The Fortnitification of UE is mentioned but he doesn't really point to that as a reason either.

The original relevant text:

I feel like this era has come to a close, and it is time to move forward. The industry is in a very interesting place. The games industry has always been an industry where change is relentless and inevitable, but it feels like we are reaching a pivotal point now and a potent mix of things.

As much as I love the old way of working, I think it would be strategic to come to terms with where this is heading, and to work out how to adapt and excel at solving the challenges and opportunities that we face.

A bunch of cryptic nonsense. Saying it's turning to shit without saying it, is my takeaway.

Funny how the only people he "wishes well" are fucking deplorable.

They were going to but did not. I'll defend the people who don't though: most articles are shit and filled with tons of rambling contextual nonsense just to arbitrarily extend their length. They're also often not the original source of the content, and trying to find the original is a pain in the dick because 90% of the links just link back to their own site, if there even is a link to the original at all. That's why I often add synopses to posts but I wish the people who posted them would add them instead...

All these words and no mention of why it failed?

WhatsApp — by default, on most devices, for most users — automatically backs up your entire chat history to iCloud(iOS) or Google Drive (Android). This backup contains your decrypted messages. The plaintext. The thing the Signal Protocol just worked so hard to protect.

Stones in glass houses from Durov here. They don't even have encryption...

Are you the dev?

The image seems to be completely absent from the article. Not even a link. It might be this one?

https://cdn.bsky.app/...

Because voters don't vote accordingly.

We never did.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) sent a June 16 letter to MLB, saying that the league “must answer for what appears to be a pattern of discrimination” against Christian players.

So celebrating your beliefs is discrimination against other beliefs? Yeah, nah. That's not how that works. If it was you'd be "discriminating" when you put up a tree for Christmas.

Oh I didn't even realize I couldn't see it

I mean it seems like you might have been.

"boy, you know who I miss? The billionaire who used to live up the bloc!"

The implication is not that they'll be missed, it is that they will just not pay taxes in another region, which does nothing but rob your current region of whatever tax dollars they're currently paying.

They did, and they convicted him with 34 felony crimes, and yet...

I wish I had this kind of confidence in our criminal justice system

Probably downvoted because it's much cheaper if you account for subscriptions and higher sales prices.

Your server is down already 🫤

Something something Streisand

This is pretty much what happens with every company that becomes popular. Eventually they begin to exploit their popularity to take back value from their own customers.

I wouldn't ever spend money on something that requires an app, an account, or an internet connection. Fortunately my car has dashcams built in.

For an uneducated consumer (which is most) it looks like a really bad deal when a PS5 is $800 or whatever and includes the controller.