TITLE:By Mac, El Loco, Zinky, Blit, Helmet, RokDee, Mop, Nimrod, Posda PALETTE:0223 088a 0978 09bc 3 OEPIR RISTI 2 by CITRON. 2ALTERNATIVE SLOGAN1: Heavier than stone Humanity is an indefinite entity. It has not any substance but stays everywhere, it is made of all of us but is not anybody of us. Humanity has probably gathered identity and meaning when its historical memory was born. This happened when single human beings started to write or paint something that could survive their death. When ancient men began to leave some sign of memory of their present for the future to come, humanity began to form and to assume an identity. One of this ancient men was a guy called 2Oepir1, he seemed to have a great desire of leaving written or painted evidence of his existence. He actually succeded, completely, when a thousand of years after his death some guys decided to imitate him and write their own stories on their very own stones. From such an ancient master the new Oepirs had surely to imitate the sober style and the sageness of the words, in a diskmag world corrupted by the demency of satiric and ironic articles, they wanted to re-estabilish the importance of logic and rational statements, they forgot intentionally that their readers were sceners and not scuba divers and they published short stories, philosophic meditations and articles concerning every aspect of human life EXCEPT Amiga scene. The result is a shrinked version of a british grapevine. It is well written and it talks about everything, just like certain mags with 27 pages of menu, and it is less scaring, not having 27 pages of menu. 3SPANDIMERDA VALUE Unluckily Oepir Risti doesn't seem to indulge too much in spandirmeding hobbies, the texts seem somehow too detached and serious to take care of popular matters of this genre. Besides this we must recognize that one of the editors, 2Electron/Citron.1, must be considered 2MOST SPANDIMERDED GUY OF 19941. In four articles he underlines his position in the so-called "Nazi affair" and he explains his truth after a cruel and massive spandimerda campaign against him in various swedish BBS. We regret that due to distance and lack of modem we couldn't follow the matter more closely (when the Spandimerda Committe thinks about all the spandimerda possibilities that the modem scene offers cries in despair at the idea of not being able to taste them directly) but we have to underline once more a very worrying phenomenon ongoing in our world. That kind of things that we would never like to see in the scene. The article from where everything came out was indeed a good spandimerda piece against the swedish scene (2"THE SWEDISH SCENE IN DECAY"1) and probably just for this fact its author was flooded by a terrific spandimerda offensive. If all this may seem apparently a positive thing for the spandimerda community, we have to consider the negative effects on the psyche of a potential spandimerda. The fear of being a spandimerded spandimerda could prevent him from cultivating the art of spandimerding itself! To Electron all our thanks for having raised a good spandimerda fire and our symphaty and emphaty for the particularly deviated kind of spandimerding he had had to stand. 3SO WHAT? ARTICLES To find So What? articles in a mag with 9 scene articles, of which 4 are about Electron's Nazi affairs and 2 about Citron.'s new pack serie could be difficult for everybody, still we managed to find an interesting semi-So What? article by 2Oxbow/Legion1 called 2"Poetic Module Names"1. It is the logic and rational meditation about the importance of poetic and original names for Amiga modules. The author underlines with originality that the name could be an important touch, because it can catch some attention, but of course the music itself is more important. Deep eh? 3RANDOM PEARLS 2"I hope that this article has given you something to think about"1, writes Oxbow at the end of his So What? article about poetic module names. Sure, I have thought quite much about that article: "Have I to insert it in the So-What? section or among the random pearls? Maybe both?" To specify that I have nothing against Oxbow I underline and reccomend his text, in the same issue, called "Redrawn pictures contra covers" a rare example of opinion article about scene topics which is not a So-What? piece. 3EL LOCO'S AWAKENINGS The Shampoo test magazine. I can never forget that article... I did not know whether to cry or laugh. Boring is unfortunately a key-word. 3ZINKFLOID'S (UYANIK) DIRECT THOUGHTS MMh, I prefer Ice Cube, I would rename the mag to "Cave Bitch" sounds more attractive than this one! I have just seen one or two issues as far as I remember I didn't spent more than 10 minutes reading it which means that it's one of the forgetable ones.... 3THE ULTIMATE QUOTES FROM THE BLITTER - The name is so strange, that it even sounds quite interesting! - Nice name, but where the hell did you get these colors from??? - Nomen est omen... 3LORD HELMET'S TRUE OPINION Kingpin did censor this mag for me! I get all mags from Kingpin, and he censors the worst ones, and he said that this mag had good music, but the articles were .....! So, What do I know? 3ROKDAZONE'S SOCIO-SCENOLOGY COMMENT OEPIR RISTI as a mag seems fiendish in all levels of socio-scenology! The uncertain scener gets put in front of something from somebody about somewhat that will need imagination in a way that expands the sceners horizont! Thankfully I must admitt, this was only theory. The promised new way of journalism isn't so new afterall since the topics mostly were flat like my 12 year-old nieces breasts. To be serious: The Nazi-discussion to be read in diskmags (I guess it was me who started the lawine in the STOLEN DATA-times) the whole Nazi-bunch-affair might be the topic least regarded in the whole mag. Put a dash, mates... As talking about the "lame" Swedish scene is almost a new science at the moment, I even wouldn't tell that this topic could be really endangering for any scener... Still, the mag for itself remains a danger for the average scener! Take the name alone: How should the sheepy scener think of a way to spell this, so other little sheeps might understand what he is talking about? Therefore, Oepir Risti will remembered as the least talked about diskmag - thus it won't be remembered at all. 3MOP'S COMMENT Oepir Risti was the first magazine concept that introduced the so much adored serious style in this scene. "The scener is a bright young man, who deserves a serious scene magazine, and a good read", someone said. Oepir Risti was the first one, who even before Compass, ROM and now Suicid smelled something new in the serious style. Unfortunately the contents leave a lot to be desired; in fact one of Oepir Risti's few short commings is the lack of contents. The editors know this, and fortunately, they seem to have enough balls to admit it; a thing which is seldom seen in today's scene. With a few more hard work from the editors, Oepir Risti can become something. It has the right potential; it's just waiting for someone to exploit it to good use. 3NIMROD'S DEFINITION "Now let's sit down and make yet another diskmag. Oepir Risti, now that's an original name..." The sound of the name suits the mag perfectly. 3POSDNUOS' CHARTS CONCERNS Few but good articles, astonishing english, decidedly one of the not "too much scene-related" mags which I like most. Surely the best swedish-mag right now!