He was credited as director on the Oracle games, Four Swords, and the Minish Cap while working at Capcom. Then Nintendo poached him to write for Phantom Hourglass and then direct Skyward Sword, BotW, and TotK. Pretty interesting!
for those unaware, Romana Didulo is a Q-pilled, antivax, generally conspiracy-minded reactionary. She's also a Filipina-Canadian woman who claims to have been secretly installed as the rightful Queen of Canada by the US military.
For a while now, she's been travelling around the country to spread her message in a caravan of RVs along with a group of devoted followers. It's not exactly a stretch to say she's a cult leader, and she periodically encourages people to kidnap, harass, or otherwise assault healthcare workers and others. She's a lot!
If you want to learn more about her whole deal, Mack Lamoureux has done a bunch of reporting on her for Vice, and there's a couple of episodes of the QAA podcast focusing on her escapades.
Anywho, above is a picture I took earlier this evening of her RV parked outside a Walmart in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sweet dreams, Your Majesty.
i love learning things about history that explain, for me, a bit more why Things Are Like That. this was my big takeaway from getting incredibly into The History Of Rome podcast, that it really explained why europe was like that.
i mean, that's too neat of an answer, obviously, but realizing that an entire continent basically went through multiple hundreds of years in the literal shadows of the megaconstructions of a dead empire really makes you realize why they became obsessed with recreating that particular type of globe-spanning empire afterward. a bunch of grungy white guys scrabbling in the dirt over petty resources and, idk, clan ties or whatever and looking ten feet to their right and seeing a fucking concrete temple from the fucking roman empire. the amount of shit that does to an entire continent's psyche is honestly mind-boggling. of course napoleon ended up Doing That Shit. of course america is like that.
an entire set of continental cultures with terminal inferiority complex, that happened to be on the resources/power/administrative upswing at the moment that a bunch of other nearby world cultures were not, and boom, the colonial age. fucking ridiculous. anyway i love learning more about history it makes me feel crazy