u/unothejuno

I've been using Markus for many years but wanted an upgrade so I bought leap v2 new some months ago (during a sale, 820€) and around the same time I bought protoarc ec200 for another office I regularly go to. I'm 173cm and 70kg, so I'm medium to light build but I've been suffering from chronic back pain for almost 10 years now (yes, it's sad).

First: I don't think i'd buy the protoarc again. It just doesn't feel good to me, it doesn't make me sit a in proper way and the recline is pretty bad. its tension along the recline movement is irregular and it bothers me a lot, it just pushes to be all the way front or all the way back in an uncomfortable way. On the other hand it looks pretty well build for the price and some people might find it okay, but I just don't like it. I guess for the price it's not bad, but it's frustrating because it looks so close to being much better if only it were tweaked and tuned a bit better. You might be better off with the Markus.

Ikea Markus is an incredible chair for the price (120€ here in eu). I swear to you I've been sitting in this for 8-9 years and it works exactly like the day I've assembled it. there's no wiggling, no creaking, nothing. Looks like it could last forever. It creaks even less that the months old leap v2, although it surely has less moving parts, but still... It's obvious that ikea stumbled upon something great here and they 100% did that by chance without even noticing because none of their other chairs works like this, I've tried them. I know that BTOD guys talk shit about this saying something like the build quality is bad. This only means that either ikea sells different stuff in the us or that they wouldn't know good build if it punched them in the face.

The recline is fantastic, it's much better than the protoarc and i think it's better than the leap too, it feels more like an herman miller deal, you can rock back and forth super smoothly and balance the position easily along the travel, of course the tension can be adjusted too. I've never lubricated any part of the chair.

Is it a perfect chair? god, no. The headrest is kind of bad, a bit pushy in the wrong places, the lumbar support is okish to me but not adjustable at all. But most importantly the armrests are horrible. They are hard, large, intrusive, no adjustment at all. That's 90% what pushed me to buy another chair. If ikea had a clue, they would've remade this chair with good armrest and probably win the chair game, but well they didn't. For the price, i'd still say buy this instead of the protoarc, but what a missed chance by ikea.

So leap v2 is the chair I'm using now most of the time. I will say this: if a friend who knows nothing about chairs came to your house, looked at this chair, sat onto it and you told them you've paid it 800-1000-1200 something, they would probably say you've been scammed (and maybe you did). I actually like the way it looks, but still doesn't look or feel impressive in any way, but it also hasn't glaring issues either like the previous two. It already creaks more than I would like for a chair this price, especially the armrests, I hope it doesn't get worse over time, but it doesn't look SUPER well built.

I've seen many reviews, BTOD guys have glowing opinions about leap like it cured their chronic back pain or something. I'd say it's a very good chair for the back, but It didn't cure anything for me so far. The recline is not as smooth as the markus, but it works in a way that it lets you pick a position and be more still there without locking it, you need a bit more "intention" to change the position compared to a smoother recline, maybe it's better for productivity, I don't know, but you can't easily rock back and forth in this. It works in such a way that when you've stayed in a position for a while, if you move forward with your back a bit too fast, the back of the chair takes a second to unlock and will "kick" you a bit in the back, it's not very pleasant, but you get used to moving more smoothly and that usualy doesn't happen.

Some people complain about the seat being thin. I say that it is fair complain, it could've been better for sure. Unfortunately I also have been suffering from seat bones pain for a while, but this started before the leap so it did not cause it, but I'll say it is not making it any better. Also after a while I miss the headrest. For this price, they should *at least* include a good headrest in this.

Now this is already pretty long so I won't talk much about another chair I occasionally use in another office. This is a no-name super cheap chair like around 80€ and has a lot of adjustments, has been there for a couple of years and honestly the seating experience is not that bad, not that distant from these other chairs I mentioned, so... you make your evaluations.

What would I recommend? Of course it greatly depends on the money you have, but the leap is probably the better chair among those, but for the price it's still not very easy to recommend. I'd say buy it only on those deals I hear about in the us, like refurbished or something and maybe with the thicker seat, you can't find those in eu afaik. If you have to pay full price for it, then probably don't. I'm sure some cheaper chairs might make many people just as happy.

ciao a tutti, in vita mia avrò visto 4 o 5 anime, quindi potrebbe anche essere relativamente famoso, ma cmq ho dato un'occhiata superficiale anche ad altri famosi. Sto cercando di ritrovarne uno di cui ho visto degli spezzoni da bambino negli anni '90 in TV. Non l'ho mai visto per intero e non l'ho più ritrovato, ma ricordo che mi era sembrato molto figo. Credo fosse una tv locale che si vedeva in campania, ma non sono sicuro al 100%, poteva anche essere nazionale.

Quello che ricordo:

• Ambientazione futuristica / distopica / vagamente apocalittica. Ci sono macchine e umani, in questa scena erano chiaramente fazioni opposte, ma magari in altri casi convivono.
• Una scena specifica mi è rimasta impressa: un personaggio dall'aspetto completamente umano viene rivelato essere in realtà una macchina, infiltrata come spia. Probabilmente la spia stava trasmettendo informazioni o scattando foto, mi pare con gli occhi meccanici che venivano mostrati chiaramente, tipo come fosse una radiografia. Mi pare che la scena lo mostrasse mentre ancora nessuno ne era a conoscenza, ed era presentata in modo quasi inquietante.
• L'infiltrazione avveniva in un contesto di alto livello — un palazzo, una corte, una sede di potere, quindi questo robot stava spiando delle persone importanti.
• Tono serio e intenso, non comico. La macchina era una figura molto minacciosa, fredda, anche se doveva fingere il contrario. Non penso fosse un personaggio con una personalità sviluppata, era più il fatto stesso che una macchina fosse al posto di un umano, e che la cosa fosse molto minacciosa.
• Tenete presente che è stato trasmesso sulla tv italiana quindi doppiato in italiano.

a questo punto ho il sospetto che se pure lo trovassi ne resterei deluso, ma è più per la curiosità che ogni tanto mi torna.

Grazie in anticipo!

I'm not big into anime, so it might even be famous, but I'm trying to identify one I caught glimpses of as a kid in the 90s on italian TV. I never saw the whole thing and I've never been able to track it down. Production-wise it's almost certainly 80s or 90s, definitely not post-2000. Could be a film, an OVA, or a single episode of a series, I don't know.

What I actually remember (trying to stick to what I'm sure of):

• A futuristic / dystopian / vaguely apocalyptic setting. Machines and humans coexist.
• One specific scene that stuck with me: a character with a fully human appearance is revealed to actually be a machine, infiltrated as a spy. I don't remember by whom or how the reveal happens, I just remember the moment it's shown. I have a vague impression the spy was sending information / taking pictures somehow, possibly with their eyes, but I'm not 100% sure on this detail.
• The infiltration was into some kind of high-level setting — a palace, court, or seat of power of some sort. There was political intrigue at the top.
• Tone was serious and intense, not comedic. My impression is that the machine was a very threatening figure, cold and not sympathetic, although it had to mimic it. I don't think it was a particular character with a personality, it was just shown that a machine was in the place of what looked like a human and that was very bad.
• I've already considered/ruled out Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Armitage III, Bubblegum Crisis, Black Magic M-66, Goku Midnight Eye, Megazone 23, etc. It doesn't look like any of those, but I can't rule out is one of those in some episode.
• I can't fully rule out something by Leiji Matsumoto (Galaxy Express 999, Captain Harlock, Queen Millennia) — I watched those occasionally as a kid and remember the characters but not the plots well enough to be sure. I remember the style looked kind of like that, but my gut says it's not them, still possible though.

Things I'm NOT sure about and would rather not guess at:

• Whether there's actually an organized "machine faction" vs humans, or whether the spy is more of a one-off / part of a larger plot
• Whether the setting is space-based or Earth-based
• The animation style era (could be 80s, could be 90s)

Any leads or partial guesses welcome, even "this rings a bell, check X" is helpful. thanks

I'm not big into anime, so it might even be famous, but I'm trying to identify one I caught glimpses of as a kid in the 90s on italian TV. I never saw the whole thing and I've never been able to track it down. Production-wise it's almost certainly late 80s or 90s, definitely not post-2000. Could be a film, an OVA, or a single episode of a series, I don't know.

What I actually remember (trying to stick to what I'm sure of):

• A futuristic / dystopian / vaguely apocalyptic setting. Machines and humans coexist.
• One specific scene that stuck with me: a character with a fully human appearance is revealed to actually be a machine, infiltrated as a spy. I don't remember by whom or how the reveal happens, I just remember the moment it's shown. I have a vague impression the spy was sending information / taking pictures somehow, possibly with their eyes, but I'm not 100% sure on this detail.
• The infiltration was into some kind of high-level setting — a palace, court, or seat of power of some sort. There was political intrigue at the top.
• Tone was serious and intense, not comedic. My impression is that the machine was a very threatening figure, cold and not sympathetic, although it had to mimic it. I don't think it was a particular character with a personality, it was just shown that a machine was in the place of what looked like a human and that was very bad.
• I've already considered/ruled out Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Armitage III, Bubblegum Crisis, Black Magic M-66, Goku Midnight Eye, Megazone 23, etc. It doesn't look like any of those, but I can't rule out is one of those in some episode.
• I can't fully rule out something by Leiji Matsumoto (Galaxy Express 999, Captain Harlock, Queen Millennia) — I watched those occasionally as a kid and remember the characters but not the plots well enough to be sure. I remember the style looked kind of like that, but my gut says it's not them, still possible though.

Things I'm NOT sure about and would rather not guess at:

• Whether there's actually an organized "machine faction" vs humans, or whether the spy is more of a one-off / part of a larger plot
• Whether the setting is space-based or Earth-based
• The animation style era (could be 80s, could be 90s)

Any leads or partial guesses welcome — even "this rings a bell, check X" is helpful.