EPTI am embarrassed to admit it, but I am no exception to this sad phenomenon that has been plaguing eSports for decades. I bought my chair nearly a decade ago at a Black Friday sale, and have been using it for hours every day ever since. Over time, my ass juices began to eat into the fake leather upholstery, and my constant abuse in wishing my chair had a reclining feature stressed out the plastic until one day, I farted into my chair one too many times and this happened:
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I was suddenly faced with an immediate need for a seat, but due to my ambivalence towards the necessity of proper gaming furniture, I had no idea where to turn to to satisfy my need for a seat. Luckily, I had recently been tuning into Flo's stream due to the recent lack of terran streamers, and noticed her sponsor just might have the seat I need.
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Wow, look at that thing. Shit's straight out of the Fast and the Furious. I bet I would double my APM just by parking my ass in one of these. But then I looked at the prices, and while a total baller afford to pay the ~$300-$500 price, I wondered if there was a better value.
Walking into my garage led to an epiphany. I recently began restoring a '91 Nissan 240sx as a project car, and looking at the leftover parts, the gears in the mind of the SpeaKEaSY began to turn.
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The guy who sold me the car had this weird ass racing seat that he ghetto rigged into the floorpan of the car (which I spent waaaaaay too much money trying to fix, but let's not talk about that), but I didn't like it so I put my own seating in, leaving me with this piece of crap taking up space in my garage. But one man's trash is another man's treasure, so I decided why not kill two birds with one stone. I dredged up everything I learned from middle school shop class from the back of my mind and got to work.
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The saying goes measure twice and cut once, but I don't have enough brain cells left over to do that so I kinda just drew lines using some cardboard as a straight edge and hoped everything would line up. Of course, the lines were completely not straight like Freddy Mercury, but also like Freddy Mercury, they were awesome anyway. Over 9000 lbs of sawdust inhalation later, I wound up with this:
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It's super creaky and I'm too short to have my legs reach the floor due to the added thickness of the base, but other than that, it's just like the DXRacer seats that NeedForSeatUSA sells, don't you think? Sure it doesn't have armrests, but I just rest my elbows on the bolsters and it works out pretty well. Plus they keep me strapped into the seat when I'm doing some sick ass skidz while drifting on the carpet. And don't mind the wooden base being visible. I think it adds character anyway.
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Total cost of DXRacer seat from NeedForSeat: $300-$500
Total money spent in construction of SpeaKEaSY's SeatForCheap: $5
Can you say bang for the buck? Doesn't get much better than this folks. I hope I inspired other basement dwellers to turn their leftover junk into pure gold with this.
GG NO RE, EASIEST GAME OF MY LIFE
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