• Axolotl@feddit.it
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      9 days ago

      Yeah, gaming chairs aren’t great for being comfy since they are modelled after race seats which are made to make you focus

      • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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        9 days ago

        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.

      • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca
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        9 days ago

        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.

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          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.

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        9 days ago

        They’re great if you’re tall, though. I love mine, but I really wish I hadn’t done the roller blade wheel upgrade.

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          9 days ago

          Really? I’m not super tall but the headrest on mine is already borderline too low. The optional head pad sits at my neck which isn’t ideal. Also are roller blade wheels seriously a thing? Why would anyone want that, how do you move the chair sideways?

    • BillyClark@piefed.social
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      9 days ago

      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.

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        9 days ago

        Hush let the companies give low level office workers great ergonomic chairs. I’ve spent too much time in bad office chairs

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          9 days ago

          It doesn’t matter. Those companies went out of business about 20 years ago, and the new companies have their own chair policies.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 days ago

      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.