Stormbound Hotel feels like someone took a regular horny VN idea, locked it in a room with a bottle of wine and a broken intercom, and just let it stew. You’re stuck as the host of this weird hotel in the middle of nowhere, and the game doesn’t rush to explain shit to you. There is some kind of deal, some watcher who keeps talking in your ear, judging what you do, but it’s not clear if they own you or you fucked yourself over long ago. This voice keeps popping up, teasing you the same way you’re trying to tease the women, almost like the game is flirting with you too. Sounds cool in theory. In practice, it can be annoying as hell and then suddenly hot again when it comments on what your guest is doing with her tongue.

The whole thing leans really hard into tension and hesitation instead of instant porn-brain. Sara, the first guest, doesn’t show up like “hi I’m here to suck your dick”. She arrives during a storm, tired, dripping wet clothes, a little guarded. You give her a room, talk small bullshit, watch her through these hotel cameras that feel way too convenient and too cursed at the same time. The voyeur stuff hits strongest when she thinks she’s alone: she stretches on the bed, rubs her thighs together just a bit too long, pulls her top off, you get that view of big tits pressed against her arms while she’s deciding if she should touch herself or not. Sometimes she just doesn’t, which is kind of frustrating but also makes the later scenes feel more earned. You can tell the game wants you to be patient, then it sends a choice like “stay professional” next to “comment on her body” and laughs at you silently. I picked the pervy option way too often and got hard cutoffs where she just shuts down and the scene fizzles. No mercy. No quick reload excuse like “oh that didn’t count”. It counts.

When it finally goes beyond teasing, it doesn’t jump straight to crazy fetish circus. It builds from negotiation. A brush of fingers when you pass her a drink. Her looking you right in the eye while she slowly wraps her hand around your cock in that hotel hallway that should definitely have cameras and rules and all that. Handjob scenes here feel slower, more detailed than usual, like the game actually cares where the thumb is and how the wrist twists instead of just “she jerks you off, cum”. Then you get those quiet moments after, where she’s sitting on the edge of the bed, cum on her fingers, half embarrassed, half proud, and the watcher in your ear says something that makes you wonder if this is romance or just you being a toy in someone else’s experiment. Oral scenes, same thing: too close, too personal, her lips shiny and her hair tickling your lower stomach while she looks up, waiting to see if you’re enjoying or pretending. There’s vaginal too, obviously, with Sara grinding into you on those white hotel sheets, big boobs bouncing, legs wrapped around you, right on the edge between tender and “fuck me harder”, and you keep thinking someone is watching because, well, they are. Some shots really sell the exhibitionism angle, like when she’s riding you near the window and the game teases that someone might see, even if no one does. Or maybe they do, I’m not sure, the rules of that place are shady as hell.

What surprised me is how much the hotel itself becomes part of the sex. Hallways where you could get caught. A lobby that looks safe but turns into foreplay just from a hand on a thigh under the table. A room door slightly open so you can watch Sara touching herself, sliding her fingers between her legs, then pulling them back, annoyed at herself for wanting it. If you mess it up with her, you feel it later when she’s colder, keeps her robe tighter around those big tits, or refuses a footjob suggestion with this “are you serious right now?” face that stings more than any game over screen. And in between all that, you get hints about other guests coming, like Missy, and about the hotel’s strange rules, and you kinda forget if you’re here for the plot or just to see who you’ll get to fuck next. Porn brain and curiosity wrestling each other like two drunk people in a Discord VC, while that unseen watcher in your head just keeps grinning.

Game feels like someone smashed a horny VN, a lazy sci-fi series, and a half-assed campus comedy together, then accidentally made it kinda fun. You’re this dude who just wanted to worry about exams and maybe some tits, and suddenly people are talking about erased history, global crisis, “destiny”, all that dramatic crap, while you’re sitting there thinking, “yeah cool, but can I rail the chick in the tight school uniform or what.” And it actually leans into that mood. One moment you’re in a lecture pretending to care, the next you’re in some shady lab corridor with flickering lights, spying on a milf in a white coat bending over a console like the dev knew exactly what angle you were going to zoom in on. The whole vibe is that the world is broken and trying to look serious, but everyone is still horny as fuck and pretending they’re not. Which, honestly, is more realistic than half the “serious” sci-fi games out there.

What really sticks is how often the game lets you be a little shit. You’re in class, professor talking about lost records and post-crisis timelines, and you’re barely listening because there’s a girl two rows ahead with a stupidly tight schoolgirl uniform top, tapping her pen, boobs bouncing a bit each time, and the game keeps cutting your inner monologue between plot and pure thirst. Later, when you finally get alone time with her in some quiet campus room, it doesn’t rush. It does the slow thing: nervous banter, her rolling her eyes at your dumb joke, then she pushes your hand down her chest, guides your dick between those big tits and suddenly the “mission” can fuck off for a minute. The titfuck scene is messy in a good way, like it was written by someone who actually masturbates and not some robot that only read about sex on Reddit. There’s spit, there’s precum smeared on her tongue when she leans down for oral, her trying to keep eye contact and failing, half moaning, half laughing. It’s not elegant. That’s the charm.

The sci-fi part keeps popping up just enough to remind you you’re not only here to blast loads. You’re sneaking around restricted areas, catching glimpses of files about the erased years, and then bam, you accidentally walk in on a mature woman in a semi-military style uniform changing, and it flips into pure voyeur brain. She knows you’re there way too fast though, and instead of screaming, she closes the door with a click, leans on the desk and starts to test how far you’ll go. That first handjob scene with her is filthy in a different way. She treats you like a toy she’s “evaluating”, stroking slow, talking shit in your ear, occasionally glancing at the security cam like she’s deciding if she wants to erase the footage or keep it. When you finally get to fuck her, it doesn’t pretend she’s some shy girl. She pins you, rides you, tells you when to shut up and when to move, and when you cum inside her, the creampie shot is framed almost clinically, which somehow makes it hotter. And the funniest part is the game keeps trying to remind you that everything is “consensual and responsible” while your dick is still out, covered in her juices, and the story is like “anyway, humanity’s fate” and you’re like “bro, she just swallowed, chill.”

Whoremonger NTE feels like picking through the wreckage of some dude’s life while your dick is in your hand and your brain is going, “ok but what if I push him even lower.” You start as this broken, pissed off father who got cheated on and basically had his whole world smashed. He’s older, tired, kind of hollow, and then you throw him into a school setting full of temptation where every route is a test of what kind of bastard you want to turn him into. One minute you’re awkwardly trying to flirt like a rusty virgin reborn, the next you’re watching a girl with big tits bend over in a way that feels way too deliberate, and your mouse just kind of… moves on its own. The funny part is how it mixes real bitterness with horny comedy. There are scenes where he’s dealing with serious family shit and then thirty seconds later he’s getting a sloppy titfuck from someone he absolutely should not be touching, and you’re half laughing, half going, “yeah ok I’m already going to hell, keep going.”

The corruption angle is where it really hooks you. Characters start out normal enough, maybe a bit flirty, maybe innocent, and then the game keeps dangling choices like “be a decent human” or “grab that ass and see what happens.” You can keep things semi romantic, or slide into cheating and full ntr filth that’s technically avoidable but the writing just pokes at you, like, “you sure you don’t want to see her getting railed behind your back?” There’s a lot of teasing too, plenty of lingerie, stripping, girls acting like they don’t know exactly what they’re doing while rubbing up against you. You get lesbian scenes where two girls are going at it and you’re just watching like a perv, voyeur moments in bathrooms, school corridors, even some straight up exhibitionism where you’re thinking, yeah, if any NPC had working eyes we’d all be in jail. The sex itself covers everything from slow, clingy romance-style vaginal and oral scenes to rough anal, aggressive spanking, feet in your face, toys being used where they probably shouldn’t fit, and those messy creampies that feel like a victory trophy and a bad decision at the same time. There’s milf and gilf content too, older women that know exactly how to handle a broken man and twist him around their finger, sometimes with a hint of female domination or plain old blackmail. Incest stuff is there if you dig for it, treated with that “we’re not supposed to do this” energy that either turns you on or makes you click away. Violence pops up now and then in pretty graphic ways, reminding you this world isn’t just a porn playground, which honestly clashes with the humor in a weird but interesting way. One scene had me laughing at a stupid joke in chat on Discord and then two clicks later I was watching a brutal moment that made the earlier goofy groping feel extra dirty. It’s messy, horny, a bit cruel, and kind of perfect for when you want your porn with a side of emotional wreckage instead of clean, shiny happiness.

Three idiots, three timelines, one horny brain trying to route everything like a spreadsheet. That is kind of how this game feels. You bounce between a smug student council vice president who pretends he’s responsible while secretly thinking about grabbing thighs in the back of the club room, a lazy college dude who coasts on charm and ends up with his face between soft tits more often than in textbooks, and an older bartender who acts like he is “over it” until some milf with perfect lipstick and a skirt too tight for common sense leans over the counter and suddenly he is not over anything. The whole thing is framed as “light romance” but the actual scenes are very much not light. There is teasing for days. Clothes never just come off, they get peeled, dragged up, pushed aside so you can see panties ride up over a big ass while the girl pretends she doesn’t like it. One route has this moment where you pin a girl between the lockers and your hand just keeps wandering under her blouse while she mutters about “school rules” and you absolutely do not stop. It’s not extreme content, but it is horny in that very slow, calculated way, which my inner stats nerd really likes because I can actually mark clear flags like: “ok, this choice here leads to balcony blowjob later.”

What I really enjoy is how the game almost bullshits you into thinking it’s just relationship drama, then suddenly you are kneeling a girl on the student council desk, skirt hitched, big tits pressed on the polished wood while you push inside her and try not to think about signatures on the forms under her elbows. There is one POV where she is riding you on a couch, shirt open, bra hanging useless, and you see the jiggle with every bounce. Looks good on phone, by the way, tested it on Chrome and Firefox because I am a clown like that. Some routes lean more sweet, like slow kisses behind the bar, her sucking you off after hours with jazz playing low in the background, then finishing with a warm creampie and lazy cuddle. Others go for that cocky male domination vibe: hand around her throat just enough to make her whimper, telling her to strip piece by piece, watching her nipples harden while she pretends to hate it. I kind of hate that some of the best lewd scenes are hidden behind choices that look totally minor, like picking a club activity or agreeing to help with random chores. Miss one flag and poof, no shower blowjob. The multiple endings thing is fun until you’re on run number six, trying to get that one specific route where you creampie the older woman in the back room and she gasps your name like she has been starved for ten years, and you realize you clicked “go home early” two scenes before and now you’re locked into the bland kiss goodnight again. Still, there is something strangely satisfying in mapping all that stuff out, watching the three timelines overlap, and knowing exactly which option will turn “polite study session” into “her on her knees between your legs, lipstick smeared, swallowing every drop because you told her to.”

Harth starts out in this tiny nowhere village where nothing happens, just chores, dumb jokes with friends, jerking off behind the barn and trying not to stare too hard at tits that bounce when the girls carry water. It feels almost too soft at first, like one of those comfy slice of life VN where you just click through sunsets and pretend you’re not waiting for someone to suck you off. Then shit breaks. The safe bubble cracks, people change, and suddenly this clueless virgin farm boy with more hormones than sense gets dragged into the capital, where everything smells like incense, sex, mud and perfume at the same time. I liked that jump, honestly. One moment you’re groping a friend under a blanket, quiet and sloppy, scared someone will hear. Next moment you’re in a temple full of half-naked fanatics arguing about gods while some girl with holy symbols on her tits is sliding her hand into your pants like it’s part of the ritual. Maybe it actually is, I kinda lost the plot, in a good way.

The game plays like that drunk walk home feeling: you think you’re going in a straight line, then suddenly you’re in a back alley watching a guy get his ass railed by a priest with golden jewelry, and the MC is just there like “huh, okay, that’s a thing.” The gay stuff isn’t thrown in as a joke either, it’s just there, stubborn and casual, like desire doesn’t care about labels. First time Harth gets a handjob from a dude with sharper cheekbones than half the girls, it feels almost more honest than some of the straight scenes. Then later he’s on his knees with a girl riding his face while she orders him to stroke slower, faster, stop, like he’s her favorite toy. The game keeps playing with that mix of soft romance and “shut up and take it” energy. One scene you’re sharing a quiet moment under stained-glass light, kissing and shaking a little because it’s your first time inside someone warm and wet. Next scene you’ve got a smug noblewoman using your cock between her tits while you’re pinned, her hand on your throat, and you realize the dev really enjoys female domination way more than is probably healthy. Or maybe that’s just me. Hard to tell.

There’s this one early bit that got stuck in my head for some reason. You’re in the city for like, what, a day, and some street performer girl with a thick ass and religious tattoo on her back teases you into a side alley. She doesn’t just drop to her knees immediately. She makes you work for it in that annoying way: brushing her foot up your leg, pressing her toes on your crotch through the fabric, laughing when you twitch. I hated it and loved it. The footjob there is animated enough that you almost feel the frustration more than the pleasure, especially when she stops right when you’re about to cum, pulls your pants down, and finally takes you in her mouth slow, messy, half-choking, drool on her chin. You get that internal view when she decides to swallow you, which usually I’m not crazy about, but here it felt like peeking at something you weren’t supposed to see, greedy and wrong. Then much later the pregnancy stuff starts sneaking in and it hits different. You creampie someone during a “we might die tomorrow” night and forget about it for a while, and only several scenes later she shows up with a swollen belly and this weird tired smile. It’s not played as cute fluffy family life. It’s more like: actions have weight, even when you were just thinking with your dick and chasing another orgasm between temple pillars shaped like naked saints. Kind of fucked up, kind of beautiful, kind of exactly what I wanted from a sad fantasy sex story that pretends to be an adventure and then quietly ruins everyone in slow motion.

This thing feels like somebody took a pretty normal marriage, threw it in a blender with Pornhub’s “couple tries swinging for the first time” category, and then said, “yeah, Unity can probably handle that.” You start with this husband who thinks he’s on solid ground. Loving wife, comfortable sex life, classic story. Except the game keeps poking at every weak point in that relationship. A look that lasts a little too long at the neighbor’s abs. A “just a harmless drink” with the hot coworker with the ridiculous tits. One message notification during dinner that changes the whole mood. And the camera is constantly putting you in that slightly uncomfortable third-person angle, like you’re not just playing the guy, you’re spying on the marriage from behind the couch or from a cracked bedroom door. It’s got that voyeur vibe where you’re not sure if you feel more like the protagonist or like the creep across the street with binoculars.

What I like is how it doesn’t rush the dirty stuff, even if the tags scream filth. It teases like a frustrated partner who knows exactly how long to make you wait before putting a hand where it shouldn’t go. One scene you’re just chatting on the sofa, her feet in your lap, and out of nowhere the dialogue lets you decide if you keep it sweet or turn it into a slow footjob under a blanket while Netflix runs in the background. Another path, you’re at a pool party, and you’re not even the one doing anything yet, just watching your wife laugh a little too hard at a joke from some tall guy with darker skin and too-perfect teeth. The way her swimsuit rides up her ass when she leans over the table, the little hip sway when she walks past you, the not-quite-innocent smile when she notices you staring. The game is obsessed with body language like that. Every brush of a hand, every “accidental” boob press, every sultry look from across the room. Then suddenly you’re choosing between pretending you didn’t see anything, joining in, or quietly letting your jealousy cook while she disappears into another room with him and the door doesn’t quite close. And if you let it go on long enough, you’ll be sitting there like an idiot while muffled moans start leaking through the wall and the camera just sits on your face.

Some routes really twist the knife. There’s this evening where your wife suggests inviting another woman over “just to spice things up a little,” and if you play along, it turns into this messy tangle of mouths, hands, and thighs on the bed. You’re there, buried between legs, tasting her while your wife rides your face, and the game is very comfortable zooming in on wet tongues, sloppy oral, fingers digging into soft asses. At first it feels like a dream harem situation, a big tit here, a big ass there, bodies sliding with that slightly plastic but still horny 3D look. Then, depending on earlier choices, suddenly your point of view switches and you’re watching as they forget you for a second and start fully going at each other, and it hits you that your “fun experiment” might not be as under control as you hoped. Some paths even change protagonists and dump you inside her head for a while, showing her private fantasies of other men, of being taken hard in a half-open bathroom stall, or getting filled and creampied on a balcony where anyone could see. You get these little exhibitionist moments where she clearly enjoys being watched more than she’ll admit. And somewhere in the middle of all this juicy stuff, the game quietly punishes you for being too trusting or too controlling, sometimes both. One moment you’re the one groping her in the kitchen and making her whimper against the fridge, the next you’re watching another guy slide his hand up her thigh under a restaurant table, her heel resting on his lap, toes curling as he strokes her through the fabric, while you’re too distracted by a text from another woman you flirted with earlier. The corruption spreads both ways, and half the time you can’t tell if you’re the cheater, the cuck, or the sick bastard enjoying every angle of it.

Denji stuck on one floor with nothing to do but fuck his way through the stress spiral is honestly the most Denji thing ever, and this game leans into that hard. It’s not pretending to be deep or artsy, it just throws you into this weird horny loop where the “solution” to the Eternity Devil trap is basically: tease every girl until someone breaks. You start with that nervous Kobeni energy, all shaking and stuttering, and the game does this slow-burn corruption with her that caught me off guard. First she’s freaking out if you even touch her, then a few choices later she’s grinding on Denji’s hand, panting, still trying to pretend she hates it. The groping scenes with her feel messy in the good way, like she’s not suddenly a porn star, she’s a virgin losing control, and the game doesn’t shy away from showing her brain switching from panic to “fuck it, I need this”. Internal view during her first creampie is actually kind of rude in how detailed it is, but I’m not complaining.

What I didn’t expect was how much they played with the cheating angle. Himeno drunk-horny is already canon, but here they basically turn her into this walking bad decision. She knows it’s wrong, she still goes for Denji, and the writing makes it feel like she’s talking herself into it while her hand is already around his cock. There’s this one scene where she’s giving him a sloppy handjob, whispering that Aki doesn’t have to know, and you have the option to either push for more or pretend to resist a bit. I tried both routes like a degenerate and yeah, the corruption ramps up quick. First it’s just fumbling under-the-shirt stuff, then you’re balls-deep inside her with the camera cutting between her eyes rolling back and the inside shot of Denji filling her up. It’s porn-logic as hell, but they still keep that Chainsaw Man humor. Denji’s inner monologue is horny and stupid and actually made me laugh once, which almost killed the mood, but in a fun way. The game loves to tease too: a lot of scenes where Denji is just getting edged by the girls, or left jerking himself, and that masturbation content is way better than I expected from such a silly parody.

Power’s route is just chaos, because of course it is. She treats sex like some weird competition, so she’ll tease Denji, refuse to admit she’s turned on, then suddenly climb on top of him because “blood flow research” or some bullshit logic. The writing there feels like someone who actually watched the anime and just wanted to see what happens if you lock these idiots in a hotel with no way out except “lewd everyone”. Multiple endings give it that secret-route hunter flavor too. You can totally miss some of the spicier scenes if you don’t pick the more pervy choices early, and a couple of outcomes feel like bad endings where Denji gets blueballed or stuck in the loop for being too nice. I got one ending where Kobeni goes from timid virgin to needy mess, clinging to his arm and begging for another round, and the last shot is basically cum leaking out of her while the clock never moves. It’s not subtle. It’s not classy. But if you’re into corruption, teasing, girls going from “no way” to “put it deeper” and Denji being a dumb, horny dog the whole time, it scratches that itch in a very dirty, very Chainsaw Man way.

RuleUniverse feels like somebody mashed together Dragon Ball fanfic, horny Patreon art, and a half-finished RPGMaker project, then forgot to polish anything but Bulma’s tits. You start as this abandoned, overachiever student, classic “good boy with trauma”, and very fast it stops being about homework and becomes about a demon scientist girl shoving warrior DNA into your body. It sounds dramatic, “guide of the universe” and all that, but most of the time I was just wandering around the sandbox trying to remember where Android 18’s event flag was hiding while my tea got cold. The game calls itself adventure, but the real adventure is figuring out which NPC you had to click three times to unlock the next blowjob scene. And somehow that is kind of charming. In the same way old Tumblr smut was charming before everyone tried to be professional.

What really stands out to me, from a gender studies brain, is how unapologetically it leans into this fantasy of female power that exists only to be sexually harvested. Bulma is super smart, rich, has all the tech, she talks like a woman who already saved the world twice and is bored. Yet the camera is glued to her huge tits and that absurdly tight outfit in every animated scene. She’ll explain some advanced gadget, then the dialog suddenly swerves into “oh, I guess I can help you relieve your new ‘universal stress’” and two lines later she’s on her knees sucking you off like she’s been waiting her whole canon life to do exactly this. Android 18 is even more funny. In Dragon Ball she’s this cool, deadpan cyborg with moral complexity. Here she’s still cool, but the game quietly turns her “I could kill you” energy into “I could ride you until you pass out” and somehow that transformation is the most believable part. There is one oral scene with her, in a training area, where the animation focuses so much on the spit string between her lips and your cock that I completely missed a QTE prompt, and I’m still annoyed there’s no way to replay it instantly from a gallery. Pure UX crime. Also there is supposed to be romance, but the writing treats romance like a side quest you forgot in your quest log. You can pick some sweet dialog options, Bulma calls you cute, Android 18 pretends she doesn’t care, and five minutes later one of them is bouncing her big ass on your dick while the text still pretends you are talking about cosmic order. The tone whiplash is hilarious and also weirdly hot. This is not a game that understands consent discourse, but it does understand thigh physics.

The sandbox structure could be nice, in theory, because exploration fits the whole “universe DNA” theme, except the map design feels like a horny maze without a legend. One minute you are in a lab flirting with a demon scientist who looks like Chi-Chi’s goth cousin, next minute you clicked the wrong shiny thing and you are in some magical pocket zone punching training dummies to unlock a new combat skill you will probably forget to use. The combat exists, it’s not deep, and honestly I kept wishing there was a “just let me fuck” button on the UI so I didn’t have to win another tutorial fight to see Bulma ride me again. At least the animated sex scenes actually move like sex, not like stiff puppets; there is proper thrusting, body contact, tits bouncing, some nice focus on penetration when you go vaginal with the MILF-type character. Even then, the game clearly loves big boobs more than it loves anything else. Every conversation, every angle, it is like the dev had three moods: boobs from front, boobs from side, boobs slightly wet. As a scholar I could talk about how it reduces every woman to curves and mouths, how it replays shonen gender roles in extra-horny mode, how your male protagonist gets “universe DNA” instead of actual personality. As a horny player I just notice that the cumshot on Bulma’s face in one specific scene is animated way better than the whole romance arc, and somehow that says everything about RuleUniverse more clearly than any theory book I read on my Kindle.

This one feels like somebody smashed together a superhero comic, a cursed hentai folder and a really angry reddit thread, then said “yeah ok, that’s the plot now.” You start as this overpowered hero guy who is basically unkillable, and pretty fast you realize the game is less about “saving people” and more about “how far can I break everyone around me until they’re ruined and leaking.” Classic power trip, but with this weird goofy humor that keeps poking you in the ribs while you’re doing actually horrible shit. One scene you’re blasting some thug through a wall, blood on the floor, his jaw at a stupid angle… and two clicks later you’ve got his girlfriend on her knees giving you a messy blowjob in the alley, eyes rolling up, spit everywhere, while the hero makes some dumb one-liner that would get him canceled on Twitter in like five seconds. It’s that kind of tone. The faces go full ahegao without shame, tongue out, mascara tears, that half-broken half-horny look that hits somewhere between “this is too much” and “don’t you dare stop.” The tits are big in a very old-school way, like the artist never heard the word “backpain” in his life. I kinda respect that.

The corruption angle is where the game gets spicy. You keep running into girls who should absolutely know better: other superheroes, civilians, “pure” types. At first they yell, fight, try to be all righteous while you throw cars and punch holes through guys like they’re meat balloons. But then you push a bit, use those invincible powers not just for punching but for pinning them, choking just enough, humiliating them in front of people they care about, making them cheat on boyfriends that the story barely even pretends to respect. There’s this one sequence where you save a heroine from being chopped in half, blood flying everywhere, limbs on the floor, and she’s shaking, still in shock… and instead of comfort you just shove her against a wall and make her suck you off, tears mixing with drool while her costume rips open. It’s horrible. It’s hot. I hated it and replayed it twice. Some of the anal scenes hit especially hard, the way the animation loops when you slam into them from behind, ass bouncing, her trying to keep her dignity while you talk shit in her ear. And then sometimes the game throws in a creampie with this cheap little gush effect that looks like it came from an AI image filter that glitched out, and somehow that jankiness makes it feel even more dirty, like a pirated porn clip hidden in an old Mega folder. I will say, a couple of the “jokes” are just cringe and land flat on their face, and one humiliation scene drags so long it almost kills the mood, but the moment where you walk away from a blood-splattered room while the girl you just wrecked is shaking on the floor, cum leaking out, half laughing half crying… that sticks with you way more than it should.