Awesome Videos

The NERF Rival Zeus’ magazine normally holds 12 balls, but YouTuber Out of Darts made it so his Zeus could hold up to 108 balls. He made a custom magazine that has a blower to push the balls. He’s also working on a backpack loader that can hold thousands of the ammo.

(PG-13: Language) “Do we really need the letter ‘K?'” Rank amateur animator GradeAUnderA asks this and other questions about the pronunciation quirks of the English alphabet, in one of his typically hilarious rants.

Far Eastern Safari Park’s Siberian tiger Amur usually eats goats and rabbits twice a week. So caretakers at the Russian zoo were dumbfounded when he ended up being buddies with his latest meal. Perhaps Amur’s heart was emptier than his stomach. So far.

How to Make Everything made a simple Thanksgiving dinner, though not 100% from scratch. Still, the process involved planting herbs and mushrooms, harvesting beets and cranberries and yes, shooting a wild turkey. Watch every step here.

(PG-13) “Prolly never gonna make it to the top of the pop charts Cuz I don’t rap about poppin bottles, or poppin Mollies, I’d rather rap about strawberry Pop-Tarts.” Mac Lethal spits his lyrical genius at a breakneck pace, on a quest to finish his song in time for his bag of popcorn.

The Heartland Series was a documentary series about Appalachian culture. This is one of their April Fools’ pranks, a report on the plight of North Carolina’s marshmallow farmers. Props to Orange Jacket Dude for staying strong. You made the segment work.

(PG-13: Language) Line 22 is the only 24-hour bus line in California’s pricy Santa Clara Valley. As a result, homeless people take its 1.5 hour route to and fro at night to sleep in relative safety. Elizabeth Lo filmed the night crowd for a week to make her revealing short film.

Veritasium talks about theories as to why and how humans age, and at least a couple of animals that don’t. We age partly because our cells can’t divide infinitely. Scientists think that this isn’t a weakness, but a safety precaution.

(PG-13: Language) Redditor Haesiraheal says he recently went fishing with his family and friends off the coast of Phillip Island. They didn’t catch a lot of fish, but they did find themselves in the middle of a marine mammal party.

Cracked points out some of the useless quirks of some superhero movies: totally unnecessary revisions, overusing characters and settings, and repeating origin stories. Do the opposite and you might just get a winner.

Adam Sandler has updated the roster of The Chanukah Song, adding Drake, Scarlett Johansson and more. He should make a song about how he magically becomes unfunny when it’s time to make a movie.

“I seen that everybody… was talking to themselves.” Otis Johnson went to prison in 1970. He was released only in 2014, and he’d lost contact with his family. So when he got out it was like he had traveled to the future, and to a bittersweet beginning.

In his final days, an old man teaches his grandson how to gather and cook a rare mushroom. Åsa Blanck and Johan Palmgren’s simple but powerful documentary reminds us to maintain and strengthen our bonds with the people we love.

(PG-13: Language) MrSlackline jumps from the Thug Mansion, a huge webbed structure that he built with nearly 100 other people. They used 21,000ft. of cords to make two large nets, both suspended from a height of 400ft. and connected by an 80ft. double slackline.

Musician Keith Peskosky used household items, his instruments, a ton of microphones and Ableton to play and record this looping song in one take. Not shown in the video? His wife’s a capella track The House Better Be Clean When I Get Home.

Zack “Final Cut” King scribbles down some ideas for his animations, when the ones he discarded decide they’re not quite done with yet, and come back to life to wreck havoc on Zack’s room while he’s away. An fun and well executed short film with clever VFX.

“As if we wouldn’t immediately and wordlessly take your money any other day of the year.” Cracked’s cold blooded explanation might just save a brainwashed shopper or two. John Oliver, Adam Conover and Roger should co-host the apocalypse.

“Oh hi. Can you hear this? I’m sorry, but I’m going to keep doing it.” Melissa M. Tonkin found this hilarious reminder to not leave pets inside a car. Unlike his memed brethren, this dog knows exactly what he’s doing. Turn the volume down.

(PG-13: Language, Gore) A pair of bumbling burglars spend more time fussing over what masks they’ll wear than with the actual break-in itself. Jason Kupfer’s dark comedy will have you Googling how much blood is in your face.

Burger Fiction returns with a compilation of more ridiculous and unexpected weapons, ranging from telephones to chopsticks to toilets to paper clips… to… corn? Though the Aliens Power Loader was anything but improbable if you ask us.

Jimmy Fallon and The Roots are joined by reigning queen of the universe Adele as she performs Hello, accompanied by the cheap instruments you’d find in a grade school music class. Honestly, she could sing anywhere, backed by anything, and we’d be blown away.

Andrej Karpathy’s Neural Talk is a neural network that learns to identify the objects in photos. Kyle McDonald modified the software to run in real time, i.e. to continuously guess what it’s “seeing” from a live video feed. It’s far from perfect, but it’s still impressive.

Well, it’s official. Blake Griffin is an anime character. He can block your shot even if you faked him out, he can dunk from midrange and now he can make an alley-oop from the three-point line.