After eco-accusations over AI-assisted PS2 reverse engineering, he dumped car batteries in a lake
CtrlAltDwayne · x · 2026-09-09
CtrlAltDwayne was accused of damaging and poisoning the environment for using the AI tool Astra to reverse engineer a PS2 game. His sarcastic response: to even things out, he threw a bunch of car batteries into the local lake — a joke mocking the AI energy-consumption criticism.
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