Video Briefly: Squirrel Burglar, Dragon Age Nooky, Iceberg Collapse

Brief video items of note for Lifehacker readers, including: Squirrel nabs GoPro camera, Dragon Age Inquisition gets frisky, TV wall mounting explained.

  • When you’re wall-mounting a TV, there are a few mistakes that are easy to make. If you can avoid them, then your new TV will look great on your wall. Gizmodo explains the basics.
  • Audible.com.au has released You Have to F**king Eat narrated by Dave Hughes, which you can download free the next three months. Here’s a clip of Dave in the sound booth.
  • Your mum might be cool, but she’s definitely not as cool as Kari Kirk: a professional opera singer who can belt out a video game tune like nobody’s business. Click here to hear her haunting rendition of the Skyrim theme.
  • This fight between two katana-wielding robotic arms is a great example of how precise their movement can be.
  • The Tesla Freemont factory has received a significant expansion spearheaded by robots that can lift, move and adjust cars all over the shop. Here’s a clip of the factory floor in action.
  • This year’s G20 conference was overshadowed by Tony Abbott’s “shirt-front” challenge to Russian president Vladimir Putin. This inspired someone to create a Street Fighter II parody video of the two leaders clashing in the ring.
  • Milky Way time-lapses are amazing. This video tutorial explains how to go from a casual observer to an active creator.
  • The first trailer for Furious 7 promises the best Fast & Furious movie yet. Watch it here.
  • Fallout 3‘s Point Lookout was an eerie swampland area where the player gets to see what happens to communities that didn’t actually get blown up by the bombs. This video does a great job at showing off how creepy it was.
  • It may look like this adorably chubby squirrel is just innocently scampering about, but that’s just what it wants you to think. This tree rat is about to commit a crime.
  • Bioware video games are famous for the ability to romance and sleep with the NPC characters in your party. The tradition continues with Dragon Age: Inquisition — to awkward effect.
  • Rapid VR is a new Australian-based film technology that could change the face of VR gaming as we know it. Try it out for yourself here.
  • You’re not really supposed to kill people with the Besra in GTA Online. The Besra is a training jet, it has no mounted weapons. But that doesn’t stop this player from wrecking everyone else with the Besra anyway.
  • Professional ice climbers Klemen Premrl and Aljaz Anderle were recently climbing icebergs in Greenland’s Disko Bay when one started to collapse. Watch the footage here.
  • Here’s a feel good video to kick off your weekend with: this US housekeeper thought she was starting a new job. Watch her reaction when she finds out the property is hers to keep.

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