Originally Posted by robertthebard
It's not a movie, or an audible book, where if we leave it on, it will play out until the end, and it would be really boring if it were.
BG3 doesn’t have neither real time clock, nor in game time - so yes, if you are not playing the game than the game is not be played. A better example would be a book that you need to turn the pages off and read it to “progress”.

I don’t know what any of what you have written has to do with writing issues, which is what was being discussed. That a book requires turning of the pages, doesn’t mean that the characters in there don’t have to behave in believable manners. That a game relies on player imput doesn’t mean that it’s characters are absolved from criticism… which seems to me what you are trying to argue.