Shar(yna)Tran/Shark(aeopteryx)I don't know why everyone is so surprised Pikachu about the defcon thing but I think it's bc I always assumed that convention was about government/military/"defense contracting" uses of hacking already due to the name and it wasn't until I saw all this umbrage that I thought "or I guess…maybe it wasn't named after that??"
imp >:3@Sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net hahahaha I was very much surprised pikachu- I guess people have very different definitions of what a hacker is 🫠
Reminds me of a conversation I had some time ago about how I'm sure a lot of people engage with cyberpunk media and walk away even more excited for that future...
Shar(yna)Tran/Shark(aeopteryx)@imp3tuz@mastodon.gamedev.place yessss exactly on the cyberpunk dystopia being some people's utopia thing! For me, in my area there is a ton of military shit so the "defcon" thing started making me think of the military connection even before I knew it was a hacker con, so that's probably why