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I’ve been reviewing gaming chairs for long enough to see various design trends come and go.

Mesh chairs with vastly inflated prices arrived a little while back, for example.

The Omniflex armrests of the Corsair TC500 Luxe

Allow me to explain.

A lot of gaming chairs stand out against office chair rivals because of their 4D armrests.

These are armrests that can be adjusted on four different axes.

The 2D armrests on the Razer Iskur V2 X

Until recently, there are almost always buttons, levers, or small catching mechanisms that release each dimension.

To be frank, this sucks.

Luckily, its armrests are pretty great otherwise.

Fractal Refine’s armrests

I’m pretty particular about my chair positioning.

I don’t know about you, but it seems like a basic requirement to me.

Have them too far apart and you create a slouch.

The armrests of the Secretlab Titan Evo NanoGen Edition

Position them too high and you’ll give yourself back tension.

Gaming chairs are expensive, and sometimes needlessly so.

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