• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    12 hours ago

    Gamers chairs are the best example of that. Some neon pleather on a piece of plywood and they slap $600 pricetag on it. Meanwhile a sturdy $300 mesh office chair will actually support you for hours a day for 10 years, but kids don’t think it’s cool

    • foggenbooty@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Exactly. They’ll be spending countless hours sitting in it, so does it look to the office chair for an ergonomic design and spiff it up a bit? No, how about a stiff race car seat that hugs you through all those turns you’ll be taking… that makes sense.