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Here's a silly little animated short for all you Team Fortress fans out there, starring everyone's favorite firebug Rudolph! Watch as he tries to burn the competition, and sing along as he is admonished for being such a useless class! Merry multiplayer mayhem to all, and to all a good fight!

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If you think everything looks better blocked out Minecraft style, then you're going to love this Skyrim-Minecraft mashup, created by an avid Skyrim player who somehow found the time to piece together this pixelated landscape in between epic gaming sessions.

It's a perfect recreation, in that built with blocks kind of way, and for some reason this vid really makes me want to buy a bunch of LEGOs and start building a cubic landscape of my own.

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The old timey photos in this series all have one eerie quality in common-the mother's identity has been concealed. Whether with shroud, or by simply scraping the face away, erasing their identity seems like an odd thing to do when they're posed for a picture with their children.

Maybe they were having a bad hair day, or woke up on the wrong side of the bed, but isn't wearing a shroud over your head at a photo shoot an extreme reaction to not looking your best? If anybody has any insight into this strange trend in portraiture, please share! Otherwise, enjoy taking a look back at when people were really weird about having their picture taken.

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Taking a cue from such classics as Alice In Wonderland and Jack and the Beanstalk, photographer Jean-Francois Fortou places normal sized people in giant or tiny sets to create a sense of wonder and dimensional irregularity.

The photos are simple and digitally untouched, and their simplicity is the key to making the whole concept work, I mean, how easy would it be to use Photoshop to simply shrink the subjects?

But that wouldn't look as cool as setting a normal sized man inside a tiny dollhouse then snapping away as he curls up in a ball, covered in tiny furniture, now would it?

--image via Jean-Francois Fortou --via Flavorwire

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Everybody's getting ready to see what the new Batman movie will be like, some are hoping it fails while others (myself included) pray that it's as good as the first two or better.

The folks that made this sweded version of the Dark Knight Rises trailer obviously have love for the film franchise, but that doesn't stop them from having a bit of fun with the whole Bane's voice thing, as well as putting some sweet cornball animation into the mix! Behold, and be amused!

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This endearing little children's book will bring out the Wookiee in your family tree, and comes complete with sound unit so you can hear the proper pronunciation of words in Wookinese Wookian Wookiee language.

Guaranteed to be hours of fun for you and/or your kid, unless the gutteral sounds of Wookiees gets on your nerves, in which case you will probably want to burn this book! Check out the advert videos and see for yourself if you can handle the process of learning to speak like a true Wookiee.

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Sometimes great ideas go terribly wrong, especially when it comes to Christmas specials. For some reason, people tend to drop the ball when writing these holiday specials, and the results are hilariously bad.

While I disagree with the Rankin Bass specials being on this list, I will be the first to admit that they are a bit hokey by today's standards, but I have a special place in my heart for all things stop motion so meh.

The rest of the specials definitely belong on this list, and some of them are so bad they serve to dampen my Christmas spirit, like the Larry The Cable Guy travesty above. Watch them with good humor, and wonder just what they were thinking when they made these stinkers!

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Here's another snowman crime scene sure to make Calvin and Hobbes very happy. They're impaled on the Ellifrett Structure at the University of Wyoming, and I can't think of a more festive way to greet the students during the holidays, aside from staging a Santa Claus crash scene on the football field!

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BuzzFeed brings us this silly little gallery full of chuckle-worthy images of bizarre things on leashes. Some of them are questionable in terms of strangeness (people leash their kids all the time, right?) while others are truly weird, and really make you wonder what we humans will be leashing up next?

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Who would have thought that the deranged version of the Joker from the Dark Knight films would make a great getup for a little boy doll? Apparently someone from WorldBox, an Asian toy manufacturer who also thought it would be endearing to label the ads "Take Happiness Home". More like "Your Kid Will Never Sleep Again", or "Joker, Now With Diapers!"  *shivers*

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The guys from Epic Meal Time are no strangers to bacon, in fact, it's safe to say that their entire career rests on the back of those sizzling strips of pork.

But this time they have stepped up their game to an epic level, creating this monster Christmas tree made from over 2000 pieces of bacon, and registering at a whopping 272,000 calories! See if you can stomach this NSFW foray into culinary insanity.

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Concluding our look back at retro Christmas wishes, we check out the groovy gear people were digging back in 1975. Unlike previous decades, which were mostly about the toys, this one's all about stylin' and profilin'. And they even included the grown folks in this gallery of fashion regret, so take a gander and see what people put on their lists over 35 years ago. Pant sets FTW!

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The holidays are in full swing, and everyone wants to share good tidings with one another in their own unique way via the interwebs. The animators in this group are no different, and they have a particularly endearing way of showing their love for the holidays.

Enjoy this adorable short by Muckpuddy Animation of New Zealand, and head to the link to check out the other three shorts that are as stylishly diverse as they are charming.

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/holiday-greetings-from-animators.html

Most of the dogs in this gallery have an expression on their face that says "Why me? What did I do to deserve this?", and all this dressing up business is clearly giving them a case of the holiday blues. Owners, don't be surprised if these dogs have left some presents of their own in your shoes!

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It's almost Christmas, so the critters from the Queens Zoo and Prospect Park Zoo in New York have started celebrating! The dwarf mongooses were given brightly wrapped mealworm treats, and the Andean bears were given packages full of a nutty treat, and I think it's safe to say they won't be needing gift receipts!

--via Gothamist