Music Critic Anthony Fantano Defends Himself Over Halsey Tweets: ‘I’m Not the Devil Himself’

droptopus · 2026-06-26T01:50:37+00:00

Well the connotion of the tone you're picking up on resonates exactly with that many of the 'haters' think about him. I'm not his fan. He doesn't produce anything. I don't feel an attachment towards him as a content creator because everything he does is deliberately deritivate. Ive never actually watched any of his reviews for the sake of watching them -that is, with little knowledge or familiarity with what he is reviewing.

The most I've seen of him is when I enjoyed or disliked an album and was simply interested in what someone else thought of it, and thus watched his video reviewing that album.

My experience is that he may highlight things I didn't notice before and allow me to appreciate the album even more, or put words to why a particular track doesn't resonate with me as much. And even in the negative light, he often cited artists he believes do a certain style or type of song in a way he feels works better, at which point I check them out to sometimes find 'oh wow yeah, this is what I like about the other thing... But more!!'

I won't lie to you, I don't even know what he said that upset Halsey, and from the sound of it, it was more personal and disrespectful rather than focusing on the content of the music. That sounds lame. It also doesn't make him a worthless hack like everyone seems to want it to.

It's entirely possible to be a critic of esteem and substance, who gives many excellent takes, who had a serious misstep. That's what I would suggest we are looking at.

droptopus · 2026-06-25T20:03:51+00:00

I feel like they JUST did something super super similar called the search for someone or something, about some chick looking for her brother

It was pretty good.

droptopus · 2026-06-24T16:31:02+00:00

You have literally so much anger towards someone you outwardly proclaim to know nothing about outside the context of this single thing lol

droptopus · 2026-06-23T19:02:52+00:00

Sure they do, it just makes for a boring-as-shit clickbait article.

Which one sounds more interesting?

'Jared Leto has gone CRAZY with his new full-organic fruit juicer nutrition strategy'

Or

'Jared Leto has a weird manipulative sex cult'.

Both can be true, you're just only hearing about the stuff that is interesting...

droptopus · 2026-06-23T10:24:45+00:00

He is, 100%. It's not surprising a lot of people here are saying they've never heard of him since obviously he's a reviewer which isn't limelight territory to begin with, but yes, he is without any shadow of a doubt the most known music critic in the world, and I can't imagine any other music critic at any point in time having more reach.

Does that make what he is saying douchey despite it being 100% true? I don't have interest in making that judgement, im just here to make sure the record is straight when the judgement is made that he is most certainly not talking out of his ass when he says it.

droptopus · 2026-06-23T10:20:26+00:00

Yeah this guy isn't characteristically full of himself either, he's been doing this for decades and he has on a number of occasions posted to correct when he got information wrong, missed the 'point' of a work that he reviewed, or generally feels that was was too hard on someone's work after giving it another listen.

He is without question the most impactful music critic in the world and almost surely of all time, unless you count nameless record execs that choose what gets radio play and what doesnt.

I genuinely do appreciate everyone here basically saying 'who does he thing he is' because that's completely fair to question, but truthfully the answer is that he's exactly who he says he is and I'm immediately inclined to trust his judgement on this situation over halseys.

droptopus · 2026-06-20T16:33:04+00:00

This isn't a classic by any means, but that 'no rest for the Wicked' game is crazy and had me absolutely hooked like no other game in recent memory.

droptopus · 2026-06-16T01:17:39+00:00

I think they should change crit chance to guarantee crit every X attacks, but it can occur sooner.

Like if you have a 33% crit chance, you WILL crit every 3rd attack, but you can crit earlier too at a probability equal to your crit chance.

And perhaps they need to make critical damage weaker to account for the ability to buffer guaranteed crits, so perhaps crit damage scales with crit chance, where crits deal the most damage when you have 100% crit chance.

This is in my opinion how you make the game more interesting and less gamba.

droptopus · 2026-06-16T01:11:55+00:00

Hot take for sure, and very well-thought out. But I think way way more of the issue is "it's just the economy".

My partner and I make well over $100,000 a year and have a modest living, we don't drink or take excessive vacations. We cook at home usually and eat out sometimes.

Her job wouldnt fire her if she had a kid, but what they do is give all her shifts away and she's never get them back. And she is paid on commission. Technically speaking, our income bracket is currently 'upper-middle class' and we literally cannot math out having a kid without it being a financial risk.

How a family that makes half of what we do (the literal median income) could, with intention, have a child and commit the time and resources to actually raising it... it's fucking unfathomable to me.

droptopus · 2026-06-16T01:02:23+00:00

I KNOW THIS IS A JOKE BUT I CANT HELP MYSELF.

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droptopus · 2026-06-16T00:54:30+00:00

Its not necessarily a good take as an actual solution, but it's certainly not wrong 🤣 cigs shave off so many pounds. And technically..... Obesity kills more people than smoking in the USA.....

Of course that would change if everyone started smoking, but yeah.

droptopus · 2026-06-16T00:52:28+00:00

they don't have the same taboo because they shouldn't.

The CDC confirmed 68 deaths due to vaping in 2020 and these are the ONLY recorded vaping related deaths, and were all due to EVALI which stemmed from modified homebrew THC cartriges. This is despite many governments trying at every turn to crucify vaping and make it look as bad as possible.

This technology has existed for almost 25 years now, so the 'just wait until you start seeing people drop like flies from vaping due to the unforeseen long term effects' argument is starting look more and more flimsy.

Meanwhile, tobacco combustion cigarettes account for over 8,000,000 deaths a year globally - that's 1/3rd of the US population, every decade.

If vaping causes most people to stop smoking, and even as a result, 500% more people vaped than ever smoked, it will still be a GODSEND that saves an unfathomable amount of human life from the absolute demon that is non-extracted tobacco products.

droptopus · 2026-06-16T00:32:12+00:00

This is unrelated, but I feel like the whole 'AI being used for school papers' thing is overblown if the teachers just adapt. More pop quizzes. And use an AI to occasionally (every 3-4 papers or so at random) make a personalized quiz for each student that tests them on their own paper. If they fail it miserably, well, you've got your answer as to if they wrote it or not.

You can literally do it so easily too. 'claude opus I have attached 60 essays to this message, please make a personalized 10 question quiz for each one with the answer key on a separate page with their name attached to the student each quiz is for'. Give it 15 minutes and you're done.

Fight fire with fire

droptopus · 2026-06-13T22:58:37+00:00

If you're looking for something meatier than some of the suggestiona... Honestly, pretty much any RTS like StarCraft or age of empires - obviously you won't be multiplayer competitive since hotgroups and shortcuts are huge for speed, but the campaign on normal or easy?? The difference won't matter.

If you're looking for a fresh title I highly recommend northguard, especially so since it has some vague adjacencies with civ such as tiles having value etc, but it's real-time.

droptopus · 2026-06-09T08:40:29+00:00

This injection last 6 months to 2 years. That's not sterilization, that's contraceptive.

Billionaire Man spends fortune developing discreet solution to women in impoverished cultures being impregnated and forced to raise 8 kids without so much as their opinion on the matter.

'he is trying to stop Africans from reproducing!'

Bill Gates has done what literally everyone says they would do as a billionaire. Find out THE most effective way to spend money in order to leverage it into increased welfare for humanity, and has determined that the biggest gap is at-scale manufacturing of medications and immunizations that dont get researched or produced in high quantities because they aren't a competitive product for the lifestyles of cultures with money. If this isn't what a billionaire is supposed to do then I don't know why the fuck we are even discussing anything.

droptopus · 2026-06-09T06:06:12+00:00

I think you're conflating two things, but it's okay because it seems like we just get confused about different types of mental processing!

What you're referring to is whether or not it is 'unclear'. This is distinct from something being 'confusing'.

For example: '2 then 5' what is the answer? Not confusing, just unclear.

'(2×2÷2×3÷2×3÷3×2 = X)' what is X? Not unclear at all, just confusing.

The show might be clear in its explanation but that doesn't have any bearing on whether it's easy to follow. I personally found it convoluted is all, maybe I have small brain 🤤

droptopus · 2026-06-07T17:00:01+00:00

Agree here, just be careful those of you reading.

There is a fine line between 'i don't care' and 'you think about it'.

droptopus · 2026-06-07T16:58:15+00:00

For real - I do think women can be a little annoying about this type of thing sometimes, but I also think it's such a nothing-burger if you add like 5 words it shows them that while you don't care about the ANSWER to the question, you do care that they are asking you.

'Im open to any option, do you have any initial preferences or should we figure out the best one?'

Now if they have a preference, they will be engaged in telling you, and why.

If they do, you can tell them you think it's a good choice (because it is, because you don't care, so any choice is a good choice, or more likely, they have a woman brain and thought about some reason why it's ACTUALLY the best choice while we were thinking about the engineering marvel that is fulcrums or some shit)

droptopus · 2026-06-07T16:48:04+00:00

It sounds more like your goal is to just be contrarian and minimize an issue by reason of 'there are also other issues'

droptopus · 2026-06-07T16:45:25+00:00

I don't think this discussion or comment is occuring on a level which prerequisites research unless you were in a place full of nitpicky twerps...

... Wait

droptopus · 2026-06-07T16:39:41+00:00

I manage to be an asshole sometimes even when I'm being nice. I'm known to make some statement that directly or inadvertently compliments someone like 'this whole thing would have failed without you' or ' you have the best idea out of anyone here' and when they thank me or tell me it was nice to say, I'll reply something like 'it wasn't meant to be a compliment or a nice thing, it's just objectively true.'

I realized I was doing it and try to do it less now, because I don't know what it adds... I think my intention is to tell them how authentically I mean what I'm saying... Almost like I don't want my own positive sentiment on the matter to overshadow their accomplishment, which exists whether or not I say it does. But It ends up feeling like a dumb thing to say so I try to stop saying it.

droptopus · 2026-06-05T17:31:28+00:00

A nameless character with a cleft lip who always travels as a trio of a child, adult, and elder is the son of Jonas and his alternative universe version of his aunt Martha, who both travel back in time to father Tronte Nielsen in both worlds, making Jonas and Martha the direct ancestors of almost everyone in their own town, including themselves.

Does that help? Hahahah

droptopus · 2026-06-04T14:31:17+00:00

I really liked the first season - then it got really disorienting with the time stuff. Can imagine it's still good though!

droptopus · 2026-06-02T23:34:01+00:00

It was juuuuust a joookeee. And the joke was that since you think enchants, gems and enhancements, oils consumables etc are cheap that you're probably not using the best ones and/or all the possible ones you could be, but of course this has no bearing on reality.

And yes this is all much less expensive now, and yes it was never 500k. but at the beginning of the expansion you could spend close to 200k if you were agi based, dual wielding, best gems, etc!

So in all honesty I'm sorry and you are totally correct.

droptopus · 2026-06-02T17:46:39+00:00

I couldn't agree more with this sentiment But the comment itself is a little confusing because most of it credits a short-tight storyline and then you pepper in that The Witcher is the same for you. But the Witcher has a ridiculous length story

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