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https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-hancoski-b342aa53 This guy looks like a clean shaven version of those pictures. Noses look the same. The eyes. No updates to the account since 2015.
Damn, they really DO look very similar. Mike appears to have unattached earlobes, and MH's appear attached, however.
The problem of madness is you know your desire to know is not right but still you go on. Whilst I understand the argument in the article someone love him may want to know what happened. Still, should we respect his seemingly intent to avoid all theses.
Or are we all mad in a sense.
P.S. finally nailed it why china want dna so much. No need all but if have sufficient database the match to one’s relatives is sufficient.
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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…
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…
Do they not do DNA testing to determine best treatment for cancer ? Tumor and patient. Maybe there is value in trying first to match his first illness(sic?) or origin of scar ?
Updated: Vertical, abdominal and old, almost fainted.
I wonder if BLL means blood lead levels. Kidneys were correct. Maybe the scar could be a liver laparoscopy?.
The authopsy is interesting... he was eating but not recently and despite that, he was seriously cachectic. And was taking ibuprophen for the pain.
So just possibly MH was a fan of Soylent, or of DIY Soylent.
[1] https://www.robrhinehart.com/
Edit: on this notebook page[2] are the words Algae Pool and Nutrigs (nutrients?)
The pages[3]-[4] seems devoted to planning or documenting an energy-bar recipe. Similar fascination with the nutritional details of artificial foods are expressed by hobbyists who dabble in DIY Soylent recipes, see for example [5], [6].
On this basis I think it at least credible that MH was aware of Soylent and DIY attempts at complete-nutrition foods, so might have learned the "Mostly Harmless" title from Rhinehart's blog.
Which is no help whatever in identifying him, but interesting.
[2] https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hkpqsnk858pzu7f/AADnCzr7tabArQ_xq...
[3] https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hkpqsnk858pzu7f/AADnCzr7tabArQ_xq...
[4] https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hkpqsnk858pzu7f/AADnCzr7tabArQ_xq...
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-hancoski-b342aa53 This guy looks like a clean shaven version of those pictures. Noses look the same. The eyes. No updates to the account since 2015.
You might be right Here they are side by side https://ibb.co/4Zn4qqX
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…
Unfortunately the Screeps dev team is Russian based, so they declined to provide helps with their data.
The journalist contacted players who were active in 2017 and earlier individually (I was one of those) in hope of getting some leads. But from what I knew, even though we had some suspected players, it ended up not getting the lead we wanted.
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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?
With an all time peak of 357 players playing at a time, Screeps is still the best lead especially when you link it to a Steam account. https://steamcharts.com/app/464350 Hopefully, the developer still has logs and data for 2018 and earlier
The community- with the admins- put a lot of work into trying to figure this out. I lead a group who does analysis of other people's codebases by scraping data from the game, as a way to identify unique codebases (and players who use open source bots). The admins went through logs and we all poured through the game history looking for anything that might match up.
The problem is that it looks like he may never have played the MMO. Besides having the shared server the game is also open sourced. It's extremely common for players to run either in the simulator or on their own private server while testing out their codebase. Looking at his journals (and a journalist did share copies of everything they had with us) I really feel that he was in the early draft phase thinking about the game but not actually playing yet on the shared server.
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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…
Given it is followed by "Roach Motel (area/?quest)", it seems more likely this is something from a game idea.
And one item of the list is just "screeps". I was wrong, Now It looks much more like a plan of things to think about while hiking. Maybe a plan to develop a startup based in energetic food and/or a videogame. This web shows a resume of his activity.
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/fl-big-cypress-nat...
There is a mention about a non specified health problem also.