This is a video of Rube Goldberg machinist Joseph of Joseph’s Machines building and testing a real life version of Wallace & Gromit’s breakfast machine from the 1993 movie The Wrong Trousers. Wrong Trousers? Not a problem for me, I haven’t worn anything but sweatpants and athletic shorts for years.

This is a video of Youtuber Kiara’s Workshop constructing a functional Pokéball in real life. Functional as in the top automatically opens and closes and it has a light and sound effects, not functional as in it can convert a monster’s mass into a form of energy small enough to

This is a clip of a real life roadrunner vocalizing. Shockingly, it does not make the ‘Meep meep!’ we’ve all come to expect from watching cartoons. It’s more of a really quick clicking. Great, now what else have cartoons been lying to us about?! Next thing you know we’ll find

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 engineer JT of Youtube channel Built IRL discussing and demonstrating the latest iteration of his Spider-Man inspired webshooters/rope swingers, which allow him to swing across horizontal pipes. Not to brag or anything, but I could consistently make it across the monkey bars from age 6

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