Raimondas Rimkevičius (aka MekDrop)

Open source enthusiast (@ImpressCMS), #PHP developer, occasional #gamedev, working on @Breach_portal, #anime lover! Passionate about world-changing #startups.

[Raimondas Rimkevičius (aka MekDrop) @MekDrop]

Probably there are better villains with superpowers, but somehow these are my picks.

All of them have abilities and traits that would make life extremely difficult for the others on this list...

…And imagine all of them existing in the #Boys universe...

[Raimondas Rimkevičius (aka MekDrop) @MekDrop]

Found this meme on LinkedIn… but somehow it correlates with what I’m seeing at my job...

Sometimes I'm really wondering, how people will live if there some both Claude and ChatGPT collapses...

[Raimondas Rimkevičius (aka MekDrop) @MekDrop]

idk what will happens with this but i'll started to cooking something with PixiJS

[Alex Nichiporchik - play Sand Raiders of Sophie @aNichiporchik]

https://t.co/v6pn3EWG70

[Raimondas Rimkevičius (aka MekDrop) @MekDrop]

Not perfect but I really like an idea... how to use webcam with treejs and your hands as controller -> https://t.co/H1Wm3ZVt5q

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A YouTuber with 38 million subscribers just beat the entire Hollywood studio system at its own game, and he did it with 80,000 gallons of fake blood and a submarine made of painted wood.

Mark Fischbach played a $6 indie horror game on his channel in 2022. The game was Iron Lung, developed by one guy, David Szymanski, in his spare time. It had no windows, no enemies you could see, just a convict trapped in a submarine navigating an ocean of blood. The entire thing took about 75 minutes to beat.

Fischbach saw something the game industry didn’t. The constraint was the feature. A single claustrophobic set. One man losing his mind. Sound design carrying all the horror that visuals couldn’t. This wasn’t a limitation to work around. This was a low-budget filmmaker’s dream.

So he did what studios would never greenlight. He wrote the script himself, directed it himself, acted in it himself, edited it himself, and paid for the whole thing out of pocket. No studio. No distribution deal. No marketing budget.

Then the gatekeepers showed up.

When he tried to get theaters, they told him the demand wasn’t there. So he posted about it. His fans called every independent theater chain in the country. Theaters started complaining to the distributor that they were getting too many calls.

Within weeks, AMC, Cinemark, and Regal announced they’d carry it. The film went from “maybe 60 theaters” to over 4,000 screens worldwide. Presales crossed $5 million before opening day.

$8.9 million on Friday. $17 million projected by Sunday. A self-distributed movie by a YouTuber, beating initial projections by 70%.

The studio model is built on the assumption that audiences need to be told what to watch. Fischbach proved that 38 million subscribers is its own distribution network. The audience was already waiting. He just had to make something worth waiting for.

[Raimondas Rimkevičius (aka MekDrop) @MekDrop]

@brianorca @davepl1968 If I remember correctly, Unreal Engine 1 back in 1998 had something similar. They called them INI files, and while they looked like standard INI at first glance, they weren't fully compatible.

So it's likely there were some others like this

[Raimondas Rimkevičius (aka MekDrop) @MekDrop]

This isn't really a generational story.
It's about meaning, work, and purpose.

Some people find their path.
Some just flow - and it works.
Some already made it.

I can see the destination through the mist.
Still don't know how to reach it.

https://t.co/KG5s0CkTPW

[Raimondas Rimkevičius (aka MekDrop) @MekDrop]

I didn't knew that nanny for IT specialist is a thing :| https://t.co/Q1dNyaDCKW

[sysxplore @sysxplore]

Linux running in a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator compiled to JS

[Raimondas Rimkevičius (aka MekDrop) @MekDrop]

I have mixed feelings about this...

DNF has the DLC The Doctor Who Cloned Me, which-maybe not on the Duke Nukem 3D level, but is still genuinely good. It also came out later than the base game, and it's one of the few cases where a DLC is actually much better than the main game...

It shame that many people didn't tried it instead base DNF game... it's like 2 different Duke Nukem...

[Raimondas Rimkevičius (aka MekDrop) @MekDrop]

Sometimes I wonder why some good gaming francises like Midtown Madness died for no reason at all instead reinventing themselfs like f.e. Far Cry did

[Retro Tech Dreams @RetroTechDreams]

Midtown Madness (1999)

[Raimondas Rimkevičius (aka MekDrop) @MekDrop]

I really like some reflections on why people think they succeeded. It's not always directly applicable, but it still provides useful insights #gamedev https://t.co/p0XzMbsAv0

[Raimondas Rimkevičius (aka MekDrop) @MekDrop]

IRC may be old, but in some ways it’s still better. Kinda wild that Discord became the industry standard while having many of the same issues as MS Teams. Will we ever get tools for trivial things that focus on speed and real convenience, not just looks or familiarity?

[Dave NewBlood @DaveOshry]

Alright what's the next thing we're all moving to when it goes to shit

[Raimondas Rimkevičius (aka MekDrop) @MekDrop]

@jlist maybe... if we ever get sequel...

[𝟮𝟭.🛸 @Big_tagg]

If playing video games is a waste of time so is watching tv. Literally any hobby is just a waste of time, people need to let other enjoy what they want

[Raimondas Rimkevičius (aka MekDrop) @MekDrop]

It's strange that many these tech failed big names has pretty similar things in common... :/ https://t.co/juwGyqUXUW

[Raimondas Rimkevičius (aka MekDrop) @MekDrop]

Sadly there much improvements but in gamedev mandatory overtime is still somehow a thing because of shitty managers https://t.co/WahWIDqB3z

[Raimondas Rimkevičius (aka MekDrop) @MekDrop]

Is this FPS that we are still waiting for? :D

[Raimondas Rimkevičius (aka MekDrop) @MekDrop]

yeah... probably with this combination you can do much more... but I think in today's world, JavaScript and Python would be the combination that opens the most job opportunities.