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Floor Furniture for Perfect Gaming?
zpengo asks: "Anyone who has owned a game console for more than a month knows that sofas (or couches, or whatever you call them) are out of the question. The floor is truly the only place to go when you need serious gaming focus. But what's the best floor furniture to use? A pillow? A bean bag? The venerable Fat Guy Pillow? Or, if the ideal doesn't exist commercially, has anyone hacked together their own?"
Bean bags are the way to go, but washing the covers is a pain. TOP TIP! Buy a bean bag you don't like, but is cheap, and just the cover of one you do like. Put the cover over the whole bag, hence making it dead easy to just remove the cover when it's time to wash the sweaty-arseness from your favourite PS2 beanbag.
WARNING! Requires input of money and concern for personal hygiene.
Dave
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....wtf you're thinking.... it sounds stupid, but once you try them, you'll never go back. originally dubbed "movie night chairs" to provide extra seating when space ran out on the couches due to couples, i took home from school the plastic piece of a broken all in one school desk. it's exactly the right size to sit in, they're designed for someone to sit their ass in for 8 hours a day and not be sore. most importantly, they're FREE. they're very durable, i've collected 4 so far through high school, and they've worked wonderfully. only problem is they mount to the desk via metal pipes usually, but 10 minutes and a 4" metal grinder (about $20, the only expense for the whole setup if you don't have it already) will leave the bottom shiney smooth.
be sure not to remove the metal piping altogether, as it often serves as a "backbone" for your backsupport.
another feature not usually thought about, is that once it's ibeen liberated from the desk, you're no longer confined to sitting upright in them. you can lean back in them and tilt them on their axis for MAXIMUM COMFORT. they're unbelievably comfortable, and every moie night i'm now invited to i'm always asked to bring them along.
other uses:
+ turn one upside down, now you have a comfortable sloped surface to lay back on (w/pillow)
+ turn it upside down, then 90 degrees. you now have a low cost, effective and comfortable foot stool.
you can usually find at least 2 or 3 of these plastic chairs behind a high school or middle school by the maintencnece shed, or near the trash cans. about once a week one breaks and the school gets ready to throw it out, and you can find them in the halls or out back. just grinder off any exces metal and wash it down real good with some soap and water in the backyard and you'll have hours of gaming comfort. my friends and i will play an entire season of NHL on the playstation in these in comfort.
friends 140 lbs to 230 have no trouble in the movie night chairs at all.
moox. for a new generation.
I haven't tried these yet, as they're expensive. But SofaBeanBags seem promising.
A word of warning - when I said they're expensive, I meant it. If I recall correctly from my enquiries a year or two ago, the sofa size bag is around £350.
But I have to admit, they looks like the mutt's nuts.
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I'm sure Slashdot mentioned this years ago, but the serious option is the Poof chair. They are like bean bags, but filled with a higher quality foam. Damn comfortable. Check out http://poofchair.com or http://notabeanbag.com
I think they recently renamed to "fuf" chairs, whatever the hell that means.
Ikea sells great chairs to park yourself in front of the TV. Theyre low to the ground, so they will most likely satisfy youre penchant for the floor, bendie, they have arms that make convenient soda/beer holders (or if you are really intense, the bottom wood rail can also be used. Trust me on this one. I have spent many many hours playing Gran Turismo 3 in this chair, and its near perfect. LInk: http://www.ikea-usa.com/product_presentation/show. asp?productnumber=00010027&type=III&id=453,415
My girlfriend and I bought a really nice rocking chair when we had our son. It was originally intended for feeding, but the thing is so comfortable I use it all the time for reading or playing video games. I've spent many later nights playing baldurs gate: dark alliance and final fantasy x in that chair, and never get uncomfortable. It costed about 500$ including the ottoman, and we got it at babies 'r us. Go to any baby store and they'll have tons of comfortable rocking chairs.