The ps2 was also quite bad in that regard, but the meme about using it upside down was the original ps1.

Console reliability took a sudden nosedive with the switch to optical drives.

I’m sure the sony consoles weren’t the worst in that regard, but being by far the most popular meant you knew a bunch of people whose playstation would take half an hour to load a game if at all, but the one saturn you’d seen in your life worked fine.

I’m not sure where this idea comes from, the PlayStation had a bad reputation even when it was new.

The optical drive would often fail and need replacement. There was a whole meme about people using the console upside down to combat this.

You should give prisoner of ice a try if you haven’t already.

From a skeptical translation point of view, I want to know if the word heart means the same thing today as it did then.

I’m sure that part is mostly accurate, but I think it’s talking about other people’s hearts, rather than one’s own.

In context, it’s trying to make a point about how one should trust god above men, because there’s no way for one to know how another person truly feels (but in theory god can).

You’d have to ask a theologian for an actual answer.

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In the beginning there was oss, and then there was alsa. In the alsa days it was easy to get any given thing to work, but sometimes it was hard to make two separate things work at the same time.

Pulseaudio fixed this, but it took a long time, distros didn’t start adopting it until 2008 or so, and back then it wasn’t all that solid.

The meme makes no sense now that we have pipewire, but it’d have been fair between 1998 and 2009, depending on your configuration and usage case.

Thank you, they look amazing

This isn’t true, the back buttons on the steam controller can be mapped independently.

You are most likely misremembering, there are many controllers that do similar things to what you describe, but the steam controller isn’t one of them.