A lot of those are features of notepad.

I think the implication was that the prisoners are actually hostages too.

How else can you judge what direction they might go in? If you like the projects they worked on in the past does it not make it more likely that you’ll like their next project? Effectively we are getting a merger of two of the better publishers that are going independent from more corporate overlords? Maybe I’m being overly optimistic…

It was the photo mode and filters setting in the overlay. You can switch it off.