“Ransomware” is the name given to a type of malicious software that locks away a person’s files until they pay off the asshole who created the program and infected their computer. A fan of space shooter Touhou Seirensen ~ Undefined Fantastic Object decided to make a cool wordplay between the words “seirensen” and “ransom” and created a program called “Rensenware”. Unlike actual ransomware, “rensenware” didn’t ask players for money to get their computer back — but probably made many players wish it did as it forced the infected to get a completely impossible score of 200,000,000,000 points in Touhou Sweirensen – UFO instead.
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For those who are unaware, Touhousen Seirensen is a “bullet hell” game. That’s not more clever wordplay – that’s the name given to one of the most difficult types of games in the world, one that consists of dodging a ridiculous number of projectiles thrown at the player’s ship at incredibly high speed.
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