RCT Discussion / Mala For Dummies

Well, you've succeeded in getting me to wonder: what in the world is your background and personal history that gets you to come here to a web site for people who enjoy a roller coaster game and post using an impressive though frivolous display high end vocabulary in practically every post you make?  Aren't you too smart for us or something?

I'd expect 'why not?' to be the answer!

LOL! catalyst is trying to be smart!

If catalyst is smart for mindlessly splattering vocabularty incorrectly and constantly over simple sentences then Gore would've won all 50 states in the 2000 election. *please*

State things how they are and leave it be.

ride6

*waits for catalyst to use the term "lockbox"*

don't even bother waiting for that... chances are, he'll use it incorrectly.

"Your lockbox is a strange turmoil - turmoil of the wind - that sweeps your ego under the couch, how could these titans bring you happiness? Syphon those regressive tactics and bring loquacious guile to the front of your personal war!"

^ that's what this guy sounds like to me...

No, I mean it, it sounds like a bunch of inside jokes tightly packed together. NO! It sounds like dada... of which I will now show you:

=-
I shall tell you the coming of the woods is no reason for panic

your erstwhile lovers can clip the seashell and breathe deeply the outer rind of justice just as your chickens may do as they age quickly in the ghost wielding grounds of thor

look! a beacon, no, a solar citadel of fructose has come for you!

beqeath it
beneath it
sit sit

be swift so that badgers armies may create bread of the porchlight that is as fine a thing as you could tax

the last days of wretching with pizza stained glory have no comeuppance to pay to the glowing monkeys of judea... rest my sugar laden porcupines rest well
=-

Damn, that's pretty fun actually...

here is dada: http://www.peak.org/...antipyrine.html

I don't mean to be hostile, but Blitz has a point. catalyst, I'm sure you're intelligent but your English needs work. At first I thought you were intentionally vague and cryptic but then you started posting sentences that just don't make sense no matter how you interpret them. I don't know if English maybe isn't your first language (in which case you have developed an impressive vocabulary for a foreigner) or if you just read a lot and maybe use words without fully understanding their meaning. Or maybe you really are just being cryptic and you are too clever for the rest of us. But whatever it is, we're all interested in what you have to say and it would be better for everyone if you are capable of expressing yourself more clearly to do so.

The title of this thread needs to be changed to "Catalyst for Dummies."

Ride6, I think you might run up against a problem in your study of Mala's work. It's that by analyzing the individual components in detail and out of context, you miss the big picture about how they are connected to the rest of the park, and why they are the way they are in that specific context. It's like trying to analyze a symphony of Beethoven by breaking it down into all of the individual instruments. You miss the fabric that connects them all, that holds the entire work together and gives each instrument its place in the symphony. Mala's work is definitely more than the sum of its parts. You have to look at the entire work at once to understand why specific things were built the way they were. I'll give you an example. Those jagged rocks that you put up a picture of earlier - if one was to look at those not knowing what park they were in, one would probably see them as, well, jagged rocks. Now if you zoom out, and see that it is Escalante River Falls, a western-themed park that Mala built off inspiration from visits to the American Southwest, you could understand more easily that those are supposed to be spires on the side of a canyon inspired by those at Bryce Canyon in Utah. I think that was what Mala was trying to say earlier. You can't conduct an entirely technical study of his work. You have to see everything in context. Like I said, his work is way more than the sum of his parts. You can't replicate it simply by juxtaposing all of the components. I think that Mala's work starts with the inspiration, the driving force behind what he builds. I doubt that he ever just starts building, without a source of inspiration in mind. And because of that, I think it's impossible for anyone but Mala to do a
"Mala-style" park, per se. His inspiration for his work in LL and RCT2 is far more deeply rooted than anyone else's. It stems from his experiences in life, the things he has seen and encountered with his own eyes, and his own perspective on those things. Because of that, the fabric that binds Mala's work together within a specific piece will always be different than someone else's. The way to build as Mala does is not to break his work down into individual components and try and replicate those in and of themselves. It is not to try and step into his shoes, because no one can do that. The only way you can build in LL and RCT2 as Mala does is to take your own experiences in life, the things you've seen, and use them to shape the fabric that binds the components of your own work together. By being uniquely individual and personal in your work, the results will undoubtedly look much different than something Mala might conceive, but that is to be expected because you're a different person than he is. This might sound corny, but it's only by looking into yourself that you can build in a similar way to how he builds.

that is pretty much how I thought of it.

don't even bother waiting for that... chances are, he'll use it incorrectly.

"Your lockbox is a strange turmoil - turmoil of the wind - that sweeps your ego under the couch, how could these titans bring you happiness?  Syphon those regressive tactics and bring loquacious guile to the front of your personal war!"

^  that's what this guy sounds like to me...

No, I mean it, it sounds like a bunch of inside jokes tightly packed together.  NO!  It sounds like dada... of which I will now show you:

=-
I shall tell you the coming of the woods is no reason for panic

your erstwhile lovers can clip the seashell and breathe deeply the outer rind of justice just as your chickens may do as they age quickly in the ghost wielding grounds of thor

look! a beacon, no, a solar citadel of fructose has come for you!

beqeath it
beneath it
sit sit

be swift so that badgers armies may create bread of the porchlight that is as fine a thing as you could tax

the last days of wretching with pizza stained glory have no comeuppance to pay to the glowing monkeys of judea...  rest my sugar laden porcupines rest well
=-

Damn, that's pretty fun actually...

here is dada: http://www.peak.org/...antipyrine.html

Chris... seriously... I love you. That was hilarious.