"Gaming" desks are awful and whoever buys one should be ashamed

Now, if you're a normal person then you've not had the pleasure of seeing the kind of stupidity being peddled in the gaming sector. We have gaming furniture now... I mean, besides gaming chairs. There is such a thing as a gaming desk. A desk built for gaming. Now, I'm sure things are starting to spark in your head. A desk with specifically built in monitor mounts, discrete cable holes, USB hubs, huge keyboard and mouse trays maybe with their own built in illumination. Cup holders! Adjustable height! DVD racks! Joystick/Gamepad mounts. Headphone hooks! Yeah. No, that would actually be useful and worth the money. Instead, this is a gaming desk.

It has plastic edges so your stuff doesn't fall off, it's got two holes in it, and it's angled slightly . For that, you have to pay almost 600$. Now, to be fair, there is another for about the same price with motorized adjustable height. 

And then we have this stupid, stupid piece of crap. 

It's made by a company called Arozzi, that specializes in overpriced crap. It's single defining feature is a giant mousepad with three rough holes in it meant to help with wire management. It costs around 450$, and at least it's big. There are smaller variants of all these, all costing around 200$ and being too small for any practical use that a 50$ coffee table propped up on a bunch of bricks wouldn't be able to do just as well. 

The foundation of my rage is that last year I really wanted to get a new desk. For a few years, I had been using a computer desk that was quickly outliving its usefulness, since it was made in an age when monitors weren't really wide, and weren't built to house computers cases properly in apartments with flooded basements where things can get really damp, and therefore unsafe to keep electricals on the floor. (Some steemit money is fixing this current issue, and for that I'm very thankful). Ignore the hardware on it, that's the old PC. I have since replaced the chair as well.

I spent weeks looking for a new desk, one that would let me do two things:

1. Fit a PC with multiple monitors on it
2. Have a branch I could use for filming shows so that I don't have to do it hunched over at a coffee table anymore

None of the "gaming" desks would fit, since they're not meant to actually be good for something. They're just flashy, for show, catering to people with more money than sense, which is what most stores around here are peddling. I searched high and low to find something similar to this:

But there wasn't anything like it in the country, and ordering one off Amazon would have pushed the price too high, with shipping, that is if they even shipped here. There wasn't any way I could get something as nice around here, so I settled for having one built out of off the shelf pieces. Two main bodies and a rounded connector. It's all wood, it's not as fancy as the one above, but here's the best part. It cost around 100$. And not only can it fit three 24 inch monitors on just one side (probably could fit 2x24 and a 27 if I had the budget), but the second piece I can use to film stuff, to keep equipment on, assemble puzzles, and for work in general. It's still a work in progress, though, as I still want to add a few things to it, like a dedicated headphone holder, a shelf on one side to store stuff on, maybe a gamepad mount under the main side, and I'll probably see about integrating a USB hub at some point, as now it's just taped onto one side. 

Here are some snaps of it being assembled and in its current form.

Still, for what it cost (shipping included) and the sheer size it has, along with the versatility of it all, makes any kind of "gaming" desk seem like a bad joke. Moral of the story is as follows. If you want a "gaming" desk, go to a furniture factory and they'll make one for you to your specifications, or you can build one from the cheap modules they sell.