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Scintillant
10/21/23 11:36:23 AM
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or would you give it away

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Wedge_Antilles
10/21/23 11:42:15 AM
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Burn it. Not gonna use it and don't want others to get their hands on it.

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Inohira
10/21/23 11:44:10 AM
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Neither. Using it discreetly is possible.

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Irony
10/21/23 11:45:42 AM
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Inohira posted...
Neither. Using it discreetly is possible.


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MorbidFaithless
10/21/23 11:50:56 AM
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Inohira posted...
Neither. Using it discreetly is possible.
Right? There's no way you'd be found out unless you were a giant egomaniac.

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PraetorXyn
10/21/23 12:21:44 PM
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Inohira posted...
Neither. Using it discreetly is possible.
This.

Hell. If you used it on someone like Mitch McConnell nobody would ever even know it wasnt natural causes.

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SocialistGamer
10/21/23 12:25:27 PM
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Also Light screwed up by killing a couple local criminals early on allowing L to pinpoint his location.

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streamofthesky
10/21/23 12:39:23 PM
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I would stash it somewhere and never use it till the day I die, hopefully of old age. Possibly looking for a more permanent destruction/burying solution along the way.
Meanwhile, bribing my shinigami w/ apples so he's hopefully cool with an uneventful long term vacation to Earth.

Partly b/c extra judiciously killing people is wrong, but to be honest...mostly for my own survival. If one such book exists, others probably do too, and between rival death note owners and the authorities, the less conspicuous I make myself, the better. Definitely would avoid posting my face to social media and using an alias whenever possible, too.
The mere existence of such a "tool" would terrify me more than anything. I care way more about not-dying than I do about killing "people who deserve it".

EDIT: The one thing I always wondered about the DN is...if you put your own name in there (or had someone else write it in, if you can't "off yourself") and intentionally set the date of your own death so ridiculously far in the future that it'd never occur before you die of natural causes... does that effectively "immunize" you to all death notes? Since your name and time/cause of death is already technically recorded in a death note?
A scheme like that to protect myself and maybe others from less scrupulous DN owners would be my only real interest in "using" it, and I'd still probably be too afraid to test that.
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RchHomieQuanChi
10/21/23 12:43:28 PM
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SocialistGamer posted...
Also Light screwed up by killing a couple local criminals early on allowing L to pinpoint his location.

Yeah. I actually think this and killing Lind L. Tailor are the biggest mistakes Light made early on.

The former could maybe be forgiven by him not having much info on criminals outside of Japan (this was the mid-2000s after all, before international news was more widely available online), but the latter was purely his own ego fucking him over.

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Solar_Crimson
10/21/23 12:44:08 PM
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Inohira posted...
Neither. Using it discreetly is possible.


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DrizztLink
10/21/23 12:45:09 PM
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Wedge_Antilles posted...
Burn it. Not gonna use it and don't want others to get their hands on it.
You put the fire in the Death Note.

The name is accepted.

All fires are dead.

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Killmonger
10/21/23 12:45:37 PM
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Inohira posted...
Neither. Using it discreetly is possible.


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RchHomieQuanChi
10/21/23 12:46:08 PM
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streamofthesky posted...
EDIT: The one thing I always wondered about the DN is...if you put your own name in there (or had someone else write it in, if you can't "off yourself") and intentionally set the date of your own death so ridiculously far in the future that it'd never occur before you die of natural causes... does that effectively "immunize" you to all death notes? Since your name and time/cause of death is already technically recorded in a death note?

In the live-action movies, this is basically what L did. But IIRC, at least there, you could only set your death for up to 30 days into the future.

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Scintillant
10/21/23 12:46:49 PM
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crazy how many murderers there are on this website lol

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Ashethan
10/21/23 12:48:25 PM
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I'd probably test it out on someone super old and pretty evil. Like I'm talking over 95. Just to see if it actually works.

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Prismsblade
10/21/23 12:48:55 PM
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No, and frankly I wouldnt have any idea who to kill in order to even make a difference. Since the truly dangerous elites that deserve to die are generally unknown to the general public.

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C_Pain
10/21/23 12:49:22 PM
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Scintillant posted...
crazy how many murderers there are on this website lol
Perhaps only if they are human. But me... I am justice! I protect the innocent and those who fear evil. I'm the one who'll become the god of a new world that everyone desires.

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streamofthesky
10/21/23 12:49:57 PM
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RchHomieQuanChi posted...
In the live-action movies, this is basically what L did. But IIRC, at least there, you could only set your death for up to 30 days into the future.
Interesting. Lame restriction, but yeah, definitely covers what I always considered the biggest plot hole "what if?" that was never explored in the original anime.
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AlveinFencer
10/21/23 12:52:58 PM
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I wouldn't believe it. Ryuk would find it filled with anime/video game notes.

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R_Jackal
10/21/23 12:53:39 PM
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Honestly I would probably be too lazy to use it. Fuckin hate writing stuff. I'd probably chuck it in a closet and forget about it forever.
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Metal_Gear_Raxis
10/21/23 12:54:51 PM
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The fact that he decided criminals were the best people to systematically purge to improve society is hilariously immature for someone who's supposed to be so brilliant.

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VeesMcGees
10/21/23 12:55:24 PM
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I dont think Id be a force for good, but I wouldnt develop a god complex.

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variasuite
10/21/23 12:57:59 PM
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Scintillant posted...
crazy how many murderers there are on this website lol
Getting caught is a huge deterrence. And the ridiculous ease of a death note would make people do things they normally wouldn't.

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darkmaian23
10/21/23 1:01:23 PM
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That depends: does it come with a bored death god that will kill you for being boring?

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Umbreon
10/21/23 1:01:34 PM
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streamofthesky posted...
Interesting. Lame restriction, but yeah, definitely covers what I always considered the biggest plot hole "what if?" that was never explored in the original anime.


I believe you can, you just can't extend someone's original life span. So if you said your best friend dies in their sleep at 100, but it turns out they're going to die at 60, they don't get a bonus 40 years.

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RchHomieQuanChi
10/21/23 1:02:02 PM
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variasuite posted...
Getting caught is a huge deterrence. And the ridiculous ease of a death note would make people do things they normally wouldn't.

That's why I like the live-action J-drama they did a few years back.

In that adaptation, Light was basically just a normal guy who was brilliant, but lazy and had to grow into the Kira role. In that, they made it more explicit that Light was corrupted by the Death Note, rather than the anime and manga where it's clear he was always a psycho.

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DrizztLink
10/21/23 1:04:35 PM
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Umbreon posted...
I believe you can, you just can't extend someone's original life span. So if you said your best friend dies in their sleep at 100, but it turns out they're going to die at 60, they don't get a bonus 40 years.
"I jiggled the pen a little while sentencing Carlos to death."

"What?"

"Yeah, looks like he's gonna die of a heart attack in 21023."

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Lairen
10/21/23 1:06:38 PM
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You could literally kill all world leaders without suspicion unless you were loud and stupid.

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GiftedACIII
10/21/23 3:29:03 PM
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Metal_Gear_Raxis posted...
The fact that he decided criminals were the best people to systematically purge to improve society is hilariously immature for someone who's supposed to be so brilliant.
This. Ironically, the netflix Light Turner was actually smarter about this although the movie itself didn't delve into the aftermath of that because the overall movie was much sloppier.

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streamofthesky
10/21/23 3:39:07 PM
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Umbreon posted...
I believe you can, you just can't extend someone's original life span. So if you said your best friend dies in their sleep at 100, but it turns out they're going to die at 60, they don't get a bonus 40 years.
Oh yeah, I know that. Never expected to be able to write myself a 500 year lifespan or anything.
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TMOG
10/21/23 3:42:14 PM
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The only reason Light got caught is because he's actually one of the dumbest fucking "genius" characters to ever be written in media. All he had to do was not take the most obvious bait in the world and L would have moved on to the next city to try and find him there instead.
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Charged151
10/21/23 3:43:32 PM
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Hopefully I would hide it so no one could use it. Absolute power corrupts absolutely after all. When to stop?

Failing that...

Inohira posted...
Neither. Using it discreetly is possible.
Discretely is the key. Light's early recklessness killing local criminals is a big part of his downfall as multiple people already stated.

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RetsuZaiZen
10/21/23 3:48:36 PM
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I doubt it. For me, it's much easier to say that I could end a bunch of politicians but the consequences that actually arise would be completely different.

Dunno if I have the heart to actually do it once the power is mine. I'd like to think I'm well off enough mentally to handle that but I'm not nearly that arrogant.

Absolute power and all.

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LordFarquad1312
10/21/23 3:50:39 PM
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A death note would confirm the existence of heaven and hell, and I ain't spending eternity in Limbo brother and/or sister.

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darkmaian23
10/21/23 3:54:08 PM
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LordFarquad1312 posted...
A death note would confirm the existence of heaven and hell, and I ain't spending eternity in Limbo brother and/or sister.
It is explicitly stated in the series that there is no afterlife.

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Nukazie
10/21/23 3:55:03 PM
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use it and get the eyes too

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RetsuZaiZen
10/21/23 5:33:11 PM
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darkmaian23 posted...
It is explicitly stated in the series that there is no afterlife.
Cool but that's the anime and manga. I assume TC didn't mean that we travel to that world, rather the Death Note falls into our world.

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itachi15243
10/21/23 5:35:57 PM
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I'd probably just not use it.

Or only use it in some sort of extreme scenario. I honestly don't know how I'd feel about killing people, even with magic.

I would however probably keep a piece of it with a pen on me everywhere.

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Notti
10/24/23 7:12:30 AM
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Wedge_Antilles posted...
Burn it. Not gonna use it and don't want others to get their hands on it.


... that's exactly what a Light Yagami would say!

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texanfan27
10/24/23 7:17:16 AM
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*picks it up thinking it a prop, sees shinigami* well shit.

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pegusus123456
10/24/23 7:25:09 AM
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Umbreon posted...
I believe you can, you just can't extend someone's original life span. So if you said your best friend dies in their sleep at 100, but it turns out they're going to die at 60, they don't get a bonus 40 years.
No, there's a rule stating outright that the Death Note is limited to twenty-three days. You can't go further than that. The only exception is if you write disease as the cause of death; they will live long enough for the disease to plausibly progress to a fatal stage.

You are right that you can't extend someone's natural lifespan though. That takes precedence over the Death Note.

Basically, the series goes out of its way to make sure you can't loophole your way into making it a Life Note.

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LSGW_Zephyra
10/24/23 7:36:12 AM
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I'd burn it. I would want to use it but I don't trust myself and no individual should have that much power.

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Were_Wyrm
10/24/23 7:38:43 AM
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I'd probably still be Were_Wyrm.

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Foppe
10/24/23 7:38:55 AM
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Oh Russia...
And trying to fix the shit in the Middle East.

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Evolician
10/24/23 7:40:13 AM
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RetsuZaiZen posted...
Cool but that's the anime and manga. I assume TC didn't mean that we travel to that world, rather the Death Note falls into our world.
Lmao

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Doe
10/24/23 7:48:34 AM
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There is an individual who should have that much power, it's me

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AlveinFencer
10/25/23 12:10:56 AM
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GiftedACIII posted...
This. Ironically, the netflix Light Turner was actually smarter about this although the movie itself didn't delve into the aftermath of that because the overall movie was much sloppier.
It's not ironic. The whole point is that Light wasn't as smart or as righteous as he thought he was. Near basically spells it out for him in the end.

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BloodMoon7
10/25/23 12:18:20 AM
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Kira's methods aside, they were trying uphold what they felt was justice, at least at the start.

I would be under no such delusions. Justice is a lie told to gullible fools. I would use my powers to sow the seeds of chaos and cleanse our dying world.

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streamofthesky
10/25/23 12:25:05 AM
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BloodMoon7 posted...
Kira's methods aside, they were trying uphold what they felt was justice, at least at the start.
Light literally murdered a guy he thought was L in the very first episode, merely for mocking him and saying he'd be caught, because he was mad.

It took a few more episodes for him to off an entire FBI team sent to investigate Kira murders, that had done nothing wrong.

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