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![]() Some network services may be unavailable at this time due to server maintenance. ![]() ![]() Here's what went down on the 20th (and what will happen on the 28th), according to Nintendo:Ĭurrently, the network service is undergoing maintenance. This also includes maintenance of the Nintendo eShop, Switch parental controls and Switch Online app. We've also noticed that a game we were having issues with downloading last week now downloads without issue.ĭistribution of Switch update data will also take place next week on 28th June. It’s nice to be “normal” again, but Nintendo’s handling of the crisis still deserves criticism.- Pete Skerritt J have nintendo sorted it out coz I've got the new update 12.0.3 and I've been downloading games and updating them and the error code 2123-1502 has not been stopping it- Sam Maddox June 20, 2021 Source: - Quinn (they/them) □️□□️⚧️ JAfter nearly 2 weeks- and with absolutely no public comment or discussion on the matter- Nintendo *appears* to have resolved Switch Error Code 2123-1502, at least in my experience. Error code 2123-1502 has been fixed by Nintendo applying a server side update It would appear that the maintenance has fixed Error Code 2123-1502 – according to some reports, at least. Update #2: It looks like Nintendo has fixed the dreaded Error Code 2123-1502.Īccording to Nintendo's maintenance schedule on its official website, it performed network maintenance on 20th June. The live-action and animation are well integrated. The 2D animation looks very 3D-ish, that is to say computer-generated, and it was. Their fighting is eternal and not life-threatening. This is what we love about these two warring, enemies-by-their-nature characters. He is struck by lightning and electrocuted and falls from a height to the street level multiple times without fatal injuries. In one sequence, Tom tries to get to Jerry’s hotel room window from across the street by walking on wires. Another part of the story involves a budding romance between Kayla and the hotel’s handsome bartender Cameron (Jordan Bolger). ![]() ![]() The screenplay by Kevin Costello (“Brigsby Bear”), based on characters created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, provides us with dog poop and fart jokes, rapping pigeons and urban street cats that give Tom a hard time. These plot points are not exactly genius. Ben has given Preeta an enormous engagement ring, which is a big celebrity thing. Spike is a Tom and Jerry regular and, yes, he is animated. Ben, who sports Jost’s annoying haircut, arrives at the hotel with Spike (voice of Bobby Cannavale), an enormous bulldog. Tom chases after Jerry in his usual manner, wielding all sorts of weapons. ![]() The hotel’s high-strung chef (Ken Jeong) is unhappy to know a mouse is about. ![]() Bulls, chimpanzees and lemurs are just some of the animals who have recently tried to escape from UK zoos, showing how desperate these unhappy animals are to regain their freedom. For example, in 2012, a tiger escaped his enclosurein the Cologne Zoo and killed a zookeeper before being shot dead, while another tiger in the Czech Republic escaped and mauled three zoo employees. It’s perhaps unsurprising, then, that there are numerous instances of frustrated animals trying to escape, sometimes with tragic consequences. There are also instances of shameful neglect at some zoos, with animals kept in barren, dirty enclosures with stagnant drinking water and no attempt to replicate their native habitat. Zookeepers sometimes give the animals anti-depressants, tranquilisers or anti-psychotic drugs to try to conceal their distress. The confinement and lack of stimulation often result in abnormal and self-destructive behaviour, known as “zoochosis” – for example, pacing, walking in tight circles, rocking, swaying or mutilating themselves. Yet in zoos, their lives are restricted to four walls. ![]() In the wild, animals may roam for hundreds of miles, hunt their prey, raise their children, explore, play and enjoy complex social relationships. Even in the best zoos, under the best conditions, a lifetime of captivity is no life at all for wild animals. Some animals in zoos are kept in enclosures far too small for them, while others are forced to perform degrading tricks. That’s the reality for animals in zoos, who are turned into living exhibits. Imagine not being able to control a single aspect of your life – when you eat, what you eat, when you sleep, where you can go or who you start a family with. She curses Sophie, who turns into a 90-year-old crone. This draws the attention of the Witch of the Waste, who fancies Howl. The film follows Sophie, a young hat maker who has a chance encounter with the wizard Howl, a mysterious and enchanting figure. And you can follow them on Twitter here.Studio Ghibli and its founder and main director, Hayao Miyazaki, are known for producing whimsical animated films, and 2004's "Howl's Moving Castle" is one of their best. You can subscribe to them on YouTube here. Essays like this take a lot of time to put together and somehow BREADSWORD makes it all look effortless. Impeccably edited and smoother than butter, BREADSWORD essays boast an unparalleled relaxed fit and an expensive narrative tone that starkly contrasts the sing-songy “video essay voice” that has become so prevalent. Jace, a.k.a BREADSWORD is an LA-based video essayist who specializes in long-form nostalgia-tinged love letters to traditionally ignored animation features like Treasure Planet, The Cat in the Hat, and The Road to El Dorado (the above video is something of a deviation from the norm). Watch “ Howl’s Moving Castle – an Underrated Masterpiece“: The video essay below shows us how, in the bleakest of circumstances, Howl’s Moving Castle fights for comfort, compassion, and kindness. That fantastical consolation that people in power can, and perhaps will, change for the better. And second, that powerful, magnetic promise that moral compasses can materialize and inspire selflessness. ![]() First, the inherent Miyazaki warmth of small, cumulative details: the enviable breakfasts, the flights of fancy, and the sprawling fields of wildflowers. ![]() In response, Howl, our impetuous radical, fights fire with fire and is consumed in - quite literally - a dehumanizing cycle of violence.Īnd yet, the film, for all its bleak on-the-nose-ness, undertakes two very different comforting gestures. War, in Howl’s Moving Castle, is capricious, an act instigated by leaders with shallow interests and an aloof attitude towards the consequences of their actions. The film depicts a hawkish nation-state embroiled in a war waged for the sake of war itself. It’s no secret that Howl’s Moving Castle is Miyazaki’s response to, and protest of, the Iraq War. The film is also the clearest and most damning anti-war film in a career littered, if not defined, by pleas for pacifism and compassion. Loosely based on Diana Wynne Jones’ novel of the same name, Howl’s Moving Castle is a love story between Sophie, an idealistic if shy hat-maker, and the childish, self-indulgent wizard, Howl. But the film is also one of the most texturally complex and thematically thorny films in Miyazaki’s filmography. Howl’s Moving Castle enthusiastically ticks that box. If you throw a dart at Hayao Miyazaki’s IMDb page, you will almost certainly hit a work of indelible coziness. This brings us to Howl’s Moving Castle, a film that in spite of - and in response to - its own grimness, remains unabashedly reassuring. And if the unapologetically anti-war masterpiece by an auteur brings you peace, that little slice of heaven is yours, baby. ![]() If cheesy mid-’90s romcoms do it for you, lean in. If Italian splatter films bring you bliss, so be it. These are the movies you hold close to your chest in abject darkness or a cozy afternoon. But, ultimately, if a film feels like chicken noodle soup to you, that shouldn’t be a matter of debate. Of course, the “comfiness” of a film can, to a degree, be objective. Today, we’re watching a video about Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle.Ĭomfort food films should never be contentious. Welcome to The Queue - your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. |
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