Gaming chairs, whatcha recommend?

Yes :)

Yeah, my pop collection has now outgrown display space. I don’t even buy many mysel, most are gifts from family and a significant chunk are from Reddit Secret Santa exchanges at redditgifts.com

You take them out of the box?! My kids taught me to leave them in. Not a clue why, I just followed suit.

It’s mixed. If I really like something I don’t care about it’s long term value. Some just sit in the box better tho.

Aeron came in today, and within 5 minutes I now realize how bad my old chair was for my posture. I knew it wasn’t good, but I didn’t realize how much I was leaning forward in the seat or leaning side-to-side due to immovable armrests.

Having something adjusted to fit my posture and my desk setup is remarkable. I feel stupid for not investing in this years ago.

I picked up a refurb steel case leap v2 from Crandall office furniture, since I was able to expense it to my company as a WFH supply. Replaced an old falling apart no name chair from Staples or Office Depot or something.

It’s been a couple weeks, and it seems pretty nice. I’m honestly not sure how much I care about the 4d armrests, but even having height adjustment is a significant improvement over my old chair. I do really like the adjustable lean, and the way the chair kind of shifts while leaning back instead of just tilting.

The refurb seems fine. All the fabric was replaced, as was the seat cushion. There was a little bit of broken plastic on the seat bottom, but not in a place that matters at all. Overall, I’m liking it a lot, but Im glad I didn’t have to pay for it.

After an insanely obnoxious series of phone calls, transfers, and emails to nowhere, I managed to talk to someone ostensibly in the Amazon Basics Warranty department who offered to let me do an exchange-return, as an exception, since I was more than 30 days out from my order. I pointed out that the item had a 1-year warranty. She read that and agreed that it did. And then again emphasized that they were being very nice letting me do an exchange outside of the 30-day window. I was tempted to understand if she understood the meaning of “1 year warranty,” but decided not to push my luck.

New one arrived yesterday and is setup. If it fails, I’ll get a refund and put it towards half the cost of the fuckin’ Floortex name brand model.

The warranty probably covers damage in a gravity-free environment only. They are being nice, really!

Consolidated my thread crapping off topic posts into just one. :)

POST 1

I had an hour today to get to working on this mini-project, got this far:

Gonna apply the edging tomorrow, might use some gorilla glue if needed for a more secure hold.

Ended up only needing 5 of the 6 pieces of flooring.
If the edge guard turns out to not be 90 degree friendly, I’ll just cut 4 strips for the sides.

POST 2

My floor mat project is almost done, it’s hard to find time as I am working 75 hr weeks again, taking care of the yard, and helping my mother with stuff at home.

Here is where I am, 2 edges secure and need trimming, the other 2 need putty and trimming because I suck at measuring correctly. :p

I picked up 3 packs of loctite putty to run in the channel of the strips and it adheres fantastic, while also allowing me to take the edge off if I ever need to repair/replace a slat of flooring. I still might put a dab of liquid cement just at the corners to prevent slow edge peel, that I am seeing. I hope to finish it this week.

I am pretty sure this thing is gonna last forever once I am done, and total out of pocket was under $70.

POST 3

TODAY:

Finally finished trimming and adhering the edging to the laminated wood flooring. Looks pretty damn good imho. And it is probably 4x stronger than any plastic floor mat.

@arrendek what do you think?

That looks awesome! Great work and now I have some diy instructions to go with the idea. Thanks!

Secret Lab has a new chair out for 2022.

That headline sounds like a stab

So I am dealing with some scoliosis and in need of a new chair to better support me while at the desk. Most of the “best” chairs for back problems I find are atrociously expensive, plus I have a cat which would destroy mesh and eats leather (fake or real) straight off chair seats so I need to aim for fabric.

Anyone have recommendations?

Whats your budget? :)

$250 - $500 - $750 - $ Kidney ?

LOL - I like your range. Ideally under $500. Even that feels abhorrent to spend on a collection of plastic, metal and fabric, but as I’m looking it seems as if chair inflation is a thing among all the various “best of” sites.

I recently moved and got a kneeling chair instead of a traditional chair for my home office. It’s with a sit/stand desk, so maybe 3-5 hours a day in roughly one hour increments at a time. I’m really enjoying it so far, although it is pretty unique and the way it actively uses your back/core would be a big turnoff for many, I suspect.

Having purchased 2 chairs in the past 10 months, my recommendation would be get the chair that best fits your use case and needs. That may well mean getting a crazy pricey one.

For me, I tend to spend 8 plus hours a day in a chair working or gaming. I bought my first chair, SecretLab Omega, and at the time thought I spent too much. Because I am a cheap bastard. A pretty solid chair, however over time after a couple of hours sitting I get sore spots on back, neck ache, and it kinda cut off circulation on my left leg leg. Finally had enough of that, test drove a Herman Miller Embody, ended up buying the Embody. After a week of testing between the Omega and Embody… Embody and it’s not even close. The price still makes me pucker but I really wish I had just bit the bullet and not dismissed the pricey option the first time.

Indeed, as others have said repeatedly in this thread, this may well be the most worthwhile computing investment you ever do, especially considering the durability of a good chair against cheaper ones that tend to fail you in a couple of years.
Also let your back do the talk when trying out the chairs, and just listen to it: it knows better.

I’d never heard of the company before, but this one is getting good reviews and is supposedly “improved” - do you think I should stay away from them? I flat-out can’t afford a $1500 chair, no matter how much I might like it.

Most folks here are going to recommend looking for a used version of the stupid price chairs, even over a new Secretlab chair (though I would assume that is a pretty decent chair too). You’ll still be spending the same amount, but a 6 year old used chair with a 12+ year warranty is probably just as good as a new chair with a 5 year warranty.