Floor Furniture for Perfect Gaming? 44
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?"
Re:chair (Score:1)
Sleeping pads and wrestling mats... (Score:2)
The sleeping pallets are pretty much what they sound like--foam-filled mats just big enough to lay on. Some people use them for comfort on camping trips or when staying on someone's floor. Ditto for the wrestling mats, I think we know what they are.
Re:Sleeping pads and wrestling mats... (Score:3, Funny)
Bean bags. (Score:4, Informative)
WARNING! Requires input of money and concern for personal hygiene.
Dave
Sofas are perfectly fine (Score:2, Insightful)
Or if you're playing multiplayer with someone sat on the same sofa, the occasional elbow-nudge is all part of the fun.
Gamers Anonymous (Score:2, Funny)
cheap free and COMFORTABLE (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:cheap free and COMFORTABLE (Score:1)
Re:cheap free and COMFORTABLE (Score:1)
this link [educationworks.com]
has some chairs for sale, the first, third and fourth chairs are generally what i look for, and are extremely comfortable.
also this link [schooloutfitters.com]
has a nice picture of a chair that is particularly easy to remove the legs. these style chairs routinely have a U-shaped metal bar attached to the back for strength and support. there are a rare few that do not need the metal backing, as they provide enough support somehow with just plastic (although still attach to metal legs). i would highly reccomend them over the part metal part plastic chairs, as they have the ability to better mold to the shape of your back, but both are quite comfortable.
"school chair supply" came up with a few results
Personal experience... (Score:2)
Aside from that, I've got one of those papasan chairs (here's a link [lifeinstyle.com] to a picture of one) which is very comfortable and nice for "splatting" in for a gaming session.
Bean bags get serious (Score:2, Informative)
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 [thenutshop.com].
Poof Chair (Score:2, Informative)
I think they recently renamed to "fuf" chairs, whatever the hell that means.
Re:Poof Chair (Score:1)
Presumably, 'fuf', unlike 'poof' is not derisive British slang for 'homosexual', on the order of 'fag'.
video chair (Score:1)
the ones i saw weren't leather and were 40 bucks (the one i linked to above says 75$
Re:video chair (Score:1)
We got them at a local eclectic furniture store, but I have seen them at the big box stores as well.
Re:video chair (Score:1)
well, that and the butt-ugly color selection available locally
Re:video chair (Score:1)
I looked at the picture you posted again, and I'm pretty sure I have the exact same chairs. If you don't like the ones you see locally, google for "video rocker" and you'll find plenty of them for sale.
Re:video chair (Score:1)
Stokke Chairs (Score:1)
The Stokke chairs work GREAT for video games
Ikea "Poang" Chairs. (Score:2, Informative)
Futon on Tatami (Score:1)
rocking chairs (Score:2, Informative)
The "Bubble Chair" (Score:2)
Anyway, Discovery Zone got bought out so they had to close the store. My roommate "accidentally" walked out the door with one of these gigantic bubbles. It is probably the best thing ever to sit on on the floor. Put a big pillow on the bottom and you're set for hours and hours of gaming, watching TV, or whatever.
If you actually went to a playground supply company to get one, I'd guess that they wouldn't be cheap, though...
CordaRoys furniture (Score:1)
-Andy
Why not a sofa?? (Score:1)
IKEA chairs (Score:1)
The OPPALA chair is very low to the ground and cheap ($20).
But the POANG chair is my favorite. I could sit in one of these all day long. It's a little more expensive ($80), but it will serve you well for reading, watching TV, or just relaxing, as well as console gaming.
(No, I don't work for IKEA, I just really like these chairs).
Re:IKEA chairs (Score:1)
These aren't bad (Score:1)
Re:These aren't bad (Score:1, Funny)
Not "Furniture" Per Se... (Score:1)
The standard stayed-back camping chair [www.mec.ca] can't be beat. They're just so damn useful in any number of situations. The link given is for a basic chair through a Canadian distributor. There a number of different models and I'm sure you could phone around local camping stores to see if they have anything of the sort. The great thing about these things is that they are meant to go everywhere. They fold up nicely so they're easy to tote around with you to the beach, park, wherever.
I highly recommend getting one. Best of luck in your search.
Floor Pillow/Cushion (Score:1)
You might try finding cushions from a discarded couch -- wash them, and maybe beef up or swap the padding with something firmer. (A good fabric store will have a variety of foam padding for this.)
Note the pottery barn site does have some 'floor pillows' but they're definitely not the ones I remember. These seem frillier and smaller.
Video Rockers are great. (Score:1)
Video Rockers -- expensive? (Score:1)
It seems that "Video Rocker" is the generic name for this class of chair.
These chairs are great for video gaming, but not so great for drunk people, unless you find "I've fallen and I can't get up" gut-wrenchingly funny.
Free Slashdot ads (Score:1)
Seriously doesn't this just look like an ad for this "fat guy pillow"? I'd never heard of it and clicked the link. How many people bought one?
Bean Chairs (Score:1)
These kinds of chairs share and advantage with a previous poster's recycled school-desk chairs -- you can rock backwards in them and recline a bit.
Avoid slippery vinyl, naugahyde etc. at all costs. Get a fabric covered chair so that there's a bit of friction between your ass as the seat, lest you slip around too much while jinking and fragging.
This was dropped in kuro5hin... (Score:1, Offtopic)
Why low to the ground? (Score:2)
Not good for console gaming due to supporting a controller.
I had no problem playing FFX for nearly 2 weeks straight at the end of winter break on a couch. (One that was so comfortable some of my apartmentmates preferred it to their beds.)
But in the end, the most comfortable seating in my room was a recliner. Good back support, almost any recliner has a built-in foot rest, and by definition have a reclining back. They all have armrests too. Too expensive, you say? Two words: garage sale - That's where I got mine. (I think. Might have been family surplus or something. Either way neither myself nor my parents paid much, if anything, for the recliner in my college apartment.)
Some towns have furniture recycling/disposal days once every few months, although I think this is becoming less likely. I know when my dad was in college, he and his apartmentmates furnished their apartment by driving around Little Falls, NJ on one such day, and came back with far more than they needed. Minivan/SUV/pickup recommended, but with ingenuity you can pull it off with a much smaller car. (Well, probably need a full-size sedan these days - Back then, "small cars" were still huge.)