@remotesilver: Apologies, I said I thought that Jeff had expressed his intention to leave, he was definitely looking fed up. It does look as if they were balancing the sheets. I'd been thinking of a famous BBC radio celebrity in the UK who was only allowed to stay until the end of the week, despite the fact that he wanted to work one week more. That's probably because there was another BBC DJ who was told to move on to a different station, he used his last show to have a go at the BBC about that. Bitterness seems to grow quickly under those circumstances.
@remotesilver: It's been a while, but I'd heard that Jeff had already approached them about his intention to leave. In the UK (at least) you'd get paid severance if they terminate you anyway. I've had that in the past.
I think describing Jeff as a firing/layoff to satisfy a balance sheet is quite likely inaccurate - Jess and Jason though, yes. In the case of Jeff, it's a common practice for someone to be granted either a) gardening leave - they get paid their notice not to work and look around for employment, as long as it's not for a competitor (wouldn't work so well for Jeff with his background and the state of games journalism) or b) they're told to leave, rather than have them make any parting shots/cause trouble whilst under the company's name - mitigation of sorts. As a regular employee for so long wanting to leave, I don't think he couldn't be construed to have misbehaved, just be fed up.
@ben_h: There's one other thing |I've encountered, though. The use of grey on a white background to try to make text look subtle. Sure, it's prettier, although I think it's harder on the eyes. I would prefer the reverse, white text on a gray background. Unfortunately dark mode on Edge has limited options, (I don't like Edge much though anyway).
I've heard comments about text size in game vids as well. The menus are intricate and small, and the various HUD status indicators can be harder to read, also possibly chat. I'm fortunate in that I haven't noticed colour blindness, so that's a plus for me. But I'd like to have options for that for others. Unless I'm missing something, also at the point of install they say "which buttons do you use most frequently" and make them bigger. Rather than expecting me to work through each button area to reduce the screen footprint. So some forms of just "open", "build", "run", "dependencies". All available elsewhere, but make it simple, I guess.
Edit: This applies to both apps and games, customisable menus are a thing I'm sure (like WSAD is a thing) and probably exists, but I'd really like that idea in Kerbal, for example
Yeah plus higher resolution desktop screen sizes don't encourage app writers to use the new found space for letter clarity, it seems to me. The app I worked on was designed by someone who decided that 8 pt text was the way to go, so they could just jam more options onto the same screen as screens got bigger. Adjusting the system font size upward simply made the letters too big for the fields they were intended to be typed into. Didn't change the number of characters you could enter, but the letters became clipped by the field boundary. A big problem when you trying to run the app on a surface screen, and our customers complained about desktop monitor sizes too.
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