It took me a few months before I decided to make the purchase because it was expensive and I had to really mull it over, but I did eventually confirm the order and the chair arrives a like a few days later in this relatively huge and heavy box, it was a real bitch to set up but reading all the positive reviews online written about it by a bunch of users, I figured it was worth it, I was under the assumption that the moment I sat on it, it would feel like I was sitting on a cloud, that it would just envelope me and I could sit there forever since this chair was being marketed as being extremely ergonomic.
Well, it didn't feel like a cloud, it was firm as fuck and it wasn't as comfortable as I had envisioned it to be, build wise it felt solid, comfort wise it was way too fucking solid.
After a bit of research, I come to find out the reason why there are so many positive reviews about the chair online is because if you write a good review online, the company will extend your warranty, so essentially if you want an extended warranty, you are required to leave a good review online, whether you think the chair is good or not, that means all the reviews I have read online are "fake", which is great marketing but it is also kinda feel like I have been indirectly lied to.
My honest opinion about the chair is that it is pretty shit because for a $500 price tag, I expected a lot more, it is simply not as comfortable as I was lead to believe and turns out, there are actually quite a fair bit of negative Google Reviews about the chair, huge fail on my part for not noticing them until now, those reviews are mainly pointing about the peeling leather after a year of use, and not so much what I am currently complaining about, so fuck my life I guess that is what I am going to have to expect happen next year to my chair.
A few weeks back, I also made another huge purchase, I got myself a new computer to replace my 5 year old Aftershock laptop, which has honestly served me really well. I was planning to get a Microsoft Surface Laptop for a really shallow reason, aesthetics, but realize that I am not earning enough to warrant aesthetics as a valid reason to shell out $2000 for a laptop with mediocre specs worst than my current Aftershock laptop, I needed an upgrade, not a downgrade.
So I decided to take a look at a few Aftershock Products, go back to the brand that had served me so well for the past 5 years, and see what I could get with my budget and all the available options were pretty much upgrade from my current build, but there was one huge issue, they were all too heavy.
The reason why I was considering the Surface Laptop, aside from the aesthetics, was also because of it's lightweight, so if I got a new laptop, I also needed it to be lightweight and anything close to 2kg was going to be blacklisted. Almost all the laptops Aftershock had were bordering on 2kg, the light ones they had were "workstation", which I was not interested in because if I was getting an Aftershock brand, I was going to get one of their gaming laptops.
Getting a "workstation laptop" from a brand that specializes in gaming rigs is like going to a Duck Rice store and ordering a plate of Chicken Rice, I did that once, I was an idiot because I didn't even want Chicken Rice or Duck Rice at that time.
Anyways, since I couldn't get what I wanted, I thought fuck it, go big or go home.
The whole point of me wanting a lighter laptop is so I can lighten my bag load when I go back and forth from home to office, but what if I don't have to bring my laptop back and forth, what if I just left it in the office.
So I got a desktop.
But I didn't get from Aftershock because unfortunately, they were not responsive and their delivery date was a little bit iffy. On the website, it states they could deliver within 5 to 6 days, but when I read other customer's experience, there are some who stated that they were told they needed 2 weeks, others said they needed a month and I really didn't want to wait that long.
I reached out to Aftershock on their chat system, hoping to get some clarification because they had a few pre-built models that could be delivered on the same day, no response, was literally waiting for them to reply, only to get a bot message telling me it will take a while, that I should email them if it was urgent.
While I was waiting for them to get back to me, after the bot message, because they literally had a counter of how many people were before me and I was suppose to be next in queue to chat with their guys, I started googling alternative companies and found a newer company called Dreamcore.
They pretty much had the same business model as Aftershock and also a ton of positive reviews, but they were newer so they had a faster delivery date, and like Aftershock, they also had some models that they could deliver on the same day when you order, the best part about it is I can customize the specs and also add in additional items, with Aftershock, I couldn't do that.
I have been using a Laptop since 2007, so the main item I needed when I got a new desktop was a monitor and I wanted to purchase that together with the desktop otherwise it is a bit pointless for me to have the same day delivery option, Aftershock's same day delivery model didn't provide any option for add-on, Dreamcore does and Dreamcore is also cheaper, so I mean at this point, it was a no brainer which one I should choose.
This was $2000 with a 27" Monitor, cheaper and more powerful than the laptops I was looking at, of course zero portability but the fact that I don't have to lug my 2.5kg laptop to and fro the office anymore really sparks joy.
Speaking of things that spark joy, here is a picture of my sister's puppy.
He is no longer my room-mate and has moved to my sister's room.
A more recent pic now that is has grown bigger. He needed to be kept in his pen for potty training because little doggo would shit and pee anywhere he pleased, but he has improved over the past few weeks so now he has more freedom and isn't placed in his playpen very long anymore, little bugger still bites and chew everything he sees though and is hyperactive, so I am wondering if he is doggy special needs or something.
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