Trolling or not, there still are some valid points in the post. Not only for BG3, but overall, people getting way to obsessive and addicted nowadays. The potential of becoming an addict to games (or social media) is the same as for people who bet in casinos and such - but it's easier to point the finger on loot boxes, sport bets and such. There are so many people with 1000+ hours in this game, still you can't compare it to an MMO.
In case of BG3, I have seen people having their own altar for their favorite character, getting huge tattoos, paying lot of money for comissions etc. Not to mention adding really weird fetishes (at least weird to me) on the characters, changing them just to fit their preference.
I mean, you don't need to search for more like a few seconds to find lot of people that admit they would love if a fictional character would become real because they will never find someone like them IRL (or as I read on X yesterday, Halsin set the bar for a male partner pretty high for someone).
Social media and likes is way more important for people nowadays than family, friends, neighbors etc.
As for LGBTQ, I don't mind if there is representation, but to me it feels like it's become too much, they always try too hard because it is "in" these days. Well, thats how todays media have to work. If they don't add enough LGBTQ, people of color and such, they have an aggressive mob right at their doorstep.
I personally, prefer the classical Father-Mother-Child family and if I look at two examples in the game, I feel like they are BS. Either parents with a daughter where either the parents of the daughter have to die or a dumb dwarf who beats his wife. Meanwhile, Isobel and Aylin seem to be presented as a way "better" couple - I know, might just be for the story, but still, it feels a little off.
Representation should be either BS or good for all kind of people.
Chances are, if you say something like this, people will call you homophob, racist and whatever, so thats why I usually hesitate to even comment on this. People have lost their patience today, they are way more sensitive and feel attacked by so many words, even if they were never directed at them.
I don't call you homophob, but as a lesbian myself, I'm glad and reliefed, that it becomes more normal in media, in hopes, that it is seen as more normal in real life. And as long as you don't say, I have no right to exist (which I don't believe you would say), I have no problem, if you say, you prefer traditional family values.
But Bek and her husband exist and they are really cute, I always make sure, they reach BG, because they are so wholesome.
As for people getting addicted or overly attached to videogames/media or characters: That was always the case. Back in the days, when Harry Potter was that big phenomena, there were the Snape wives - google it, if you like, but basically, it was women, thinking Snape was a higher being and they were all married to him. And yes, they really believed that.
Or the Supernatural fans, that had to be removed from a con, because different shippers were getting into a physical fight about whos ship is more valid.
People are crazy like that. To take the most popular character from BG3: Astarion. If people gush online about him and draw fanart or write fanfiction and know, he is not real, things are ok imo. So you obsess a bit about a character. That's fine. It gets unhealthy, if the fans would start to go after the real actors. I'm sometimes a bit worried about Neil Newborn, but so far, nothing in that regard seems to happen and I hope, it stays that way. Or if they can't function normally in the real world anymore and drift into their fantasy world (as with those Snape wives above). I had experenced that with a fellow guild member from a SWTOR guild, I was in. He was very young and lived in teh game. Luckily, the guild master lived nearby and decided to help him get grounded in reality again. SHe helped him find work and get his stuff together again.
