# What's the ultimate gaming office chair? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 28, 2009, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-ultimate-gaming-office-chair/483329 "2009-01-28T01:38:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JerseyFrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@JerseyFrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerseyFrank)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-ultimate-gaming-office-chair/483329/1 "2009-01-28T01:38:27Z")
and why? I guess I’m looking for something comfy and ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-ultimate-gaming-office-chair/483329/2 "2009-01-28T05:46:20Z")
Just eat and keep doing nothing but playing video games until your ass gets really big. Then just sit on it. That oughta do it. ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-ultimate-gaming-office-chair/483329/3 "2009-01-28T11:20:32Z")
> [@Simmerdown](#): > > Just eat and keep doing nothing but playing video games until your ass gets really big. Then just sit on it. That oughta do it. Wow. You’re quite the worthless douche, ain’cha? To the OP: In the world of disgustingly comfortable, inexplicably expensive office chairs, there are only two contenders: the [Herman Miller Aeron](http://www.hermanmiller.com/CDA/SSA/Product/0,,a10-c440-p8,00.html) and the [Liberty](http://shop.humanscale.com/family.cfm?groupid=33). There may be more expensive chairs out there, but I really doubt there’s anything as comfortable as either of these two. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-ultimate-gaming-office-chair/483329/4 "2009-01-28T12:59:58Z")
well, [Poetic](http://www.poetictech.com/) really springs to mind, or even [this ine](http://www.novelquest.com/emperor_specs.html) ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-ultimate-gaming-office-chair/483329/5 "2009-01-28T13:53:08Z")
When I was heavily into NASCAR sim racing, I would have liked something like [this.](http://store.videogamecentral.com/playseat-tonystewart-limited-edition-nascar-racingseat.html) ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-ultimate-gaming-office-chair/483329/6 "2009-01-28T14:04:15Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > well, [Poetic](http://www.poetictech.com/) really springs to mind, or even [this ine](http://www.novelquest.com/emperor_specs.html) …Well, I know what I’m buying when I become a millionaire. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-ultimate-gaming-office-chair/483329/7 "2009-01-28T15:12:51Z")
I don’t like the Aeron. I got one for my dad as a present off a dotcom closure… not a huge fan. ---
**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-ultimate-gaming-office-chair/483329/8 "2009-01-28T15:49:46Z")
> [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](#): > > Wow. You’re quite the worthless douche, ain’cha? My apologies to everyone. I have had the week from hell at work and I was posting when I should have been sleeping. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-ultimate-gaming-office-chair/483329/9 "2009-01-28T17:39:45Z")
I’m not seeing prices on any of these. That’s probably just as well. Those poetic units look sweet. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-ultimate-gaming-office-chair/483329/10 "2009-01-28T18:06:23Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > I’m not seeing prices on any of these. That’s probably just as well. > > Those poetic units look sweet. The Emperor, at least, is $40,000. I didn’t see prices for anything else though. ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-ultimate-gaming-office-chair/483329/11 "2009-01-29T05:05:02Z")
> [@Simmerdown](#): > > My apologies to everyone. I have had the week from hell at work and I was posting when I should have been sleeping. My apologies. I might have been overworked as well when I wrote that. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-ultimate-gaming-office-chair/483329/12 "2009-01-29T18:00:07Z")
Glad everything’s under control here, but just a reminder: this isn’t the Pit, so play nice.