• Airazz@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Just don’t fall for those “gamer” chairs. They’re designed to look pretty, not to be comfortable.

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      2 years ago

      Most gamer chairs are fine but they’re overly expensive. My chair is just a high quality office chair I grabbed from a local store. Super comfy and relatively cheap.

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        2 years ago

        The issue is, yeah they’re comfortable, but they’re not comfortable in a good way for your body. You slouch and fuck your spine up. Also you look like a teenager, do you have a racecar bed too?

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            2 years ago

            I have fun, whilst sitting on a super comfy chair made to be adaptable and ergonomic so I can have fun for longer without fucking up my body. 🤷‍♂️

            With a gaming chair, you’re also overpaying for bad posture and bad materials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yhc6mmdJC4

            It just makes me think ‘kid that got scammed and follows trends to fit in’, not ‘fun’

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                2 years ago

                They’re just cheap shit. I don’t buy cheap shit, I have a premium chair that I bought used for a fraction of the price, cheaper than a “gamer chair” 🫣

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        It’s not just about comfort, it’s about it not messing up your back long-term.

        A bean bag is pretty comfy, but if you work in one 40h a week, your spine will be dust within a year.

        Unfortunately the best chairs are even more expensive than gaming chairs. As an example, Herman Miller’s Aeron has been rated as one of the best designed chairs for over 2 decades and costs over a grand. Imagine that with gamer tax added to it: basically no one would buy it. So they simply don’t make chairs of that quality level to sell to that target demographic, it would not make economic sense to.