Current Events > If you came into possession of a Death Note how long could you last?

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Right now I couldn't you basically just say "X dies of COVID" and basically nobody would bat an eye.

Realistically though, even if you somehow became a prime suspect, they'd still have to prove you did it, and would also need the Death Note itself and would have to prove it was the book that did it in the first place.

So someone would have to test it out.

I cant remember, can you write your own name in the death note and die?

Yeah I think you can. Also if you intentionally misspell someone's name several times you die.

No, you can't.

No, you don't die. If you misspell someone's name 3 times, they become immune to the Death Note.

Right now I couldn't you basically just say "X dies of COVID" and basically nobody would bat an eye.

What? I definitely dont remember that. But also, why would anyone intentionally misspell someones name? Strange that thats a rule.

Wait i just remembered bellydancer counterstrick. Must be for him

There's also a rule that makes someone immune to the Death Note if you get their name wrong too many times or something.

This is so you can't just intentionally spell your own name wrong and get Death Note immunity, I imagine.

I dont think it would be all that difficult to get someone else to write your misspelled name a couple times.

https://deathnote.fandom.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note/Manga_Chapter_Rules

If it's reasonably possible for a person to catch and then die of COVID, even if they previously didn't have it, over a span of 23 days it will work.

Say for myself personally. Someone right now writes in "UnicornRaline dies of COVID" it could happen even though I never leave the house, cause my wife goes to get groceries, she could catch it, pass it to me, and it could cause my death within 23 days. Mind you this also means my wife could not possibly die of that infection of COVID cause collateral deaths are actually prohibited by the rules.

So either I die and she doesn't, or neither of us would, or I'd have a heart attack in 6 minutes and 40 seconds.

What if I write someone's name down while they're flying a plane?

The use of the Death Note in the human world sometimes affects other humans' lives or shortens their original life span, even though their names are not actually written in the Death Note itself. In these cases, no matter the cause, the god of death sees only the original lifespan and not the shortened lifespan.

There's a good video breakdown of how many traps could be put into place and random ass people from 4chan and the darkweb could eventually figure out who is causing various sudden deaths. You'd have to lay really low, avoid high profile kills, change up your sleep schedule, don't kill people and networks that suddenly rise to power, etc.

10 hyper conservative leaders die

I wouldn't be caught.

For starters, they cannot possibly place you as a suspect when they can't even establish how you managed to do it. If a guy gets killed in Arkansas, nobody's gonna be able to pin it on some regular dude from California who was in California when the supposed murder happened.

Yes but like in Death Note

if suddenly people were dropping like flies and most of them were in one country, you've already nailed it down to that one Country

so unless you hardly use it, you'll still leave a breadcrum trail

Also if you research who to kill online, you've left a trail too.

I don't see how you could use the Death Note a lot and not get caught in 2022

It depends if you're using the internet to find your targets

If I say type in some Member of the Senate for the face and correct spelling of the name and kill them no one will link me to it. But if I do that a few times maybe 5 or 6 then my search history might get me flagged and investigated. And once I'm being looked at if people are you regularly search up on the internet start dropping like flies then I'm doing that to answer some tough questions

Yes but like in Death Note

if suddenly people were dropping like flies and most of them were in one country, you've already nailed it down to that one Country

so unless you hardly use it, you'll still leave a breadcrum trail

Also if you research who to kill online, you've left a trail too.

I don't see how you could use the Death Note a lot and not get caught in 2022

People are already dropping like flies thanks to covid. And you just refrain from killing a ton of people close to you in an obvious manner. Even if they randomly search your browser history and saw that you saw an article on a criminal, what good is that gonna do if you killed someone a thousand miles away by using the Death Note to give him covid?

They'll also notice patterns in the deaths. If they're all murderers, or all fascists or largely male etc. All of that will be picked up

Unless you barely used it, you would get caught so fast

People don't realize how dystopian modern life is

if you're the prime suspect they aren't going to let you walk free while a high profile incident is being investigated

Found the main video that discusses the internet finding a deathnote user fast. Mostly internet tracking, habits, isp information, information flow, things that can be looked at after the fact to narrow down a list of people.
https://youtu.be/r8OfANX2hEw

Even in the actual show, Light got away with it for years and only got found out because he was extremely petty and reckless. And started targeting petty crimes long after he had already achieved his goal.

Itd be next to impossible to be noticed unless you want to announce yourself. Assuming this is a world where we dont have knowledge of the series, people would jump to ghosts and curses well before dude with a magic murder book even if you stupidly used the same means of death on extremely similar targets.

The Internet and technology wasn't what it is now in the show

And it's fictional lol

The Internet and technology wasn't what it is now in the show

And it's fictional lol

Wouldn't a really good VPN render all of that useless?

Do you know how many people hate fascists though?

I haven't seen a single reason in this entire topic why one would get caught unless they started being an idiot like Light was with his narcissism.

There's no way to actually narrow things down unless you decided to go about it being a complete idiot.

That entire video uses bad logic that turns you, the DN user into some internet celebrity who purposely leaves bread crumbs daring the internet to find.

Like the Jan 6th rioters who were tracked down by the pictures alone.

Sure but how many looked up fascists across America who then turned up dead?

Lots of people. That's kind of the thing with fascists. They have a lot of people that want them dead, and probably many people who'd actually try to carry it out.

Sure but how many looked up fascists across America who then turned up dead?

It's almost like you're editing out all the reasons people are giving and then not responding to them

Amount + Location of who you kill
Why you killed them
Trail of research into who you killed

All of this would demonstrate a Location and psyche profile

I don't see how you can square that circle unless you barely use the book

Especially if you start to panic once you've become a suspect. if suddenly the murders stop the moment the authorities are into you, that's damning

I'm not so sure

And let's say it's true for the sake of argument the police had 600 suspects

You're now one of them and might not know it as you're being watched

I mean this is how they caught the Unabomber long before modern internet