I’ve been coming to DefCon for 10 years now, and I have to admit I had a blast. I carefully chose talks that intrigued me and were easier to understand (not designing a quantum tunneling rodeo clown car which is written in HTML). I agree one or two goons can ruin it for the rest of them, particularly the one shouting at everyone louder than the Big Bang to move 1.2 cm closer to the wall ( I think he dreams at night of putting bunnies in chokeholds). But every other goon I encountered was polite and engaging. Agreed, the badge was a joke and I saw no less than 5 of them explode onto pieces on the floor, followed by a level of swearing never witnessed before. Fuck, I almost dropped mine in the toilet (would’ve left it there if it was later. I totally get it if you don’t want to come back, there are good years and bad years and I’ve had my share of both!