SFV stats, popularity of character, and win rate online

This is July1-July31, 2020.  So... you can't read these b/c the blog wont do big files or something.

Summary, popularity

TOP:Ryu, Akuma, ken, guile, kage, zangief, Seth, M.Bison, Cammy, Urien, Karin, Chun...

Bottom: G, Lucia, poison, necalli, r.mika, honda, rashid, birdie, dhalsim, blanka, falke, menat, fang is last. 

Winrate online:

TOP Honda (5.588 outta 5.0), Urien, Fang, Bison, Blanka, Dhalsim, Boxer, Claw, Birdie, Abigail, Falke, Guile, Cody, Poison, Alex, Zangief, Ed, G, Laura, Sagat, Zeku (5.0 outta 5.0), Necalli, Karin, Nash, Gill, Kolin, Chun, Ibuki, ken (4.871 outta 5), Seth, juri, ryu, the cop girl, r.mika, kage, cammy, akuma, sakura, menat, RASHID (4.617) is last. 

Bison trouble vs: Honda (4.656), CLaw (4.791), Abigail (4.958), Gief (4.923), Laura (4.863). 

Bison destroys: Poison (5.432), ed (5.491), Sagat (5.998????), Zeku, karin, nash, gill, ibuki, seth, juri,(5.726)  ryu (5.566)

Kung Fu - Five Shaolin Masters is that movie I keep forgetting the name of, with the 5 in training

 Five Shaolin Masters is that movie I keep forgetting the name of, with the 5 in training

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YePEpIz1eSA

https://www.silveremulsion.com/2016/12/16/five-shaolin-masters-1974/?doing_wp_cron=1597267767.0801808834075927734375

EDIT: Other old favs, the Kid with the Golden Arm and the Five Deadly Venoms.

https://www.silveremulsion.com/2013/07/20/top-ten-1970-1971-shaw-brothers-martial-arts-films/

Lots of great sci fi, nerdy, or fantasy or whatever TV and Movie info

https://bureau42.com 

The Lone Gunmen of the X-Files:

And this is cool: 

https://dorkygeekynerdy.com/episode-79-1970s-science-fiction-movies-trivia

And old Kung Fu movies listed here:

https://www.silveremulsion.com/review-series/ongoing-review-series/shaw-brothers-martial-arts-films/?doing_wp_cron=1597266121.6865680217742919921875

And some classics here that I'd like: 

https://www.silveremulsion.com/2013/09/30/my-top-10-favorite-sam-fuller-movies/

Great old anime style cartoon movies that I love and more

 https://www.xplainthexmen.com/2020/08/hawk-talk-video-renaissance/

quote 

"Ooh, ooh, I get to do my Count Zero Contextualizes Stuff through Anime Thing for a Hawk Talk.

So, a lot of these Ranken-Bass cell animated projects – Flight of Dragons, The Hobbit & Return of the King, and The Last Unicorn were all animated by Studio Topcraft. If that name sounds familiar, they also animated Nausicca of the Valley of the Wind. When Topcraft went bankrupt, the staff basically either went with Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki to Studio Ghibli, with Hideaki Anno to help Daicon Film on their project Royal Space Force: Wings of Honnêamise (and some later going on to GAINAX).

The rest went on to a new company called Pacific Animation Corporation, which got bought by Disney, dissolved in the early 2000s, with everyone then starting a third company called The Answer Studio where they’ve been working on DC Animated projects."

"Oh, and one other thing – the character designer for the Ranken Bass Hobbit movies (and IIRC Flight of Dragons), would go on to do character design work for Record of Lodoss War, and is basically responsible for Anime Elves having such super long and pointy ears."

And here is this comment owner's website: 

https://countzeroor.com/

Hadoken came from old anime Hado Ho gun on the spaceship

Side note: Sad that Ono resigned today. :( The crazy Blanka guy. 

 https://youtu.be/ns05aoiMXp8?t=327

Hadoken for Street Fighter came from the Space Battleship Yamato's Hado Ho gun. Cool, I had no idea. Wave motion gun. 

Takashi Nishiyama was the guy, he got Ryu from his own name's Kanji:

Origin of Yellow-bellied insult

 Some indication the American version is unrelated to Brit one... see last paragraph. But in the UK, Its some old English thing. Interesting  

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/yellow-belly.html

What's the meaning of the phrase 'Yellow-belly'?

A coward. 

What's the origin of the phrase 'Yellow-belly'?

The term 'yellow-belly' is an archetypal American term, but began life in England in the late 18th century as a mildly derogatory nick-name. Grose's A provincial glossary; with a collection of local proverbs etc, 1787, lists it: 

"Yellow bellies. This is an appellation given to persons born in the Fens, who, it is jocularly said, have yellow bellies, like their eels."

The usage wasn't limited to the Lincolnshire Fens. In the same year, Knight's Quarterly Magazine (London) published an account of life in the the Staffordshire Collieries. It began by describing the region as "a miserable tract of country commencing a few miles beyond Birmingham" and went on to recount a lady's attempts at guessing the nick-name of a local resident - Lie-a-bed, Cock-eye, Pig-tail and finally Yellow-belly.

Another English directory, A General Dictionary of Provincialisms, by William Holloway, 1839, which contains the obliging sub-heading - written with a view to rescue from oblivion the fast fading relics of by-gone days, also lists the term:

"Yellow-belly, A person born in the Fens of Lincolnshire (From the yellow, sickly complexion of persons residing in marshy situations.)"

Holloway clearly lifted the definition from Grose. How much credence we should give to either Grose's or Holloway's explanation of the origin of the term is debatable. Neither seems especially convincing. It is just as likely that 'yellow-belly' didn't refer to a person's complexion and had no literal meaning, but was simply a piece of nonsense name-calling - somewhat akin to 'lily-livered'.

There is also a story about the Wexford hurling team that was raised by Sir Caesar Colclough to play a match against a team from Cornwall, in the late 16th century. This has a literal element, in that the Wexford players played with yellow cloth tied around their waist to distinguish them from Cornwall, and this caused them to be nicknamed The Yellowbellies. Wexford do still play in yellow and the name has stuck, although it isn't clear when the nickname was first used. This story, in as much as it can be verified at all at this late date, has no connotations of cowardice. The team might just as likely been called the bluebellies or greenbellies if different material had been available on the day. In fact, none of the early English/Irish uses of the name suggest cowardice. For that sense we have to travel to the USA. 

The screenplay of a B-feature western wasn't complete without a selection from the list of stock cowboy lingo. You were as likely to find a coward that wasn't called a yellow-belly as you were to see the Lone Ranger without his mask. 

The first use of the term that I can find from the USA, and one that suggests the derogatory, cowardly meaning, comes from an account of a military skirmish in Texas, reported in The Wisconsin Enquirer, April 1842:

We learn from Capt. Wright, of the N. York, that it is the intention of the Texans to "keep dark" until the Mexicans cross the Colorado, and then give them a San Jacinto fight, with an army from 5000 to 7000 men. God send that they may bayonet every "yellow belly" in the Mexican army.

The US usage initially applied specifically to Mexicans, who were soon to be at war with the USA. Whether the 'yellow' reference was a racist allusion to skin colour, ill-health, or to a likening to snakes, lizards etc. isn't clear. Whatever the origin, the US 'coward' version seems to be independent of the earlier English nick-name.

 

Johnny Cash Ring of Fire... timing vs. The Good, Bad, Ugly

 Tom Petty on his radio stn said Cash’s Ring of Fire was first song of that type to use those types of horn instruments. Reminds me of The good the bad and the ugly of clint eastwood fame. So... who was first to influence the other? I bet Cash was first.