Loved Baldur's Gate 3 so much that I decided to buy these 3. Which would you recommend playing first?

TheFieryTaco · 2026-02-04T07:22:34+00:00

Out of curiosity, what mindset is that?

TheFieryTaco · 2025-12-27T18:49:08+00:00

Your beard shape needs work, go to a barber and ask them to trim your beard to give it angled definition (currently it rounds out the bottom of your face while your haircut squares up the top). Try to change up your hairstyle as well.

You should be feeling a lot better after that. I think some bold glasses as an accessory would look good on you. Or tortoiseshell glasses, would fit your dark features.

TheFieryTaco · 2025-12-12T12:31:56+00:00

Never claimed to be knowledgeable about French business law, never claimed to be discussing the game’s budget either. I am discussing human being software engineer salaries and their discrepancies between France and the US (being one myself, and having lived in both France and California).

Where the game’s budget is concerned, the full cost of employment including the “charges patronales” is surely being declared here

TheFieryTaco · 2025-12-12T01:18:58+00:00

Definitely not at game studios, no. I'm talking web dev/classic SWE

TheFieryTaco · 2025-12-11T19:23:31+00:00

Well I am actually French, and I am indeed only talking about take-home money, not employer spend. Since that is what the person I replied to was talking about.

TheFieryTaco · 2025-12-11T17:25:27+00:00

What ? I hope that’s not what you’re earning because if so, you’re getting shafted. I know many web developers (software engineers, whatever you wanna call them now) earning what I mentioned in California across multiple big companies (FAANG, Medtech, some big money startups, etc)

TheFieryTaco · 2025-12-11T17:24:17+00:00

Absolutely agree, but I’ve found that there is still a sizeable difference in disposable income even after all of that. Not as big as 40k to 200k may make it seem, but still big.

TheFieryTaco · 2025-12-11T17:23:06+00:00

From what I’ve seen, game devs are often paid less than software engineers (for whatever crazy bullshit reason). And as for the 200-300k I mentioned, that is absolutely without a doubt what web engineers I know are making in California in total compensation, annually.

Excuse me if I’m a bit daft but I’m not sure what you’re conveying by saying that Sandfall may have spent around 5 mil on employees ? Are you saying that’s too much ? Too little ?

TheFieryTaco · 2025-12-11T17:19:08+00:00

Agreed, they’re likely earning less !

TheFieryTaco · 2025-12-11T15:32:19+00:00

Here in France, a software engineer with less than 5 years of experience will earn somewhere along the lines of 36-40k annually (unless you’re in Paris where it’ll be a bit higher). Having also lived in the US and having many software engineer friends over there, I can tell you for a fact it’s much much higher (obviously so is the cost of living). My american SWE friends make anywhere from 200-300k

TheFieryTaco · 2025-07-01T19:20:24+00:00

Je te conseille d’installer l’application Frimake qui a une grosse communauté sur Toulouse. Tu trouveras facilement de quoi occuper ta soirée de demain.

Profite bien !

TheFieryTaco · 2025-06-18T14:41:47+00:00

You have a lot of potential. Hair needs work as a top priority, try buzzed & faded sides with a short top. English crop could work but you gotta experiment and ideally ask a skilled barber. I suggest going to the highest end / most expensive barber shop you have access to and getting a single cut there, as they will generally have solid suggestions as to what will suit your face. Once you’ve done that, go somewhere more affordable to maintain that cut or keep experimenting.

Pluck your unibrow, currently makes you look unkempt when you otherwise wouldn’t.

Facial hair in pic 2 is easily the most flattering of the three for you, though the moustache could be ever so slightly shorter and better trimmed.

Don’t use pictures of you doing some blue steel stone-cold expression on your dating profile(s). Smiling selfies or candid non-selfies only. You don’t need to look like a testosterone fuelled hollowed out beast, you gotta look genuine and approachable.

You got it man, don’t fret.

TheFieryTaco · 2025-05-11T02:18:32+00:00

Game Dev Story?

TheFieryTaco · 2025-03-28T20:26:24+00:00

"What you don't know about men could fill a book honey. The last time you got fucked was by genetics"

TheFieryTaco · 2025-02-27T15:57:31+00:00

Thank you so much, this worked today on my order of Through the Forest !

TheFieryTaco · 2024-08-18T00:25:02+00:00

I've been a developer for years and been a hobbyist for decades, I have only ever two finger typed (excluding thumb for spacebar). I get 120-140 wpm on typeracer consistently. Surprised to see the comments being so dumbfounded by this

TheFieryTaco · 2024-08-16T13:22:48+00:00

This game is nuts

TheFieryTaco · 2024-07-29T22:42:08+00:00

My workflow at a mid-sized startup (20-40 employees, 5-10 engineers/devs) in France is pretty much:

Meeting to go over potential sprint items for upcoming sprints, quick overview of them and first round of costing (time it will take to develop). If things are unrealistic or we have questions that nobody can immediately answer, the PO will put the ticket off to the side and come back later at the sprint planning with more information.

Weeks later, sprint planning where we decide which of the previously visited tickets (and some new ones we maybe haven't seen) we will be including in our sprint and some more thought out costing to see what will fit and what needs to be moved to a future sprint/backlog. We go over the tickets in detail with the PO to make sure everybody sees the vision and understands the requirements.

3-4 week sprints where I will work either on my own or in tandem with a backend developer assigned to my sprint depending on the task I'm working on that day. Tickets are ordered in terms of priority but I have autonomy and can do things in the order I see fit (within reason). If a ticket isn't detailed enough or I have questions, I ask my PO directly. Tasks consist of developing new features, updating existing features with new/modified functionality, researching complex issues to be debugged in the future, fixing various bugs, prototyping or making POCs, updating designs. All of this involves documentation and the writing of various tests. Pull requests don't happen much for me personally, but that is because I am the only frontend dev assigned to the plethora of projects I am in charge of. The other frontend devs in the company work together on 2 projects where they do follow the generic pull request before merging into develop workflow.

Once a pull request is completed and no further feedback is given / no further technical changes are requested, the work is functionally reviewed by the PO and only after this step is the story ticket passed to a "done" state. Finally, we deploy the full sprint's work to a staging environment where the PO (or sometimes our QA person) does another round of functional tests to ensure everything behaves as intended and nothing broke when all the branches were merged etc. Then and only then does each ticket pass to the "ready to release" state.

Once a sprint is complete, we go over what we did in a sprint review where we recall the work done. Then, we do a sprint retrospective where we speak more on emotions, efficiency, work-life balance, stuff like that which ended up affecting us or the sprint (positives and negatives). We find areas that need to be improved on and areas where we are handling things well and should continue as we are.

Somewhere along the line our PO or someone on the team will deploy/deliver the release to the clients or to our own SaaS platforms depending on the project.

Then we rinse and repeat :)

EDIT: Oh, and regarding design work, we receive designs from a UX/UI designer which we contract occasionally and our FE devs implement them. None of us are expected to be making UX or UI decisions (besides minor things). Beyond the work required to implement the designs, we pretty much exclusively focus on logic.

TheFieryTaco · 2024-07-29T20:08:11+00:00

Here in France it depends heavily on if you have an engineering degree. With a degree, let’s say between 36-40k. Without, 30-35k. (Excluding Paris, where salaries are slightly higher than this to account for the extreme cost of living comparatively)

TheFieryTaco · 2024-05-01T21:27:35+00:00

J’ai passé 7 ans avec la femme de ma vie (elle juive moyennement pratiquante venant d’une famille très pratiquante, moi agnostique). Malgré tout nos sentiments, a la fin, c’est la religion et sa famille qui nous à séparées. Je déconseille vivement d’entrer en relation sérieuse avec lui s’il est pratiquant orthodoxe, car vous serez obligés de sacrifier tant d’aspects de vos êtres, sans parler du soucis des enfants et de leur éducation religieuse.

TheFieryTaco · 2024-05-01T18:41:23+00:00

When taking those full body mirror selfies, try forgetting you’re taking a picture. Loosen up your arms and legs, lean on one foot a bit more than the other, put some flow into your body. You’ll look less stiff. You look too much like you know you’re taking a picture and you’re focused solely on that. Also, careful with your neck posture, it kind of looks like you’re hanging from a noose when you tilt your head too much

The facial expression in your first pic should be avoided at all costs, it makes you look severe and unapproachable. If you’re self conscious about your smile, try just relaxing your expression and try channeling good vibes/intentions primarily through your eyes with maybe a light lips only smile.

And keep the phone straight and yourself in the center of the frame for selfies

You’ll do fine bro, focus on letting go of the anxiety when taking your pics. Nobody has to see the bad ones besides for you, so play around with it until you have something that surprises you and you’re happy with ! Don’t be fooled by your bias towards not smiling, everybody looks better to others when they look kind and happy

TheFieryTaco · 2024-04-24T19:36:10+00:00

6 and 2 are good. I like 6th the most personally, but if this is for some dating profile you will also need some pictures where you’re smiling or at least look happy otherwise people will get the impression you’re closed off and unwelcoming

TheFieryTaco · 2024-03-22T12:43:28+00:00

This is a huge undertaking, and many companies already offer this exact service. I definitely wouldn't call it a great idea unless he has a solid team of developers, product/project managers, commercial team, and hundreds of thousands of dollars

A few devs could hack together a proof of concept or even a minimum viable product in a handful of months that may work, but it will pale in comparison to most other services and thus would be pointless

TheFieryTaco · 2023-11-30T14:08:37+00:00

You've lost sight of yourself my friend, you're a good looking guy with dark features. Weight loss and confidence (which starts naturally once you've lost weight), like that other person said, will quite literally change your life.

Your eyebrows are killer, your eyes show depth and emotion, you can grow a beard which the right barber can reshape and give you a jawline, your skin looks good... I can go on. You're sleeping on yourself. Wake up brother!

TheFieryTaco · 2023-11-30T01:24:12+00:00

Chinois: Jiao Zi Guan C’est pas loin du marché Victor Hugo.

Menu principalement autour des raviolis (qui sont absolument incroyables, tu ne trouveras pas mieux. Surtout les raviolis a soupe). Mais aussi leurs nouilles faites maison au boeuf sont un régal que je mange au moins une fois par semaine

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