Gamersoasis

Thanks for the reviews/comments.  I've been thinking of spending the 30 bucks to give it whirl after the read a bit about the game.  Looked like it would be right up my alley.  Just need to remember the headphones as I tend to play game with the sound off and this game really needs sound.

My laptop is not new by any stretch of the imagination but it's no slouch either.  It's an Intel i7-4720HQ, with 16G memory and an Nvidia GTX980M gpu.  For most games this laptop works just fine.  I havent been playing D3 for quite some time but with the release of the Necromancer, I figured I buy the new content, and fire up the game.  And it was just crap.  At first I figured the lag and stuttering fps was just that there were a lot of people running D3 again, and then I thought maybe it's my nvidia driver so I updated to the latest driver.  Some blog posted that changing the power settings would help, no such luck.  And then there's the very odd behavior that the power supply isn't keeping up.  As I'm playing with laptop plugged in, the battery is actually loosing charge.  Not a lot but maybe 5% per hour or so.

Any thoughts?  HC is quite risky as I really can't tell where I am under a lot of conditions.  And the game is quite frustrating to play as it jumps, pause, skips ... almost unplayable.

For goodness sake, someone here must be older than 57...Anyone?

If it's any consolation, I'll be 56 in September

From what I've read, it is pretty well established that age *is* a factor in the motion sickness from video games/VR/AR.  But there are a lot of variables, so your mileage may vary.  What I do know is that I never use to have an issue and now do, and while it's not bad at the moment, I suspect it will only get worse.

Got my softcore necro to level 70 and finished the game last night.  Had my first death in Act 5 which was sad, probably would have been sadder if it was HC.  I will start up my HC version next, now that I have some idea what the skill do, although I never got around to using the golem. 

Haven't had as much time to play as I'd like.  My necro is up to Act 3, lit the towers, and raised the catapults.  Playing with revives at the moment.  I was using Corpse Explosion but switched for not other reason than trying out skills.  Somewhere in the 50's at the moment.  Been playing campaign mode at Master's level.  Progress is a bit slow as I just haven't found many useful items, and I don't really want to dip too deeply into the cache of stuff.

I'd be interested just need to deal with the coordination of time zones and RL. I'm usually playing from around 10 pm to 12 during the  weekdays GMT -5/Eastern time zone. I haven't played D3 for a while and would have to make room for a character or two. I've been playing Path of Exile instead.

Really depends on the employer.  I've had bosses that bend over backwards for employees, and ones that don't give a damn.  I lost a promotion because I misread how my boss would reach to some news.  From that point I've make sure that any information I give them will have the kind of outcome that I want.  I would find someone who you trust and sound them out about your situation.  Best of luck how ever it plays out