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The police poster mentioned "was only able to hike 10 miles a day". Makes me think it's health related, 10 mi / day is absolutely abysmal for a normal thru hiker. Most aim to do that amount by 10 in the morning...
> 10 mi / day is absolutely abysmal for a normal thru hiker It depends on the weight of what you carry with you.
"He did bring a giant backpack, which his fellow hikers considered far too heavy for his journey."
Here is a link to his notebook that they found on him: https://www.colliersheriff.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=94010
From reading the notebook he may be a game developer. Quite a few of the pages look like notes from algorithms on rendering a game, maybe an FPS or RTS game, and he talks about outputting to the console and sprites.
There is one point where he is musing about mapping commands to hex values within a single byte which makes me think he started programming in the 8bit era.
Well, this was quite the rabbit hole for me. Great article, btw. Here's my best candidate from some internet sleuthing: https://imgur.com/EMPKO2V . I do definitely see some resemblance, but interested if others do too. I have a possible name, but no evidence that anyone with that name has been reported missing. The only contact point I found is a twitter profile that I think could be a brother, but I'm not about to m…
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Which again is strange, since he was found with $3500 on him.
https://www.colliersheriff.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=94010 I wonder if he was fasting or starving himself and ran into unexpected trouble. For example pg 17 has some detailed nutritional data on something, maybe an idea for a protein bar?.
The police poster mentioned "was only able to hike 10 miles a day". Makes me think it's health related, 10 mi / day is absolutely abysmal for a normal thru hiker. Most aim to do that amount by 10 in the morning...
Not able, or not interested?
The assumption that he must have died purely by accident is absurd; or, if not, that he must have been mentally ill. I could absolutely see myself doing this in another 5-15 years. There's so very little worth living for, but I learned 10 years ago I'm not willing to off myself in the ways people normally do. Heading out into nature and lasting as long as I can on my own seems like the workaround to "being ready to die", but "not willing to hang, shoot, or poison myself".
No, I don't need help. Tried the suicide route 10 years ago (very seriously, not as a call for help), and discovered that I'm not quite that fed up with life yet; and when I am, that's not how I want to go. This story is exactly the kind of method I'd use if the desire to fade from the world resurfaces.
Maybe there is value in trying first to match his first illness(sic?) or origin of scar ?
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> Whenever I give my address to a business for shipping, DMV, voter registration, etc. I also tack on a code to my address Could you elaborate on that?
Let's say your address was 256 Main St. Apt 10, Some City, CA, USA I usually provide my address as 256 Main St. Unit 10-BCRK, Some City, CA, USA I generate a unique code for each entity that I am required to provide my address to. I usually change "Apt" to "Unit" to stump the automatic address-correcting APIs that will convert "Apt 10-BCRK" to "Apt 10". I found that changing "Apt" to "Unit" usually stumps them. The i…
PS: I generate separate emails already. Example: somebusiness@mydomain.com However, I have not found a single case where they leaked my email address, so I am not sure if it helps for spam and privacy.
I'm the author of the piece. I think the best clues are that the mystery hiker told people he was from Louisiana, and that he worked in the tech industry in NY. I suspect someone here might recognize him. I'm reachable at nxthompson at protonmail.
https://www.youtube.com/c/LEMMiNO/videos
Maybe it could be a good basis for a video
The Screeps detail seems like something that could be fairly easily pursued... there can't have been that many players of that game to begin with, let alone those that would care so much about it that they would journal their thoughts about it. A quick check of the GitHub repo doesn't show he contributed code, but might he have opened an issue, contributed to docs? Might there be someone who was active in the communi…
Required reading, IMO: https://screeps.com/forum/topic/2937/a-strange-request-for-h... I've spent a few days looking into this and haven't been able to find anything. There's also a big thing about "algae pools" "stock markets", etc, which didn't seem to be about Screeps. I tried to find games that had these mechanics, and ended up spending a bunch of time looking through Spacestation 13 forums, but I'm leaning towar…
Is relevant because the man has been most probably poisoned. It was not a fast poison and it was painful but not too alarming. Not a bee, a wasp or a Bothrops. A plant or fungus, yes, could fit.
Is not suicide and terminal illness in my opinion. Nobody dies by starvation in presence of food.
But there is a third category that I was missing. Your own food. A too old Spirulina package can be contaminated and lead to slow poisoning. Emaciated in the context of plenty of food around and plenty of money means that he was deliberately refusing to eat while resting in the tent, this is a common effect of food poisoning.
[1] Speculating "Roach motel" can be an humorous surname for their tent. Nanites could be some kind of "armour", clothes or boots maybe.
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If someone wants to check, I'd bet he at least forked or starred the github repo. A script to pull the list of those people, minus anyone whos been active since april 2017, would probably show his account.
Looking at https://imgur.com/a/eTphrRF The code that he writes is a blend of languages. The arrow operators -> is indicative of C/C++ but C/C++ doesn't use nil or function. It's like he thinks in C/C++ first which puts him at about my age mid-40s. Anyone younger than 40 would be using dots '.' due to Java/Javascript/Python instead of '->'. Does anyone else get that vibe?