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Category: Featured

By Carli Velocci Posted on September 27, 2018April 17, 2019

Paste |The Good Place’s D’Arcy Carden Is Just Happy to Be Here

D’Arcy Carden is having such a career moment that both she and her husband joke that something horrible is about to happen.

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Categories: Featured, Interviews, TV
By Carli Velocci Posted on September 12, 2018December 10, 2018

Polygon |The Stephen King popularity boom has a bittersweet explanation

“TV showrunners and King’s literary agent reflect on why the moment is right to adapt the horror storyteller’s work.”

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Categories: Editorials, Featured
By Carli Velocci Posted on August 30, 2018December 10, 2018

Verge | The failed Slender Man movie was the nail in the coffin of a dying fandom

After nearly a decade, Slender Man and the online community that grew up around him are all but dead.

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Categories: Editorials, Featured
By Carli Velocci Posted on May 6, 2018April 17, 2019

Polygon | Why Wolfenstein’s pulpy violence never feels like it’s too much

I sat down with Jens Matthies at this year’s Game Developers Conference to talk about how Wolfenstein manages its two seemingly contrasting characteristics and how he feels about the games being reduced to their most violent moments.

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Categories: Featured, Interviews, Video Games
By Carli Velocci Posted on March 2, 2018April 17, 2019

Racked | Why Protesters Love Costumes

Costumes communicate a message and let the wearer transcend their identity, perfect for standing up for a cause.

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Categories: Blog posts, Culture, Featured
By Carli Velocci Posted on February 8, 2018April 17, 2019

Playboy | How ‘Channel Zero: Butcher’s Block’ Slices a New Path for Horror

“Each season of the show should feel like some kind of nightmare that you had after reading the original story and half-remembering it.”

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Categories: Editorials, Featured, TV
By Carli Velocci Posted on December 27, 2017April 17, 2019

Polygon |How Wolfenstein 2’s hero draws on his Jewish heritage for strength

B.J. is half-Jewish, specifically. He’s the child of a Jewish mother and a Texan, anti-Semitic father. I got a kick out of this because, most of the time, people don’t realize I’m Jewish either.

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Categories: Editorials, Featured, Video Games
By Carli Velocci Posted on December 3, 2017December 10, 2018

Waypoint | The Peaceful, Human Dreams Behind the Nazi-Slaying Fantasy of ‘Wolfenstein’

Changes made beginning with The New Order and continuing into The New Colossus, however, have turned B.J. from typical video game protagonist into a complex action hero.

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Categories: Editorials, Featured
By Carli Velocci Posted on November 21, 2017April 17, 2019

Vice | Finally, a Comic-Book TV Show That Embraces Diversity

Ariela Barer was told that one day she’d be a superhero, although she didn’t believe it at the time. While practicing complex physical movements during a theater class, she said the teacher told them, “You’ve got to get good at this. You guys are the superheroes of the future.”

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Categories: Blog posts, Featured, TV
By Carli Velocci Posted on September 29, 2017December 11, 2018

TheWrap | Hugh Hefner and Feminism: Playboy Brought Progress, But Mostly Destruction

Since Hefner’s death, many have debated whether he should be remembered as a feminist icon and leader in the sexual revolution of the 1960s, or as a sexist who exploited women to sell his magazines.

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Categories: Editorials, Featured
The Bridge
By Carli Velocci Posted on March 8, 2013January 31, 2017

The Bridge Review – Paste Magazine

M.C. Escher’s artwork is known for two things: messing with your perspective, and seamlessly combining art and mathematics in a way that allows viewers to explore complex concepts and impossible … Continue reading The Bridge Review – Paste Magazine

Categories: Blog posts, FeaturedTags: Paste Magazine, PC, review, The Bridge, video game
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