I had a horrendous Dota match where I was essentially trapped in a team full of rabid animals attacking each other for no reason and now that it's over we've just crossed the 10-hour mark and what I've realized is that I'm not the one who's been trapped on this chair for 12 hours, this chair is the one that's been trapped under me for 12 hours because it's 10 hours in and I'm still feeling perfectly fine. Uh, but the chair feels like it is on its last legs; I keep waiting for it to just kind of snap off its base and then just like knock me out on the desk as I fall down. Um, it's it's not going well with it at all. I'd be surprised if it hasn't broken yet; uh but we've got two hours left for me to break it with my man body so yeah, let's let's see what happens.

It has been 12 hours and apparently, I am made out of a combination of rubber steel and magic because I feel fine. The chair genuinely has been degrading over the course of the 12 hours; I don't think it's doing very well but it survived it didn't break; I have survived and now I get to get up from this terrible chair and hopefully, I won't ever have to sit in it again. I barely feel any different than I did yesterday when I got out of the Herman Miller chair; my tailbone is a bit more sore than it was but other than that, I'm fine. Um, that chair sucks though; it really, really sucks. It's super uncomfortable; that mixed with the fact that I think it's gonna last maybe two or three more sitting sessions and then it's just gonna break; I feel like that makes it really terrible value for money because you're gonna have to buy like eight of these at a time so you can just kind of cycle through them as they break.

Um, it feels like a wish chair to be honest. Um, but yeah with that back to the studio for the conclusion. I am not entirely sure what I was expecting; apparently, as a relatively lumber guy in his 20s sitting for 12 hours in a bad chair didn't seem to faze me very much but as somebody who's lived with bad chairs before give it a couple months and then it's really going to start taking a toll on you. Now my main takeaways from this experiment have been well, the first one is that these very budget chairs are really bad value for money; I'd be surprised if one of these lasts six months and over 12 years of chair buying you're probably gonna spend a whole lot more than the cost of that Embry chair on these guys.

Uh, if that's the route that you're gonna go now, I'm not saying we should all go out and buy extremely expensive chairs even if you save up that isn't an option for a lot of people; however, there are cheaper options. I'll have an awesome chair tier list linked in the description below by David Zhang where he walks through just the pros and cons of a whole bunch of chairs at various price points and that'll help you make an informed decision so that you don't end up buying one of these terrible things.

Uh, and the other takeaway that I have from this video is that even if you have a good chair you need to make sure that you sit in it properly while reviewing the footage of me sitting in the Embry for the 12-hour period for a lot of it; I was still kind of leaning forward and hunching over in the chair which is not a good thing. You should kind of lean back in it and let the chair do its work supporting you.

So, don't buy one of these cheap chairs because it's one of the reasons why in 10 years we're going to be swallowed by a tsunami of broken consumer electronics and discarded sk depot chairs so yeah, but buy a better thing once as opposed to a bad thing a bunch of times and filling landfills with it. Um, but yeah that brings me to the end of the video.

Thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed the video like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and until the next video bye.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday i'm gonna do the ultimate cheap versus expensive gaming chair showdown so that we can get a bit of an indication what the two opposite ends of the gaming chair market looks like and then i'm going to spend 12 uninterrupted hours sitting in each of these chairs to see what they'll do to my body but before we get into that a quick disclaimer helen miller did send me this very expensive chair that i'm sitting in right now and as far as i understood our communication i get to keep it although helen miller was very relaxed about the whole thing and they basically said here's the chair with an affiliate link do with it what you will so with the disclaimer out of the way let's roll the intro on the cheap end we have this sk depot gaming chair i think is what it's called and i paid about 160 canadian dollars for it and apparently this is the best-selling gaming chair on amazon which makes me a little bit concerned for your well-being because you shouldn't sit on this chair for any period of time really now aesthetically it has that standard kirkland brand recaro bucket seat aesthetic that's so common with gaming chairs which is actually a terrible idea because bucket seats aren't designed for comfort they're designed to hold you in place while you're hurtling around a race track doing three g's through the corners and i don't know about you but i don't really have much of a problem with g-forces while gaming oh from the moment that you sit down at it it just immediately leans forward and it kind of feels like the chair is trying to throw you out of it which which is not a great feeling and that's with the forward leaning lock enabled but then when you remove the lock it does this which what is the point why do you want your chair to be able to do this now the only way that i really found to combat the chair kind of trying to buck you off it is if you take the back rest and you kind of lean it back a bit because then it acts as ballast which kind of stabilizes the chair a bit but now i'm essentially sitting on a stool i don't have any back support on the note of the back support though it can go very far back but again this is such a stupid position for your gaming chair to be able to go into and then when you want to reset the back of the chair it kind of like just it kind of just rockets back up you it's like the chair is actively trying to maim you it is genuinely terrible and it just feels so badly made and like it's gonna break after a couple hours of use it's like a wish chair basically it's it's it's real bad and now on the elon musk end of the gaming chair market we have the helmand miller embody logitech collaboration which if i'm not mistaken is the most expensive gaming chair that you can buy that isn't like a scale model replica of a tank for some reason it comes in at an eye-watering thousand six hundred us dollars which is a whole lot of money for a chair but there are several reasons for that price tag the first one is the fact that it was designed by a bunch of people with very impressive acronyms in front of their names and that actually understand how ergonomics work and how to make a chair that isn't actively trying to maim you unlike this sk depot chair which i think was designed by the people that do the torturing in guantanamo bay and then another reason for the price is that this chair has a 12 year warranty on it i don't think i own anything that has a 12 year warranty on it let alone something as high wear as a chair it has this cloth material that covers the chair that feels like it's very durable and that combined with this cast aluminium xenomorph spine down the back of the chair makes it feel like it's going to last at least 12 years okay now i have to say the first time that i sat in the embody i was actually a bit disappointed considering what it costs i was expecting it to not only feel like a cloud but also to have the chair like do my taxes for me and maybe solve the global energy crisis and it obviously didn't do any of that the first thing that i noticed with it is that it it doesn't feel as padded as you would like especially in the bottle region it's it's soft and squidgy but it feels like over long periods of time you're definitely gonna have some butt fatigue the same goes for the back it's not very padded at all but it does support your spine better than any chair i've ever sat in because it it conforms to the shape of your back and then just like holds it in place and it really relieves pressure from your spine over long sessions of sitting now on the right hand side you have this knob that can very incrementally set the kind of curvature and uprightness of the back so that you can get it into the perfect position for you that's comfortable for you and on the other side you have this little recliner knob that has four different settings which goes from straight up like this all the way down to about this which isn't nearly as far down as the other chair but this is a very comfortable position to be in it doesn't feel like you're hanging over a concrete pipe mid-air in the way that you do with the other one when it's when it's back is down and it also really holds you in place well like it doesn't feel like the chair is gonna give out under your weight i am about six foot tall and weigh about 80-ish kilograms in the mid-80s i think i haven't weighed myself in ages but i'm not a small person and yeah it holds my weight really well they actually have a max rated weight for this chair of i think it's 134 kilograms all in all it's not as comfortable as you'd expect for the eye watering asking price but it does feel like it's gonna take really good care of your body so with that let's take these chairs to my house and spend an irresponsible amount of time sitting in them okay oh that is very springy i shouldn't have dropped down in the chair this much but um yeah there we go we're gonna start the timer now at like 10 36 so at 10 36 at night i can get up and hopefully i've not been crippled um i can't reach the camera anna we are about 17 minutes in and i'm still comfy on the on the luxurious fancy chair which is to be expected i guess um so now i'm gonna do some streaming and then i'll report back to you after about two to three hours okay so i've just finished streaming uh which means we are now about three hours and 20 minutes in i don't know if it's going to focus on that and even on the very fancy chair i can say i'm already starting to feel it especially in my thighs in terms of padding my back still feels really good but that lack of padding is definitely is definitely not going super well at this point we're about five hours and 20 minutes into the session and the the the main reason i think i was getting butt tiredness or butt fatigue from the chair was because i wasn't really shifting my weight around enough and now that i've kind of like now that i'm doing that more it does feel better so yeah i'm still feeling good i don't have any back pain yet at all like no back pain the main thing is just my thighs feel a bit worn but again with with enough shifting around it's good so we are now officially seven hours in we've just gone over seven hours and i am now just now starting to feel my lower back um so there's still quite a long period to go we've still got about five hours left and uh yeah hopefully it'll be okay i'm feeling surprisingly good still like it's been uh it's not gotten any more lower back taxing than it's been at about seven hours i still feel like i'm relatively comfortable in the chair as well so i think that's quite impressive because there's like little increments in which you can change the extent to which you know the back goes down it means you can have variety in terms of positions that you get kind of comfortable in and stuff it's it's pretty good yeah it's it should be considering what it costs but we're 10 hours in and it's going well and just like that we hit the end of the first 12 hour challenge with the fancy chair here i'm just tiredly rambling about how reclining while watching tv made my butt feel better but once i got up i was filled with insightful feedback yeah we're done i don't really know what else to say um it it has it has performed valiantly it is now soiled in darvit juice which is pretty exciting yeah lots of lots of budgies it is now the next morning and uh we finished assembling this chair it is actually significantly more janky than i was expecting um but yeah i guess i guess i just have to sit down on it and then okay um we've just gone over three hours and despite the fact that this chair is is really uncomfortable it really pushes you over i can i don't know if you can see on camera how much it wants to lean forward and then when you have it a bit back then you you it like falls back when you try and sit upright so it's like it kind of actively prevents you from sitting properly but i'm still relatively like i'm not feeling anything in my body or whatever so despite the fact that it's really uncomfortable it's not hurting me yet which is good i'm actually pretty impressed with with the fact that it hasn't hurt me yet we are about six hours and 40 minutes into the the the torture chair and um i still feel fine you know so that's good it's better than i was expecting i was expecting to be not to be able to ever walk again after like three hours considering just how uncomfortable this chair is but apparently i am a young beast of a man and just sitting on this abomination of a chair isn't it doesn't seem to affect my body that much i just had a horrendous dota match where i was essentially trapped in a team full of rabid animals attacking each other for no reason and now that it's over we are we've just crossed the 10 hour mark and what i've realized is that i'm not the one that's been trapped on this chair for 12 hours this chair is the one that's been trapped under me for 12 hours because it's 10 hours in and i'm still feeling perfectly fine uh but the chair feels like it is on its last legs i i keep waiting for it to just kind of like snap off its base and then just like knock me out on the desk as i fall down um it's it's not going well with it at all i would i'm surprised it hasn't broken yet uh but we've got two hours left for me to to break it with my man body so yeah let's let's see let's see what happens it has been 12 hours and apparently i am made out of a combination of rubber steel and magic because i feel fine the chair genuinely has been degrading over the course of the 12 hours i don't think it's doing very well but it survived it didn't break i have survived and now i get to get up from this terrible chair and hopefully i don't ever have to sit in it again i barely feel any different than i did yesterday when i got out of the the herman miller chair my tailbone is a bit more sore than it was but other than that i'm fine um that chair sucks though it it really really sucks it is super uncomfortable that mixed with the fact that i think it's gonna last maybe two or three more sitting sessions and then it's just gonna break i feel like that makes it really terrible value for money because you're gonna have to buy like eight of these at a time so you can just kind of like cycle through them as they break um it feels like a wish chair to be honest um but yeah with that back to the studio for the conclusion i am not entirely sure what i was expecting there apparently as a relatively lumber guy in his 20s sitting for 12 hours in a bad chair didn't seem to faze me very much but as somebody that's lived with bad chairs before give it a couple months and then it's really going to start taking a toll on you now my main takeaways from this experiment has been well the first one is that these very budget chairs are really bad value for money i'd be surprised if one of these lasts six months and over 12 years of chair buying you're probably gonna spend a whole lot more than the cost of that embody chair on these guys uh if that's the route that you're gonna go now i'm not saying we should all go out and buy extremely expensive chairs even if you save up that isn't an option for a lot of people however there are cheaper options i'll have an awesome chair tier list linked in the description below by david zhang where he walks through just the pros and cons of a whole bunch of chairs at various price points and that'll help you make an informed decision so that you don't end up buying one of these terrible things uh and the other takeaway that i have from this video is that even if you have a good chair you need to make sure that you sit in it properly while reviewing the footage of me sitting in the embody for the 12-hour period for a lot of it i was still kind of leaning forward and hunching over in the chair which is not a good thing you should kind of lean back in it and let the chair do its work supporting you so at the end of the day uh don't buy one of these cheap chairs because it's one of the reasons why in 10 years we're going to be swallowed by a tsunami of broken consumer electronics and discarded sk depot chairs so yeah but buy a better thing once as opposed to a bad thing a bunch of times and and filling landfills with it um but yeah that brings me to the end of the video thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed the video like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and until the next video bye youtoday i'm gonna do the ultimate cheap versus expensive gaming chair showdown so that we can get a bit of an indication what the two opposite ends of the gaming chair market looks like and then i'm going to spend 12 uninterrupted hours sitting in each of these chairs to see what they'll do to my body but before we get into that a quick disclaimer helen miller did send me this very expensive chair that i'm sitting in right now and as far as i understood our communication i get to keep it although helen miller was very relaxed about the whole thing and they basically said here's the chair with an affiliate link do with it what you will so with the disclaimer out of the way let's roll the intro on the cheap end we have this sk depot gaming chair i think is what it's called and i paid about 160 canadian dollars for it and apparently this is the best-selling gaming chair on amazon which makes me a little bit concerned for your well-being because you shouldn't sit on this chair for any period of time really now aesthetically it has that standard kirkland brand recaro bucket seat aesthetic that's so common with gaming chairs which is actually a terrible idea because bucket seats aren't designed for comfort they're designed to hold you in place while you're hurtling around a race track doing three g's through the corners and i don't know about you but i don't really have much of a problem with g-forces while gaming oh from the moment that you sit down at it it just immediately leans forward and it kind of feels like the chair is trying to throw you out of it which which is not a great feeling and that's with the forward leaning lock enabled but then when you remove the lock it does this which what is the point why do you want your chair to be able to do this now the only way that i really found to combat the chair kind of trying to buck you off it is if you take the back rest and you kind of lean it back a bit because then it acts as ballast which kind of stabilizes the chair a bit but now i'm essentially sitting on a stool i don't have any back support on the note of the back support though it can go very far back but again this is such a stupid position for your gaming chair to be able to go into and then when you want to reset the back of the chair it kind of like just it kind of just rockets back up you it's like the chair is actively trying to maim you it is genuinely terrible and it just feels so badly made and like it's gonna break after a couple hours of use it's like a wish chair basically it's it's it's real bad and now on the elon musk end of the gaming chair market we have the helmand miller embody logitech collaboration which if i'm not mistaken is the most expensive gaming chair that you can buy that isn't like a scale model replica of a tank for some reason it comes in at an eye-watering thousand six hundred us dollars which is a whole lot of money for a chair but there are several reasons for that price tag the first one is the fact that it was designed by a bunch of people with very impressive acronyms in front of their names and that actually understand how ergonomics work and how to make a chair that isn't actively trying to maim you unlike this sk depot chair which i think was designed by the people that do the torturing in guantanamo bay and then another reason for the price is that this chair has a 12 year warranty on it i don't think i own anything that has a 12 year warranty on it let alone something as high wear as a chair it has this cloth material that covers the chair that feels like it's very durable and that combined with this cast aluminium xenomorph spine down the back of the chair makes it feel like it's going to last at least 12 years okay now i have to say the first time that i sat in the embody i was actually a bit disappointed considering what it costs i was expecting it to not only feel like a cloud but also to have the chair like do my taxes for me and maybe solve the global energy crisis and it obviously didn't do any of that the first thing that i noticed with it is that it it doesn't feel as padded as you would like especially in the bottle region it's it's soft and squidgy but it feels like over long periods of time you're definitely gonna have some butt fatigue the same goes for the back it's not very padded at all but it does support your spine better than any chair i've ever sat in because it it conforms to the shape of your back and then just like holds it in place and it really relieves pressure from your spine over long sessions of sitting now on the right hand side you have this knob that can very incrementally set the kind of curvature and uprightness of the back so that you can get it into the perfect position for you that's comfortable for you and on the other side you have this little recliner knob that has four different settings which goes from straight up like this all the way down to about this which isn't nearly as far down as the other chair but this is a very comfortable position to be in it doesn't feel like you're hanging over a concrete pipe mid-air in the way that you do with the other one when it's when it's back is down and it also really holds you in place well like it doesn't feel like the chair is gonna give out under your weight i am about six foot tall and weigh about 80-ish kilograms in the mid-80s i think i haven't weighed myself in ages but i'm not a small person and yeah it holds my weight really well they actually have a max rated weight for this chair of i think it's 134 kilograms all in all it's not as comfortable as you'd expect for the eye watering asking price but it does feel like it's gonna take really good care of your body so with that let's take these chairs to my house and spend an irresponsible amount of time sitting in them okay oh that is very springy i shouldn't have dropped down in the chair this much but um yeah there we go we're gonna start the timer now at like 10 36 so at 10 36 at night i can get up and hopefully i've not been crippled um i can't reach the camera anna we are about 17 minutes in and i'm still comfy on the on the luxurious fancy chair which is to be expected i guess um so now i'm gonna do some streaming and then i'll report back to you after about two to three hours okay so i've just finished streaming uh which means we are now about three hours and 20 minutes in i don't know if it's going to focus on that and even on the very fancy chair i can say i'm already starting to feel it especially in my thighs in terms of padding my back still feels really good but that lack of padding is definitely is definitely not going super well at this point we're about five hours and 20 minutes into the session and the the the main reason i think i was getting butt tiredness or butt fatigue from the chair was because i wasn't really shifting my weight around enough and now that i've kind of like now that i'm doing that more it does feel better so yeah i'm still feeling good i don't have any back pain yet at all like no back pain the main thing is just my thighs feel a bit worn but again with with enough shifting around it's good so we are now officially seven hours in we've just gone over seven hours and i am now just now starting to feel my lower back um so there's still quite a long period to go we've still got about five hours left and uh yeah hopefully it'll be okay i'm feeling surprisingly good still like it's been uh it's not gotten any more lower back taxing than it's been at about seven hours i still feel like i'm relatively comfortable in the chair as well so i think that's quite impressive because there's like little increments in which you can change the extent to which you know the back goes down it means you can have variety in terms of positions that you get kind of comfortable in and stuff it's it's pretty good yeah it's it should be considering what it costs but we're 10 hours in and it's going well and just like that we hit the end of the first 12 hour challenge with the fancy chair here i'm just tiredly rambling about how reclining while watching tv made my butt feel better but once i got up i was filled with insightful feedback yeah we're done i don't really know what else to say um it it has it has performed valiantly it is now soiled in darvit juice which is pretty exciting yeah lots of lots of budgies it is now the next morning and uh we finished assembling this chair it is actually significantly more janky than i was expecting um but yeah i guess i guess i just have to sit down on it and then okay um we've just gone over three hours and despite the fact that this chair is is really uncomfortable it really pushes you over i can i don't know if you can see on camera how much it wants to lean forward and then when you have it a bit back then you you it like falls back when you try and sit upright so it's like it kind of actively prevents you from sitting properly but i'm still relatively like i'm not feeling anything in my body or whatever so despite the fact that it's really uncomfortable it's not hurting me yet which is good i'm actually pretty impressed with with the fact that it hasn't hurt me yet we are about six hours and 40 minutes into the the the torture chair and um i still feel fine you know so that's good it's better than i was expecting i was expecting to be not to be able to ever walk again after like three hours considering just how uncomfortable this chair is but apparently i am a young beast of a man and just sitting on this abomination of a chair isn't it doesn't seem to affect my body that much i just had a horrendous dota match where i was essentially trapped in a team full of rabid animals attacking each other for no reason and now that it's over we are we've just crossed the 10 hour mark and what i've realized is that i'm not the one that's been trapped on this chair for 12 hours this chair is the one that's been trapped under me for 12 hours because it's 10 hours in and i'm still feeling perfectly fine uh but the chair feels like it is on its last legs i i keep waiting for it to just kind of like snap off its base and then just like knock me out on the desk as i fall down um it's it's not going well with it at all i would i'm surprised it hasn't broken yet uh but we've got two hours left for me to to break it with my man body so yeah let's let's see let's see what happens it has been 12 hours and apparently i am made out of a combination of rubber steel and magic because i feel fine the chair genuinely has been degrading over the course of the 12 hours i don't think it's doing very well but it survived it didn't break i have survived and now i get to get up from this terrible chair and hopefully i don't ever have to sit in it again i barely feel any different than i did yesterday when i got out of the the herman miller chair my tailbone is a bit more sore than it was but other than that i'm fine um that chair sucks though it it really really sucks it is super uncomfortable that mixed with the fact that i think it's gonna last maybe two or three more sitting sessions and then it's just gonna break i feel like that makes it really terrible value for money because you're gonna have to buy like eight of these at a time so you can just kind of like cycle through them as they break um it feels like a wish chair to be honest um but yeah with that back to the studio for the conclusion i am not entirely sure what i was expecting there apparently as a relatively lumber guy in his 20s sitting for 12 hours in a bad chair didn't seem to faze me very much but as somebody that's lived with bad chairs before give it a couple months and then it's really going to start taking a toll on you now my main takeaways from this experiment has been well the first one is that these very budget chairs are really bad value for money i'd be surprised if one of these lasts six months and over 12 years of chair buying you're probably gonna spend a whole lot more than the cost of that embody chair on these guys uh if that's the route that you're gonna go now i'm not saying we should all go out and buy extremely expensive chairs even if you save up that isn't an option for a lot of people however there are cheaper options i'll have an awesome chair tier list linked in the description below by david zhang where he walks through just the pros and cons of a whole bunch of chairs at various price points and that'll help you make an informed decision so that you don't end up buying one of these terrible things uh and the other takeaway that i have from this video is that even if you have a good chair you need to make sure that you sit in it properly while reviewing the footage of me sitting in the embody for the 12-hour period for a lot of it i was still kind of leaning forward and hunching over in the chair which is not a good thing you should kind of lean back in it and let the chair do its work supporting you so at the end of the day uh don't buy one of these cheap chairs because it's one of the reasons why in 10 years we're going to be swallowed by a tsunami of broken consumer electronics and discarded sk depot chairs so yeah but buy a better thing once as opposed to a bad thing a bunch of times and and filling landfills with it um but yeah that brings me to the end of the video thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed the video like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and until the next video bye you