These are a couple videos of Instagrammer Frankie LaPenna battling remote-controlled humanoid robots in the ring. The first is a Chinese EngineAI T800 (yes, they named it after the Terminator — it’s the same model that kicked the company’s CEO in this video) that’s had its head replaced with an actual Terminator head. Some more details while I don’t battle any robots because I haven’t given up on life just yet.

The machine shown is a real EngineAl humanoid robot, which weighs roughly 165 lbs (75kg) and is made of aviation grade magnesium-aluminum alloy. The robot is being driven via real-time remote control during the fight, with preset button triggered animations.

The Terminator wins the first fight, knocking LaPenna down with a solid kick. He then battles a second, steel-built robot with a Predator head. He knocks it down, but that thing gets up QUICK. Too quick. Of course a robot getting up at all after you knock it down is too quick as far as I’m concerned. I mean I didn’t knock it down on accident. I was really hoping to see a shower of sparks and maybe its head pop off Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em style. Then, as its voice transistors are dying, it utters its last words, “Robot…apocalypse…thwarted.” I’m hailed as a hero and the crowd of bystanders tries to pick me up to carry on their shoulders before deciding a pat on the shoulder and a “Good going, guy!” are sufficient.

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Because if we can’t have the cool tech Back To The Future II promised (I still write Robert Zemeckis angry letters), I guess we’ll have to settle for the Wild West of the third movie. These are a couple videos of the Back to The Future III themed backyard train set built by woodworker Matt Thompson, featuring a locomotive pushing the time-traveling DeLorean, complete with miniature Doc Brown and Clara figures dangling from the side of the steam engine, and Marty in the car. Did I mention the DeLorean sparks as it’s pushed around the track? Wouldn’t be the first fence I’ve accidentally set on fire. Still, as someone who could go pro in daydreaming about time-travel *daydreaming* “You were saying?” Please, this is all I have.

Keep going for the video, as well as version 2.0, which has less sparking but is still impressive nonetheless.

Closeups: they’re not always a good idea. I used a closeup for my original MySpace profile pic and even Tom unfriended me. I re-requested but he never accepted before the site went under 🙁 That was forever ago, but I still have dreams about it. This is a macro video from Another Perspective (it certainly is!) of a snail eating. On the freaky deaky scale, I give it an 8 made of two intertwined snakes eating each other’s tails…TO DEATH. Does this snail’s mouth look like a butt? No clue — I have not, and have no intention of ever seeing a butt that close up. “You’re so vanilla.” I am unflavored froyo.

Dream it and you can achieve it. Or at least some people can. I have dreamed a great number of things and achieved none of them. Although I suppose some of my nightmares have been realized. This is a video of Korean origami artist 씨에스타 SiestaOrigami folding a typewriter from a single sheet of thin, uncut paper measuring 124cm (48.8″) over the course of 24 hours. The way the keys were constructed without cutting is pretty genius, but the whole thing blew my mind. My mind is easily blowable though. “He cried when a magician pulled a quarter from behind his ear.” Honey! “What?” Who knows how long it had been there!

Because functional game consoles are so 2010’s, this is the official LEGO Sony Playstation set. The kit contains 1,911 pieces and builds an almost full-scale version of the classic 1994 gaming console, complete with pressable open and power buttons, and a connectable controller. Pressing the open button reveals tiny Gran Turismo and Ape Escape dioramas inside (FUN FACT: Ape Escape was designed to work exclusively with the newly released DualShock controller’s analog sticks, which the controller included in the set lacks. Get with it, LEGO!). It releases October 4th for $180. *spit-takes Mountain Dew Code Red* For reference, you can get a good used Playstation for about a quarter of that. Will it play GTA 6? No. And if my mom asks I won’t be either because SOMEBODY told her the game would be a bad influence. Like I’d be influenced by video games! What she doesn’t know is I’ve secretly been playing GTA 5 after they go to sleep. Now, help me steal my neighbor’s car, I’ve scouted some sick jumps in the neighborhood that we should hit.

Mother Nature: she never ceases to shock and amaze (but mostly terrify). This is a video from British photographer Jake Baggaley and his assistant Nick on the side of a rock cliff in the French Alps of Chamonix when some ibexes come to say hello and lick the salt off of Jake’s sweaty legs. Even with the via ferrata steel climbing cables set into the side of the cliff, that climb does not look like a good time to me. But, FULL DISCLOSURE: I get nervous at any outdoor height over a second story balcony. “This guy’s leg tastes like urine,” I imagine the ibexes whispering to each other and having a good bleat at my expense.