The audio-visuals are some of the finest seen in this novel generation, and the end result feels as unsettling, scary and ominous as the best Japanese horror. The Team Silent level of quality craftsmanship, present in the superb use of the FOX engine, and the demo’s distinct Japanese dream-logic structure, are both crucial elements of SH that are here recuperated and that had hitherto been missing from the series. honors Silent Hill 4’s design, its tension and mood, whilst reusing much of its iconography with the intelligence I associate with its original authors. Not that it is likely this was a decision meant only to honor its legacy in celebratory fashion the growing popularity of first person horror games that lived of scraps of that singular fabric that made Silent Hill the best of its kind – Amnesia, Outlast and even that Slender thing and its clones – makes the return to first person perspective seem thought from a marketing angle (and the since released trailer, showing people’s ‘reaction’s’ to the piece indicates as much). It is perhaps fitting that 10 years after the release of the last ‘true’ Silent Hill, Konami chose it specifically as the basis for this singular demo. Which is why P.T., the interactive teaser where Konami chose to encapsulate this idiotic marketing ploy is so puzzling, because it is the finest videogame experience to be associated with the Silent Hill name ever since The Room. Promote a new Silent Hill with an actor from a popular TV show that has no inkling of resonance with the game series a filmmaker who, qualities aside, is not known for either the particular surreal tone or the finer nuances in narrative and aesthetic sophistication that elevated Silent Hill and a game director whose previous collaborations with other works that not his own have ended in disaster, and whose very stylistic trademarks (design maximalism, adoption of an anime aesthetic with particular emphasis on its crude brand of humor) stand in earnest opposition to the essence of Silent Hill… promote a new Silent Hill thus, and one confirms the now constant suspicion that every new Silent Hill will come as another nail to stick into the proverbial coffin. After a decade of watching Konami lending its masterwork title to be used and abused by merit-less and unskillful western developers, one naturally becomes distrusting. “Silent Hill” is the masterpiece they just can’t leave alone. To those rare unnamed few who enjoy my writings, I can only bid a hearty farewell, and shamelessly publicize my current ventures, inviting you to befriend my facebook page (if you haven’t already) which features (but is not limited to) English posts on Metagame topics, and to those who are fluent in Portuguese follow my new bimonthly column in pt.ign.com/behindmedia, where hopefully I’ll continue my writing in true Metagame spirit. for the best and most relentless of though-provoking discussions, Jaggie on account of his ever insightful perspectives on art, manga, anime and all things Japanese (and for being the most ingenuous of my critics), and last but not least, dieubussy for being the best mentor I could hope to find, a true reference in every respect. Even though all were important to me, some will live on in my heart and deserve special recognition: CruzifixioCes, my number one fan and fellow J-RPG lover, José (or is it sir Joseph now?) for showing me that impeccable film taste does not always translate to videogames, Jorge S. A great part of that maturing experience results directly from all the delightful interactions I had with everyone who read and discussed these themes in the blog and outside it. In the many years spent writing reviews, I grew up as a person and critic, and learned considerably about videogames and games and art. This is not final, I’ll still be around, just don’t expect anything more than the recent paucity.Įver since I started writing here, I did my best to try and convey my feelings and thoughts towards this new medium. And now, on top of all this, I’ve been invited to write for a column in the Portuguese IGN website, which will likely drain all my videogame writing desires. The college paper is gone and with it my column, blogs are out-of-fashion, too wordy for the twit generation to read through, and soon I’ll have to find a proper job to make ends meet, which inevitably means an even lesser disposition to write here. Between my PhD and classes, my newspaper reviews and occasional talks, the book I can never seem to finish writing, and wanting to continue playing these darned horrible videogames, time just slips by. Sometimes, it’s an excruciatingly long winding one, as is the case with Metagame. Everything most eventually come to an end.
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Redux, probably the most popular state management library for React, is no exception. We recommend always using the “object shorthand” form of mapDispatchToProps, unless you have a specific reason to customize the dispatching behavior.In react-redux you can use hooks to retrieve state or dispatch actions. You’ve seen that the setup for dispatching Redux actions in a React component follows a very similar process: define an action creator, wrap it in another function that looks like (…args) => dispatch(actionCreator(…args)), and pass that wrapper function as a prop to your component.īecause this is so common, connect supports an “object shorthand” form for the mapDispatchToProps argument: if you pass an object full of action creators instead of a function, connect will automatically call bindActionCreators for you internally. For example:įunction Counter (, dispatch ) ,Ĭopy Defining mapDispatchToProps As An Object This can make it difficult to determine in the component which props come from Redux and which are passed in. With connect, you are wrapping your component and injecting props into it. If you don't specify the second argument to connect(), your component will receive dispatch by default. The main benefit of using the Redux Hooks is that they are conceptually simpler than connect. Approaches for Dispatching Default: dispatch as a Prop Redux Connect uses awesome Redux to keep all fetched data in state. First of all, the connect()() -function has two sets of. The mapDispatchToProps functions are normally referred to as mapDispatch for short, but the actual variable name used can be whatever you want. 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Now when I type ,its, TextExpander automatically turns it into 2011_01_15-ScotiaiTrade-RRSP. That looks super-ugly (don’t let it scare you off TextExpander, most rules wouldn’t be like this), but basically is saying “subtract one month from today’s date and format it as yyyy mmdd”. I am not going to go through the ins and outs of TextExpander in this post but here is a screenshot of my rule: In this case, what I am going to do is take the renaming step out of the Hazel rule and then set up a TextExpander snippet to do the filenaming for me. Basically, it allows you to type in small snippets of text and have them expand (get it?) to longer ones. If you are not familiar with TextExpander, it is a Mac application like Hazel: you don’t really think you need it until you have it, and then once you have it you can’t imagine life without it. Unfortunately, I don’t believe that Hazel has the functionality to do any sort of date math, so for me TextExpander will have to come to the rescue. The statement that I am downloading today (in February) is actually January’s statement, and having that February date in the filename will just not do. There is only one problem that I know will drive me crazy. If you’re impatient, you can run it manually by clicking on the Hazel icon up in your menu bar.Īnd look, there it is in my Statements folder:įor 90% of normal people, the above will work fine. Looks like it should work!ĭepending on the other Hazel rules going on, it may take a while to kick off. Click the plus sign beside our rename rule, and create a Move rule that moves it to your folder.Ĭlick OK, and if you want to see if this will work, click on the little gear icon on the bottom and choose Preview Rule Matches. So, for this rule, I want the file to be called yyyy_mm_dd-ScotiaiTrade-RRSP.pdf.Ĭlick into the pattern box and just type in “-ScotiaiTrade-RRSP” between “date created” and “extension”. In this case, I know that any PDF that I download from is going to be my RRSP statement. Hit Done and now the date format is looking good. The yyyy mm dd looks good, but click into the box and replace the dashes with underscores. That is not the date format that we want, so click on date created and choose Edit Date Pattern. Take a look at the example at the bottom. We’ve already established that the name is no good, so delete it.ĭrag “date created” up to the pattern section, and it will look like this: Obviously use your own naming convention and move it to wherever is appropriate for you.īefore the screenshot, I know some of you are going to ask “How do I move it to Evernote?” It is your lucky day, I already wrote a post about how to send PDFs to Evernote using Hazel so you can combine the two.įirst in the Do The Following section, I will change it to Rename File, and the default pattern it gives you is “name” and “extension”. Rename the file using the convention yyyy_mm_dd-name-type.pdf.Sure you could type it in yourself when you save it, but we are trying to be as automated as possible here. In all likelihood, the filename that your bank or vendor uses is totally useless. The conditions we’ll use in this case are:Īgain, substitute your own domain. Now lets give the rule a name, and create the conditions that Hazel will use to figure out which file to act on. Then we want to create a new rule, so hit the Plus button in the right column. Create A New Rule In Hazelįire up Hazel, and if you haven’t already, add the folder that you download PDFs to in the folder on the left. Since we have the URL embedded, we can use it to do stuff later. Obviously the URL that you downloaded it from will be there, not mine. You’ll see a bunch of junk in there including this: It will bring up the Info window, and look under the “More Info” section. The easiest way to see this is to highlight the file in Finder and hit Command-i. You may not know this, but when you download a PDF from the web, it has the address that it was downloaded from embedded in the file. Brilliant! Have no idea what on earth I just said? No worries, I’m about to go through it. Katie’s tip is to use the Source URL of the downloaded PDF as a basis for doing the processing. One great use of Hazel is to move all the PDFs that you are downloading from the web now that you are going paperless. It is well known that I love a little Mac app called Hazel that allows you to create rules to perform almost any function on your computer. That’s how I felt sitting in Katie Floyd’s Going Paperless presentation at Macworld 2011 (more on my Macworld roundup here). You know how sometimes you come across a tip that is so clever you are both happy to have learned it and annoyed that you didn’t think of it yourself at the same time? 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