I badly need a new chair.
I put the thumbnail chair there just for fun. It’s called the Vantum and it’s ~$700. I don’t need a Cadillac chair. A Honda is more than adequate. I just don’t know what that’ll cost.
- What’s the absolute minimum you’d spend to get a Honda chair? $100? $200? More?
- What brands have the best reputations?
- What brands should be avoided?
- What questions am I forgetting to ask?
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The cough backstory
The plain-old desk chair I bought just 14 months ago already has a serious crack. I noticed it today. I don’t think it can be repaired. Plus the crack will expand making the chair worthless. It’s just a question of how fast. Worst of all - could the chair collapse all-of-the-sudden sending me crashing to the floor?
Before I bought it I avoided the cheapest chairs. I spent a bit more - $80 - in hopes the damn chair would last at least a couple years. So much for that!
Don’t buy a gaming chair modeled after a racing chair. Racing seats are designed to keep you alive after 50G impacts and don’t care about your comfort at all. If you encounter a 50G impact while gaming, you are doing it wrong. Try out old office furniture to find something comfortable, but the odds are anything marketed as a chair for gamers isn’t worth it.
But my immersion! Lethal levels of force-feedback really make you feel like you’re there!
Getting one of those haptic vests but replacing the pistons with tiny knives so you can really feel like you’re getting stabbed by a crazed goblin.
In China, they strapped me in with a seatbelt before I could play a kitty-cat simulator. I was equally intrigued and terrified, but the game didn’t deliver anything close to needing one.