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TITLE:By Mac, El Loco, Zinky, Blit, Helmet, RokDee, Mop, Nimrod, Posda
PALETTE:0223 088a 0978 09bc

                            OEPIR RISTI 2 by CITRON.


ALTERNATIVE SLOGAN: 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 Oepir, 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.

SPANDIMERDA 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, Electron/Citron., must
be considered MOST SPANDIMERDED GUY OF 1994.  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 ("THE SWEDISH SCENE IN DECAY") 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.

SO 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
Oxbow/Legion called "Poetic Module Names".
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?

RANDOM PEARLS
"I  hope that this article has given you something to think about", 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.


EL 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.

ZINKFLOID'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....

THE 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...

LORD 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?

ROKDAZONE'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.

MOP'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.

NIMROD'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.

POSDNUOS' 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!