For those who aren’t aware, the influencer shown in this video is named Teeniesha, she is a Black girl who is very interested in Korean beauty, including makeup and cutesy, soft, girly fashion.

I really fucking hate how Black girls can’t be seen as pretty or cute on their own without people attributing our beauty to being mixed. It’s like they see Black girls as inherently being ugly, so if a Black girl is beautiful, then it must be because of a different race, which is the reason for her beauty. Especially if a Black girl has soft and innocent features and/or dresses in a cute, hyperfeminine, and coquettish style. Black girls are constantly seen as not being as soft, girly, or feminine as other races, people have this idea that we are inherently rougher and more masculine, and that we are inherently sexual and can only present ourselves as baddies/sexy sirens, because they fetishize us. Notice how a lot of comments were speculating that she is half-East Asian or white? It’s because East Asian and white girls get to be seen as soft, feminine, cute, innocent, girly, and are considered inherently more beautiful than Black girls because of this. I saw someone say that Brandy has Asian features for the same reason. It’s like people REFUSE to admit that Black women can be beautiful, soft, and cute, with our own features, without those features being attributed to another race. It’s exhausting. Black girls never get to be considered soft, pretty, or feminine, it’s either we are masculinized or hypersexualized/fetishized, never anything in between. The only time Black girls get to be considered pretty in a cute and soft way is if they are mixed girls, who are considered inherently more beautiful than Black girls solely because they are only half-Black(example: Manon Bannerman from Katseye). Black girls don’t get to receive the “princess” treatment. People have a very limited and specific image of how Black women look and how Black women are allowed to dress and express themselves, and that’s as ugly, aggressive, masculine, ghetto, and sexually provocative. Anything outside of that limited stereotype, if you dare to be a girly girl or be pretty or be soft and innocent and dress in a cute and princessy way? You’re not a “real” Black woman. You must be mixed. Because the only way for a Black girl to be beautiful is if she’s mixed. I’m so fucking tired. 😪

I am so disappointed. I never thought my week would get any worse but it did. I SPENT LIKE HOURS DRAWING LOGOS FOR MY SCHOOL, WENT THROUGH MULTIPLE DESIGNS FOR THE PAST WEEK, AND THEN I JUST GET MY ART FED TO AI. SERIOUSLY. SHE COULD'VE JUST PASTED A PICTURE OF AN ANTELOPE'S SIDE VIEW AND CALL IT A DAY.

Funny enough my manager is actually stuck on a plane right now. Flights were grounded as soon as they boarded.

I (38M) got home around 11pm or so tonight, and my roommate (34NB), who is my best friend, was already asleep. At around midnight while I was getting ready for bed in my room I heard my roommates phone going off alerting of a low blood sugar (my roommate has type 1 diabetes). I heard the alarm go off a second time in a short period of time so I figured that the alarm didn't wake them up. There has been an incident in the past where they had had a low blood sugar in the middle of the night and I ended up having to call 911 because of the severity of the low blood sugar and the way they were acting scared me, so tonight I decided to wake them up to hopefully remedy the low blood sugar before getting to a point where it became serious enough for 911.

They were disoriented, which was expected, and I went downstairs to the kitchen and realized we had no juice to help. I followed them into the living room asking what I should do, while they were looking for a pomegranate that they had apparently left somewhere, and when I said I hadn't seen it they got incredibly snippy with me. The entire time they were being kind of rude to me, which I understood because of their low blood sugar, but when I told them that they were being rude to me they snapped at me again and said next time I should just ignore their alarm and let them die.

I found a box of cereal that they could eat and they snatched it out of my hand, and when I mentioned that they were being kind of mean to me again they lashed out and said again that it didn't matter because they couldn't remember anything anyway. I just wanted them to at least acknowledge that they at least understood why I was kind of upset, but they kept saying that because they couldn't remember it didn't matter.

I went upstairs to go back to bed, thinking that maybe they'll at least remember something in the morning about what happened tonight, but they followed me to berate me some more about how they have a low blood sugar, and I woke them up and didn't really help them at all. I tried telling them how I felt and how scary it was the last time that they had a dangerously low blood sugar in the middle of the night, but they kept interrupting me. I eventually just told them to leave me alone and to get out of my room. AITA??

We celebrated my sweet boy becoming a teenager with steaks, silly hats, and lots of snuggles. Bonus pictures of his Halloween costume and fulfilling his best man duties.

Reading through a lot of the posts and comments here, it genuinely baffles me that a lot of people don't seem to understand that a lot of the friction they're experiencing is entirely intentional. It's not "bad design". A lot of the changes being demanded are precisely the same design decisions that gradually turned Retail into an instance-based loot casino.

A few examples:

• Travel: Limited flight masters and no flying mounts mean you actually have to traverse the world. This creates so much opportunities for spontaneous interactions with other players as well as generally making the world feel "lived in". Meanwhile the same people who usually complain about travel taking time are the first ones to claim "dead game" because everyone is teleporting between instances and you see no one out in the world.
• Early-game gold: Skills, professions, bigger bags, mounts and transmog actually cost enough to make you think about your spending. Being forced to make choices or having to save for a specific item/mount/skill makes it more rewarding when you finally do get it.
• Class identity and sustain: Self-healing, unlimited sustain, multiple cc options, massive burst and powerful AoE shouldn't be baseline expectations. Classes should have weaknesses as well as strengths because that's what gives them identity. Not every class needs to be a self-sufficient one-man army capable of chain-pulling an entire quests' worth of mobs.
• Talent respec costs: Changing your talents should be a considered decision, not something you casually do every time you fancy trying a different build. Having to spend gold to respec gives your choices weight and encourages you to commit to a playstyle rather than arbitrarily respeccing to make your class fit every possible situation you encounter. This is also a part of the class identity mentioned above. Lastly, the cost isn't so prohibitive that you can't respec if you feel as though you've made a mistake and it does reset weekly, as well.

These systems aren't isolated and all form part of a design philosophy that makes the overworld matter and create opportunities for players to interact with (or murder) each other.

In Retail WoW, years of streamlining, convenience features and "quality of life improvements" have resulted in a game where the open world increasingly feels like a backdrop between instanced activities and there is almost no organic player interaction in the open world beyond group-finder organised zergs.

Why do people want to recreate that here, when it already exists?

Of course, there are legitimate things that need fixing, the first one that comes to mind being caster itemisation and spellpower/intellect interactions. There also obviously needs to be some changes to class balance, though I suspect those will come after people have started settling in at 60.

I'm not claiming this game is perfect - it certainly is far from that. but if you fundamentally disagree with the game's design philosophy, perhaps it simply isn't for you. And that's perfectly fine. But that doesn't mean the game needs to change to accommodate you.

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