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VR Breakdancing, GameStop Stonks, Google's Latest Fight & New Harry Potter Series

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What does thousands of dollars of VR tracking gear get you? A way to compete in fully virtual breakdancing battles. South Koreans are still at home, and are working hard on creating Ready Player One’s Oasis in order to show off their sick dance moves. And the tracking is surprisingly good. If you haven’t invested in GameStop, it’s probably too late. If you have, you already know what we’re talking about. Reddit users have discovered an infinite money glitch and are really upsetting the billionaires who aren’t going to make quite as much this year as they did last year. Also, this story developed so much quicker than we expected and most of what we talked about has come to pass. Google might withdraw their search engine from Australia. Microsoft are probably waiting in the shadows to pounce and be able to claim that someone, somewhere on the planet actually uses Bing. JK Rowling's Harry Potter projects just won’t die. Now HBO are working on a Harry Potter series featuring the Marauders. The original Harry Potter fans will all be adults now, but there’s a whole generation of younger fans so let’s hope HBO don’t make it as adult as Game of Thrones. This week DJ continued suffering through Ex-Arm, Professor checked out a Wall-E Simulator, the Burnable Garbage Day, and Dev-i watched artistic animated films. VR Chat Breakdancing Battles - https://www.roadtovr.com/vr-dance-battle-vrchat-breakdance/ GameStop stocks rising - https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-01-22-gamestop-share-price-reaches-record-high-amid-reddit-user-driven-short-squeeze - https://gamerant.com/gamestop-stock-reddit/ Google vs Australia - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-25/google-may-pull-search-engine-from-australia-what-happens-next/13086712 - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-22/google-stop-search-engine-australia-news-media-code/13079912 Harry Potter TV Series in the works - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/harry-potter-live-action-tv-series-in-early-development-at-hbo-max-exclusive Nerdful things DJ – Ex-Arm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-Arm Rating: 0/5 Professor - The Burnable Garbage Day - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gameon.anohiwa&hl=en_AU&gl=US Rating: 2.7/5 Dev-i-boy - Princess monoke - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Mononoke - Wolfwalkers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfwalkers Rating: Princess Monoke - 5/5 Wolfwalkers - 100/5 Other topics discussed Graham Stephan - The GameStop Infinite Money Glitch Explained - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YrnTbzuOWM The Spiffing Brit (Youtuber) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRHXUZ0BxbkU2MYZgsuFgkQ AMC, GameStop stock jumps: Reddit's 'insane' battle with Wall Street a 'train wreck' - https://www.cnet.com/news/amc-gamestop-stock-jumps-reddits-insane-battle-with-wall-street-a-train-wreck/ ChrisQuitsReality - Full Body Trolling in VRChat! (Index + Trackers) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OROYh0KXss FE driver Abt sacked by Audi over esports cheating - https://www.espn.com.au/f1/story/_/id/29222650/fe-driver-abt-sacked-audi-esports-cheating Wall Street Bets Discord server returns following ban - https://www.pcgamer.com/discord-ban-wall-street-bets/ Tweet by Jordan Deed - https://twitter.com/Jordan_Deeb/status/1354474147016024069 J.K. Rowling's long history of discussing — but not depicting — Dumbledore's sexuality - https://ew.com/movies/2019/03/19/harry-potter-fantastic-beasts-jk-rowling-dumbledore-sexuality/ 7 questions we have after finding out how old-timey Wizards 'relieved themselves' in 'Harry Potter' - https://www.insider.com/harry-potter-wizard-bathroom-tweet-pottermore-2019-1 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (a 2016 British two-part play written by Jack Thorne based on an original story by J. K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Thorne. The story begins nineteen years after the events of the 2007 novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and follows Harry Potter, now Head of the Depart...