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Office chairs have always been, and probably will always be, the way to go
Yeah, gaming chairs aren’t great for being comfy since they are modelled after race seats which are made to make you focus
It’s one step stupider than that. Race seats are not made for helping you focus, they’re made to keep you physically in place during high g-force situations.
Gamer force?
Then that’s even more stupid 😭
They are also designed to be reclined when in use, not upright, which is horrible for working with a computer.
they’re made to help you not fucking snap your neck, hence the massive wings on the sides hugging your head
Race seats are designed to hold you in place in high g corners, and keep you safe in a crash. Don’t know why anyone uses one at their computer.
i wish i’d pulled the seats out of my old talon when it got totaled. those seats fit me like a glove. I’d’ve build my own office chair out of them if i could.
it’s like how all shoes had to have huge heels, after stirrups for horses became a thing and thus riders started wearing riding shoes.
The heels aren’t useful for walking, they literally only exist to hook onto stirrups, it’s insane.
They’re great if you’re tall, though. I love mine, but I really wish I hadn’t done the roller blade wheel upgrade.
I love mine too. It’s great for my back, but I get why others find them uncomfortable.
They look like most sneakers these days.
Grotesk monstrosities
Yup. Gaming chairs are just office chairs with a car seat aesthetic for 8 year olds.
I recall in the early dotcom days there were companies who thought every person needed to have a Herman Miller chair. Silly thought but they are comfy.
Hush let the companies give low level office workers great ergonomic chairs. I’ve spent too much time in bad office chairs
It doesn’t matter. Those companies went out of business about 20 years ago, and the new companies have their own chair policies.
And? They are great, and cheap second hand.
i was lucky enough to end up using saddle chairs for a while, and holy shit they blow anything else out of the water.
You can actually sit straight, rather than either leaning back or forward, it’s fucking amazing. Plus they make it trivially easy to stand up and sit down.
My first computer chair once I was living on my own in 96. Oh and it only had 3 legs.
Before I moved out it was a vinyl covered high backed dining room chair I had rescued from the dump when I was 10 or so. My dad and I made a new seat for it from carpet padding and covered it with fake leather.
I loved that chair and the only reason I did not move out with it, is because it did not fit in the back of my VW.
I think those chairs are one of the few truly common American experiences.
I fucking hate those chairs. Probably made by Tekka
Any chair is a gaming chair if you game while sitting in it.
My first computer chair was a whole ass couch, pulled up to the desk. No armrests sucked.
Oh I love couch gaming. I Hdmi into the TV from my desktop and grab a controller
Lol my current computer chair is a reclining loveseat. It has its drawbacks but I mostly love it.
My current computer chair is a couch with armrests.
Yes. And Grandma made you a cushion for it since you were in it so much. and she cares about you.
I’m shopping for a home office chair I’ll also use for gaming and it sucks. Basically no stores carry samples in store anymore and those who do only carry those bucket seat atrocities. I’m ->||<- this close to just getting a big ol’ lazboy from a relative or something. And I don’t have cash for a Herman Miller or whatever.
Find a used office supply store. Wife got a Herman Miller Aeron for $100.
Holy crap really? Now I’ve got some duck duck going to do
Follow up, check out used furniture stores in your area. I have this 70’s high back, faux leather monstrosity that looks like I’m about to threaten James bond and feels like I’m floating.
As a teenager, I had a nice old easy chair I used when computing, until one of our cats started pissing on it. Couldn’t get the stink out, so I had to trash the chair. Fucking cat, I liked that chair. He never did it to anyone else. Well, except he pissed in my friend’s shoe for some reason.
Did your friend learn their lesson? Not saying they did anything wrong, but the cat clearly wanted to teach them a lesson!
That computer equipment didn’t exist before 2006.
They are probably comfortable but these gaming chairs are butt ugly.
Can confirm
I like my office chair. I have also been known to sit in a folding chair or kitchen table chair. Can’t stand “gaming chairs”. I sit in those things like a shrimp, and mangle my spine.
I will not stand idly by while a dragon burns down my hold and sloughters my people!
- lounges in throne casually.
Shit that’s what I use now
