All of these racing chairs suck so so so so so so much. I have owned two.

1. The wings on the chair will probably not match your shoulder width, this will make them uncomfortable you will roll your shoulders forwards in order to sit back fully.

2. You need a back lumbar cushion for them.

3. When it’s your skin will stick to it.

4. You will want to get soft arm attachments because the hard arms suck.

5. The material will be cheap, the hard part of the arms will break.

6. Very good chance that the pneumatics start failing within a year and the chair just sinks during use.

I strongly advise against getting a gaming chair. Get an “executive” chair instead. The bigger the chair the better tbh but they get absurdly expensive, this ridiculous thing costs thousands:

Don’t buy for aesthetics. You will regret it. Buy for comfort. Comfort comfort comfort. This thing above is ugly as fuck but I can almost guarantee it’s nice to sit in.

It’s like buying the mouse that looks like a fighter jet, cool aesthetic but it’s gonna be a shit ass mouse. WLmouse is currently my favourite mouse, looks iffy but it’s the best mouse I ever owned. Buy things like this based on function, not appearance.

You should be careful buying a gamer chair - they’re often made for aesthetics and not for long-term comfort or back support, and can be kind of bad value for money because of that. Office mesh chairs are designed to be sat in for a long time whereas gamer ones are based on racing car seats which are designed for drivers to be in for an hour. Not to say they’re never worth buying but make sure it’s properly adjustable and the such for your build before buying :)

https://techguided.com/are-gaming-chairs-worth-it/

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Gaming chair? Like this?

Looks cute, though I’d reccomend going with an office chair instead. The gaming chairs are modeled after racing seats which are made to keep you in place in racing, but when sitting down in them for long periods it can mess up your posture

I had a chair that was exactly like this outside of the color scheme and the supporting rod that connects the seat to the base snapped after about 5 years, I am a large adult son but not egregiously so, those cushions are garbage and are attached by straps that you have to clip on around the back, I stopped using the lumbar support one within a couple days because it usually ended up squished into the back of the seat, and the arm rests became loose after maybe a year and wobbled a lot. If you don’t have pets the material might hold up but I ended up having to get a pull over cover for mine.

Desk Chair for Granddaughter

coolio but probably bad for your back in the long-term

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car seat

As others have said, gaming chairs are not good. I have one and I’m replacing it with an ergonomic office chair

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Go to your local college and walk around the apartments at the end of their quarter/semester. plenty of chairs and furniture.

Adding on to the racing chairs bad discourse, racing seats are designed first and foremost to keep you alive, rather than comfortable. You aren’t supposed to slouch in racing seats because they’re built with you using a 6 point harness and HANS in mind, so 8Gs won’t move you around. This also prevents you from slouching so they aren’t designed to keep you comfortable if you have bad posture.

I’ve been through the gamut on these a little bit… The cheaper “gaming chairs” on Amazon are absolutely freaking horrible. I had an AKRacing chair that had such an extreme forward tilt that it would cause me to slide forward out of the chair constantly. The seat had little to no cushioning, so it felt like I was resting my thighs against a metal bar with a thin layer of sticky vinyl over it. And then I’d slide out. Over and over again. It had a full horizontal recline, but then it would just tip over.

I did get an employer to spring for a DXRacer King “executive” chair once (~$400 in 2016ish dollars), and that was tolerable. It was just another office chair, but with goofy aesthetics and a lumbar pillow. All in all, not that bad, but not really worthwhile if you were to buy it out-of-pocket. I imagine the same could be said of the SecretLabs Titan/Titan XL or the Noblechairs Hero. I haven’t used either because I was able to score a refurbished Herman Miller Aeron for cheap with my TrumpBux^TM back in the early days of the plague. If you’re already at the $400-500 tier, this is the way to go. The upshot to having an Aeron is that, 99% of the time, if you need to buy replacement parts, they’re readily available. So far, I’ve had to replace an arm rest mounting brace and seat link bolts, but I’m also occasionally in this thing for 16-18 hours out of a single day.

If that’s out of reach, then my recommendation is the OfficeMax/OfficeDepot “WorkPro Quantum 9000” mesh chair if you can find one on sale in the $300 range. My only complaint on those is that the back doesn’t lock in place very well and will occasionally just fall down because the “lock” is cheap plastic. They’re not horrible for prolonged use on account of the mesh, but going back and forth between that and the Aeron was definitely noticeable.

Breaking the mold to say that I used to have a chair almost identical to the one in the screenshot and it was like $60 or something. If you don’t mind it being some random color you can probably save a good amount