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PS3 'jailbreak code' retweeted by Sony's Kevin Butler

• StavrosK 16y ago
  I don't understand any of this. Who's Kevin Butler, why is he fictional, and what does battleship have to do with it?
  • anonymoushn 16y ago
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Butler_(character) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Butler_(character)
    • StavrosK 16y ago
      Oh wow, thanks, Wikipedia really does have everything.
  • ZoFreX 16y ago
    Kevin Butler is a fictional VP who appears in multiple adverts for the PlayStation 3, usually in a different position each time (such as "VP of Add More Awesome"). My favourite is the ad for Modnation Racers, in which he appears alongside the (non-fictional) CEO of Sony, Jack Tretton [1] The battleships reference is because that code bears a resemblance to a sequence of moves for the guessing game battleships [2], where players take turns to choose squares on a grid to "attack", such as B4. The opposing player will announce either "hit", "miss", or "you sank my X". The most iconic potential phrase from the game is "you sank my battleship" which is referenced in various songs etc. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EinxqwJCK8o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EinxqwJCK8o [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(game) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(game)
    • StavrosK 16y ago
      Thank you, initially I thought he was a battleship-playing bot or something.
  • kbutler 16y ago
    I'm a software engineer, have nothing to do with Sony or Battleship, and I don't understand it either. Kevin Butler P.S. And I'm non-fiction. Really.
• leoc 16y ago
  A hit, a very palpable hit.