This is a worthwhile and beautifully shot video of freerunner Calen Chan dressed as Ezio Auditore da Firenze from Assassin’s Creed II (and Brotherhood and Revelations) performing some very impressive parkour in and around Khiva, Uzbekistan. The video comes complete with Ezio giving chase and doing battle with costumed enemies.

This is a video of Konami’s Contra Returns (an updated mobile version of the classic Contra) reimagined in real life by devinsupertramp with a fair amount of production value. I mean this isn’t just some kid running around in the backyard with a broken vacuum for a machine gun yelling

Because life imitating video games imitating life, this is a video of a guy walking around like he’s a character in a video game, and getting stuck on an invisible wall until he pays the gatekeeper to access the area. I’m not sure if this is Twitter user KaoruGans0 (who’s

This is a video of chef Andrew Rea from Youtube channel Binging With Babish recreating the ‘Bachelor Chow’ that Fry eats in Futurama, making what’s basically a human-grade dehydrated dog food chow of a beef chuck roast and vegetables, that can be poured into a bowl and rehydrated with water

This is a commercial from New Zealand fiber broadband provider Chorus, imagining internet glitches and buffering affecting a man named Carl in the real world. Some of those Matrix glitches — I think I’ve seen them in real life before too. Of course if this were a really accurate commercial