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Kaspar Mihlbachler

Bio: Kaspar Mihlbachler is a writer who is pursuing a B.F.A. in Creative Writing at Eckerd College. He has always had a passion for sci-fi and fantasy growing up in both film and literary works, hopes to pursue this passion by becoming a full fledged writer and is excited to work with NYCTastemakers.
TV

YouTuber Shows: The Good and the Bad

Online content creation has become a widely successful profession, especially in the current day. With more and more people going viral on many sites such as YouTube, comes success and with success comes expansion. Expansion into whatever new trend that can make internet celebrities more money, such as food, businesses, ...

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Latest News

NATO Summit Intelligence Report: Iran’s Nuclear Program Set Back by Months Instead of Years

On June 22, 2025, President Donald Trump bombed three of Iran’s nuclear sites, announcing the attack on X. “A full payload of bombs was dropped on the primary site, Fordow,” said Trump. Trump followed up this post by stating that “The damage to the Nuclear sites in Iran is said ...

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Video Games

Five Nights at Freddy’s Secret of the Mimic: New Norm for Mascot Horror?

The iconic horror franchise “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” received its next installment in the game “Five Nights at Freddy’s: Secret of the Mimic,” having been released on June 13, 2025. The new title has received a mixed bag of feedback from fans.  The game follows the player as they are ...

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Latest News

Trump’s Iran – Israel Ceasefire Proposal

President Donald Trump announced on June 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM that he has gotten Israel and Iran to agree to a ceasefire. “There will be a complete and total ceasefire (in approximately 6 hours from now, when Israel and Iran have wound down and completed their in progress, final ...

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Video Games

The Imaginative World of Speculative Evolution in Video Games

Speculative evolution can be defined as a science-fiction subgenre and an artistic movement that considers hypothetical and scientific creativity to bring about fictional organisms with an entirely imagined evolutionary history. There are many pieces of successful media that contain elements of speculative evolution such as C.M. Kösemen’s book “All Tommorrows,” ...

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Music

Wave-Notes After Image: Adaptation of Story Into Song

Imagined sound albums are generally an intriguing type of music, with many being created with the intention of placing emphasis on sound design, atmosphere, image or a story. “After Image,” released on Dec. 31, 2006 and produced by Morrigan, also known as WAVE, is one such album that takes a ...

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TV

The Strengths and Weaknesses of Gamera Rebirth: What Does It Mean for the Dying Franchise?

Gamera, a giant turtle monster originally featuring in the film “Gamera, The Giant Monster,” on Nov. 27, 1965, was a blatant knockoff of Godzilla, however with time and future installments, it eventually grew into its own as a Japanese movie icon, popular enough to rival Godzilla. Even in what’s known ...

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Sports

Next NFL Season Is Important for the New York Giants

With the next NFL season around the corner, this upcoming season may prove to be very important for the New York Giants, with the expectations of fans weighing heavy, it’s important that they play their cards right. Especially after recent circumstances, this next season may very well either make or ...

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Movies

Upcoming Films in 2025: What to Look Forward To

2025 is looking up to be a strong year for films, with many movies worthy of recognition coming to theaters over the summer and the remaining duration of 2025. The first of note is “Jurassic World Rebirth.” The newest addition to the “Jurassic Park,” franchise seems to be taking a ...

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Music

Majority of Streams of AI Music Are Unscrupulous

In the modern day, it is no secret that AI is becoming prevalent everywhere you look. With AI chatbots being created by every company under the sun being able to generate all sorts of things such as written stories, articles, art and especially music.  It’s very clear that AI music ...

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Video Games

Caramel Column’s Alter Ego: An Exploration of Identity

Caramel Column Inc. is a Japanese indie game development company led by Maki Ono and is well known for some of its indie titles such as “Insectarium Alternative March,” a game about investigating strange creatures called Urbanites and “Aznana,” a game about a boy and a disconnected head named Aznana ...

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Latest News

Reward for Escaped ICE Detainee Doubled

Last week, two detainees escaped from an immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey for possible deportation. One of the escapees, Franklin Norberto Bautista Reyes, has been apprehended, while the other escapee, Andres Felipe Pineda Mogollon, is yet to be seized. The initial reward for their capture was raised to ...

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