ELMA IS MOST POPULAR IN SCANDINAVIA //by BarTek ======================================================================= INTRODUCTION I have always wonderd why elma became so popular so much here in scandinavi (Sweden, norway and Finland) instead of other countries. Sure they are many other kuskis from different nationalitys that play the game but the majority lies within Swedish an Finnish players. Anyway, i have been thinking about this quite often and i came to a theori of mine own. It doesnt have to be the truth but i give it a go anywayz. ======================================================================= WHO OWNS A COMPUTER My first theori is that we scandianavian people have bigger acces to personal computers more than most countries. I dont wanna sound jugdemental etc, but the fact is that sweden, finland and norway are richer countries than most other countries...maybe not the richest but here most people are isolated, secure, healthy, and many other things. In sweden most teenagers spend up to 100 dollars for a super-delux-real-levis-handmade-T-shirt, and it is an fact that people dont excactly starve around here while in middle east people struggle to stay alive from starvation, war, dessises etc. The last thing they would have in mind would be to choose a 1850 Mhz Dell PC or a Macintosh. If this sound to stupid then please stop me. I dont mean that sweden is the richest country and that there are wars in poland, hungary or something like that, but i needed to draw up this big difference to make myself understood. But sweden are one of the countries that have the most computer average number compared to others. In Hungary there isnt major starvation, wars, or something like that but not many people own a computer as in they do in Sweden. Maybe thats why elma became popular in scandinavia rather then countries like Hungary. ======================================================================= IT IS FUCKING COLD IN SCANDINAVIA Up here in the winter it can get -30 degrees. So ofcours you spend more time home playing elma than being outside in the cold sesons. Scandianavians are also laid back people most in general, dont ask why. Maybe beacuse of the fucking cold and you get a dick size of a pencil. ======================================================================= WE ARE SPOILED BRATS Children here are spoiled here, and it is beacuse ppl here got plenty money, the school meals are free, we are not in financialy debt to another countrey from the World War 2, big wealthcare, better hospitals, etc, etc, etc. Theirfor people can afford to buy themselfs 3 or 4 computers here is sweden slightly more than other people. But in Poland for example the govermant finanses are less better, bad hospitals, low conjecture, unenployment, and so on. And there people have to grow their own vegetables, send their children to work for scraps, ofcours they wouldnt buy a computer at first sight ok. And nobody tell me that i am wrong beacuse i lived there when i was little and seen the gutter for myself. When i wanted a action figure my mom didnt buy one for me, i had to make my own from iscream sticks. People are not that rich down there and they spend there money on more important stuff. I dont mean this in big poportians and poland is not like afghanistan or something where everybody lives in caves and have donkeys for house pets but, it is like that only in small differences. ======================================================================= SUMMARY I really dont know why Elastomania got so popular up here but i can always speculate in theories. But there is one thing i do know and that is that i will play elma this holiday beacuse its -10 out here and half meter of snow outside my door, and that stinking plow havent been around here and plowed away all snow. I cant get to town with my bike. ======================================================================= //BarTek The "Elma Artist"