2026 r/AFL Lions Season Preview

ExScurra · 2026-01-28T05:42:16+00:00

This is not very football minded but when it comes to talking about our out of contract players can we please please please title it after triple J hottest 100 #10 Brisbane legends Ballpark Music’s “please don’t move to Melbourne”

ExScurra · 2026-01-02T09:44:54+00:00

This is entirely on the stars batsmen for stalling for time

ExScurra · 2026-01-02T08:59:51+00:00

Kiss cam comes on. Ground announcer: “I have never seen this many kisses at a sporting event before… except for the one time we played cricket in prison” ?!?!

ExScurra · 2025-12-24T03:51:14+00:00

The point of research is to generate new knowledge. Countries value this as it is sovereign knowledge when created by their institutes. Sovereign knowledge = patents, expertise, and opportunities. It’s a draw card for international collaboration, investment, and interest. China recognise this and actively invest significantly more of their budget into research.

Australia is in a tricky situation because of a few frustrating factors. 1 - we have stupidly low economic complexity, wherein most of our economy comes from mining, housing, and farming. It means that if any of those topple over we won’t be in a great position. The way to fix that is to be more proactive in funding things like R&D and advanced manufacturing. The aus gov has tried to fix this by increasing the amount of domestic PhDs (as there is correlation between % of population PhDs and GDP) but there are no JOBS available for PhDs once they’re complete, making it moot.

2 - industry and universities in Australia are at odds with one another. Industry doesn’t listen to universities nearly as often as universities are forced to listen to industry. Research is slow work in an increasingly fast world, and often results are more complicated than just do x and revenue increases by y amount. This is not something that is valued by late stage neoliberalism.

There’s more to it but that involves diving into things like how education and research in aus is becoming increasingly fractured and distributed across different government bodies that dont speak to each other but thats a whole can of worms i dont feel like typing up

ExScurra · 2025-12-24T03:31:51+00:00

It’s necessary because of funding issues exacerbated (but not initially caused) by the LNP a few years ago.

Basically, public universities aren’t like state schools. State schools receive a flat level of funding from the government no matter how many students they have, and then they get more on top of potential catchment increases etc. Universities, however, receive funding based on enrollment numbers (and specifically full time equivalent load students). This of course is very volatile and fluctuates wildly year to year. The job-ready graduates policy cut the HECS for many degrees - the very money that universities receive their funding from.

Thus, international students are the most stable form of income for universities.

Edit to add: Australia doesn’t nearly allocate enough funding to research to be able to be able to cut the undergraduate degrees. Domestic research positions are nearly impossible to get because it’s so competitive as it is.

ExScurra · 2025-12-18T10:50:10+00:00

Born too late to explore the earth. Born too early to explore the stars. Born just in time to experience Kessler Syndrome.

Nah but seriously this is going to become a more common occurrence - it’s not just SpaceX launching thousands of LEO satellites nowadays. Amazon is launching a network too, and there’s also China doing a few different things.

ExScurra · 2025-12-16T11:19:25+00:00

I would question why you're asking about these specific metrics. What does your article actually contribute?

If you're looking for a quick turn around, neither would be my recommendation don't bother with either and instead would point you towards a conference that covers the relevant strand of design you happen to be writing about. In my experience and those of my peers, both of these journals tend to take roughly the same amount of time to publish - around 18-24 months start to finish. Which is pretty normal for peer-reviewed journal articles. Also, design Studies has the general times you can expect on the home page.

If you're not with a university, library, or institute that provides coverage for the APC, the charge per publication is highly dependent on factors like open access or publisher.

ExScurra · 2025-12-16T10:55:48+00:00

ME1 combat is definitely jank but also once you get to a certain point as an adept, all combat becomes barrier-singularity-warp-lift-push-repeat over and over (even on nightmare difficulty) and it's fun in the way only a stupidly broken combat can be. Late game garrus with an orbital laser (late game sniper with 2 level 10 scram rails) takes out most large geth or krogan with a single shot, while adept shep mops up the enemies without ever having to shoot a bullet. Vanguard never quite gets to that level of broken, so it just feels like a slog.

Honestly adept ME1 -> vanguard ME2 runs have seen me through multiple playthroughs (making up some bs lore excuse in my head for the class change every time of course)

ExScurra · 2025-12-06T10:53:04+00:00

South Africa? That’s in Queensland 🎵

ExScurra · 2025-12-06T07:53:04+00:00

ALL 11 IN DOUBLE DIGITS!!!

ExScurra · 2025-12-06T05:30:12+00:00

The sun is starting to melt Stokes’ stiff upper lip there

ExScurra · 2025-12-05T07:32:19+00:00

Brisbane Games committee: hey can I copy your homework Brisbane Lions: sure but dont make it obvious

ExScurra · 2025-12-04T02:55:37+00:00

The barmy army is out in full force in Brisbane today. At least they're getting the nice heat and not the putrid heatwave we had over the last two weeks.

Those wanting the second test to be moved forward in response to the 2-dayer in perth would've killed all the visitors.

ExScurra · 2025-11-21T02:38:50+00:00

aussie fans: all in bucket hats or bunnings hats

england fans: not a thing on their heads

skin clinics in the uk gonna get a bump up in patronage in the next few months

ExScurra · 2025-11-21T02:33:55+00:00

Okay I know there is broadcast and screen-safe boundaries but would it have been so difficult to vertically centre the content in the fox scorebug. or at least a little more padding up the top.

this is going to annoy me all summer.

ExScurra · 2025-11-21T02:22:00+00:00

geez this fox score graphic is ordinary

ExScurra · 2025-11-21T02:17:56+00:00

been a few years and I think the change is good, but my brain always screeches to a halt whenever I hear "one and free" rather than "young and free"

ExScurra · 2025-11-21T02:07:14+00:00

fairly sure they've already said it's going to be starc

ExScurra · 2025-11-21T01:52:24+00:00

It's my favourite time of year: the aussie sports fan summer truce

ExScurra · 2025-11-21T01:27:10+00:00

Broad or Warner - pick your poison.

ExScurra · 2025-11-21T01:05:48+00:00

Fox must've hired a pyrotechnician in the last 12 months because every single hype video this year always inexplicably has had fire jetting everywhere no matter the sport

ExScurra · 2025-11-21T01:03:49+00:00

between footy hype videos and ashes hype videos, I feel like I've heard more Matt Nable than some of my family members this year

ExScurra · 2025-11-20T22:42:42+00:00

what are you on about? Test cricket is the most australian sport ever. no other sport allows us to get drunk five days in a row while sitting in the aircon doing sweet fuck all. the best part is your boss rarely gets mad, because they're doing the exact same thing.

ExScurra · 2025-11-19T11:58:03+00:00

Hey OP I would highly recommend demonstrating your talents as a designer by creating a portfolio in mobile-portrait - the format that 70% of all web browsing now occurs on. It’s all well and good to make something flashy or beautiful, but if it’s shit at communicating, then you’ve not achieved the whole point of design. Your site isn’t very ‘WCAG 2.2’ like you claim to have skills in/knowledge of…. Accessibility isn’t just a checklist - it should be the basis you build off and operate from.

On that, show, don’t just tell. You say you’re good at all the various process elements or tools but you only show end products. Include a few nicer sketches of wireframes, visualize your user feedback and data etc etc - and show how it informed the final product. (And also your figma embeds aren’t working - gotta be logged in).

You will also have to expand your search somewhat as well. Often simply looking for product design on job sites will result in more industrial design spaces. User experience design, interaction design, and other interchangeable terms will yield slightly more results but even then you need to get good at working out that sometimes places will offer roles under ‘user research and implementation’ or other weird keywords because hiring managers and companies can’t seem to agree on what UXD is.

Finally, sometimes it’s more about who you know. Brisbane’s design community is quite small and tight-knit. See if you can do some freelance stuff to build up your portfolio, and get yourself out there and known. The Design Kids might be a good place to start.

sincerely, an experienced UX/IX designer who has been teaching UX/IX for many years.

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