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[–] andrewta 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Foot wear. Don't go cheap. Go quality.

Tires.

And a bread machine. Trust me you go cheap you won't use it for long. It will either break or produce crap for bread.

Speakers for your home theater. Cheap sucks. Unless you are so hard of hearing that everything sounds like crap.

Computer chair. Trust me forget the gamer chair, go for a good office chair. Your back and your butt will thank you.

Furniture. Unless you like buying couches and chairs and tables. Get quality don't go cheap.

[–] Stern 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Tires, Furniture, Shoes, Socks

Always heard it said that you shouldn't cheap out on anything that goes under you. Among the best bits of advice I've been given.

Computer chair

100% this. Office chair companies have been making chairs that people can sit in doing deskwork without issue for literal decades. They are absolute experts in the field. Put some LED strands on a Herman Miller if you desperately need to feel like an elite gamer cool dude. It'll be the same price as the bullshit racer chair but your ass will be so much more comfortable.

[–] sinceasdf 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Bruh the prices of a gamerx chair and a HM are not in the same universe. I agree with your sentiment though lol

[–] Stern 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I suppose I was thinking more about some of the DXracer and SecretLabs which are deffo in the same realm price wise as the lower end of HM, rather then the ol' Walmart special.

Also, while doublechecking that- lmao

[–] sinceasdf 2 points 8 months ago

Damn what an ugly $1k chair lmao

[–] RedWeasel 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah and expensive doesn’t necessarily mean quality either.

[–] andrewta 1 points 8 months ago
[–] WeeSheep 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I have to say I picked up a free chair that was being tossed from a college campus (the computer lab was replacing the chairs) and it's pretty damn nice. Much more comfortable than my more expensive one.