TITLE:LOOK! SO MANY SO WHAT ARTICLES! - SO WHAT? PALETTE:0223 099b 08ba 0cc9 3THE SO WHAT? ARTICLES! 2 By Marcio If you are not new to Scenarium, you already should know what are the 2SO WHAT? articles. Real pearls that contains so deep meditations and concerns that at the end you wonder: "So what?". To find them it's not too difficult, they are everywhere, hidden also in the pages of the best mags. Look out for them, then, and enjoy all those So-What articles, because at the end you never know if the author was serious or if he was just pulling your legs. 2European Top 20 by Equinox issue 7 3OWN LANGUAGE 1by Jackpot of Equinox (the main-ed) Jackpot introduces a brand new Big Question for the scene. Are acceptable articles or demos in own languages different from english? In almost 1300 bytes he examines the various cases and comes to the conclusion that it depends. The article finishes with: "Well, hope you enjoyed...". An ironic final pearl, for a typical five minutes - 1500 bytes - filling space article. 2Eternal by Miracle issue 2 3BORING HANDLES 1by Prime/Circle (Razor1911) "I decided to write this article because of all the boring handles in the scene". This is the promising beginning of a deep article about how some handles lack of fantasy. The author seems to lead a crusade especially to three letters shortenings which are not easy to remember. At the end of the long article (about 1700 bytes) he even gives some good suggestions in your hard quest for a new handle. 2Sledgehammer by Absolute! issue 12E 3GREETINGSLIST=ASSKISSING?1 by Jean/Absolute! All our doubts about the mystery of famous groups in newcomers' greetings lists are also Jean's doubts and he has managed to write finally the article that no one had dared to write. He explains that there could be two reasons why a famous group is in the greets of a new group. 1- To seem more important. 2- To asskiss famous groups. Had you ever imagined that? 2Upstream by Balance issue 7 3MELON, LEMON. A PLAGUE!1 by Cristine de La Queen/Disaster All our hopes to see from Cristine De La Queen/Disaster articles more interesting that the males' standard ones are collapsed reading, on Upstream 7, Melon, Lemon. A plague!. Here you can discover how the authoress find immoral the fashion of cloning Melon Dezign's name. She suggests that in the real world Melon would have sued Lemon. for their name. Very interesting (and even false). 2The Jungle by Damian issue 5 3OBJECTIVITY is NONE!1 by Twingo/Fantasy The author introduces a new very interesting Big Question for the scene's debates. Is it fair the voting system based on percentages in the reviews of scene productions? The author explains wittily that the reviewer can't make a real difference among an 88%, or 87%, 89% and so on. After all he doesn't "squeeze every product through many individual tests like professional game magazines"! (As if they did...). He introduces also keen concerns about the the meaning of such percentages and the particular case of a 100% mark. Stuff for Scenology. 2The Jungle by Damian issue 5 3LAXITY - THE SHAME ON YOU! 1by Vodka/TSB The author thinks to have found an hot scoop and he reveals it to everybody. He has listened in a LP by Ace of Base some samples that he had also heard in Laxity's music for Desert Dream. What a terrific news! Has Laxity ripper Ace of Base's samples? Has Ace of Base (who could have an Amiga) ripped Laxity's samples? Have both of them ripped the samples to somebody else? These are the disquieting interrogations that the author proposes and which remain unsolved. Is it possible for the scene to bear that Laxity has ripped samples from an album??? After all, we know that, some good samples are OBVIOUSLY enough to make a good module. 2Visual Intensity by Dual Format issue 2 3NO TRAINERS! 1by Trashead of Samba/Suspect In the last issue of Scenarium an article pro-trainers had the pleasure of being host in the SO-WHAT section. Now that article, published on the same mag, finds a reply where the author arguments wittily why he doesn't want trainers in games. Without entering in particular we just notice that the topic is hot because... 2Visual Intensity by Dual Format issue 2 3REPLY TO NO TRAINERS!1 by The Cookie Monster of Dual Format (Main ed) The main editor of this mag and writer of the original pro-trainers article replies to the Trashead's reply. A real wonderful SO-WHAT? debate which The Cookie Monster faces with seriousness and attention. He is glad of the replies of his interlocutor and he accepts some of his points, showing rare sense of democracy and tolerance. He finishes the article with: "Thanks to Trashead for a great reply article and I only hope more and more people will join the debate and possibly Trashead could give another article of his views". In other words The Cookie Monster wants to get deeper into the delicate matter about trainers. A SO WHAT? paradise. 2RAW by Spaceballs issue 6 3WHY JOKEGROUPS?1 by Dalmak of Stellar The author has found a brand new Big Question for the scene and therefore he writes his good article about it. What's the point of jokegroups? Why does a scener release a fun intro under the label of his jokegroup and not of his official group? The writer meditates deeply about the matter and comes to the conclusion that he would never do, or write or say anything with any other name than his own. Really interesting. A joke? 2RAW by Spaceballs issue 6 3FUCK THE ANTI NAZI DEMOS - A "SO WHAT?" ESSAY1 by Rokdazone of Infect This is the first article that claims to be a SO-What? piece without the previous permission and official acknowledgment of 2The SO-What? Council1 and this has raised more than one debate at its internal. Can a writer pretend to declare his own article a So-What? one? How will the Council act in similar cases? Is this really a So-What? article? This last question has provoked savage discussions still unsolved. Yes, under some points of views this IS a SO-What article, as it raises glimpses of the crucial question at the end of the reading. Still it hasn't a proper SO-What? logic, it hasn't SO-What? statements and argumentations. It other words it's not a full accomplished SO-What? article. Sorry Rokdazone (have we already met somewhere?), your article wasn't enough pointless, try again.