i did not realise it would be as high as 90% of things. I figures at most 50/50. I guess it shows how out of touch I am at the moment with such things. :-)

No, it's okay. Who wants fake romance with prostitutes. :-)

*even sillier hug*

I see, as I said I am not really up on it all, I was just basing it on the little I have seen. I did notice on Command and Conquer that on the Red Alert 2 game you could destroy many American landmarks, including the White House, yet on Command and Conquer 3 you could not destroy the White House, but you could destroy London landmarks.

Luckily most of them are kept secure in Moomin valley. But every so often one escapes and writes horrible books about vampires. :-)

Sometimes I like to take ice-cold showers in the winter, just to mix things up :-) It can actually be pretty helpful if I'm in certain moods. A nice little freezing cold "shock" that makes my brain reboot. I'm also insane though :-)

Well, anytime I heard the name "Luke", I always think of Star Wars. So when I hear "Lukewarm" I imagine Luke stranded out in the snow and using Tauntaun guts to stay warm. Maybe that is what it means :-p

Random quote I found while reading through some of my old theology notes:

"One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know. We can tell the truth, and we can enjoy the blessed freedom that the brave have won. We can destroy the monsters of superstition, the hissing snakes of ignorance and fear. We can drive from our minds the frightful things that tear and wound with beak and fang. We can civilise our fellow-men. We can fill our lives with generous deeds, with loving words, with art and song, and all the ecstasies of love. We can flood our years with sunshine — with the divine climate of kindness, and we can drain to the last drop the golden cup of joy.”

Maybe that estimate is a little high, but there's definitely more English stuff than Dutch, especially on the TV/movie front. Over here we just don't have the budget to produce as many of those, and they don't tend to be as popular either.

Better have a real romance. :P

Red Alert 2 had a lot of landmarks... I remember destroying the Pentagon in the first few levels, using the Eiffel Tower as a giant Tesla coil, and many more. It certainly didn't disappoint if you were looking for something silly and cheesy :-p
I think C&C 3 also featured the Pentagon, but it could only be protected, not destroyed. I could be wrong though, it's been a long time since I played it.

Best part of the game for me was the parody Arnold Schwarzenegger character gunning down communists with a mini-gun!

A short freezing cold shock is pretty okay, but washing my hair is a long process, and so whenever I have to do that these past few days I've been chilled to the bone. :P

Hahahaha yes. Excellent association, I approve. :P

Well, I did some googling, and apparently 'luke' comes from Middle English 'lew' and Old English 'hlēow'. 'Lew' is pretty close to Dutch 'lauw'. Don't know when it t urned into 'luke', though. :P
Oh my, good times. It's been ages since I played Red Alert 2 ...

You mean Arnnie Frankenfurter, along with Flint Westwood and Sammy Stallion? :-)
But in the first patch for the game, their names and some of their dialogue were removed :-(

I can see how that would be a problem in this day and age.

I have, I have had one since I was in college with the most wonderful woman on earth. :-)

*big silly hug*

You can destroy the Trade Centres as well on Red Alert 2. It seemed that they allowed you to destroy any building really, which was fun. Some of the buildings had a nice crumbling animation. You also destroy Russian monuments and buildings towards the end.

You do defend it. But you never get to be the one attacking or destroying it. It seems they made sure no US landmark would be destroyable.

I hated that! When I was growing up that made me furious replaying those levels!

I think my version still has those names, and the dialogues. But I can't be too sure.

Ha, right. Ridiculously long hair. I don't know how your girls do it. It's already uncomfortable when my hair gets beyond about 5cm :-p

Well, maybe it isn't "lukewarm", but "lew-kwarm" instead. Maybe we need to oogle "kwarm" and see where that comes from :-p
Yeah, I remember that now! I don't think it was an objective to capture or destroy the World Trade Center, but it could be garrisoned or destroyed. I think they were at the very top of the map, so only the bottoms of the towers were showing... because I guess it would be kinda difficult to include the full towers without poking the camera ;-)
And let's not forget the Space Needle in Seattle that let you see the entire map when you garrisoned it. I think it was the same level where you had to save the MassiveSoft CEO :-)
Good memories indeed...

I think it was just a bit of fun, although in hindsight not the most appropriate. I liked that you could destroy everything, it added to the crazy fun feel Red Alert 2 had.

I think it is the same lever where you see MassiveSoft. Who in no way is supposed to be Bill Gates. :-)
Sadly games we will likely never see on here.

*disinfecting* *big hugs*

Actually I'm in for frogs and snails soup, as long as it's hot *shivering*

Ewwww. You must be hallucinating if you would eat that. :-)

*gives Tom some of Agent's spare blankets to keep him from shivering*

*big get well soon hug*