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Re: A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack

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Post by sudosteph »

pvaldes wrote: post #213
sudosteph wrote: post #210

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…

Those are different men to me. Check against the photo with the shorter beard. Is more easy to verify.

Thanks for the sanity check. I'll keep one of those pics the with shorter beard close at hand if I resume down the rabbit hole later.

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Post by giantg2 »

crdrost wrote: post #222
giantg2 wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought the same thing when they mentioned he was emaciated with food near by. I would rather die doing something enjoyable than sitting at a desk at work, so maybe a terminal diagnosis prompted his trek. I would assume they would have found most health issues in an autopsy, unless maybe it was something very unusual or difficult to identify after decomposition.

That doesn’t fit. You don’t discover you’re terminally ill and then brainstorm a game while you're out trying to find yourself. If you think you're terminally ill then your notebook is likely to be full of meditations on the day's endeavors and thoughts about your legacy, and your mortality, maybe even your family. You write about a game when you're nowhere near a computer, it's because you're imagining eventually be…

"That doesn’t fit. You don’t discover you’re terminally ill and then brainstorm a game while you're out trying to find yourself. If you think you're terminally ill then your notebook is likely to be full of meditations on the day's endeavors and thoughts about your legacy, and your mortality, maybe even your family."

That might work for some people, but everyone is different. It's possible he doesn't have a family, which is supported by there not being a missing persons report. If I didn't have a family, I probably wouldn't care about legacy, or musing on philosophical topics. I even told my wife that when o die she should donate my body to science, have them pay for the cremation, then spread my ashes in the garden.

The epilepsy example is quite solid. That would be something that may present in different ways without being apparent in an autopsy. It'd be a little odd that the woman he hiked with for a couple months didn't notice it if it was getting worse.

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Post by stevehawk »

asphyxiac wrote: post #61
jhardy54 wrote: post #27

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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…

OP, based on the Screeps thread, we have a purported Steam profile for MH. Did that yield anything? Edit: I know that folks thought this was a red herring. Checked the steam profile, power player badge was unlocked on 10/23 but Recently Played shows nothing (might be privacy settings) and last review was 3 years ago. Do badges ever auto-unlock, or could this person have shared a steam account?

Ya. There was a game that unlocked a badge one year after your purchase for no reason than the anniversary of it

Re: A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack

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Post by dang »

0x1F8B wrote: post #157
dang wrote: post #155

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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24982298 .

Why?

Because it's offtopic and a drag. Imagine showing up at a party and someone starts accosting you with "since you are here I want to tell you how off-putting" their pet peeves about your work are. I doubt you'd want to hang around in that conversation, and it doesn't make for the best party. We're hoping for better conversations and more interesting parties.

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Post by oh_sigh »

almog wrote: post #116

I love how sometimes worlds collide and thruhiking related stories make it to HN. It is however sad for it to be in this context. If anyone reading this consider getting into long distance hiking, I'd encourage you to do so. While it is always best to avoid getting into dangerous situations rather than finding your way out of there, getting yourself either: 1. A subscription based satellite messenger (Garmin Mini is…

Maybe I asking for too much but why didn't his makeshift snowshoes work? Being of sound body and mind with only 10 miles between you and civilization should rarely be a death sentence.

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Post by pixl97 »

giantg2 wrote: post #94
wolco2 wrote: post #47

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Put his dna into 23andme and a detailed family chart will emerge. This is the future of crime fighting, or if someone has lost memories.

Sounds like a future rife for violation of people's rights in my opinion.

Doesn't sound much different from right now, and at our current rate we have no protections against it happening here in the US.

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Post by clankyclanker »

jpsalm wrote: post #207
warrenmiller wrote: post #198

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It's the description of Earth in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. That's where that's from

Just reading through the notes and there are lots of EVE terms in there. They look like they're talking about something else, a new game maybe, but I wouldn't discount it just yet. (Miners, haulers, nanite )

I think all of those also fit in No Man’s Sky.

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Post by aaron695 »

Occam's razor he had a mental illness.

Reading the notebooks I'd guess although in tech, not a programmer. It's all on designing the one game (based on Screeps), except one page on food. (I think BLL is business logic layer, p2p.bak is the servers to run it, blockchain-ish)

Personally I guess religious and gay. Just current intuition. I haven't read all the forums. The ex-girlfriend claim doesn't seem cited.

Reading his notebook was really sad. His private thoughts on show for the world to see. Being a quite person it's not something I'd guess he'd have liked. I know the dead are dead, but I also won't piss on a friends grave, so I don't practice what I believe.

This photo top left is the best I think, but it might be CGI enhanced. The original floating around is really low rez. https://whoismostlyharmless.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/I...

Re: A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack

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Post by pvaldes »

pvaldes wrote: post #219
jhardy54 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Algae pool, in the context of a list that contains "balanced nutri*nt? foods", is probably a food based in Spirulina. A green algae used in aquaculture. This seems to me like a check list [1] to assure that he didn't forgot anything after leaving a zone. 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 pla…

Updated. There is a page talking about nutrition, protein and "trying different flavors". Fits perfectly with Spirulina powder that is used in protein shakes as the source of protein.

Updated again, Nanites are described in the context of a game later. This does not support my checklist hypothesis. Strange list. Maybe could be just a list of names for different worlds and items in the game.

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