Startling realisation: The lifecycles of instructions in a CPU and spell casts in FFXIV are the same!

First you issue them (FFXIV: Press cast button)
Then they commit (Slidecast movement becomes possible)
Then they compete (Damage applied to enemy, you can begin casting again)

From this we conclude that spells in FFXIV are very similar to barrier instructions like ARM's ISB, in that they allow only very limited pipelining (FF: precasting) and parallelism (FF: no weaving of oGCD abilities)

There's some overlap of course. If you make a really really good nail gun, someones probably gonna use it to jam in a few screws.

But sometimes architectural decisions are just a byproduct of having a really good nail gun.

@embr I am pleased to inform you!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw_gun

I feel like people often use "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" to criticize things which are more accurately "when you have a nail gun, you're gonna use a lot more nails than screws"

Instead of "Happy new year" all of my friends say "hack the planet" and I think that's beautiful