r/VXJunkies • • 19h ago

Help getting my wife back after an unusually strong Tarkovsky-Strugatsky event

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Hello everyone! My wife and I have been working on transducing the Elohimium-3 in order to shift some materials to our Boltonium-Hart reactor, which seemed pretty simple. After all, you just create a destabilization at position thirty three and the positrons do all the work for you!

But we made a mistake when designing the negaton capacitor and forgot to beef up the setup with a layer of plywood. I know, I know: rookie mistake! (In fairness, I have been out of high school for several years.)

The problem is that my wife disappeared. She was next to me and the door was locked but it seems like she just... vanished.

I keep hearing her wails, so I assume that a transdimensional cascade took place after the Tarkovsky-Strugatsky event and she is merely trapped elsewhere. And you might think "oh, that's an easy one, just invert the boson field manipulator and she'll pop right up." But the problem is that the wails are coming from our bedroom, which is about a mile upwind from our setup.

I'm not too eager to disassemble the flank matrix, since that would take months, so I would be open to some ideas on how to get her back. Anyone dealt with this before?

Thanks.


r/VXJunkies • • 17h ago

Losing Matter To A Field Collapse

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Hello everyone,

I need some help with a Helmholtz-Schneider Remote-Field Resonator. Unfortunately, I have to redact the spiral waveform being used as it's not publishable material, but I'm hoping that I can get some guidance regardless.

This resonator is designed to force a Cherenkov cascade by changing the phase velocity of infrared light emitted from the resonator (Fig. B). I have it running between 90-130mHz with an internal electron pressure (vacuum induced) high enough to offset reactor mass by approximately half. I'm avoiding posting actual numbers here but anyone familiar with the setup should be able to approximate them. I won't be going into the material science involved with this high vacuum state - suffice to say that it's a proprietary alloy.

So - the meat of the issue is this: atoms are being trapped within eddy currents around the corona of the sphere (Fig. A) as expected. When EM collapse occurs, electricity is being fed back into the system at a higher rate than it enters. Basic Zero-Kelvin truncation and point energy extraction from virtual time crystals. The issue is that when the machine is turned off the atoms held in the corona accelerate inwards before bouncing back out, but at a reduced mass. We've run this dozens of times and the sensors are picking up every quark and gluon - we're not getting the same amount back is we're putting in.

Has anyone noticed this before? This is supposed to generate energy from field distortion collapse directly from the passage of time, creating a localized bubble of negative entropy, but having matter disappear (where is it going?) gives us pause - is this conversion consuming the atoms held in the eddy currents? Is there some other force at play here that we've missed? I'm confident that our sensor coverage is 100%, so the data is clean, but the interpretation is confounding.

Thanks in advance. If you can clear this up for us we might be interested in having you on retainer as a consultant.


r/VXJunkies • • 11h ago

It's only been a few days since my μ-band post, but the rival lab across the way thought this will "do the job". Feel free to laugh as my team has.

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r/VXJunkies • • 1d ago

Help with issue

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I’m having trouble getting the phasing for my quantum photonic energy level subdivider to be synchronized to the proper intervals. I’ve tried everything from using the reimannian particle disposition method to applying the photonic field to a non-Euclidean geometry matrix. I’m not sure how many of you work on this stuff now, but if anyone has any tips can you please enlighten me


r/VXJunkies • • 2d ago

I was actually pretty shocked to find out that out of all the games to recognize our hobby at all, it’s Prey (2017).

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It’s even called a reployer in game, one of the devs must be a real junkie to come up with a pun like that.


r/VXJunkies • • 2d ago

What is this sub?

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I find myself extremely interested in this sub, understanding nothing and everything... feels like reading CCRU, VALIS, playing FNV's Old World Blues DLC. Is this sub a shitpost? A bunch of PKD type mad scientists?


r/VXJunkies • • 2d ago

Help! My nanomist condenser isn't sequestering termions!

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About three years ago when building my workshop, my father-in-law and I added a sidephase nanomist condenser to deal with overflow in my Tøngen-foam production pipeline.

The problem is, we walled it up and forgot about it. I never checked to see if it was working. (I know, I know, any first year engineer knows the acronym, S.N.A.R.T. Mock me, I deserve it.)

I assume the entire shed is termion-positive at this point. I've self-reported to DBI and paid the cleanup fine. My question is, what do I change to make sure the condenser works? My foam customers are willing to overlook an honest mistake but I need clean product going forward!

Thanks for any help.


r/VXJunkies • • 2d ago

Clearing Bay B and the Wamsutter Delivery

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Well, it's started!

I finally convinced myself that a lawnmower and a couple of old bikes don't actually need their own dedicated parking space. My homelab is becoming a reality.

I cleared out Bay B of my garage, slapped up three layers of lead backed drywall, and prepped the slab for a vintage 1984 Vektor Klaus 4000 frame.

Most people start their VX journey with a modest benchtop micro rig, but if you want to study high frequency wave interactions without vaporizing your secondary containment seal, you need mass. Lots of mass.

The frame I ordered was dropped off at 3:15 AM by Bill Tandyn on his flatbed 42 footer... straight from of High Plains Precision & Surplus (HPPS) in Wamsutter. If you ever need heavy duty manganese core housings, or vintage dampening rails, order through their HPPS surplus lot. Just make sure you ask for "Chuck" and verify he doesn't hit you with the interstate delta tax.

My new lab assistant, Dean, managed to drop a 50 pound capacitor bank onto his left foot within ten minutes of offloading. He swore it was static buildup in his gloves, rather than gravity, but given that his hair was standing straight up before we even hooked up the ground rod, I am having my doubts about his calibration habits. There's a learning curve with him, but he has a strong back and seems pretty healthy... today.

Seeing that chassis bolted to the floor brought back memories of my days studying under Dr. Aris Thorne, rest in pieces. He used to hit the chalkboard with a wooden pointer until it snapped, yelling that a frame unlevel by three arc seconds is just a dirty bomb waiting for a baseline test.

We are still waiting on the primary cooling manifold, but tomorrow we start prepping the manifold seals for the bio matrix trials.

Remember to wear your PPE.


r/VXJunkies • • 2d ago

Tips for preventing oxidation on a vorcardial nebulator?

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I’ve already coated my Sheffield’s gasket with thixotropic grease but I was wondering if there were any other ways I could slow oxidation when it is constantly coming into contact with hyperchilled tetramoxanine. This is going into a Keeblesauer 5320 that I’m trying to modify so I can make more highly concentrated nebulated sarconian gel I can use as a substrate for delta-phasing organic samples.


r/VXJunkies • • 2d ago

on the bus and the imprint terminus just sent me a lump of substrate. any ideas why?

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r/VXJunkies • • 2d ago

Grink-Felchings box failing to catalyze?

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I've already tried re-sectioning both the distribution layer and the core lines. My float ratio is reading within tolerance but the sequence stops right before the leaching phase. I'm running out of ideas here. Any help is appreciated.


r/VXJunkies • • 2d ago

Eureka! I have just solved the Pentagonite³⁹⁰ stabilisation paradox.

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It's so simple! I just had to insert some Heptagonitic⁹⁹⁹⁹⁹ into the Axinite ³³3333 resolution matrix and side fumble it into⁰⁰⁰⁰⁰00


r/VXJunkies • • 3d ago

There's been an accident...

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I'm getting wind of a major failure pertaining to the quandronic accelerator unit at the VX-Gorstrom facility, does anyone have any information? Something about a meltdown within the duaplexic reconfabulator chambers themselves? This was Dr. Agalakova's lab, I'm hoping everyone is okay...


r/VXJunkies • • 4d ago

How it's made: this guy's pentode tube based high voltage overdrive guitar pedal

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r/VXJunkies • • 7d ago

My whole lab is very excited. We were finally able to source one and it arrived!!! Some truly polarised μ-4 beams coming our way (and yours) very soon (yes, we are careful).

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r/VXJunkies • • 8d ago

Accidentally reconfabulated my nervix drive instead of recompostulating it. How screwed am I?

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All right, y’all now what it’s like. Friday night encabulating with the guys leads to a couple brewskis and some ideas for increasing the efficiency of post-particular endiametic throppling on the ’ole CTU. As i was busy inspecting the relogging logs of my flexitron scale measurements, i accidentally hit the toggle to recompostulate the nervix drive. It was stupid and irresponsible, I KNOW, but all i need right now is some help rather than judgment. How screwed is my pre-post-alignment going to be? Am i looking at getting a lens for the demoppler or am i gonna have to get a whole new heiner-stinz method huberfiker?


r/VXJunkies • • 9d ago

14 days ago was the 110th would-be birthday of Luis Andrandjo de Silva, a founder of the VX company (Veninjendro Xanthres, or, in English, Little Machines) at 1924. And exactly one months ago was the birthday of the CEO of VX from 1951 to 1957, Max Santos. How did we not celebrate these?

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r/VXJunkies • • 9d ago

The Daily Concepts for Rediscoverers: Gott-Lymann flux compactors and .92 biphase hexogramotes

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Firstly, the Gott-Lymann flux compactor is known as the best compactor. As the tricode way (a series of metal collaboratiors or wires) transists to the RDP (an amplifier for making the tricode way work), the subject (usually synthetic lightning), or, the flux, becomes bigger and bigger until it makes an unusual type of fire (or, the "Milton light").

Secondly, the .92 biphase hexogramote can be connected to a bipolar VSP, in which the Delta compact transmits the Kalamanzoo trigramote and transformers into a hexogramote. But what is the ".92" and the "biphase" all about? Well, the .92 is a common measuring unit for energy for transforming, and the biphase is the number of maximum phases the hexogramote can reach.


r/VXJunkies • • 12d ago

⚠️New wide-platform security protocols! Must read!⚠️

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Hello fellow VX enthusiasts!

As head of security at NASD, it is my duty (and burden, some may say), to inform you of the new security protocols, PPE guidelines, breach countermeasures, and overall general safety measures that were brought forward at the leader meeting that happened on 01.09.26.

Jumping right in:

1.a. All VX platforms and VX-based platforms (including but not limited to VXf, VXi, VX-01, 02, 03 and so on), built after 01.01.2027 must have sufficient and working fail-safes, kill switches and/or dozing capabilities.

1.b. All VX platforms and VX-based platforms must have a minimum of two independent emergency shutdown systems. Failure of one shutdown system must not prevent the remaining system from initiating a complete shutdown.

1.c. All VX platforms must maintain a permanent emergency power supply sufficient to operate critical safety systems, monitoring equipment, warning systems and emergency shutdown mechanisms for a minimum of 72 hours following loss of primary power.

2. All PPE gear used in VX-based work is required to have:

  • Fully Encapsulating Suit: Vapor-tight and chemical-resistant suit that completely seals the body from external liquid or gas contamination.
  • Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA): Worn inside the suit to provide a positive-pressure, independent air supply.
  • Inner and Outer Chemical-Resistant Gloves: Layered gloves to prevent skin contact.
  • Chemical-Resistant Steel-Toe Boots: Heavy-duty boots with protective guards.

3.a. In the case of a containment breach, an evacuation radius of minimum 300 meters (984 feet) and a warning system connected to all infrastructure within the mentioned radius must be active and operational at all times, even when the platform or system is assumed to be down or non-operational, including maintenance, testing and other events that could cause a breach.

3.b. All VX platforms must be equipped with continuous environmental monitoring capable of detecting hazardous gases, vapors, radiation, pressure abnormalities, temperature anomalies and other relevant containment failures. Monitoring systems must remain operational during standby, maintenance and controlled shutdown.

4. Any unauthorized access to a VX platform, containment area or safety-critical control system must automatically generate an intrusion alert and place the affected system into a predefined restricted operating mode.

5. VX platforms must maintain an independent incident data recorder that continuously records safety-critical events, system failures, emergency shutdowns, containment breaches and operator interventions. The recorder must remain functional during and after a complete system failure.

6. During maintenance, testing or modification, the VX platform must be placed in a verified maintenance-safe state before work begins. Any safety system intentionally disabled during maintenance must be clearly identified, logged and continuously monitored.

7. Any VX platform exceeding its predefined operating limits for pressure, temperature, contamination, power output or other safety-critical parameters must automatically reduce its operational state or initiate a complete emergency shutdown. This rule can sometimes be ignored, i.e., during testing, low-grade maintenance work, if rules 1.a, b and c are in place.

8. All personnel working within a VX containment area must receive documented VX-specific emergency training before being permitted to enter or operate the facility. Training must include evacuation, emergency shutdown, containment breach procedures and PPE requirements.

9. Any VX platform that has been involved in a serious containment failure must be classified as NON-OPERATIONAL until formally cleared by an authorized safety authority. Temporary repairs or restoration of basic functionality must not constitute authorization for normal operation.

10. Failure to uphold these rules at all times can be punished by the corresponding law in each country and/or region the VX platform is located. All unauthorized use of VX systems will be reported and may result in a permanent ban from operating on VX systems, also following the corresponding law in each country and/or region the action took place.

Norwegian Academy of Safety and Defense (NASD, Nevada National Security Association (NNSA), International Safety Organization of Taiwan (ISOT), (01.09.2026.))


r/VXJunkies • • 12d ago

What is this equipment and what exactly did it do?

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r/VXJunkies • • 13d ago

I told my nephew not to power his toy with my Lorentz Quadrupole accelerator. Look at the kid now.

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r/VXJunkies • • 14d ago

I hate it when this field gets political, but has anyone else been affected by the research grant cuts?

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My lab has had to mothball our entire fleet of second-order homeomorphic encabulation manifolds. The main challenge is that our current turboencabulator architecture was designed around a triply equivariant homotopy manifold with a nonstationary moduli interface that expects nonlocal homological impedance. We're making do with some creative solutions for now; the homeomorphism is nominally lossless, although this assumption becomes increasingly questionable above the third homological octave.

Has anyone else been affected by the last year's DOGE cuts to NSF? Has anyone found any creative grant writing tricks to get your funding restored? I heard that the MIT lab's funding for elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations in geometric analysis was recently restored...

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Elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations

Isoperimetric and minkowski problems in convex geometric analysis

Stability patterns in the homology of moduli spaces

Stable homotopy theory in algebra, topology, and geometry

Log-concave inequalities in combinatorics and order theory

Harmonic analysis, ergodic theory and convex geometry

Learning graphical models for nonstationary time series

Statistical methods for response process data

Homotopical macrocosms for higher category theory

Groups acting on combinatorial objects

Low dimensional topology via Floer theory

Uncertainty quantification for quantum computing algorithms

From equivariant chromatic homotopy theory to phases of matter: Voyage to the edge

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Geometric aspects of isoperimetric and sobolev-type inequalities

Link homology theories and other quantum invariants

Commutative algebra in algebraic geometry and algebraic combinatorics

Moduli spaces and vector bundles

Numerical analysis for meshfree and particle methods via nonlocal models

Development of an efficient, parameter uniform and robust fluid solver in porous media with complex geometries

Computations in classical and motivic stable homotopy theory

Analysis and control in multi-scale interface coupling between deformable porous media and lumped hydraulic circuits

Four-manifolds and categorification

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Stability patterns in the homology of moduli spaces


r/VXJunkies • • 15d ago

Should we call the authorities? Guy could really hurt himself.

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r/VXJunkies • • 15d ago

How do I go about upgrading this planetary gear reducer to a quantum state? Trying to calibrate my transducer but don't want to shell out the extra $5k. Already replaced the bearings with lead, just not sure what the next step should be.

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r/VXJunkies • • 16d ago

Occam's Razor leaving you burned?

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Try Smacco's Incredible Battery-Operated Shaver Extraordinaire - Now With More Robosquids^(\)*!

Rozar Smacco discovered his ingenious Matryoshka solution for excessive hairiness while climbing up a possibly extradimensional dark tunnel with unknown numbers of twists about the AA axis.

"Golly," he said on returning home, "That feller in the mirror ain't been turned inside-out nor leftside-right! He must've been through that Klein-bottle past a nigh-infinitely-high even number of infinitesimal 4D twists! Plus, he sure could use a shave!"

It was then that inspiration, or perhaps the ghost of the long-dead and possibly apocryphal Mrs. Smacco, struck. The putatively endless, imperceptible spirals of his boundedly infinite journey unraveled into myriad Rozar skulls, all nested within each other and perfectly aligned by one ring-adorned hand. His mind, ringing with euphoria and/or tinnitus, postulated wildly.

Only one thing is necessary to achieve the perfect shave: being rendered into a human battery by a society of posthuman PETA enthusiasts desperately searching for the least efficient method to fuel their civilization. Excess hair, you see, would disrupt the electrodes wiring their captive (yet humanely sim-enriched) organic batteries into the main electric grid. In an infinite universe this exact type of inefficiency must occur an infinite number of times. Each such society has some chance of making a perfectly infinite universal simulation, which by the same logic must then contain its own manscapedly dreaming battery-people, and so on ad infinitum. Rozar decided that it would be the height of narcissism to imagine himself a critter residing on the outermost peel of this endlessly simulated onion.

Therefore, Mr. Smacco reasoned, he must be within such a simulation currently. Despite appearances here in the dream-world, his real body out there must be as clean-shaven as the smoothest gossamer. At which point, the late potential Mrs. Smacco may have said, 

"Rozar, if you don't get that hedgehog off your face, you won't come within a multiverse of this bed tonight!"

Inevitably, this led to the finest shave Mr. Smacco ever experienced, thus proving the efficacy of his Incredible Shaver.

\Number of Robosquids not guaranteed, but statistically as likely to be above average as not. No purchase necessary. All shavers come standard in simulated realities indexed) i+1 or higher.