Be Excellent To Each Other

With an eye towards her birthday in September, my gf has started sending me links to interesting looking items. One thing she is getting quite keen on is a gaming chair with surround sound etc. Please give me opinions. Do you have one? Do you want one? HAve you tried one? Do you hate them? KAITHXBI x

PS she sent me this link. click.

From the experience of my 'phew's one, they're made out of polystyrene and the fabric wears away within two-three months.

I'd probably myself just get a ridiculously comfortable chair and not bother with surround and stuff, that way the chair is multi-use. But I can see the point of them.

I think it will fall over and you won't be able to see the screen.

It's my birthday next week and I want your girlfriend

Sorry can't help with the chair

You're an engineer, Gilly! Get an awesome comfy chair and make it a gaming chair! That would be an awesome present.

It's my birthday next week and I want your girlfriend

Sorry can't help with the chair [/quote]
It's my birthday next week too!
..and that other thing too....

And I want a gaming hammock. A 3D one.

I think Zardoz's idea of a gaming/web browsing bog seat is a winner. Or perhaps incorporate a chemical toilet into the special gaming chair, that and a Haribo dispenser and you'd never need move.

But what would boil my Vimto?

I'll be keepin' an eye on you Mister.


First my dog, now my girlfriend

Ha, that's a great idea! You forget though that I am also lazy. The light in my spare room hasn't worked for about six months and I still haven't bothered fixing it.

Heh.

You need this:

I hear benchmark reviews is a good place to go for unbiased impartial chair reporting.

My inner cheapskate awakens! Hearken!

"Any ordinary item prefaced with 'gaming' is aimed at a market that will pay £200 for an over-engineered joystick to use with one game, then spend the next eight years trying to convince themselves it was a good idea. Get a super-comfy and sturdy normal office chair instead. Also I'm not paying for this round, I got you one on Saturday and you still haven't replaced my chicken pie. When did you last do the food shopping, I do i-mmmmfrgfhgrggh"

Christ, that was close. The things I do for you lot.

I have one of the Pyramat chairs (the older style which is actually a full chair - i'm sitting in it right now) - and i agree with Sinister Agents post above - get a normal chair.

This is the one I have

http://www.pyramatgamingchairs.co.uk/pc ... -chair-21/

(and no it didnt cost that amount when i got it)

And to answer your questions :

Do you have one?

Yes

Do you want one?

Since i have this one i dont need another chair - if i was buying a chair tomorrow i would not buy this one.

HAve you tried one?

Yes , what would you like to know about it - its a comfortable enough chair , its *loud* when you turn it up (i'm not allowed to) but its only really usable if your in the room yourself.
Wireless works , battery life on the main speakers is pretty poor.

> Do you hate them? KAITHXBI x

Not hate , just wouldnt really recomend them.

Saying that i used to have one of the more basic ones (with a stand) and it was a very comfortable chair - just the chair took up a lot of space and i had a separate chair to sit at my computer - so swapping to this one made sense at the time.

I've got to agree with everyone else. You'd be better off spending the money on a proper office chair.

That one linked above though, my mate has a bean bag that's a similar shape and its very comfy! It doesn't come with surround sound but its an excellent gaming chair and came at a fraction of the price.

I think 'gaming' chairs look quite lame (sorry), you probably don't need another person to chip in with 'get really nice regular chair instead' but there it is anyway.

Also a separate surround system will be way better than anything built in to a chair anyway.

Anyway.

I agree with the Bean Bag comment. Get one of them

These answers have been pretty much what I was expecting and I was planning to then be able to convince her that what she needed was an awesome big beanbag and a surround system but no such luck She says she wants clothes now

You'll probably be wanting a different forum for advice from here on in.

You're an engineer! Make her some clothes!

Out of sheet metal and LEDs.

I think this is what you're after...

I dunno, we have Mimi for knitting advice. And John Coffey for the spurious LEDs.

This sounds way too much like something JC would buy and rave about, so if that isn't a warning to steer well clear I don't know what is. But maybe my crude xbox-playing behind lacks the technical know-how to appreciate such things.

I will confess it would be fun to sit in and pretend you were in "Flight of the Navigator" though.

We all need that!

[sobs at the memory of a time when it really seemed like the Konix would happen].

Fucking hell, Jen's let herself go.

And that's not how you spell 'Savile' either...

These are on special offer.
http://www.made.com/seating/piggy-bag-union-jack

Sadly the girl doesn't come with the bag.

"Do you come with the bag?"
"Oh you! Hehehehe!"
"Do you come with the bag?"
"Oh you! Hehehehe!"
"Do you come with the bag?"
"Oh you! Hehehehe!"

Nice way of making a union jack smell of arsecrack, too.

You're money would be better spent on a 5.1 amp and speakers and play games sat on the sub.

Maybe with this cushion too.

What's on its nose?

A horsedeathstingfly

Richard Gaywood.

Terrible!

Oh wait.