I had a couch about 2-3 feet away from the desk for casual games and movies, then a desk chair in between the couch and the desk for FPS games that I’d pull out of the way when I was using the couch. I kinda miss that setup even though now I have a separate TV setup. At one point I also used a massive lazyboy as my desk chair but that was terrible for using the mouse, id have to be perched on the edge. It was great for falling asleep while watching movies though.
I like my office chair. I have also been known to sit in a folding chair or kitchen table chair. Can’t stand “gaming chairs”. I sit in those things like a shrimp, and mangle my spine.
I think a big one to me is when the world doesn’t revovle around me, when things happen without player input because the player isn’t the centre of the universe. Every NPC just wating in stasis or walking on a preset loop forever until I hit the next event trigger really kills immersion.
As a teenager, I had a nice old easy chair I used when computing, until one of our cats started pissing on it. Couldn’t get the stink out, so I had to trash the chair. Fucking cat, I liked that chair. He never did it to anyone else. Well, except he pissed in my friend’s shoe for some reason.
I’m shopping for a home office chair I’ll also use for gaming and it sucks. Basically no stores carry samples in store anymore and those who do only carry those bucket seat atrocities. I’m ->||<- this close to just getting a big ol’ lazboy from a relative or something. And I don’t have cash for a Herman Miller or whatever.
Follow up, check out used furniture stores in your area. I have this 70’s high back, faux leather monstrosity that looks like I’m about to threaten James bond and feels like I’m floating.
My first computer chair once I was living on my own in 96. Oh and it only had 3 legs.
Before I moved out it was a vinyl covered high backed dining room chair I had rescued from the dump when I was 10 or so. My dad and I made a new seat for it from carpet padding and covered it with fake leather.
I loved that chair and the only reason I did not move out with it, is because it did not fit in the back of my VW.
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.
i wish i’d pulled the seats out of my old talon when it got totaled. those seats fit me like a glove. I’d’ve build my own office chair out of them if i could.
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.
That actually is how it definitely should be. If you’re gonna make someone sit in a chair doing pointless work for eight hours, it better be a chair that’s less likely to give them lasting damage. Companies that give shitty office chairs should be sued for endangering their workers.
Jokes aside, I remember watching a video where some pro gamer (Starcraft maybe?) showed off where he learned to play, and it was basically sideways on a crowded credenza in the kitchen.
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