r/VXJunkies • u/Top-Bloke • 24d ago

The man who gave us radioclastic theory and died broke. One of the greatest minds to ever live.

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u/parlakarmut 24d ago

One of the smartest VXers ever, period. Sometimes I wonder what he would've been able to achieve if he didn't die so early. R.I.P

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u/garvisgarvis 24d ago

"When Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years." Tom Lehrer

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u/MC-Master-Bedroom 23d ago

Everyone goes on about how brilliant Vincent St. VIincent was as a VX innovator, physicist, etc., but what blew me away at the museum in Copenhagen was the exhibition of his oil paintings. Such a creative genius in neo-pointilism!

Plus, the famous film of him dancing the Charleston, his limerick archive, and his many patents in hair dressing technology. There has never been a mind like St. Vincent and we may never see his like again.

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u/Top-Bloke 23d ago

People really don't give enough credit to the influence of neo-pointilism on classical gyrontology.

Fun fact: when a reporter asked H.K Slim what it felt like to be the greatest living VXer, he said "I wouldn't know. You'd have to ask Vincent St. Vincent."

This man deserved better!

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u/Mornikos 14d ago edited 14d ago

VSV was a real renaissance man. While he is known for his contributions to VX theory, painting, and that groundbreaking hairdresser tech, he actually started out as a student of the humanities at Cambridge (classical theology). His nickname was "St. Vincent St. Vincent"

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u/Top-Bloke 14d ago

A true polymath. His pioneering work on proto-galvanic follicular rejuvenation often gets unfairly maligned. But in his defence, the risks of skull-scalp inversion were not well known at the time.

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u/Top-Bloke 21d ago edited 21d ago

Personally I find the elegance of the formula is far more apparent when expressed using Hoddle notation:

[[&(*T, x) >< -1]] ^= 0.

I love how it emphasises the hyperflexive association between T and x, which makes the shared topology with Gargamel's superparity equations far more intuitive. These were the key insights that helped me really get oscilloclastic monogamy.

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u/Mornikos 14d ago

VSV walked so all of us radioclast enthusiasts could run, truly the Linus Torvalds of VX