Please stop linking that idiot site. Polygon are the SWJ hipsters of gaming. One of the worst gaming sites on the net.

Yeah, I don't get it, either.

All I see is that this Interview suddenly stops right in the middle, but I guess that's rather not the problem.

Did they, though? They asked a question about stereotypical tropes and the director explained how they evolved away from that.

"Kratos’ bad behavior now has meaning and purpose. It serves the plot rather than titillating the player." Note that these lines do not come from the director, but from the editor. How is this bashing?

Thinking about it, I guess I figured it out now.

Q: Playing the game, I kept thinking of the ongoing conversation about how we raise sons to not be utter garbage humans. How do we not intentionally or inadvertently teach them toxic masculine behavior? I’m curious, what conversations were you having in the office while you were putting together this story and the relationship between Kratos and Atreus?

The problematic terms are utter garbage humans and toxic masculine behaviour. But please try to differentiate a bit, will ya? Could it be that the interviewer never inteneded to call all males utter garbage humans, but instead asked the question of how to raise them so that they don't behave like idiots? I mean, this is a parent-child relation after all that is on the base line here, so it makes sense to ask questions about raising children and how video games could emulate a way to make grown ups think about how they treat and talk to their kids. Same goes with the term toxic masulinity. There is masculine behaviour and there is toxic masculine behaviour. I honestly don't believe that the interviewer puts them together, in fact, he intended to separate these terms quite clearly from one another.

Y'all know very well that the demographic for this game is males in their late 20s and 30s. They are likely to have kids, so it makes sense to put such relationships into a blockbuster game like this. We already know this at least since The Last of Us, right?

"Garbage humans" huh? Now where have I heard that term before...

Oh right - that's the exact same phrase Anita Sarkeesian used to label YouTuber Sargon of Akkad at last year's VidCon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-40spFCqLs

Sounds like Polygon gets their talking points straight from the queen of gaming-world SJWs herself, who also was kind enough to bestow upon us the phrase "toxic masculinity in gaming" and other such nonsense.

Game journalist are dead; they don't have to be your audience anymore.

What's an SWJ?

Social Warrior of Justice?

I don't even understand using that stupid meaningless lable when aparently it can't be used to group anyone. All the sjws are apparently outliers unaware they aren't the "true feminists".

It's that darn media that only gives a soapbox to these squeeky wheels... well if you ask me they are the popular ones among that movement, so if anythig they are the real representatives of what feminism is.

So rather asking people not to judge other feminists by the actions and worda of these sjw types, i would recommend dropping the lable and focus on arguing for whatever ideals any given person has.

It's just me venting here, i'm not directing this out at you as I have no idea if you were just playing devil's advocate here

I was right to avoid this game.

Polygon is a toxic SJW platform. Ignore the existence of this shit.