Poll: Gaming posture (poll)

[radioactive lemur]

How do you generally play games in your ideal gaming environment? Most of my friends play intensely hunched over in a chair. I'm a bit weird though, as I like to play lying down on a couch perpendicular to the TV with my head propped up on the armrest. I'm curious as to just how weird this is among the escapist community so I created a poll. What do you do with your body while gaming?

 

[x0ny]

I guess I sit relaxed at a desk, with my back against my chair, but my ass is near the edge of the seat, so it's actually the hunched position rotated 90 degrees =D

 

[Fishyash]

You gotta do it hunched. The only way to play.

I always start relaxed and then subconsciously move to the hunch position. I only notice it after i've played after a certain amount of time when I stop. When I get immersed and lose track of my position.

Every. Single. Time.

Edit: I usually play on the PC nowdays. On consoles it's exactly the same though.

 

[GundamSentinel]

My couch is always too filled with crap to be able to sit on it, so mostly I sit (hunched) or lie on my bed (perpendicular to my TV).

 

[mindlesspuppet]

I have excellent posture when I game. Way to make yourselves a stereotype guys.

 

[Mr Fixit]

On the floor back against the foot of my bed, or on the bed, whatever feels best at the time.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

When I'm playing PC games, I'm either hunched over or sitting up straight, depending on how much hunching over impairs my ability to play the specific game. TF2, for example, I sit up straight for. If I'm playing a console game, on the other hand, it's however I can get comfortable; as long as I can hold the controller, the position of my body isn't going to affect anything.

 

[Hman121]

Under bed covers, belly down, facing TV with pillow to my chest is how I game.

 

[Cj Vanek]

Sitting on the floor, ~2 feet away from tv

 

[crudus]

I am sitting or laying on the floor. I really don't have chairs to speak of.

 

[Rofl-Mayo]

It changes depending on what feels comfortable at the moment.

 

[Zedayen]

Feet up. Which is how I sit anywhere and everywhere. As long as my feet are elevated above my ass I'm a happy chappy. Though years of sitting this way has ruined my posture terribly.

 

[Hashime]

I sit in my chair with good posture. That way my back survives, and I can engage my abs a bit.

 

[Rachel317]

I sit on one of those tilty chairs, lowered as low as it will go, legs up on the bed, crossed. And this is with my body at an angle of...probably 45 degrees away from the TV. Either that or sitting on my bed, propped up with loads of pillows.
However, I almost always sit cross-legged, or legs entwined around each other, even when not gaming.

Nothing particularly special here, I suppose...but I LOVE sitting with my legs higher up, crossed. No idea why

 

[Goody]

Well I voted hunched over since thats what I'm like when on my pc, however im still on the couch as I use my hd tv, however when on my ps3 I am slumped on a fantastically comfortable Beanbag

 

[Akihiko]

For me it largely depends what I'm doing. For console games, or PC games where i'm using a controller, I generally sit pretty relaxed. Maybe occasionally lying on my bed. If i'm playing a PC strategy game I generally play fairly relaxed as well, unless the game gets intense. On the otherhand if I'm playing Left 4 Dead 2, sometimes I sit more hunched over.

Even when I'm sat on my chair I usually have my legs up on my bed though. My bed is the same height as my chair, so it works out pretty well.

 

[oldskoolandi]

I levitate

 

[PureChaos]

generally sitting in an armchair leaning back in it. sometimes i sit on the edge of the chair, especially if things are getting a bit tense