Robots being integrated into human society on a day-to-day level is often the musings of science-fiction, but as robotics and AI become ever more advanced, we have to consider the ethical implications that arise from having robots as part of our communities and interacting with us. This PBS Off Book episode is an insightful and thought-provoking look at how we should treat them, who would be responsible for their actions and other moral conundrums.
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If you’re a fan of a comic and you made an animated opening for a hypothetical cartoon of it and you were all excited for it, chances are you’d show your friends who’d politely say how mega-awesome it was before it was resigned to the bin of internet history—but one fan, known as Panman, made an anime opening for his favorite manga, Megaman Gigamix, and it got a blessing from none other than the creator of the comic Hitoshi Ariga. Take a look at the intro above, which is a Gigamix parody of the opening sequence from the game “Namco x Capcom”.
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When the technological singularity comes and Skynet goes sentient, if it looks as harmless as this with shuffling, wind-up bots leisurely plodding along then bring it on—this would make the world a much more enjoyable place, you could just park your ass on a bench and watch the world go by like you were in some strange theme park instead of real life. This is the world Fernando Livschitz of Black Sheep Films creates in the fantastical video above.
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If you’re thinking of getting into politics, nothing will put you off like the character of Frank Underwood from House of Cards—the man is as ruthless as they come, bad to the bone, so if you were still keen to enter the world of Washington’s politicians after seeing him in action, then you might want to watch this (spoiler free) compilation of his best advice before you head into the lion pit.
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No doubt you misspent a lot of your youth playing SF2 and screaming at the TV—one of the big take-aways from the game was the stuff the characters said when they unleashed their special moves. If you wanted to reenact the moves with your friends, you just had to shout out, say, hadouken too. But some of what they said was just incomprehensible, like WTF did Ryu say when he did his hurricane kick? Watch Ryu get bogged down in red tape as he tries to explain in this hilarious video.
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It’s not enough that female rappers Lil Kim and Nicki Minaj have a massive beef with one another—if they hate each other then so must their fans hate on each other too, and in this thespy reconstruction two superfans on opposing teams, joshhmarsh’ and ‘blackmagictj’, go toe-to-toe fighting out just who is the better rapper. Because this sort of thing is important.
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Everyone’s favorite Gene Wilder film about a little boy and a chocolate factory and everyone’s favorite movie remix artist team up to wow your brain with another masterfully crafted song, this time created from both visual and aural elements of 1971’s Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory—it’s a process which takes Pogo 3 weeks to accomplish, in a video that makes an already trippy film even trippier.v
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Anything Sandra Bullock can do, Kate Upton can do better—but she’ll do it in a tiny bikini and she’ll do it for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and hopefully she won’t get lost in space, but you can get lost in the majesty of her glorious celestial body in zero gravity, which is important for science and will no doubt help us forward our knowledge of… something. Remember kids, in space no one can hear you fap.
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Californian multi-instrumentalists Pomplamoose take two Pharrell tracks and mix them all up, taking chords from “Get Lucky” and vocals from “Happy” and vice versa and putting them all in a musical blender until you get the track above where you don’t know what’s what but you know you’re enjoying it.
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If some of you thought Breaking Bad was slightly surreal then it’s time to get a reality check with a related story that broke a while back – a Mexican drug lord’s house was busted and let us just say… everything you would assume about a drug lord’s house is totally true….and then some! Actually, believe it or not, any house owned by any drug lord is probably going to look pretty similar to this. The PGR (Mexico’s office of La ProcuradurÃa General de la República) announced a successful drug raid on a Mexico City home and published pictures… and. Wow.
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Two VICE reporters—Natalia Leite and Alexandra Roxo—go undercover in a truck-stop strip joint in Moriarty, New Mexico, where David Lynch has got nothing on the surreal and strange happenings that go on inside. It’s a place that uses the bras of former employees to decorate its walls and is named in The Ultimate Strip Club List website as the place “where strippers go to die.”
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