Unhealthy?

I mentioned that the only reasoning I received for the Basti Ban was her saying that she felt she was unhealthy for me. I don't believe that. I believe that either she was upset about something I wrote in the Discord message or the Discord message was when she decided that I was too much for he. With that said, let's assume that she was telling the truth. If she believed that she was unhealthy for me, I disagree. I was going to do a big buildup and then say I disagree in a fun/fancier way, […]

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Unhealthy?

I mentioned that the only reasoning I received for the Basti Ban was her saying that she felt she was unhealthy for me. I don’t believe that. I believe that either she was upset about somethi…

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Ex-Bestie Who Literally Tried to Single White Female My Life

Grab your favorite beverage—coffee, tea, or maybe a massive glass of wine—because you are going to need it for this one. Welcome back to the blog, y’all. Today, we are diving deep into a chapter of my life so utterly unhinged that if I pitched it to a reality TV network, the producers would hand it back to me and say it was “too unrealistic.”

We all have that one ex-friend who teaches us a harsh lesson about boundaries. But let me tell you about my ex-friend. She didn’t just cross boundaries; she demolished them, set them on fire, and then tried to literally steal my identity in the ashes.

Here is the wild, exhausting, and strangely terrifying story of the friend who was so psychopathic and obsessed with me that she systematically tried to take over my life. And sitting here in the year 2026, I still cannot wrap my head around the wildly sick obsession she has with me.

I should have known things were going to be weird from the jump. This girl—a Black woman who I genuinely thought was going to be my sister from another mister—had the exact same name as my actual sister. Not only that, but she also had the exact same birth month and birth year as my sister. At the time, I thought, “Wow, what a fun coincidence! We are destined to be family.”

The universe wasn’t giving me a cute coincidence; it was flashing a giant, neon red flag.

We were friends for five solid years. And when I say I was a good friend, I mean I was the blueprint. I was there for her through everything. I sat with her through pregnancies, multiple abortions, and heartbreaking miscarriages. I drove from one hospital to another, holding her hand, wiping her tears, and believing every single story and lie she spun. I gave her my last dollar without a second thought. I thought she was my ride-or-die.

But looking back, the most devastating realization is this: I was busy being her friend, while she was busy making me her enemy for absolutely no reason.

She was out to get me from the very start. Even while we were supposedly “best friends,” she was secretly running a smear campaign against me. She tracked down men I used to serve in the military with, messaging them to portray me as this horrible, toxic person. She made herself look like the sweet, believable victim so everyone would turn on me. She even contacted my ex, Reggie, just to try and ruin things between us and make my life miserable. She wanted me to be the villain so badly.

For the longest time, I thought the “official” fallout between us happened because of a guy. I had a very short fling with one of her brothers. Because I respect the girl code, I went to her beforehand and asked if she was okay with it. She looked me in the eye and said, “Oh yeah, totally fine! Go for it!”

Tip for the ladies: When a toxic friend says “it’s fine,” it is a trap. It is a giant bear trap covered in leaves.

I had the fling, and almost immediately, she flipped the script. Suddenly, it was not fine. She used it as her villain origin story to hold against me forever. But honestly? The brother fling was just a convenient excuse to unleash the hatred she already had for me.

Clearly, her revenge plot was to collect my exes like Thanos collecting Infinity Stones. Because getting rid of me wasn’t enough; she needed to step into my shoes.

Her ultimate betrayal happened right under my own roof. I actually caught her sleeping with my husband at the time. In my apartment! I was so furious I had to call the cops just to physically have her removed from my home. And the absolute kicker? To this day, she holds a grudge against me for calling the cops on her! Ma’am, you were in my bed with my husband! What did you want me to do, leave a mint on the pillow and make y’all breakfast?!

Not only did she sleep with that husband, but she also slept with my ex-husband (my daughter’s father), my ex boyfriends and ex military colleague. Then, because the “Tina’s Leftovers” buffet was apparently still open, she moved on to my son’s father. She didn’t just sleep with him—she went ahead and had a whole baby with him.

Before we get to the twisted dynamic with my son’s father, let’s talk about the absolute sheer audacity this girl possessed regarding my survival.

There was a time when things were really tight for me, and I was relying on an EBT card to get by. I had managed to save up about $3,000 worth of food stamps on it to make sure my family was fed. Guess what my “best friend” did? She stole it. She flat-out swiped my EBT card and sold it for cash on the street to make a quick buck. (for 2026: I am now completely off EBT, financially independent, and thriving, so her little heist didn’t break me—but the audacity remains unmatched.)

Let’s talk about my son’s father for a minute, because the dynamic between these two is a psychological thriller.

If this man had a backbone, it would be made of overcooked spaghetti. He is an absolute wimp who lets another female completely control him. He has zero thoughts of his own and goes to her for every single piece of advice. Their entire chemistry is built on a foundation of mutual hatred for me. Every single day, she contacts him just to ask, “Have you spoken to Tina today?” On the rare occasions his single brain cell fires up and he admits he feels like reaching out to fix things, she swoops in and talks him out of it.

She uses him to control my life, and worse, she uses him to control whether or not he has a relationship with his own son. She actually sits there and validates his deadbeat behavior. She tells him that he was right to walk away, that he shouldn’t care about his son, that it’s “best” he doesn’t have a relationship with him, and—get this—that his son “will find him when he grows up.”

She is actively molding him to be just like her: running away from all accountability and responsibility. She explicitly tells him to continue to disrespect me, treat me like trash, and ignore my attempts to co-parent all while he is out there entertaining a bunch of other women with his 7+ kids.

He literally handed over the passwords to his emails and texting apps. She ordered him to block me everywhere, disabled his social media accounts, and dictates that if he must contact me, he has to use weird burner texting apps so she can coach him on what to say.

But here is the absolute most tragic part: She thinks she’s hurting me by keeping him away. But the person her actions are actually affecting in the long term is my son. At the end of the day, when my son grows up, I am not the one he is going to blame. I’m the one who stayed. My son won’t be pointing the finger at me; he will be looking directly at his father. My son’s father is the one who will have to look his own flesh and blood in the eye and explain why he chose a bitter, obsessed ex-friend’s advice over his own child.

If you thought it couldn’t get any crazier, buckle up, because this is where it turns into a true crime documentary.

She eventually moved to Arizona. Keep in mind, I live in California and I have never been to Arizona in my life.

Somehow, she went to a courthouse in Arizona and filed for a restraining order against me. But she didn’t just file the paperwork—she actually got someone to pretend to be me. She got a body double, made a fake ID with my information, and had this person appear in front of a judge as “Tina.” The judge, believing this imposter was me, granted the restraining order!

When I found out, I called the Arizona courts in an absolute panic, explaining that I have never set foot in their state. The court employees literally argued with me, saying, “Ma’am, you appeared in court.” No, I didn’t! A literal fraudster did!

To get this restraining order, she fabricated “proof.” She submitted email exchanges where she had intentionally rage-baited me to get a reaction. But worse than that, she made a terrifying, psychotic collage featuring a picture of a gun next to a picture of my son. She posted threats on my life and my son’s life, writing captions like “I wish a bitch would” and “Ask Tina, she knows.”

She threatened my child’s life, stole my identity, committed perjury, and defrauded a court of law—all because she wants to be me so desperately that it is making her clinically unhinged.

Her obsession doesn’t stop with me; she is even morphing into my son’s father. He likes Mercedes Benz cars? Boom, she goes out and buys a Mercedes. She copies his mannerisms, his habits, his style, bankrupting her own personality to mirror his just to prove her “loyalty.”

Why go through all that effort? Why the fake IDs, the court fraud, the military stalking, and the baby daddies? I don’t get what she wants from me or ever wanted from me.

She wants me to reach out so badly just so she can start drama. Need proof? In January 2025, after years of not speaking, after the EBT theft, the cops, the baby, the smear campaign, and the Arizona identity theft… she sent me a text.

“Hey, just asking how you’re doing. Hoping you’re fine!”

I had to laugh. The audacity is breathtaking. You commit federal identity theft, threaten my son with a gun, and hack my inbox, but you want to casually check in and see how my Tuesday is going? Make it make sense!

For the longest time, my intentions were pure. I wanted a final conversation to find out why she did all of this. But now, in 2026, I’ve realized something incredibly empowering: The block and the silence is the answer. That is the only closure I will ever get, and it’s the only closure I need.

Let the psychopathic puppet master and her spineless puppet have each other in their weird, obsessive, Mercedes-driving bubble. As for me? I’m logging off, living my beautiful, financially thriving, drama-free life, protecting my peace, and making sure my passwords are un-hackable.

Until next time,

Tina

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Как я перестал платить за мусорные лиды

Платный трафик на лендинг с формой захвата — это почти всегда мусорные заявки. Номер 123 , номер 1111111 , четыре цифры вместо телефона. Заявка засчитана, деньги за клик списаны, позвонить некому. Часть людей заполняет форму абы как — случайно, не хотят оставлять настоящий номер, просто проверяют работает ли кнопка. Причина не важна — важно что за каждую такую заявку вы платите как за нормальный лид. Это типичная проблема для любого кто работает с платным трафиком.

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Retro Gaming Ads Blast – Part 41 (Jurassic Park Special)

Welcome back readers, fellow geeks and electronic gaming fans!

In this edition of the Retro Gaming Ads Blast (RGAB) series, we will take a look at another batch of retro gaming print ads related to the 1993 blockbuster film Jurassic Park. As part of the business strategy of the film directed by Steven Spielberg, several video games were licensed to make movies based on the movie. Unsurprisingly, the sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park was released in 1997 and it also had its own video games. This is the Jurassic Park Special.

For the newcomers reading this, Retro Gaming Ads Blast (RGAB) looks back at the many print ads of games (console, arcade, computer and handheld) that were published in comic books, magazines, flyers, posters and newspapers long before smartphones, social media, the worldwide web and streaming became popular. To put things in perspective, people back in the 1980s to the 1990s were more trusting of print media for information and images about electronic games and related products.

With those details laid down, here is the newest batch of retro gaming print ads for you to see and enjoy…

1. Jurassic Park SNES Game Print Ad

I saw this 2-page print ad in video game magazines in 1993.

Just a few months after the release of the movie, the official Jurassic Park video game on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) was released by Ocean and the company came up with a 2-page print ad to showcase a few screenshots and creative text emphasizing an adventure experience with a touch of “3-D”. The ad makers cleverly showed two first-person view sequence screenshots that showed the SNES was strong enough to deliver the so-called 3D experience. I remember seeing this ad while reading a video game magazine in 1993 and it easily caught my attention.

2. Jurassic Park PC Game Print Ad

This Jurassic Park game I never had a chance to play.

For the Jurassic Park personal computer (PC) game, Ocean came up with a single-page print ad that uses a live-action image from the film’s production. Not only was the image of Tyrannosaurus Rex head (with its sharp teeth visible) touching the vehicle very engaging to see, it is also a reminder that practical effects and other physical stuff were heavily used to do it resulting in a high level of realism that computer-generated imagery (CGI) cannot match.

3. Jurassic Park Sega Genesis North American Print Ad

The most visually striking 2-page print ad of the JP game for Sega Genesis.

Sega acquired licenses to make Jurassic Park games for its existing consoles plus the arcade game. To promote the Sega Genesis JP game, Sega came up with this 2-page print ad with a great visual design. While there were only few screenshots from the video game, the rest of the ad was filled with lots of eye candy such as dinosaur fossils, illustrations, science-based details and more. Very clearly, this print ad strongly emphasized the dinosaurs, adventure and intrigue. The game eventually sold a lot of copies and added to the overall commercial success Sega had in North America in 1993.

4. Jurassic Park Japanese Arcade Flyer

I played this Jurassic Park game in arcades here in the Philippines.

In 1994, Sega released the ambitious Jurassic Park arcade game which was a rail shooter game that had a sophisticated physical design that includes seats for two people. Developed by Sega’s AM3 team, the player(s) equipped with the joystick(s) has to shoot the dinosaurs that appeared on-screen from start to finish. To immerse gamers into the Jurassic Park environment, the game has a fine blend of 2D sprits and 3D polygons which resulted in the feel of 3D surroundings. For its part, Sega had to excite players and arcade operators while also explaining the technical details using the arcade flyer. The arcade game was a commercial success.

5. Jurassic Park Part 2: The Chaos Continues Print Ad

This surprise sequel excited many gamers who were into the 1993 movie and 2D side-scrolling adventure games.

While it is a fact that the sequel to Jurassic Park did not come out in book format (1995) and in the cinemas (1997), Ocean went ahead with its very own sequel titles Jurassic Park Part 2: The Chaos Continues. They even had an original tale about the established character Dr. Alan Grant returning to Jurassic Park to stop a rival corporation from taking over the place. To promote the SNES version of the game, the company came up with a single-page print ad that had an “under new management” sign above while showing a Velociraptor and a few screenshots from the game. As it was released in 1994, the game strongly appealed to the fans as well as gamers who enjoyed 2D side-scrolling adventure games on the SNES.

6. The Lost World: Jurassic Park Print Ad

DreamWorks Interactive made the official console games of The Lost World: Jurassic Park and they had EA and Sega publish it.

Like its blockbuster predecessor, The Lost World: Jurassic Park had its own video game adaptations. The Lost World: Jurassic Park games for PlayStation and Sega Saturn were developed by a video game company which was under DreamWorks SKG (note: Steven Spielberg was one of the founders), and they had Electronic Arts (EA) and Sega publishing each game per specific console. To market the game, a 2-page print ad was made which featured a dinosaur skull dominating the image leaving some space for screenshots and the descriptive text. Having seen the movie and having played the game, I can say that the dark aesthetic of this print ad reflected the dark and gritty tone of the Spielberg-directed movie.

7. The Lost World: Jurassic Park North American Sega GameWorks Arcade Flyer

The front. The rear.

For me, the best game based on The Lost World: Jurassic Park has always been the official arcade game developed and distributed by Sega. It was a sophisticated rail shooter made by the same team behind the 1994 Jurassic Park arcade game. The arcade flyer clearly mentions the Model 3 which was a highly advanced arcade hardware of Sega that made highly detailed 3D polygonal graphics and smooth animation possible. The flyer also boasted the use of a 50-inch medium resolution Mitsubishi monitor and the 4-speaker Surround Sound system that made the arcade experience intense. Even by today’s standards, this 1997 arcade game still looks great and remains enjoyable to play. This arcade flyer really promoted what was real for gamers to experience in the arcade. Are you aware that Steven Spielberg himself received The Lost World: Jurassic Park arcade cabinet as a gift from Sega?

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