We've been seeing ads for this thing for years, and you guys have even suggested
making a video about it twice, but come
on, look at it. In a world where a
top-of-the-line GPU costs a couple of thousand, who in their right mind is
spending double that amount on the chair you sit in while you use it? Oh, wait. I
know. It's us. It's literally our job to
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their RT-100 keyboard a little bit in this later. We have finally put the
Cluven's Scorpion computer cockpit to the test and found some unexpected
conclusions. But before we get to those, let's rewind a little bit here. After a
10 to 32 day wait for shipping, this is
what arrived in my driveway. Or to be
more specific, at the curb at the end of
my driveway. Luckily, no one stole it. So, let's get it inside and take a look.
We're going to have a link in the video description if you guys can't wait to
follow my example and blow your own money on one of these.
But I'm not at the stage yet where I think I'm ready to recommend it. This is
far from the lightest chair that we've ever looked at. Coming in at a whopping
200 kg of shipping weight. To their
credit, this is one of the most userfriendly packing crates I think I've
ever seen. Wow.
That is smaller than I expected. Say
what you will about the size. You can't fault the robustness of it.
Come on.
I wonder what percentage of the injury report forms are me.
How the devil are you supposed to move this thing? Dude, there's a lot of
pieces in here. I thought you said the assembly was supposed to be straightforward.
Their assembly video is only 3 minutes long. It can't be that hard. How many
laser scorpions have when I have this chair, my gaming will
have no legs.
Oh. WHOA.
Now it reaches its full magnificent height.
That's just mostly packaging. That's not packaging.
Oh, sick. Look at these lights.
Okay, I got an ARM. Oh, it opens up.
I'm just trying to picture the person whose house you walk into and this is in
their living room. You know, it says a message.
What's the message, Jordan? Nothing good. This is the bubble wrap
output of a small nation. That's quality foam. Oh, sorry. Sorry.
Oh. Oh. How do you like me now, ladies?
Mess probably. Yeah, you could. No, no, you could. This is It's movable. It's movable. Thanks,
Colin. But I think I got it.
Oh, I think I crushed those cables. Got the instructions up. But before we start
them, I just got to say, where's your tracksuit, buddy? The form's impeccable,
but you got to get the stripes. This is the scorpion's decorative foot. Also a
weapon. Its only contribution is to be a
tripping hazard. It's Law and Order.
That one got me. All right. Oh, it's gross. The table's white.
I know, right? But it's the one white thing on it. It comes in white, too. And gold.
And gold. Yeah. Okay. That Oh.
Oh, that's awesome. Oh, that
that's pretty cool. Next up is our ARM with the controls for the scorpion tail
and the seat on it. I don't know what any of these buttons do and they're not
labeled, but this seems like a good time to tell you guys. The whole thing is
made out of powdercoated steel with PU leather over what seems to be a really
high quality foam. It has built-in RGB lighting, pre-installed 5 m cables. So,
ours came with three HDMIs and two display ports and apparently 160°
of adjustment on the chair seat itself.
That's about 5°. Will my wife get the insurance if I die
in this thing? That would be active scorpion. I don't know if that counts.
You ready?
Oh, there's the other ARM. Now, that's
funny. The RGB remote is just one of
those wireless RGB remotes, but just embedded in the side of it. There we go.
All right. Being able to adjust this forward and
back would be good. Oh, no way. No, it
does move. Oh, look at Oh, wow. Look at that.
It has all the adjustment. Since we're talking about this ARM, I
want to look at the RGB control. This is flipping cool. You just touch anywhere
on the wheel and then it's that color.
We went with the three monitor mount. We've got threeh of these Gigabyte M27U
gaming monitors. They'll do up to 160 Hz 4K. They're VSA HDR 600 certified and
come with HDMI 2.1. And the reason we cared about that was because we
initially thought this didn't come with any DisplayPort pre-wired, but it turns
out it did. So, they've spent money on
things that matter. Like the motors feel
good. They feel smooth. It's It's reassuring as you're moving it around.
The build quality is obviously a little on the industrial side. You know, it's
it's welded steel. What do you want? How are we going to get power to the
monitors? Oh, there was a power bar up there, I think. Yes, there is in fact a power bar
in there. All we got to do is remove these three screws and we get access to
it. Only three outlets, but there's a five monitor mount. There are such thing
as C13, you know, Ysplitters and whatever. Just Okay, we found an
oversight. Is this how the RGB is mounted?
Yeah, I guess it doesn't matter. We'll adjust them in and out afterwards.
Yeah, not much in the way of other adjustments, though. Hey, not so much. Cool.
You just got to hope they kind of balance, I think. Yeah.
Oh. Uh, how's the clearance on that? Not amazing.
Cool. So, we need to put it sideways in order to Which is fine cuz now it's just
like the RGB strip. Exactly. I'm not sure what the plan is for cable
management here. LTD cable arches to the rescue. There we
go. Oh, that's pretty good. That's pretty darn good. Now, obviously
for a gaming battle station so magnificent, we're going to need a
pretty magnificent computer. So, WE'VE GONE WITH A WHAT'S THAT, COLIN? What is
it? 7800 X 3D and a 4090.
I'm just guessing. Oh, it is. Oh, great.
Realistically, which cables you hook up to your monitors is going to come down
to what IO you have on your graphics card more than anything else. I didn't
look at this before we started, so I guess I'm using a DP to HDMI adapter.
Should we see if we got these monitor cables right?
Did we just blow a fuse? Wait, we don't even need the power bar.
There's another power bar behind another access hatch built into the chair.
Ow. Ow. Oh, do they seriously have the top power bar plugged into this power
bar? And it's not like it's a high current
application or anything. Check this out. The scorpion claws open.
What? No way. If you have a little kid or a pet and you just really wanted them
to not have eyes, then you just leave these open. That's great. It's
dangerous, just like a real scorpion. I've got a plan for us to teamwork this.
Jordan, if you can operate the dials, I'll keep an eye on the cables here. And
Colin, you keep an eye on the cables at the back. And if you see any problem,
just say something.
Oh. Oh, wait. There's not even a problem.
Colin for crying out loud. Okay, Jordan, I'm not going to lie. I'm a little
sketched out about lying in this thing. How's your insurance?
Good. But the thing about insurance is I'm not the one who gets the payout.
You always say monetize your death. It seems like they've done a pretty good
job of keeping the length of the cable travels the same regardless. This should
address the monitor, but that whole thing where the whole thing shifted is a
little sketchy. I mean, I'm not getting into it. What do I care?
Why are you not getting into it? I'm over the weight limit.
That's a thing you encounter sometimes with Asian design in the North American
market. You saw the whole thing with Nintendo um theme park.
Yeah. Where like the average American male like couldn't go in one of the rides or
something like that. Before we get in, we didn't have any issues with the
cables while we were moving the chair, but that's not necessarily a given
forever based on that. These are just kind of hanging loose and there seem to
be some things in here that they could get caught on. The good news is I think
we figured out how to get into it.
No problem. Oh, we haven't talked about
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mounted design is both quiet and comfortable,
while its 97 keyed layout offers a compact form factor without having to
give up a dedicated number pad or media controls. That's in no small part thanks
to the multi-function media control knob. It's got USBC, Bluetooth 5.0, and
2.4 GHz wireless connectivity, meaning you can connect to your PC or Mac or I
mean, whatever. It's Bluetooth, right? However you prefer. And hidden in the
storage bay for the 2.4 4 GHz receiver is the connector for the smart mini
display. A programmable smart display that shows essential system and real
world data right out of the box. And just like the southacing RGB lighting on
every key is customizable to suit your preferences. We'll get more hands-on
with the RT100 in a minute. But first, we need to get some games loaded on this
thing. Oh, shoot. I never checked if I plugged in the right things. Well, this
one's got a signal. Find out. What are the odds I got only one of
three? No question. If the goal is to find the chair that makes you feel like
an absolute boss, your journey's over.
These monitors look great, though, man. 4K is sharp at this distance.
It's the kind of setup that just puts a smile on your face. You know, there are
some issues at my height exactly. The
monitors are in the right spot when the angle is right and there's not really a
ton of adjustment on these things. Also, I'm already noticing that when I move
the mouse and type on the keyboard, there's a little bit of wiggle wobble.
Now, we got this working. Holy crap.
I think the best thing I can say about the chair right now is I kind of forgot
I was sitting in it. And I really do mean that in a good way. The worst chair
is the one that you think about while you're inside it.
Jordan, what's up? Remember how we adjusted the
angle of this display just right? Well,
now it's pointed up this way. Oh, so the fact that I have no on the-fly
adjustment means that unless I had a
fourth motor right here in this one, which we checked we don't. I have no way
of adjusting this angle after the fact.
Well, my keyboard and mouse. Oh, no. Okay, it's come It comes in a little
bit. The angle's a little funky.
The benefit of that is that it doesn't tip toward you like on some of these
that I've seen in the past. The disadvantage is that your arms are like
this. Widecreen gaming form still a thing. I got to give some credit to the
RT100 here. Sponsored or not, it's a little narrower, which objectively
creates more mousing space in a scenario like this. But unlike a 10 keyless, if I
wanted to use this for work as well and I needed a number pad, everything's
there. It's good to go. We're going to switch over to Forza, which definitely
supports K.
That we can fix. The ergonomics of the cup holder, on the other hand,
okay,
if I want to just hold a controller here to to get this completely out of the
way, it ends up
going over my legs like that. And then now it's so far away that if I do need
it for something to navigate a menu or cuz I get an email, I got to drag it way
back over here. In fairness to Clins, I
haven't seen good solutions to most of these problems. So the question in my
mind isn't so much should you buy the Cluven Scorpion if you're shopping for
one of these chairs as it is should you even be considering one of these chairs
because I've yet to use one that even for free I would consider putting in my
house. Obviously people are buying them though or they wouldn't exist which if
you think about it is kind of a good thing. The immersiveness is great. So,
whatever my feelings are about these things, obviously they exist, which
means obviously people are buying them and finding ways to work around some of
the challenges, be they ergonomic or be
they practical. Like, one of the things we noticed is if you're not using
headphones, you probably don't have a really great way to handle audio. I
don't know about speakers mounted to the edge of these monitors. They're kind of
wobbly enough as it is. With that said,
I think Cloven's has got the most usable package I've seen so far. So, maybe it's
time to get some impressions from the other members of the team. Let's see who
wants to swap out their existing station for this.
How do you get in, Jordan? Well, that's for you to figure out.
I feel like I'm in a dentist chair. Oh, that's the whole back. Oh, wow.
Oh, this keyboard's got a little screen on it. It's kind of cute. What can you put on the screen?
Uh, it'll do like your temperatures, your CPU, use, weather.
Oh, okay. You can put little animations and stuff where the logo is. So, I can put memes.
You can put memes on it. Hell yeah. I'm actually kind of shocked at how comfortable this is. I thought
this would be a lot weirder and not as enjoyable. I could I could play in this
all day. But would you buy it? Well, how much does just the chair cost?
I don't need the whole setup. Uh, the chair is $28.99 US plus shipping.
I think that's totally reasonable. I I would enjoy movies in this, I think.
And would you replace your workstation? Oh, yeah. Easily. Oh, are you kidding
me? Is that an actual option? We get to keep it.
Yeah. Okay, that's not like cut my
Achilles tendon. Yeah, we're gaming now. It feels a
little cramped, to be honest. I feel like it's a little
It's a little It's a little tilted. Yeah, it's a little crooked.
Yeah, the go buttons all the way. It's way way
This is not the chair's fault. The chair is actually pretty comfortable. You
really want to recline it or else your wrists kind of feel like they're getting a little cramped.
Would you pay for the chair yourself? I don't think I'd want to pay for this
myself. Would you want it as your workstation?
Uh, no. I'm good.
Wow. Pinnacle of luxury. Hey, I don't even know what to say. It's really
unique. I am really concerned though um about how close we are to the monitor
cuz I think after like 8 hours of a workday or playing or gaming all night,
it's going to be pretty difficult. Even my field of view can't even go from edge
to edge. So, I feel like I'm not getting the the most advantage out of it.
Um but super comfortable to be honest with you. Uh I really like it. Could you
imagine if I brought this home to my wife? She would be so upset.
If I didn't care about budget and had
the space for it for sure, I'd probably rock it. Would I buy it?
Sure. Yeah, I'd do it. And would you use it as your workstation
here? Oh, definitely. Oh, yeah. This is unexpected. We have
not one but two members of the team who
would like to daily drive the Scorpion. And the only fair way to settle this, I
think, is RPS. Rock, paper, scissors. Best two out of
three. Okay, ready and go.
I thought you were going to rock paper shoots. Oh, you want me to do the whole You want me to do all the work for you? Rock,
paper, scissors. Shoot. Shoot. Shoot. Shoot. Someone says shoot. OH.
OH, WE GOT ONE WIN. ONE. NO. ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS. SHOOT.
YES. OH, IT'S ONE ONE. ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS.
SHOOT. THERE IT IS. NOW WE HAVE TO haul it upstairs.
That's his problem, not ours. Oh, good. What? No, we can we can get him some help.
We'll get him some Elijah. We'll get you help. All right. I always need help. Are you serious? I
actually Well, yeah. You said you wanted it.
I thought it was more of just like a theoretical, but I'm still down.
Okay. Maybe we'll do a Floatplane exclusive with Elijah's long-term
impressions actually living with this thing daytoday. Oh, that's Oh, yeah. I'm actually really
excited. And I'm excited to tell you about our
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kind of like this concept, but no motors.