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Damn I didn't know they created a webcomic filled with srker ice cold takes 👀
 
too bad pertho left but I am more than certain this applies to a lot of y'all 🥴
 

https://reason.com/2021/02/01/she-could-have-been-hurt-worse-police-union-defends-officer-who-pepper-sprayed-9-year-old-girl/
 
lol of course the pigs back it.

Given that he did Pacific Rim, the Thor movies and The Dark Tower adaptation, I had thought Idris was just hungry for that loot being the biggest named brother in the film industry can sometimes afford.
 
Sort of surprised he is a nerd and married one too. Good for him!

Seems like the kind of meme someone whose never been married would make lol. 

I'm going to have to answer that when I get off work. That'll probably be after 6 EST. The TLDR is, and this part will be no help, characters and settings come to me. The character first the details of their environment. This is for original characters. Something not based on an existing IP. 
 
Something based in an existing IP is different. I'll usually target something I feel is overlooked or underrepresented. That's how I approached most of my original Street Fighter characters. This will be off the top, I haven't read his origin in a while so this will lack detail. One of my first SF characters was Rhonwen Van Zandt. SF lacks characters from Africa. So I had very general setting to start with. I ended up going with South Africa. I decided I wanted a mixed character.  So I researched South Africa. I found were a large portion of the European population came from. The Dutch Boers stuck out to me. So his father would be Dutch. I wanted his name to show his dual origins. I looked up South African given names and Dutch surnames. Hence Rhonwen Van Zandt.
 
Now I had to think of how he would fight. Typically SF characters use a martial art tied to their homeland. This was the hardest part. The number of arts and the information on them was subpar. The art I found, Obnu Bilate, has scant details available for it in particular. IIRC it was based on Savate and grappling/wrestling. So I researched those arts and constructed Obnu Bilate as best as I could. So I essentially combined those two arts to build it. I based his teacher on the arts founder. I based the names of his move set around native animals. Snakes from my recollection. Since two philosophies made up Obnu Bilate, I made him a "stance" character. One Savate form and one Grappling form. 
 
I used Bison's predilection for kidnapping athletics teen girls to give him a reason to compete. He's looking for his younger sister. Hmm....sort of went on rant. So much for work. Does any of this help. Typing this on my cell phone was bit arduous. 😉
 
Edit: Forgot something important. For all the old SRK heads. 

@AngelNow that I'm home I've had time to think more about my original stories. Even when I look at my book. I still took my characters and constructed the world around them. One of my characters has a unique lineage. As I thought about him and his parents, I got the idea to carry that alliance of sorts over to their peoples as a whole. It was at that point that thought about their countries being located in a northern and colder region. That snowballed into why that was. A lot of the back bone of what I wrote came from just thinking about how to flesh out a single character's origin. 
 
A few of my book characters are based on characters I created in my youth. When I was playing MMOs, Everquest 2 in particular, I really liked the feed back I received for the origins of my characters and how interwove multiple characters together. I carried a lot that over to my book, however I had to come up with a setting and lore of my own. For somethings like names I try to have some sort of consistency amongst people with shared ethnicities. When you ask about research, sometimes I draw from real world groups of people. One of my favorite parts of my SF characters was looking of the names of various nationalities. That actually carried over, at least in small part, to my book. Granted, I have a habit of just using, at least with given names, the first thing that comes to mind. I may modify or change to fit my pre-existing conventions if I feel it sticks out to much. Since the setting of my book isn't Earth, I made a point to stay away from common names or spell names based on actual given names differently or with a slight variation. In some cases I would swap out vowels for others.
 
I'm not sure what type of writing you like to do. I feel, and this could be completely off base, you should try to avoid mimicking other writers if possible. For good or for ill, I wrote my book without looking at other works in similar genres. Not saying that it wasn't influenced at all. Things I've read or seen surely influenced what I came up with but I wanted to develop my own style. To do that I felt I had to stay away from other works of a similar vain. Initially I was going to read other books with similar themes after I finished my book. Then I was going to go back and tweak things that I felt were "wrong." However I decided against it. What I wrote may be terrible but it's what I created. I'd rather write something that's mine that ill conceived than lean to much on the style and narrative story telling of others. 
 
Honestly, I feel writing things based on an existing property is far easier. At least for me. The rules, lore, character personalities, etc. are already predefined. Sure there is a challenge in trying to make sure what you write is consistent with creator but that's a lot easier than creating your own work and trying to keep a clear and concise set of rules. That, more than even grammar and spelling, are what I fear the most in terms of how my book turned out. 

A lot of thumb sucking going on, which is fine when big momma is around to comfort you. 
 
 
 
I remember some dumbass on twitter trying to claim she wasn't that tall.  Like breh she clearly was bent over almost to her waist going through a doorway which are typically 6'8 to 8ft tall.  
 

Anyone that cosigns shit like what happened to that kid needs to just go ahead and log off and find the nearest puddle of piss to drown themselves in. 

Before I forget again
 
https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/idris-elba-sabirna-elba-crunchyroll-anime-1234898245/
 
Idris elba the anime 👀

Oh, I forgot to tag you. February 1st.  So anyone else doing some writing? I saw a few of your that encouraged me along the way, much appreciate BTW, were thinking of writing. I saw do it. Whether I succeed or fail, the fact that I actually wrote a book is something I'm proud of. Now I just have to promise you all a sequel and keep pushing back the expected release date. Then I'll be a real author 😉 Now, in my infinite "wisdom", I'm sort of writing two at the same time. Granted it's in the same universe but I'd like to touch on parts of the world were mentioned of barely skimmed over. I figure I'll bounce between it and the sequel. This gives me something to write that doesn't require me to constantly make sure I'm not breaking continuity. I hate that so, I'm going try and NOT be a hypocrite, and keep mine as tight as possible. Wait, have to do my author thing. Let me give a "firm" release date for my next book 👀
 
Chronicles of Elos: Reverberations of War - Coming 4Qth 2021 😉  Chronicles of Elos: Shifting Sands of Zoaz - TBD As the winking face indicates, that release date ain't happening. It's getting done whenever I'm done. I have better chance at doing more 225lb bench press reps than my brother than hitting that date.

Hmm...I was a lurker around SRK from registering in 2004 to discontinuing the site in 2006. I think looking back on local competition from the sixth generation consoles, was with merit, but I miss the passion I use to have to pass the time. 
 
Before knowing SRK, the chess club and tournaments in the 1990s and challenging other schools were my primary focus. I felt like a big fish, but always felt unsatisfied with my progress due to the difficulty of finding competition, which I've also lacked direction and support. It was enlightening to come across a grandmaster, which I wanted to experience more of it, but without the funds to travel all over, I discontinued chess and that's how I've found the SRK site back then. 
 
I have a habit on reflecting on the past. Though I see this community as comfortable. ^_^

A lot of thumb sucking going on, which is fine when big momma is around to comfort you. 
 
 
 
I remember some dumbass on twitter trying to claim she wasn't that tall.  Like breh she clearly was bent over almost to her waist going through a doorway which are typically 6'8 to 8ft tall.  
 

Oh man y'all missing out.   At least check out the last show, Gaogaigar
 
https://youtu.be/zgAazreoQqA

The art of the deal right there tubb 🥴

Anyone that cosigns shit like what happened to that kid needs to just go ahead and log off and find the nearest puddle of piss to drown themselves in. 

Anyone that cosigns shit like what happened to that kid needs to just go ahead and log off and find the nearest puddle of piss to drown themselves in. 

The art of the deal right there tubb 🥴