Presioná cualquier tecla

El otro día me topé con Press any key (Presioná cualquier tecla) de Adam Saltsman. Este juego (llamémosle juego) es el deleite de cualquier minimalista: lo único que hace el jugador es llenar la pantalla de puntos rojos, cada uno de los cuales aparece cuando el jugador (adivinaron) presiona cualquier tecla de su teclado. Adicionalmente, varios mensajes aparecen arriba del juego para incentivarte en la tarea. Como soy un tipo paciente me hice el tiempo de jugarlo hasta el punto en que revela su verdadero objetivo: ayudarnos a entender la verdadera escala de los números grandes, en este caso cien mil, porque cada punto rojo representa una de las cien mil bajas civiles desde la invasión yanqui a Iraq en 2003.

Me acordé entonces de lo muy grande que siempre me sonó el treinta mil que tuvimos acá en Argentina, y quise ver si, aprovechando que en esta fecha ninguna efeméride lo pide, se podía hacer algo parecido (aunque nosotros en realidad no tuvimos ninguna guerra y nuestros treinta mil no llegan a muertos todavía). Salió algo predecible, poco impresionante, pero a mí me sirvió. El resultado fue

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