Second one is also free cause we all would use it on Musk the moment the first one worked with Trump.
you can probably fill the whole thing with morally acceptable people to disappear
I can think of like 5 within a second of thinking about it
Wikipedia is full of pages like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_senators with names, photos, and biographies. The scum bags that are destroying our world are not all a secret cult. They're just assholes in suits.
I've thought about this an unhealthy amount. Trump would shit himself to death on live TV. He would cry like a bitch and narrate his experience in great detail.
Moving on to kill all of the owning class because they are the source of all our problems tbh
It could be 101: the first a surprise, the next 100 to establish a meaningful statistical correlation.
can you be my lawyer please
"Surely that was a fluke, it won't work for a second time!"
"Twice in a row? What are the chances. I wonder if it works with pencil instead of pen."
...
Apple pen !
Penpineappleapplepen!
But like it would be so unbelievable that you can't just say, oh x died bc I wrote his name, that would be ludicrous. You need a decent sample size. I think I'd need 3 freebies. Before that i would not believe this notepad kills people.
What you do is have your first one be someone famous enough that you know when and how they die if it happens, and something that is specific as a cause and unlikely but not so implausible as to make the note resort to it's default instead. Like, make Putin trip and break his neck during a live broadcast event or something. You could easily design something plausible enough but still highly unlikely to randomly happen in exactly that way at that time.
Iirc, you can write how the person behaves before death on the death note. You can easily write your own life fanfic and peaceful death there to ensure you don't get Raito'd or L'd in the meantime
I think there was a pretty short limit on how far in the future you could write someone's death.
Also, if the circumstances described are impossible, it will default to a heart attack.
I think there was a pretty short limit on how far in the future you could write someone’s death.
23 days. You had 40 seconds to write a cause of death and 6:40 to write the details, and could even pre-write the details and add the name(s) afterward but the Death Note could not effect anything that occurred more than 23 days in the future, with the exception of dying by a disease that would take longer than that to progress and not writing a time (in which case they develop the disease but die when/how the disease would take them). The real problem is that you also can't use the Death Note to directly extend someone's life by writing that they die after they normally would - if you try they just die however they would have died if you hadn't used the note. You can however use the Death Note to kill someone who is a threat to another, indirectly saving their life.
No but the longer the time is that you describe the mor reasonable the actions have to be for the person to be.
So you can make a police officer shoot some random people but you can't make him save a black child /s
Remember, when someone unexpectedly kicks the bucket. That leads to a power vaccuum. Instead, you got to go after the middle managers. The people who carry out a politican's agenda. In theory, another faction would be able to capitalize on the situation. While taking out some politicans would be a net beneft, the fallout would be terrible. A civil war in nuclear armed Russia? Another Middle East war?
Now when it comes to billionaries and the other parasites. Take those fuckers out. The World doesn't have to worry about a corporate power vaccuum taking everyone down like a civil war in a country.
Invariably I'd have drawn a comedy penis in there somewhere, and some poor lad somewhere would likely find his plonker refusing to work one night, or died with his old chap at full mast for maximum embarrassment.
Or you accidentally murder some guy with the misfortune to be named "Dick".
I recently saw a sticker that said, "If at first you don't succeed, try a few more times to establish a baseline."
It's still pretty unrealistic that anyone actually figured out how the deaths were occurring. Even if you thought "maybe it's magic" nobody else would take it seriously.
Light fucks up early on by killing the fake L on live TV, making it pretty clear there’s a person behind it.
L has a mega freak out when he does realize it’s magic, because it doesn’t fit with his logical view of the world.
Tbf the fake L did say it was a worldwide broadcast and Light wanted to be "god of a new world". It was a major fuck up no doubt, but if it was worldwide then L wouldn't have been able to narrow him down to a specific region of Japan, and Light would have been able to announce himself to the world.
Light is childish and hates to lose... because he's a high schooler. Idk his age but probably 17-18. Idk how many kids that age would have gotten as far as Light did.
I'm not L
I recently watched the series. Well, at least up to a certain point anyway. I'm convinced that L isn't so much a genius detective as Light was just overwhelmingly fucking stupid
Consume nothing but sugar and become him.
On it!
If you write "person xyz dies in a month" you have plenty of time to write down thousands of names before the first one dies, and in all this time you can always make the reasonable assumption that it won't work anyways.
Doesn't a shinigami come and explain how it works? It's been a bit since I've seen death note so I don't remember if that happens before or after you use it. If it's before, there's no reason to assume it wouldn't work since a supernatural being appears to explain how it works which adds credibility.
In the anime, the shinigami only came after the first kill IIRC. Light only had the tutorial text in the notebook to go off of.
"What a cool notebook! I'm going to make this my new personal phone book and spend all afternoon putting all my contacts in it."
Death Note should get a new series and it should be entirely about every evil billionaire currently alive in 2025
I think I have to disagree on this one. Whether or not you believed it would work is irrelevant. The malicious intent is what matters here. You happened to find a supernaturally accursed notebook titled "Death Note" and you decide to write someone's name in it? That already crosses the moral line imo, independent of any actual effects.
Counterarguments welcome.
If I say, "Damn him!" about someone, and it turns out that Hell is real and that saying that actually causes people to be sent to Hell, am I morally culpable for that? Let's say I attempt to hex someone, knowing full well that it doesn't work, but just using it as a way to express my frustrations - but then it turns out hexes are real and I actually hexed them?
You can't read in a significant malicious intent if a person takes an action that they have every reason to believe is harmless.
I'd recommend reading some of The Illustrated Guide to Law which covers relevant concepts, albeit from a legal perspective rather than a moral one
:::spoiler spoiler
The intent is the important part, I think. When you say "damn him!" you (I imagine) aren't actually thinking of damning that person to hell, and seeing if it works.
It's more like pointing a gun you're pretty sure isn't loaded at someone's head and pulling the trigger. Even if you thought it wasn't loaded, you know exactly what you're doing if it happens to be.
Is it malicious intent of you write your own name in it?
Step one to claiming ownership of a notebook, TBF.
My death note would be the same as fortune 500
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