Paragons of Change 13. - Calvin Wong Tze Loon

The year 2020 has been a year coloured by change. Changes in many ways have touched many people's lives. Paragons of Change is a series of interviews with people from boardgaming sphere whom I’ve noticed going through changes in recent times. We talk about change and what they have changed in their lives. By default we do not claim we state facts, we only talk from our own points of view and our opinions. As the discussion might take a negative note, we try finish with a positive – by giving you a Top9 list of games. The topic of the list has been chosen by the guest and we will have a “battle of the lists” after the episode airs in my social media channels – you, dear listener, are encouraged to comment and vote on the lists to see which one of us did better. The thirteenth Paragon in the series is the acting advocate of diversity in boardgames, Calvin Wong Tze Loon. Calvin is probably best know from his advocacy on many sensitive topics in Twitter (as Ithayla) and thus we talk about topics like unintentional racism, (cultural) representation and diversity in boardgames, colonialism, reviewing boardgames, acting, and noodles. He also discusses about his passions for writing and science fiction, which ties nicely to our Top 9 topic this time: Sci-Fi Games! Comments are welcome, hope you enjoy this bit and will be back for rest of the series. Voting for our Top9's will commence some time after this episode drops. Top9 starts at about 48:20 and the topic is Top 9 Sci-Fi Games! This episode is recorded 6th of February 2021. Thank you for listening! You can find Calvin here: https://twitter.com/ithayla The music used in this Series is Nightwalker by @Sentientpulse , Thank you! https://soundcloud.com/sentientpulse/nightwalker-sentient-pulse-1 By the way, I opened a Patreon. In case you have an interest in taking a look at what you'd get by showing some patronage, here's the link: https://www.patreon.com/mitapelataan . Comments are also welcome, especially on what you'd wish to get in return of you being a patron. Thank you for even considering clicking the link! Follow Mitä Pelataan? in media! https://linktr.ee/mitapelataan https://mitapelataan.wordpress.com https://twitter.com/MitaPelataan https://www.instagram.com/mitapelataan/ https://www.facebook.com/mitapelata/ https://soundcloud.com/mitapelataan/ https://open.spotify.com/show/5OdHNkrztkRRtvSgf3GXty https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mitä-pelataan/id1390280287 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA8rysZ3Jkxq7-R7cA7xrjw https://boardgamegeek.com/user/Zuxi https://boardgamegeek.com/guild/3320 Email: mitapelataanATgmail dot com