Rahul, Author at RM Ideas Blog

Red Dead Redemption Remastered (PC) – Initial Review

Introduction Red Dead Redemption rereleased last year in Oct 2024 with the price tag of ₹3799 (or $45 in USA). If this price is too much for you then you can access it for cheaper with their GTA+ subscription. The original game was released in 2010 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It was a…

Rahul August 2, 2025

Opinion

ChatGPT is getting Dumber! ChatGPT failed to do a Small Task I Asked him to do

Yesterday or last night to be specific, I asked Claude AI to perform a small task that involves scraping a website. It took him some revisions to achieve the way I expected. I had one another website to scrape, but I ran over the limit. Claude by-default give you long answers, so it's pretty easy…

Rahul July 23, 2025

Rant

Scandinavian Scarf: A Whitewashing of Indian Dupatta

Neither I have the desire to write this article, nor does it fall into the categories I usually cover on my blog. So why I am writing this? Well, let me explain. I heard about this "Scandinavian Scarf" thing recently, and it stirred a pang in my chest, how something that is part of our…

Rahul July 18, 2025

Productivity

My Personal Journaling Journey- A post about Logging Self-Thoughts and Activities

Introduction I had never been a fan of writing a dairy or a Personal Journal. I always thought it was too much of effort to record what you did, how you felt at the end of the day, or what you planned to do tomorrow. It felt like making a to-do list with extra steps.…

Rahul July 13, 2025

Video Games

Everspace 2 – First Hour Review

Introduction Everspace is an interesting space game series developed and published by German Developers - Rockfish Games. The first entry in this series had rougelike mechanics, this one is an RPGlite in space. Roguelike and rogue lite is not my thing that keep me away from first Everspace. If it is your thing then you…

Rahul June 17, 2025

Video Games

Elex – First Hour Review

Introduction The very first thing I noticed was that subtitles were not enabled by default, funny for a game developed by non-Anglo developers, Piranha Bytes. Anyway, I bought it yesterday from the Epic Games Store on sale. I was confused between this game and the Outward Definitive Edition. After playing it for an hour, I…

Rahul June 6, 2025

Video Games

Dragon Age: Inquisition – First Hour Review

In my very first "first-hour review", I'm going to review Dragon Age: Inquisition. Released in 2014, the game is very popular, and thanks to its stylised graphics, it holds up pretty well in 2025. Unlike its earliest predecessor, Dragon Age: Origins, hailed as one of the greatest RPGs ever made, Inquisition is considered pretty mild…

Rahul May 29, 2025

Programming

Algo for Auto-Suggesting Wallpaper Resolutions Based on Aspect Ratio – Cloudinary & React

Cloudinary is a wonderful platform that allows images and videos hosting for free. Beside this, it allows user to make any sort of image transformation right through their delivery URL. One such transformation allows you to change the resolution of an image. It's easy, add a string mentioning width and height at a certain position…

Rahul April 24, 2025

Movies

I Watched 4 Interesting Horror Movies That I’d Like to Talk About

It was a great weekend, one of those that I spend watching movies. I picked one after another at random, without having any knowledge of movies that I was about to watch. Anyway, I won't waste your time in introduction so let's get to the plot already. Pearl Pearl is a story of a young…

Rahul April 21, 2025

Programming

Adding Cloudinary to your React Frontend using XHR

Cloudinary allows you to upload images (and videos) through API on their cloud hosting platform. It also alllows (end) user to transform images like changing height/width, adding borders, changing aspect-ratio and much more by adding parameters to their delivery URL. Cloudinary is free and I am introduced to it as an alternative to firebase from this…

Rahul March 22, 2025