Hooray for being here and for being able to upgrade your PC with your Hive Success! 😊😊😊
...One of the big things that stopped me from doing this was my computer chair as the slightest movement on it causes it to creak and groan...
Uggghhhhhh, I have the same problem. Mine's only a year old 🤣 but I like to practically jump onto my seat and whip my legs up cross-legged in a single smooth motion and doing that multiple times a day really wears a chair out, haha! Creeeeeeeeeeak.
My pittie actually broke mine. For some reason if I leave the door open to my computer room, she'll go in and hop on the chair. Which isn't that big of a deal but she has a skin condition that can make her really itchy at times, so she'd scratch herself like crazy on the chair. She did this around a month or so ago and pretty much broke the chair completely, which is why I have it held together by a bunch of strings xD.
The chair I got, i got it around 3 years ago, and as soon as the year warranty was up it started to crumble, first was the padding on the arm rest, then it refused to adjust, then my dog broke it, and now a bar that was in the backrest is coming through it.
I honestly hope that SL chair lasts me a good while. Seeing as it has a 5 year warranty, I think it will.
I hope your future chair is comfortable! I've heard a lot of good things about Secret Labs chairs, but at the same time I've been iffy about buying one myself because it looks like a typical gamer chair. When I first moved in with my partner I used his old gamer chair... and god DAMN it was uncomfortable and I couldn't sit cross-legged on it. My back was in agony.
I ended up buying an office chair designed for people sitting at their desks all day, one suitable for 200kg butts for size and comfort, and it's great! Started deteriorating and squeaking and creaking and making horrid noises way sooner than I thought it would though. I hop onto it a little more carefully now in case the seat breaks. I can't even glance over my shoulder without the thing making noise, haha!
One of the reasons I went with SL is because of the size of the XL as a 400lb 6'6 dude, ama big boi xD. I heard that they take around a month to break in but afterwards they're pretty comfy.
And it's the creaking with my chair that I find the most annoying, especially when recording videos! I figured that I would dish out that extra $ for a SL in the hopes that it'll last a lot longer xD