Applying the Mental Stack to Lost Ark

It's FGC's favorite term and something I apply to most things these days. And to be honest, a lot of people do without thinking about it. So let's talk about it.
I didn't do any video cuts with titles and such this time around, do you even care?
0:00 What is the Mental Stack
0:48 Examples: FGC & FPS
2:53 Applying it to Parts of LOA
7:25 UI and Audio Notes
8:53 Closing Yap
Gambit's Theme - X-Men Vs Street Fighter
Fighting Game Glossary for those interested: glossary.infil.net/
Shoutouts to the three content creators I mentioned in the video.
Strylander
Cauttyh
MisoxShiru

[@itsDubla]

3 months ago, I'd say Cautty without a doubt.. he's the king of sus. But lately, Miso has been falling under the spell. It happens to all of us, the longer we are in the community the more unhinged we get..

[@Jukwol]

The rise of Miso sus.

[@josetamad]

Great video

[@bringmetolifeaa]

I love it , I think this applies to any sport in real life too !!

[@ryanc9876]

I've also heard it being called "cognitive load." I've heard it mentioned quite often within military context, especially for fighter pilots, and how with technology, they can focus on certain things less so they can keep themselves alive and whatnot. I generally do pick classes/engravings that have a little less thinking needed and a lot more doing required. It let's me focus more on the boss and so I rarely get caught off-guard and rarely am I sleeping at the wheel, despite the fact people occasionally say swift classes are braindead and easy.
Edit: Cautty.

[@SeanCat]

Miso is sus of his class/engraving knowledge lol kind of just vomits bad opinion and lack of knowledge takes on them
Cauttyh is just bonkers sus

[@Jukwol]

Damn, I made it a for fun question and now Miso catching strays om.

[@SeanCat]

@@Jukwol reading back yeah yikes but sad truth, gets a little annoying he's projecting misinformation at an insane amount via platform

[@hanzosucks6813]

you are the kind of support i get in theamine. presses the buff buttons once every minute

[@Jukwol]

om yeah, I'm really bad at sunwell uptime especially. Something I need to work on, surprised I get radiant at all in Theamine. My uptime is better in other content because ironically as I more often find myself with nothing left to push besides starry, mental stack issue of me focusing the boss more on these earlier weeks. This is actually a good example made with my video.

[@RageFDarkness]

Cauttyh

[@chrisjo9840]

cauttyh sus in a good way, miso just has bad takes

[@Endykins]

I miss club penguin.

[@saikame5833]

The mental stack is why I ended up quitting. Playing EO is just too much. So I quit until the next express, gonna main swap to NE SE. I had a blade but nah, just not my thing. Need high performing and easy.
As for sus. 100000% Miso. Dude has really bad takes on economy and balance. But he is still fun to listen to. Just really bad takes. Like really really bad takes.

[@andysledge]

for me its quite the opposite, went from braindead hitmaster classes to surge and it's so much fun to chase the ceiling. It has that learning curve that is so satisfying going from Zdb to a god run feels insane

[@ryanc9876]

I don't know if you've seen or heard the things Cautty says and/or does. Dude is unhinged af. It's great! But I do lowkey agree with Miso's takes being a bit questionable.
Also hope NE SE won't bore the crap out of you coming down from such a highly demanding class. However, if all you really want is more MVP, then yeah--that'll work.

[@saikame5833]

@@ryanc9876 It's not the MVP piece, it's more along the lines of more impact, less effort. I want to actually have fun, not be a sweatlord and then slightly mess up H3 to lose lmao. The hardest part is going to be dropping a 1640 from a main to an alt. :( that's also why I stopped for awhile. Just burn out. Running 9 characters raids every week plus a total of 17 characters worth of chaos dungeons every day for close to 18 months straight. Just need a break.

[@saikame5833]

@@ryanc9876 Yeah, part of me just wants to chill on blade maybe since she is already 1620 from the last express with a pretty decent 40 set. I was having fun on her in Thaemine NM between HM pulls. I just got really drained on fighting classes mechanics AND raid mechanics at the same time.

[@ryanc9876]

@@saikame5833 Yeesh, it does sound like you're burning the candle at both ends. That's a lot of runs lol...
Just hoping for the best and I get it--I have to find that goldilocks class/engravings for myself though. I need to not be so easy that I don't have the incentive to do things, but I also need it not to be so hard that I'm exhausted after the end of the raid--especially after the raid becomes routine. Although, I guess I don't full get that "more impact" part as I kinda feel like most classes are quite impactful in some form or another already. I get the effort issue being taxing as I used to like my EO SF alt before the game got more complicated.

[@GFClocked]

Brave of you to assume I play ark and not fighting games 😂

[@Jukwol]

We're a rare breed to play FG and subject ourselves to LOA. FF14 was supposed to be the FGC retirement home.

[@ryanc9876]

I'm FGC guy too actually. I personally never really got anywhere, but I kept up with it for awhile until roughly 2021. I guess my profile pic does give it away somewhat though. "Power of the.. Power of the..."

[@Jukwol]

@@ryanc9876 Every time I see your comments, I see name and Icon and I just think of Fchamp and his dormamu dawg since his name is Ryan too. How you feeling about the potential MVCI revival? I wish the game lived long enough to give me Vergil, but I'm pretty excited for this since I don't have Project L any time soon either.

[@ryanc9876]

@@Jukwol I flushed MVCI way early. I was just sad and disappointed, but DBFZ brought me back into the fold for a long while before the old net-code wore me down. I was a fan of Fchamp's Dorm, though not entirely a fan of him aside from that one time he flipped that dude off at Canada Cup. That was funny. My Dorm sucked, but mostly cause I sucked, and MVC3 is hard and I've never really played fighting games prior to that. If they revive it, I don't know how I'd feel since I didn't like it to begin with. 🤔

[@skwarrior14]

loa UI is dogshit

[@Jukwol]

Yeah, I do feel like it could use some changes to your eyes aren't moving around as much.