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"Gaming chairs" are cheap garbage. Just throw it away and buy a proper, ergonomic chair.
Bonus: If it's one of the mesh types, there's barely anything to absorb the smell of your shitty ass!
...and get a bidet already! Pro tip: The type of bidet that is integrated into the seat is vastly superior to the type that slips under the seat.
All of my desk chairs across my house are 50+ year old office chairs. If your chair budget isn't massive look for old office chairs, especially from government surplus auctions and the like. Mine were all gotten for free when workplaces happened to be replacing some furniture, but I also regularly see local schools listing office chairs in surplus auctions
Yes! Pro-tip: If you see an aeron chair on the side of the road for trash pickup, take it!
99% of the time, when people throw out office chairs it's because the gas cylinder failed (gets stuck down). A new cylinder is only $20!
Just be prepared to whack TF out of that old one to get it out, haha. They can be really stuck in there after 5-10 years of people sitting on the chair.
Don't be afraid to use a huge ass plumbing wrench and scratch TF out of the old one 👍
I've broken several office chairs within a year of getting them just by sitting on them. I don't trust them at all. My current gamer chair is a partially broken, vintage, wooden dining chair I got for free and I've had it for a few years now it's held up great. Wood is the way to go imo.
You need to get like actual decent office chairs, not Amazon trash.
They cost over thousand dollars new, but you can often get them for next to nothing when companies get new equipment.
Once I was in a store that sold used office furniture. The sales floor/warehouse was dingy, uninviting, and poorly organized, but the deals were INSANE. Desperate landlords will give furniture away rather than pay to have it taken to a dump.