Believe it or not, I got some good advice from 4chan on my game.

I knew the GUI wasn't right, but I didn't have any good ideas on how to fix it. But as soon as someone else told me what was amiss, a solution suddenly became imperative. The idea took only a few minutes, the work some hours.

The GUI has been changed subtly. Not only is it now slightly translucent, the content behind it is blurred, a 3x3 resample. I feel that nothing else is needed. If anything else is needed, I expect you'll probably be too polite to say. ;)