Fixing My $120 Gaming Chair Mistake: Still Terrible? 

I tried SOOO hard to find an alternative product before buying one myself, but so much of the market is glutted with these that the selection was awful in all directions.

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Yup. I was basically just going for the *EPIC GAMER* aesthetic, so I bought the staples off brand one and my god I felt like I had a spine transplant from a nonagenarian for about a month. At this point my back is so fucked it doesnt bother me anymore and its just my ass that gets sore now. I need a new chair.

The moment I see "gaming" anything, I run the other way.

Personal preference, but I don't think gaming chairs of any sort even have a good aesthetic. Office chairs tend to range from bland to mildly interesting at best, but I think they're a marked improvement over the ridiculousness of the gaming chair look. On the other hand though all the chairs with the really cool or interesting designs just suck as chairs, too much form over function. Office chairs are basically as good as the aesthetic gets, unless you don't sweat much and take to leather well, and can afford some fancy chair with carved arm rests or something.

No doubt, you get decent IKEA chairs for 100€. A gaming chair at that price point is a disaster, a total waste of money.

Get a used Herman miller from an office liquidator

I own an office chair, probably the most comfortable investment into my setup lol

If you care about your back hunt for a used herman miller aeron

If you're sitting all day yes by any means get an herman miller chair, but when you use it for 2h a day and you like the racing chair design a £200-300 "gaming chair" will do in my opinion.

Hahaha!! Awesome that your chair seems to know what's going on with your games.

That's the "4D" experience! If you turn the 4D slider to Max it will knock you over when you get killed in game. Very immersive

I've had 2 chairs from 2 different brands do this exact same thing to me and it was so annoying

LoL even the chair likes to kick you when you're already down & out. ;)

Been there to with my old chair that I got when I was a kid

*I HALP*

Some help he was, I still assembled it wrong. 😂

@@DawidDoesTechStuff I'm sure he took pleasure in watching you fail.

Cat's have a weird magnetic attraction to boxes , they just cant resist them.

Cats are the bosses. They don't help, they "supervise."

Haha!! When an old dinning chair is an upgrade, you know it was a brilliant gaming chair. 😂

Same here, I bought a $150AUD Gaming Chair but my legs go to sleep if I sit in it for extended periods, so I now use a Dining chair for my Editing PC until I can save for a Good Office Chair, My niece is happy with the Gaming Chair so it is at her desk from when she was here doing Home School.

If your getting a gaming chair and it's not a secret labs or equivalent (razer, noble chairs ect...) Get a refund at this point save your back

@@ljh6931 after 4 years my noble broke, so I would stear clear of them.

I still haven't been able to remove it from my office. 😢

@@DawidDoesTechStuff Gotta hire someone from HP to remove that nasty XPS System…

That's some awesome recycling. 😁

I had one I saved from the dumpster at a salvage yard. I used that thing for years!

@@gurthanc317 That makes us butt brothers! No, wait, not that.

@@TheOriginalMaxGForce :O me too

You are my hero.

I'm gonna do that later.

It's held up to now but will it hold up for much longer maybe but it's just a avalanche waiting to happen so u should swap it out also how old are u you had to be old enough to have disposable income and ur own room that you had alone for ur self if you watch this channel you have to make enough money to afford a phone to watch RU-vid on so ur at least 25 when u bought it so your 40 yrs old

@@Blegh_x2 I mean the avalanche is me perhaps falling 1 and a half feet to the floor, I think I'll survive. At some point I may insert some new foam but it's still a fine chair. I'll replace it when it can no longer be used not before. I was actually 16 when I bought it, and I am 32 now.

Neko ga kawaii! :)

Either that, or it's on its way to being a Dalek - at that point, Dawid is basically doomed xD.

I dont understand what he means by the taser 😂😂

It's barricaded itself in my office where the breaker is. 😂

If it has barricaded it's self in there are two options left. You can either pull the fire alarm and hope the sprinklers get it, or burn down the building. Or both.

@@jeffstahley2176 I like the sprinkler idea. Let me go try that quickly.

I've had an IKEA Markus since probably 2014 or so. Material parts are showing wear/cracking now but the mesh and base padding and adjustments are still going strong. Still feels comfortable and secure after using it daily for work for most of that time.

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@@DawidDoesTechStuff It committed sudoku. (btw, it's pronounced ha-la-kii-li, the R in Japanese sounds like a mix of R and L)

@@matasa7463 ill take white guy who lived in nibia for 500. Accents get in the way sometimes

That's the main problem with these chairs, they are ALL the same, despite the brand, colours etc, they're just cheaply built garbage!

@@De4dSp0t You just hatin cause you cant afford a chair is what that sounds like my dude.

For that kind of money you cam buy an older herman miller chair. Or 2 china mesh chairs. Just get one with a mesh back only. No mesh seat. And they will last.

@@MrMastadox No mesh seat defeats the point for me, and I've no desire to buy chairs used.

@@De4dSp0t I think Secret Labs has come a long way in the last few years, they aren't the same copy cat chairs as they were, and they are expensive, but are much higher quality than these budget gaming chairs that all come from the same factory.

Seethe and cope, those secret lab chairs aren’t any better than the chair in this video. Just get a regular office chair next time

I 2nd this! Secret lab Titan bought at the beginning of 'work from home' and it's fantastic 👍

@@JavierPwns They are better. They dont have any of these racing shapes in the area that your body actually touches. I had a cloth one for a while until I had to swap it for a leather one, since thats easier to clean. And yes, I also had a Herman Miller. No they arent leagues above Titans or the Case King ones. My health is not worth that much money lol. We are all dying one day anyways. By the way, I set up to 18 hours a day on my chair due to my job and not being able tp actually walk much. So yes, I have a lot of chair time, more than most people probably.

"With Music on Repeat (Instrumental)" by Victor Lundberg.. is the music he uses

"mellifluous" The Grateful 7 may be the one your looking for..

Just remove them. Much beter.

@@bakabana8969 I could do that if I had room on my desk for my elbows, but I don't.

wait how is ur chair more expensive than my whole pc :p

@@M1SAfareed Good question. Maybe the corsair logo on the chair and stapmed name? xD

This is a great suggestion. Finding what works for you is very important. 👍

Yeah I have a pleather secret labs omega. Still looks new after 2 years. Personally I like it a lot better than my office chair I had in the past. As with most things, you get what you pay for.

You can definitely get great budget options, that's why a chair like the SK depot one is so rough.

@@DawidDoesTechStuff totally agree... My current chair was an office maz special I got in 2016 for about $275 with tax (same chair is now $299).. it's the serta chair with mattress coils in the seat.. it's been through hell and back.. I upgraded the gas strut and the metal base that the seat and strut attach to... I wonder if that would work as a video to see if there is a way to reasonably upgrade components to make that chair better...

@@rtxrt73 That's an interesting premise. I'll have a look into it. 👍

@@De4dSp0t spent about $0 to get it, i 100% agree with you and as a car enthusiast they are not comfortable yes, since i had it for free from my brother it wasn't bad.

I've got a Cougar chair, too, and I've been using it for 2-3 years now (my wife has one as well, and I showed her this video and she doesn't understand the complaints here either). I don't get the general complaint about "gaming" chairs. You get what you pay for. I've bought office chairs from Office Depot that MSRP for as much as this Cougar chair and they definitely fell apart much faster than this chair is falling apart. It's more about what you pay than the style of the chair. I love my Steelcase chair at the office, but I like the neck support on my gaming chair, the neck rest pillow, and the ability to lean as far back as I want to in my Cougar chair (because I'm old and I like to nap, but if I go to bed I'll extreme over-nap). That Steelcase chair at the office is $400 used and I think about $800 new. It's not worth the money for me unless I can identify an actual problem with my current setup. For that $1500 chair, I expect more than that underwhelming looking Logitech chair. I don't care about "gamer aesthetic"...my PC has zero added RGB lighting except for came default on the mobo and GPU. My case is a pretty boring rectanglular cube. I'm not buying it to impress my gamer friends or whatever other reason people think people buy "gaming" chairs. I love Dawid's content, but this whole series makes me feel like I'm watching one of those infomercials where someone comically wipes out doing simple everyday things to show why you need to buy some product. I'm twice-ish Dawid's age and I've never experienced the back issues he seems to be suffering from...he might need to go see a doctor for some other underlying issue.

@@iguanac6466 getting a very comfortable and good office chair will cost a premium for sure, and about Dawid back issues he seemed to lean forward a lot, i share that mistake but i counter that everytime i notice, however never reached the level he reached and i sat down for longer periods.

@@Wanted_Tiger I noticed the same thing. When he was intense, he was leaning forward way too much. That's why I like having a headrest...reminds me I should keep my head back and use it.

It's a gamble with any chair really. It is super preference based. I'm glad you are happy with yours. 👍

Same with me, I have 2 GT Racing chairs (DX Racer Knockoffs) and they're both decent "Gaming Chairs" for the money. Paid like $140 and still going strong after 2 years of heavy use... Whatever brand Dawid got was just horrible...