Culture Racial traits in D&D are pretty problematic. "Ancestry & Culture" is a great homebrew solution. Thom Dunn
gadgets HP covers printer's USB port with warning sticker to make sure you don't go right ahead and use it Rob Beschizza
deaths Freak hailstorm in Italy causes river of ice to roar down the main boulevard, injuring 100 Mark Frauenfelder
art Celebrating the 35th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation with mixed-media meme art Gareth Branwyn
tabletop gaming Revisiting the "Satanic panic" of the 1980s in Stranger Things season 4 Gareth Branwyn
Comics Kieron Gillen is kickstarting an RPG based on Die, his "Goth-Jumanji" comic with Stephanie Hans Thom Dunn
movies Elijah Wood says one of the Lord of the Rings orcs' faces was modeled on Harvey Weinstein David Pescovitz
happy mutants Rebooting Tomb of Horrors, Gary Gygax's incredibly hard D&D module for "invincible characters" Cory Doctorow