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[–] [email protected] 149 points 1 month ago (14 children)

"Gaming Chairs" are for idiot consumers. Office chairs are where it's at. Office chairs are designed to be sat in for 8+ hours a day.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You want a chair that makes it look like you're about to lay off the bottom 10% performers.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Some folks like bottom performers. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

99 percent of "office chairs" are the same poorly constructed garbage that "gaming chairs" are. Actually good chairs are 400-1000+ which most people cannot afford unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Any office chair in similar price range would be at least somewhat better than a gaming chair. Gaming chairs are also overpriced so there really is no reason to but one unless you prefer looks (subjective) over comfort for done reason.

I was looking for some affordable refurbished ones like leap but it was either out of my price range or hard to find a good one. Ended up buying a cheap office chair, kinda regret it but ig you get what you pay for.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My office chair is a gaming chair (seems fine), my gaming chair is the sofa and a big pile of cushions (and the bog, of course)

[–] odium 9 points 1 month ago

My office chair and gaming chair are both the same office chair. I swap the same monitor's connection between my work laptop and pc depending on time of day.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not getting it but those gaming chairs look like racing car chairs. I didn't think those seats were particularly comfortable either because I thought they kept you in place when things you're zipping around?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

They're not comfortable, they're fashionable. You pay extra to be hip with it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I tried so many different office chairs, they all sucked. Even the more expensive ones. But the "secret labs" gaming chair was perfect. Gives whatever support my fucked up spine needs, has the right mix of cush but firm. And the little magnetic pillow is in the perfect spot. It was very expensive but worth it to me.

Most gaming chairs are memes tho I'll say

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's a bite to the wallet to get a decent chair, but definitely worth it, and can still be done for sub-$1000 too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Find a good used office supply company. You can find top notch chairs like aerons that have a scratch or ding for half the price. They are usually good with single customers for these lightly used chair.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The better office chairs have 10+ year warranties, if you spread out the cost of buying a cheap chair (£150) every 2 years Vs a £1000 one that lasts 10 years its not such a huge difference in price whilst the benefits to your back are worth much more.

I know not everyone can afford this, but it's worth checking for interest free credit from either the manufacturer, store, or even PayPal / klarna (which is what I did).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I read a few months ago about a US senator who was new to the position, formerly lived in less than ideal circumstances, made the news for becoming a senator while not being born into wealth. Anyway, they were surprised at the options they had for medical insurance, and how affordable they were, and how much they covered, and in general how much better these options were. Before becoming a senator, the same medical coverage would have cost an order of magnitude or two more.

Anyway, fuck the rich, then eat them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bro, who exactly buys a new chair every 2 years? 0.o

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I managed to get my whole family some really good office chairs because a local business chucked them all in a local dumpster. Most of them just needed to have the foot-rests removed to be completely perfect. I looked them up, and they are all $600+ chairs brand new. Dumpster diving has always been fun :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just play PC games on my couch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Steam link fpr the win. You can play your pc games on the loo as well!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Office chairs cause back pain, just like gaming chairs.

What you really want is a nice recliner and a big TV. Keyboard in lap, mouse on arm rest (or end table). I've been computing this way since 2008 and I'll never go back to a desk ever again.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

If you're getting back pain from an office chair then your arse is likely too far forward when you're sitting and you're putting pressure on your spine due it being at an angle other than 90 degrees from the seat, or your table is too low, lowering your arms, so you're bending forward.

You're suppose to feel your arse pushing against the back of the chair not leaving enough of a hole between the chair and your lower back that you can fit an arm in it, and when your arms are resting on the table (which they should be pretty much all the time if your keyboard and mouse are sufficiently forward) you should feel no pressure either downwards or upwards on your shoulders

I've been coding for over 3 decades, often for massive long hours (to the point that by the age of 17 I had RSI due to how my wrists were resting at the edge of the table and some years later when already doing it professionally went to the doctor with chest pain - which I feared were due to a hearth condition - which turned out to be work posture related) and at some point in my mid 20s I moved to The Netherlands and to a company which had its own Ergonomics Consultant (this was back in the peak of the 90s Tech boom so there was lots of money sloshing around) who would come around when you joined and adjust everything for you (they even had tables with adjustable height) and explain you all about the correct work posture.

Been following that advice and haven't had posture related problems since then whilst always using pretty standard office chairs (always with adjustable height, tough).

I have however seen plenty of people doing the lazy (and stupid) posture of being all the way forward on their chair and quite a lot with arms too low or too high (which is more understandable since most cheap office tables don't have adjustable height).

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I feel attacked (currently scrolling from the toilet)

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

(Upvoting from toilet)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

(currently scrolling from the throne) Fixed that for you

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I need to take a shit and I'm sad I can't take my game with me (I don't have a steam deck).

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago

“We play on the throne”

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why is there a toilet in the gaming room and in the living room in the first two pictures?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

The joke is that handheld gamers can play anywhere, well at least with this edit. The original only had him on the toilet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I took this as "i play on a gaming chair, couch, or anywhere else" or maybe "steamdeck is a pc, console, and handheld"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Misread that for a second...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

I started using Steam Link to switch between all those choices, ultimate freedom

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Mobile players do it on the go. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Imo the most iconic and representative of the best place for steam deck is while traveling.

8 hour flight? Do I have my deck?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

nice touch adding the toilet to the office and parlor.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Look at Mr. Fancy over here with a parlor!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Or from the car or in bed under the covers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

What do you use your phone for then?

No, wait, I don't want to know.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bold of you to assume I didn't build my battlestation around the shitter.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

VR desktop streamers, do the same thing but optionally in multimonitor 4k and don't have to look at our hands the whole time. Also can play on a recliner comfortably. My neck is in so much better shape since I started using my VR headset to stream instead of a phone or other handheld. Plus the screens are 20 feet away, nice on the eyes. And still take up 80 degrees of my field of view. Not sure what effective size that makes them, but it's bigger and nicer looking than a theatre screen.

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