending it’s just a playful bump. It escalates exactly like real bad decisions do: not with big speeches, just a series of tiny horny choices. That first handjob scene in the laundry area, for example, is filthy in a really grounded way. She checks if the door is closed, you stand way too close among the clothes, and her fingers wrap around your cock like she’s trying to see if all the rumors about size are true. The animation sells it: her wrist working faster, that wet sound starting, her eyes flicking up to yours like “we really shouldn’t” but she doesn’t stop. When she finally gets on her knees and lets you cum on her face or straight onto those heavy tits before cleaning it with her fingers, it feels dirty not just because of the semen, but because you both know she belongs to someone else.

Sex here isn’t just “click and fuck”, it actually plays with the situations. There’s a scene where you’re “helping” someone try on outfits and of course it turns into full-on groping, hands sliding under a half-open blouse, fingers digging into big soft boobs while she half-heartedly pretends to push you away. Later on you get the more explicit stuff: tits bouncing in your face while you fuck her from below, her riding you and trying not to scream too loud, that messy creampie when you finally lose it and pump everything inside her while she’s supposed to be faithful to another man. The game leans hard into vaginal sex that actually feels earned by the buildup: you go from spying through cracks and jerking off alone to knowing exactly how tight she is when you thrust in, and the camera really likes to stay there, watching your cock stretch her open again and again. One thing that drove me nuts in a good way: some scenes show your cum slowly leaking out after you pull out, like the game really wants you to think about that “oh shit what if she gets pregnant” moment, even if it never says it. Totally unnecessary detail. Completely hot.

What made it weirdly charming is how Mark is not some smooth anime god. He’s awkward. Sometimes he says something completely dumb in dialogue and you’re like, bro, you had one job. There’s also this mentor character popping in, teaching him stuff, and it sometimes interrupts the horny flow in the most annoying way, like “yes yes your life goals, now let me back to the milf grinding on his lap on the couch, please”. The storytelling jumps from emotional to horny to slightly goofy without warning. I kind of liked it. Also sometimes the pacing drags: you get a great jerking-off scene, a juicy voyeur moment, and then five minutes of talking about work or money where you just want to scream at the screen. But then a random scene hits where she’s bent over a table, panties around her knees, ass raised like a present, and the game just lets you slam into her, grab those big tits from behind, and flood her pussy while she moans your name instead of her man’s. And suddenly all that slow buildup feels worth it in a very filthy, Christmas-came-early kind of way.

Teddy’s life starts in that weird gray zone where you’re not really a kid anymore, but people still treat you like one, and the only person who actually gives a damn is Sofia. She takes him in, plays the caring adopter, all gentle smiles and tight blouses that can barely contain those massive tits, and at first it really feels like she’s just trying to do the right thing. Then the touches start to linger. The hugs last a bit too long. Her hand “accidentally” brushes his crotch when she squeezes past him in the hallway. You can almost smell the moment this crosses the line from family drama into “oh shit, this is getting seriously dirty” and the game just leans into it without pretending to be classy. One night she shows up at his room in a half-open robe, nothing under it, asking in that fake innocent tone if he’s having trouble sleeping. Yeah, that scene hooked me instantly.

The corruption angle is slow enough to make you twitchy, but not so slow you get bored. She starts off teasing like crazy. Bending over right in front of him so that big ass fills the screen, pretending she’s “just cleaning”. Stretching with her arms up so the shirt rides up, soft belly and sideboob flashing, and her armpits on full display if that’s your thing. There’s one animated scene where she traps his head between her tits like some kind of mercy kill, rubbing her huge boobs over his face while she bites her lip and makes those ahegao faces that are way too filthy for how soft her voice sounds. At one point she casually starts masturbating on the couch while “watching a movie”, barely covered by a blanket, and you see Teddy just freeze there, trying not to stare at her fingers sliding between her legs. Of course he stares. Of course she notices. She pretends to scold him and then makes him sit closer. I liked that a lot. Actually I hated it. Whatever.

When things finally snap, it’s not romantic at all, it’s messy and horny and awkward like it should be. She strips for him, slow and mean, talking him through every piece of clothing coming off, almost like she’s testing how far she can drag him down with her. There’s titfucks where she pins him down and rides his cock with those big tits like she’s been waiting years for it. Vaginal sex scenes that focus on that moment she shifts from “this is wrong” to “I’m not going to stop”. There’s this wild little armpit sex scene that feels like the dev went “fuck it, I’m doing my fetish today” and honestly, respect. The teasing never really stops, even when they’re already fucking. She keeps twisting the knife, calling him her good boy while she moans with that ridiculous ahegao face and messy hair. The stripping, the way she uses her body, the way she looks too put together and then suddenly not at all, it sells the whole milf corruption vibe better than most games trying to be deep. I only got annoyed that her phone notification sound in one scene is the same default Android chime as mine and now I get horny every time Telegram pings, which is honestly not helpful at all.