I had a friend at school we liked the same things but he went off in the fash direction and i went off in the commie direction.
I went down the Tim Curry to communist pipeline and he went down the "ironic" fascist to actual fash pipeline.
Clearly the anti commie themes were completely lost on me cos i thought it was rad as fuck
Red Alert 2 is a beloved part of my childhood and probably did lead me on a certain path. I was never good at the game but massing kirovs and those siege copters were my favorite
Exactly the same for me, down to my main strategy being using kirovs
Early game flak-track full of engineers