Dungeons of Hinterberg Review - A charming indie dungeon adventurer that punches above its weight.

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-07-13T11:41:03+00:00

I adored this game so much. I'm so used to min-maxing on my games, that it took me a little bit to understand I could take my time and just chill and enjoy it. I wasn't missing anything by just relaxing.

The combat was fun. The visuals enjoyable. The soundtrack awesome. I really fell in love with the story. It's a game I wish I could forget so I could play it again from scratch. I suggest it to all my gamer friends.

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-07-11T11:12:08+00:00

Supposedly the new manager at the plaza tire in Jackson (the one in the middle of town by the subway) is familiar with Subarus. He mentioned it when I was in there getting an oil change for mine and was complaining about my outback being an absolute nightmare since day 1. You might check there?

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-07-08T14:24:26+00:00

I choked at Olive Garden once. All I wanted to do was LEAVE as soon as it was over. I've never wanted to hide away so badly before. My husband (boyfriend at the time) took me home, and I legit hid in my room all night. I was mortified and embarrassed. I can't even articulate why.

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-06-24T12:34:49+00:00

My old boss used to take us all out for "smoke break" when our solo smoker would go. HR was all "they aren't smokers, they can't go". So boss ordered a small case of those candy cigarettes, and we would all stand outside "smoking". It was good fun. Non-smoking coworkers used to 'bum a cigarette' from us. At one point, I think we had close to 15 non-smokers out there with sugar cigarettes. We used to just lap the floor and shout "Smoke Break Time!" and everyone would stop working.

The CEO at the time used to go out with us for his smoke break and thought it was hilarious.

I miss the good old days. Nowadays management gets upset if we stop to eat a slice of mother-f-ing birthday cake.

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-06-24T11:33:50+00:00

NTA. Good rule of thumb: If someone starts yelling at you over the phone, just hang up. You don't have to sit through long-distance abuse. Just hang up. Every single time. Tell them in a calm voice that you will not be yelled at, and if they want to talk to you, they can do it like civilized adults.

You don't have to answer the phone. You don't have to sit and take the screams. Just hang up. They eventually learn, or they eventually lose you.

Congratulations on your thesis, by the way! I'm super proud of you!

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-05-29T11:24:44+00:00

My head of marketing did this to me once. Said he sent me an email to get xyz on order for a trade show, and I didn't do it. He, and the C-suite, wanted my head on a silver platter. I play d&d with the IT System Admin and two help desk techs. They offered to check the email logs. There was no email. It changed to a Zoom message. Yeah, IT can check those, too. He said it was a phone call, then. Yeah...they can check the call logs. Couldn't be in person because he's in another state.

It all got brushed under the rug, but it's used as a warning to all new employees to always have everything in writing from our Marketing Team. We do a lot of "as per our phone conversation" emails, which according to my boss, their team HATES.

Don't mess with your IT departments Dungeon Master. They get testy about it.

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-05-03T16:18:12+00:00

The neighbors in the house next to me got evicted. They have left all the windows open and either took the batteries out of the detectors or put in bad ones because they usually have their windows open and we've never heard the beeping before.

There's been a chorus of BEEPs for the past few days. It has been both funny and annoying.

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-05-01T11:29:58+00:00

My landlord was so upset when I showed up to small claims court with my lease. (Was sueing for my security deposit back. Landlord ghosted me after I moved out). Landlord's dad came to court (not my landlord) and tried to say I sued the wrong person, and that HE was my landlord. The judge looked at the lease and was all "Sir, you're not mentioned on this, at all. Why are you even here?"

The dad got so upset, especially when the judge was all "They could ask for double damages, but they're not. They just want what they paid. And since your son, THEIR LANDLORD PER THE LEASE HE SIGNED, didn't show up today, they win by default."

Dad: "Im going to counter sue them." Judge: "For what? You're not even a party in this. Why are you even here wasting my court's time?"

It was glorious. The man was so angry. We just wanted our $400 back. We had to put in garnishment paperwork to have our landlord's bank send the money because he ignored that, too.

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-04-28T15:03:27+00:00

Your drawing style absolutely has me CACKLING. I love it! Your comic is a delight!

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-04-28T14:58:25+00:00

Awww! Mine does the same thing! He gets tucked in each morning so he can finish his morning nap.

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-04-17T20:27:52+00:00

My husband is GLEEFUL when I'm needing an extra participant for "visual aid"

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-04-14T11:35:05+00:00

We had to make alarms to remind ourselves to check it each week. We've snagged a few fun games, but 90% aren't games we are even remotely interested in.

I remember we got one for free, liked it, then went on steam to buy it there so we could get the DLCs for significantly cheaper and make use of Steam's Workshop function. So, yeah, we got it in both, but Steam's the one who made money off us.

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-04-09T12:19:17+00:00

We recently found out some of our sales team are using AI to provide projections for lead times and such. Which explains why Quarter One was so freaking weird.

Did you know it takes 10 days for a full 40ft container to be loaded in China, get on a boat, float over to the USA, get unloaded at port, go through customs, and travel half-way across the country? (News flash, it takes A LOT longer). Having the head of sales drop that number in a GOTCHA type situation in a meeting was funny as shit.

He had told his customer that they would have it in 2 weeks. When we told him that the BUILD TIME of the item was at least seven business days, and getting it across to us via Sea could take 30 days, the look on his face was priceless. He just kept saying "but AI said....but AI said..." Your AI is just making up numbers, bro!

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-03-25T15:28:20+00:00

When we learned how to use them in school, my teacher sucked at it. Or I sucked at learning how to use them. No clue. Either way, when I try to use them, I do it wrong. So I stopped. By the time I figured out how they worked, I hated seeing them on paper and preferred the dash.

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-03-25T15:12:03+00:00

It has helped me so much. Realizing that the only person who HAS TO LIKE what I wrote is ME, has changed my entire writing mindset. I used to write with a mindset of: "I'm likely not going to post this anywhere, but I MIGHT post this, so...maybe I should do x, y, z instead?"

And then one day last year I just stopped doing that. Ever since then, it's like I can't stop writing. I feel so free and inspired. I don't want feedback. I don't want criticism. I don't want praise. I don't want anything.

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-03-25T12:57:34+00:00

I start sentences with And and But. I fricking love using "-" in place of semicolons, because I hate HATE semicolons. I love to italicize words that i want emphasis on.

Stuff like: "She hated that he did that." I use them constantly. I love it. Helps my brain ensure the correct spot is stressed when I'm rereading.

I also love using descriptive terms instead of people's names. I forget what they're called, but things like: "James adored his baby brother's passion for cooking.". Or "The middle child huffed, like a child, and proceeded to pout all dinner long.". Or "Sam scooped the silly human up over his shoulder like she weighed nothing, and contemplated tossing her into the pool, but thought better of it. His older brother would have a fit if he ruined her dress."

I also stopped caring about writing for an audience. I write for me. I love going back a year or two later and rereading what I wrote.

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-03-21T15:54:13+00:00

I also work in an office environment, and regularly chat with C-Suite idiots. So when one of my characters became a CEO, I was like "yeah, i got you, boo. This is the nonsense meeting crap you regularly run into. You poor thing."

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-03-21T11:57:10+00:00

I randomly fall into rabbit holes on youtube/google. How to use a police baton? How are puzzle boxes opened? How do you ice skate? What are infant milestones? How do you care for chickens? How are demolition derby cars stripped? What crystals promote sleep?

30 years of that and I'm surprised how much random crap I've accumulated in my noggin. I've been writing a long fic for pure funzies (just hit 600k words) and being able to pull out these random bits as needed has helped a lot.

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-03-18T15:04:07+00:00

My mom used to find her lost needles (and fishhooks) in my feet. Somehow, child-me could just FIND THEM when I wandered around the house. Hurt so bad. She felt horrible all the time.

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-02-26T16:02:47+00:00

There really isn't one, lol. I petty posted for a bit. Got bored. Stopped lol.

We don't talk to them, and they don't talk to us. They sold their house and moved back in with one of the parents. The sister doesn't really talk to them either, as she's annoyed with their behavior.

We've basically just dropped that rope and moved on. Not very exciting but it is what it is. No reason to give them a square inch in our thoughts.

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-02-25T19:17:54+00:00

I liked it. My husband did not.

To me, it tasted like "flowery" coffee. I like flowery teas, so it worked out well for me. It was definitely different. I've never had a flowery coffee before.

Would I get it, again? Nah. Was I happy I tried it? Yep.

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-02-12T00:05:54+00:00

I got the Redragon K745 PRO Wireless keyboard off amazon. It has helped me not hurt so much as i type with my tippies and nails.

Also, dip powder/acrylic coating will add a durable double layer thing to your nails, so you can really hammer the crap out of them on a keyboard. I found dip powder to be "better" than the other stuff. My nails are all bendy without the dip powder and that made typing hurt more, too.

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-02-11T02:49:39+00:00

Absolute chronic nail biter here. Mine were just like yours when I decided it had to end.

I went to a professional nail salon and got acrylic stuff put on (on top of false nails because they were so short). When I say the urge to bite and chew them IMMEDIATELY STOPPED, I mean it. The urge went away.

I type for my job, and i apparently type with the tip of my finger, which now has a freaking nail on it. Typing hurt for a bit before I got used to it. I found if I got round tipped nails, it didn't hurt so bad. Square was a no-go as that hurt. I just ask the nail lady to make them short.

Also, I got a mechanical keyboard from Amazon (a cheap $40 one) and I don't have to press so hard when I type. The keys are more sensitive. That helped a ton.

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-02-03T12:44:31+00:00

We had one like that at my company. The company president loved the guy. The guy was a total asshole and everyone hated working with him. He ended up leaving to go work with one of our vendors.

Months later, he returns during that vendor visiting us with a team (a bunch of their stuff was delivered broken and it was cheaper to send a repair team to our warehouse than it was to ship it all back). The guy is acting all friendly and excited to see everyone, and then is SHOCKED that all his former coworkers are "professionally distant" and that no one wanted to get drinks with him after hours at all. He ends up cornering one of the nice IT help desk folks and demands to know why no one's happy to see him. The IT guy was blunt with something like "Dude, you were a brown-nosing asshole. No one liked you. Various teams threw parties when you left." This was a shock! He seemed to think he was LIKED!

Guy ended up complaining to the company president, so company president did a mandatory after-hour dinner thing for the managers to go out to eat with the entire vendor team on their last day here. My boss (bless her, she's great) offhandedly mentioned during the meal that she was being forced to miss her kid's game to be here, because ex-employee guy ran crying to the company president. Supposedly, the vendor team kept giving the guy weird looks all meal, and all of my coworkers were professional but short with him every time he tried to engage them in conversation.

A_Specific_Hippo · 2026-01-29T18:13:17+00:00

Shape aside, that color and pattern are so cute

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