From 28487272fdad654b72c843e04384953e6fbb806f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "@syxhe" Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 18:37:04 -0500 Subject: Rewrite README.md --- README.md | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index fc064af..314218d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ -# VXGG REWRITE +# VXGG Rewrite {#mainpage} -## The first attempt was shit, so I did it again +========================== -VX-GAMBLEGROUND, aka VGXX, is a piece of "funware" I wrote. It's ransomware with a twist: it's not meant to completley fuck your system, just temporarily encrypt your stuff until you win a game of slots. The end product, although working, was not great. Because I have recently found myself with freetime and a new unending boredom, I decided I might as well rewrite this into something I could be slightly more proud of +## A Rewrite Of The Abysmal VXGAMBLEGROUND Ransomware + +VXGAMBLEGROUND, aka vxgg, is a bit of fun ransomware I wrote a while back. The joke, inspired by telegram degens, was that the unfortunate victim of this ransomware would have to gamble bitcoin at a slot machine to get their files back. A combination of the joke losing its humor and curses being annoying led me to a state of begruding. I got to a point where I really couldn't care less about the quality of my work and just wanted to get it done, so I pushed through and created a heaping pile of spaghetti code. The final product did techincally work, but it was held together by duct-tape and dreams; one of the ways to crash the program was by resizing the terminal window + +Looking back on it, I'm glad I stuck through. It was probably my first "big" C project that I actually bothered to finish, even if its finished state was hot garbage. After some more time, I've decided that I want to rewrite it, to improve on all the random shit I did and make something I could be marginally more proud of. No more corrupting files, no more silly crashes -- cgit v1.2.3