Pokemon Home is Almost Useless | Happy Hour #55

Strange Happy Hour!

And, as always, feel free to reach out to any one of the wonderful hosts in any capacity. You reach the Dispatcher on Twitter @DuhFr33k (https://twitter.com/DuhFr33k), Handsome John @HandsomeJohnP (https://twitter.com/HandsomeJohnP), and the Jesterhead himself @Jesterhead0302 (https://twitter.com/Jesterhead0302). Also, don’t be afraid to talk to us down in the comments. We always enjoy a good conversation, in case you didn’t notice ;) 

Important Sh!t:
Mark “Dispatcher” Plover:
- Congresswoman calls on YouTube to stop promoting climate misinformation:
https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/28/youtube-climate-change-misinformation/

“Handsome John” Pettit:
- Google to charge law enforcement for data: https://gizmodo.com/google-is-going-to-charge-cops-for-your-data-1841221086

Brent “Jesterhead” Metcalfe:
- Pokemon Home Details: https://home.pokemon.com/en-us/?cid=&utm_source=tw&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=pokemonhome&utm_term=january28 

Last Call!:

Cheers!: Let’s introduce our special guest. This week, "Handsome" John is bringin us Quinta Das Carvalhas 10 year tawny port to try out.

Shout outs:
- Cool new channel that has seen a lot of traffic recently: Strange Garage - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh0DXWjTN8KGQEjHfCMXTWQ/featured 
- Weekly Reading: https://kotaku.com/why-anime-art-styles-change-1841173678 
- Deal of the Week: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/diy-electronics-wiley-books  
- Our Discord: https://discord.gg/bPZNJ7

Question of the Week:
- What is a big public no no for you?

House Selection:
- Kojima wants his studio to expand in interesting ways: http://www.ign.com//articles/2020/01/23/kojima-productions-reportedly-wants-to-develop-anime-manga-and-smaller-games 
- Avast is apparently selling your browser data for millions: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-sells-user-browsing-data-investigation 
- Parasite HBO series to expand on the film: https://www.ign.com/articles/why-parasite-is-getting-an-hbo-limited-series-bong-joon-ho-explains 
- JJ Abrams working on Justice League Dark: https://www.ign.com/articles/justice-league-dark-jj-abrams-bad-robot-working-on-tv-and-movie-projects 
- Tencent wants to buy Funcom: https://kotaku.com/tencent-plans-to-buy-funcom-like-it-needs-to-own-more-1841153178 
- February Community Day Pokemon left to players to vote: https://pokemongolive.com/post/feb2020-cd-voting 
- Hellblade dev announces new project: https://www.ign.com/articles/hellblade-developer-ninja-theory-announces-project-mara , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAHtHXVRjxg&feature=youtu.be 
- EA to pull/turn off iPhone/iPad Tetris game: https://gizmodo.com/you-soon-wont-be-able-to-play-eas-official-tetris-game-1841155666 
- New foldable Razr phone releases in February: https://www.ign.com/articles/foldable-motorola-razr-release-date-announced 
- Captain Marvel II officially in the works: https://www.ign.com/articles/captain-marvel-2-officially-in-production-with-wandavision-writer 
- Game of Thrones almost ended with 3 feature length films: https://io9.gizmodo.com/george-r-r-martin-says-game-of-thrones-could-have-ende-1841163988 
- New Kingdom Hearts mobile game announced: https://kotaku.com/new-kingdom-hearts-game-is-coming-to-mobile-1841167688 
- Disney sells FoxNext: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/disney-has-sold-one-of-its-last-few-game-studios/1100-6472983/
- Obi Wan Kenobi show on hold: https://www.ign.com/articles/star-wars-obi-wan-kenobi-disney-plus-show-reportedly-on-hold-crew-dismissed 
- Pokemon: MewTwo Strikes Back coming exclusively to Netflix next month: https://www.gameinformer.com/gamer-culture/2020/01/21/pokemon-mewtwo-strikes-back-evolution-debuts-exclusively-on-netflix-next