Whats at stake? In Dungeons of Hinterberg, refreshingly little. But the more I played of this strange and lovely combination of dungeon diver and life sim, the more I realised that wasn't quite the case. Sure, in terms of the stakes of a lot of video games, Hinterberg's are definitely quite low. You're on holiday and your job, in essence, is to relax. But sometimes just getting away and having a break is really pretty important. A few hours in, I realised that I wanted to do it properly.
Dungeons of Hinterberg is a game about Luisa, who's training to be a lawyer and is young and thoroughly burned out. She's come to Hinterberg, which is a sweet Alpine town touched by magic, to do what all tourists here do. They stroll and eat cakes and sit by the lake, certainly. But they also descend into a range of dungeons to whack enemies around with swords and magic.
The dungeons I've played so far are delightful, combining puzzles and combat in a way that feels like you're playing a really good Zelda shrine. Dungeons often have their own gimmicks - one is about manipulating jelly-like platforms that pop in and out of the walls allowing you to access specific areas. Another is all about mine carts, with puzzles that involve switching the tracks around and opening gates.
There's a lovely flow. You'll puzzle around, find a hidden treasure chest, solve something that's stumped you and then smack a few baddies in. If there's a weak spot - and I'm early in, mind - it's the combat itself. It's fine, even good on paper, with a dodge and a shiftable lock-on and a light and heavy attack. But I was about five hours in and enjoying the game immensely and I spied some enemies up ahead and realised that my heart had sunk just everso slightly. I guess what I'd say is that the combat is decent, but it's not what I'm here for.
Combat can be threaded together with magic attacks and specials, but the magical stuff feels much more fun in the puzzles so far. Early on I had two abilities: one would allow me to summon and then detonate a huge mine, while another let me fling out a grappling hook and then pull it back, perfect for manipulating distant mechanisms. I could take both of these things into fights, but, as with the recent Zeldas, I found them more fun to mess around with just out in the world itself. Early days, though; perhaps I'll get more into the battling.
Even with that caveat Dungeons of Hinterberg is already deeply special. The art style is fascinating: thin-lined Cel-shading, but with a hint of half-tone. My soul, I love half-tone. And it works beautifully to create shade and nuance in the beautiful Alpine setting. There are hubs and areas to explore dotted with fast travel, but while I love uncovering treasure chests and new dungeons, there's a pleasure found purely in the fiction of where you are. Yesterday I climbed a hill and found a little restaurant at the top. It meant far more to me than any RPG trinket would. I took lots of screenshots and felt like I was on holiday, like I was exploring a place that I wouldn't get to stay in long term, and so I had to make the most of it. Wonderful stuff.
This ties into the other half of the game. You venture into dungeons and complete them and get a stamp in your journal, but then you have the rest of the day to spend as you wish, chatting to people, building up your relationships, learning more story, and slowly eating away at Luisa's stress and burnout. This stuff often rewards you with things that help in the RPG, but Dungeons of Hinterberg's done such stellar work at making me care about the world of the game that I'd be doing these things without a reward. Recently, I was off to find a dungeon in the morning but found a picnic bench instead. The game asked if I wanted to spend the day there, taking in the lake rather than puzzling and fighting baddies. I did. It was weird and great and very much the kind of thing that this odd game excels at.
I can't wait to play the full version. I'm looking forward to the RPG stuff and new dungeons, and I suspect at some point the combat will click too and it will turn out I've just been a bit thick about it. But more than anything I'll be looking forward to the moments that remind me of those spots in Lonely Mountains: Downhill, the mountain biking game that was similarly in love with nature and being out in the world. Your job was to bike downhill and beat the clock, but occasionally you found a spot where you could just sit on a rock and take it all in for a while. That, like Dungeons of Hinterberg, turned out to be very special.
So Shavuot began as an ancient grain festival, but over time it transformed into a holiday used to commemorate the giving of the Torah to Moses on Mt. Sinai. You know what that means: Time for a Prince of Egypt gif!
A. Regular full-time and part-time hourly paid staff as well as Time-as-Reported staff required to work on a University holiday receive double time pay for hours worked in the applicable twenty-four-hour period based on the start of their workday.
B. An hourly paid staff member must work his or her scheduled workdays both before and after a University holiday to be eligible for holiday pay, unless the absence is approved by the supervisor or is considered protected time off (e.g. Sick time/PTO within the 56 hours protected under NY State Sick Leave Law, Family Medical Leave (FML), Paid Family Leave (PFL) or other protected time off).
Princess Ann visits the UK, the Netherlands and Greece (Greece still had a monarchy back then). Those three countries are therefore not possible. As of 1953 these countries remain possible options: Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Luxemburg and Monaco. (Spain was no kingdom in 1953) However, in the movie it is mentioned, that Ann is part of one of Europes' longest reigning royal families. The norwegian royal family reigns since 1905, the danes have their dynasty more or less since 1448, the swedish Bernadotte family reigns since 1818, the belgian family of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld since 1831, the royal family of Luxemburg governs since 1890 and the Grimaldi family of Monaco since 1331/1342. Ann is referred to as "her royal higness", which implies that her father is a King, yet Monaco is just a principality. So DENMARK is the most probable option.
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Some records show that in 1882, Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and a co-founder of the American Federation of Labor, suggested setting aside a day for a "general holiday for the laboring classes" to honor those "who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold."
Recent research seems to support the contention that Matthew Maguire, later the secretary of Local 344 of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson, New Jersey, proposed the holiday in 1882 while serving as secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York.
The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union. The Central Labor Union held its second Labor Day holiday just a year later, on September 5, 1883.
Speeches by prominent men and women were introduced later, as more emphasis was placed upon the economic and civic significance of the holiday. Still later, by a resolution of the American Federation of Labor convention of 1909, the Sunday preceding Labor Day was adopted as Labor Sunday and dedicated to the spiritual and educational aspects of the labor movement.
ART bus service will operate on a reduced holiday schedule July 4. The Fourth of July holiday is one of six holidays throughout the calendar year that ART offers bus service. For route info, go to:
www.RidetheART.com.
All City parks are open. This includes dog parks, outdoor sport courts, boat accesses, fields, the Azalea fishing pond and the Richmond Hill disc golf course. Effective June 26, face coverings are required in all public spaces for those 12 and older.
Playgrounds and all park buildings including recreation and community centers, and restrooms remain closed. The WNC Nature Center also remains closed. Riverside Cemetery is open, with limits on the number of attendees for visitations and funerals.
Water Resources staff will be available for water related emergencies 24 hours a day over the holiday weekend. Customers can call the customer service line at
828-251-1122 to report water related emergencies, leaks, breaks, and no water calls.
Instead, the Asheville Downtown Association will host a virtual Independence Day Celebration on the Fourth of July. Set to begin at 4 p.m., the online concert event is presented by Ingles Markets, with support from Explore Asheville, and produced in partnership with the City of Asheville. The event will feature eight local Asheville area bands performing at local venues Asheville Music Hall, The Grey Eagle, Isis Music Hall and The Orange Peel. Featured artists include:
Hours worked on holidays, Saturdays, and Sundays are treated like hours worked on any other day of the week. California law does not require that an employer provide its employees with paid holidays, that it close its business on any holiday, or that employees be given the day off for any particular holiday. If an employer closes its business on holidays and gives its employees time off from work with pay, such a circumstance exists pursuant to a policy or practice adopted by the employer, pursuant to the terms of a collective bargaining agreement, or pursuant to the terms of an employment agreement between the employer and employee, as there is nothing in the law that requires such a practice. Additionally, there is nothing in the law that mandates an employer pay an employee a special premium for work performed on a holiday, Saturday, or Sunday, other than the overtime premium required for work performed in excess of eight hours in a workday or 40 hours in a workweek.
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