You get one sheet of the Death Note (A4 sized), what do you do with it?

_______________________________, by autoerotic asphyxiation

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Good start, but change them all to "by testicular/ovarian devastation" and then write in the names of every billionaire on earth followed by their closest relatives out to about 3 degrees of separation.

Might even fix some overcrowding

i dont care to play god. but i will play new super luigi u.

Lots of people here forget that you can control the actions of the person before they die. If you go by the richest persons, like someone suggested, you get them to liquidate and donate their entire state, or maybe a bunch at the same time to lobby for taxes to the mega rich, before dying. If you go by world leaders, like someone else suggested, you get them to undo their shits, e.g. Putin abandons Ukraine and destroys most of Russia's armaments before joining NATO, Kim Jong Un calls for democratic elections and forms a democratic government after opening the borders, etc.

Unfortunately you need to keep in mind that transfers and donations can be reversed posthumously. If a gunman walks up to a billionaire, forces him to transfer millions to his bank account, and then shoots him dead, the killer doesn't just get to keep the money after getting caught. Any transfer can be reversed after the fact. And you only have a few minutes of controlling the person before they die, so you can't have them work for years to do good with their money.

If just one billionaire died this way, the transfers would likely stand. It can be written off as one man deciding to gain a conscience before taking his own life. But if hundreds of billionaires start doing this all at once? People are reasonably going to conclude that something or someone is controlling these billionaires. Maybe people actually accept the fantastical notion of a Death Note in play. Or maybe they conclude its something strange but more scientific, like some sort of infectious electronic meme that can instantly brainwash people into carrying out some action. Maybe there's a hereto undiscovered arrangement of pixels on a screen that can hack the human mind and gain control of it temporarily. The sort of thing that, while implausible, is at least within the realm of scientific possibility.

Regardless of the exact cause, the heirs to these billionaires will go to court and argue that their deceased relatives were clearly not of sound mind at the time they transferred all their holdings. There's already plenty of legal precedent for this, primarily for elderly people who lose their faculties and are taken advantage of by manipulative caretakers. Even if you can convince some 90 year old woman with Alzheimer's to sign away her fortune to you, that transfer has a good chance of being reversed in court.

Really, the most effective way to provide extreme encouragement for the heirs to give away money is by having the billionaire write, in their own blood on the wall, "my heirs should give away my money. Any that don't will share my fate."

This way there are no transfers to fight in court. The legitimate heirs of the billionaire do inherit the money. But after they have it, there's nothing preventing them from donating it themselves. And the money will be like a curse. They'll be desperate to get rid of it.

Done on a large scale, this would encourage most billionaires to give up their wealth voluntarily. You could have each of them write, "I am being killed for the crime of being a billionaire. Any other billionaire will share my fate." If a few dozen such killings happened, and the police proved utterly unable to prevent it, then the vast majority of billionaires would give up their wealth voluntarily out of pure fear.
- And you only have a few minutes of controlling the person before they die
  
  23 days to be exact
- You can control them for days, so it's a lot more difficult to undo stuff that was given almost a month ago, you can use cryptocurrency so that it doesn't matter what any court decides it's irreversible. But in general I agree with you that scaring them into giving all of their money voluntarily is more useful, however I don't see any reason why you can't make them give all of their money and also a warning to others, that is a lot more scary because even if you fought in court to get that money back you would immediately donate it all and die, so eventually people would not try to pursue those cases. And the fact that they had to originally leaves a clear public paper trail to track the inheritance, which would otherwise be impossible, so rich people would just hide their wealth.
Lots of people here forget that you can control the actions of the person before they die.

I did almost forget, thanks for the reminder. I just looked it up again, specifically you can control 23 days.
Kim Jong Un calls for democratic elections and forms a democratic government after opening the borders

He'd get couped by the generals and they'll instate someone else. You'd have to write the key generals too. You could run out of space to write real soon. And you'd have to hope their sucessors actually continue the trajectory after 23 days (since kim and the generals be dead)

Well first, spend a long time practicing tiny handwriting. Like, let's make the absolute most use out of this sheet as possible; it's possible to get the size of handwritten characters down to about 3mm, but let's say 4 with the assumption that I can't get it down that low. That means I have about 74 lines vertically to write in, each line able to accommodate somewhere between 70 and 52 characters, depending on the width. Let's average it to 60 characters per line, so 74x60 = 4,440 characters, times two for two sides of the page. Average number of characters per name is 7, so 14, plus two for spaces, and let's add another two for a middle initial and another space. That's 18 characters per name. This means I should be able to fit just under 500 names on the page if I use both sides as efficiently as possible.

I'll get the list of the 500 richest people in the world, and start going down it from richest on down. But not all at once. First the top name. One week later, the next name. One week after that, the next name down, and so on. After a few weeks the pattern would become obvious and we see what happens. Sadly I have no magical knowledge of who is the richest person at any given moment, so I have to just go off the list I already possess (or any new information I decide to be sufficiently trustworthy). One every week for five hundred names is 3,500 days, or 9.5 years. That is long enough to make it quite apparent this is inevitable and make it seem like it's going to continue forever, and it's long enough for legislation and other things to be done in response. Let's see how they freak out and what they try to do in response.

I love the idea! It would be fascinating to see how the richest humans alive try to give away as much money as possible, as quickly as possible. I'd watch that show. Hell, I might want to live in that reality!
- It would be fascinating to see how the richest humans alive try to give away as much money as possible, as quickly as possible.
  
  It's called Brewster's Millions.

Just copy the Forbes richest people list.

Yup, and add in world leaders if there is still room on the page

First on my list would be, just as an experiment, someone completely random I find online just to see what happens. You know, something that would somehow end up making major news, news big enough that I'd hopefully see it when my dad watches the nightly news. Just to see that the page works. My parents would never find the page since they don't go through my stuff, so I'd be safe there. Just gotta make sure nobody sees it through a camera, so phone and laptop out of the way when I write. Definitely burn it after it's all used up and everyone on it is dead to ensure nobody sees it. Wouldn't be that hard for me to put it in my pyrex bowl and light it up.

After confirming it works, get to work on some of the people I wanna see gone for whatever reason. If a torn/cut off piece works, you bet I'd take some lines and cut them before cutting those into smaller pieces. Then store them in my wallet for any time I'm out and about and have a surprise Mormon missionary pop up on me. Sounds cruel, but I ain't got time for them and don't know how to effectively tell them no. Just have to have them sign the slips, with me asking for an autograph or something before I leave.

The rest would go to various people. I think some of my biggest targets would be looking up the mega pastors here in America and having them reveal to all their followers that they have been scammed the whole time, calling them the dumbest sheeple on the planet before ending themselves somehow. Mega pastors deserve it for stealing money from the gullible.

Next would be a large group of CEOs from large tech firms. They'd probably have enough time to clear their schedules and meet up with each other, so there would be a livestreamed MMA match to the death, after telling the world how they've defrauded everyone and that the class war is on because after the match they're sending kill squads to eradicate the poor. So probably have them use their wealth to try and coordinate that as well and set it up so it doesn't actually happen, but that they planned on making it happen, with verifiable messaging/email to prove it. Really set the world up for chaos, I guess. Winner of the match would just kill themselves, I guess, IDK what they would do if anything. CEOs like the gøøg|e, amazøn, twatter, fakebook, redd¡t, and maybe a few others sound good to me because they definitely screw over loads of people.

I think my 3rd set would just be a single target if I could figure out who they are. Just gotta figure out who the head of the American branch of scientology is so I could make that fool reveal all the crimes he is able to reveal that the wackjob cult has ever committed here in America by making sure they're all made publicly available by making the records public domain and widely available while also making him get rid of their tax exempt status by having people lobbying the government to permanently remove it forever to add insult to injury. Let the people know what that cult is all about while simultaneously ruining them.

Though, after that, cannot think of any other local (country wide) targets, so from there, probably go after some big names I cannot say because I don't feel comfortable saying. Politicians and dictators are a scary thing to have hunting you over the fact you make a post about wanting them gone, so I'mma end it there.

Don't know how possible some of this would be, but you gotta admit it would bring chaos to our world and really shake up the status quo having all these things happen.

The thing that's always interested me is that you can choose how they die, but surely there are limits?

Could i say 'dead by gunshot wound to the back?' Is there a bullet left over? A gunman seen fleeing the scene?

It has to be plausable.

If there is not gun around, they just die by heart attack.

Example: If you write: "dead by Car Accident" and the victim is the middle of nowhere where its implausible for a car to be nearby, they just die of a heart attack.

A plausible seanario you could write is: "death by gunshot wound; purchases a gun and attempts to use the gun to commit bank robbery, is shot dead after shooting at responding law enforcement officers and misses, provoking a deadly return fire in response" (the bullets shot at law enforcement had to miss, since the death note cannot make a target kill other people)

First thing, I'm buying the finest fineliner I can, go for 4-6 columns on the page.

Then I'm writing in billionaires, one a week, after making them cosign a suicide note that the deaths will stop once wealth distribution flattens the fuck out, there's a full UBI everywhere and fossil fuels are history.

Dont go too thin on the pen tip. A slightly thicker pen line but one that doesnt skip or fail is better than slightly thinner lines due to wasting space on ruining what you are writing. This depends on how the death note page works specifically but having to write it down all at once might be a necessary part of how it would work.

The thinnest you will find will likely be the gel ink Signo 0.18mm tipped pens, they are notorious for skipping/failing and being basically useless once they start doing that, so buy MANY pens if you can find them. I believe they are discontinued so you may have to bribe people to part with them.

There are some really good pens in the .25 to .38

Muji pens ive seen recommended multiple times.

Ive used 0.38 purple pentel pens, the tip is quite sharp and has cut through paper if you go too fast or too hard. You said fineliner so a marker style tip may prevent that danger, though i dont think you can get those in extremely small tip sizes
- This depends on how the death note page works specifically but having to write it down all at once might be a necessary part of how it would work.
  
  Former Death Note nerd here, this isn't an issue, there are several points where names are written out letter by letter or left unfinished to complete later
Just because the billionaires are dead doesn't mean their wealth automatically distributes through the population though. Their kids/spouses get it first and who knows what their intentions are going to be.
- Inheritees are probably going to feel disincentivized to hold on to anywhere close to a billion dollars for themselves, I'd imagine, so there's that at least
- If billionaires are literally dropping by the week, I think billionaires would actually be forced to do something about it, i.e. not be billionaires anymore or face the mystery "Billionaire Heart Attack" that's been spreading.
You'll have a tough time fitting the details of each suicide onto one page, for more than a few dozen folks.
- 'as above'
- Elon, a starlink fell. A hole for his boots

It depends on how small you write, I suppose.

If you just want people to die, you can put down quite the massacre on both sides of an A4 page.

However, if you want people do to specific things before they die, like billionaires redisteubuting their personal wealth, or steer world leaders to reverse a lot of their bullshit, you're going to have to get very creative with your wording to optimise as much page space as possible.

It depends on how small you write, I suppose.

I see I'm gonna need to buy a microfiche printer...

I'm not familiar with death note so excuse my ignorance.

Can I use a typewriter or a printer on it or does it have to be handwritten?

The exact rule is:

The human whose name is written in this note shall die.

I'm not sure if printing counts. Since thats you instructing a non-living object to spill ink on to a page, not technically "writing"

Start at the top of the Forbes billionaire list and fit as many names as I can

Bruh thats wayy too obvious. You're gonna cause martial law being declared world-wide, the problem wouldn't be solved.
- What exactly is obvious? The cops are not going to jump to death note being real and there’s basically zero identifying information in the choice of billionaires.
  
  I think you could just straight up get away with it if you stuck to publicly known individuals like that tbh

Honestly? I would start picking off officials. I would try and like... Persona 5 it. Send a warning to, say, Trump. "Do ___ by ____ or else" kind of thing. They don't follow through, I take them out. And just keep going until they start listening. Universal health care. No? Alright, I'm going to start picking off those opposed. 100% tax on money over a billion (honestly, I feel like couple million would suffice) . No? You know the drill. Pretty much hold officials ransom until they start fixing shit. I would stay vigilante. Not to make sure everyone is following the same rules or government, but if someone tries to pass a law to ban abortion in there country? Let me grab a pen.

I would even be open to submission, like a "Hell Girl" situation. Of course, not "so and so is stealing my boyfriend" but more, "this company continues to dump in our wager supply." I would use a very fine tipped pen if pencil wasn't allowed. I would hopefully get to spears it out over years so, by the time it's full, people can be used to being treated like people, hopefully. The idea of someone trying to lobby for a return to the health insurance modem would be a cause for mass strike, riots even. They wouldn't dare, because I would be watching.

I love the idea of sending them a heads-up and demands.
if I were born before the internet, I would be a serial killer doing the exact same thing, driving the road taking out animal abusers, people who have cheated the system, started genocide, etc. and have zero issues doing it. now? you might get 1 before your face is plasted everywhere, as we just saw.

I'd leave reasons why they were deleted too, so everyone knows to stop with the bullshit or they could be next.
- congratulations, you're now Jack Reacher!

I'd start testing to see what the restrictions are on the note - for example, could you get Thiel to give all his money away and then end himself? If there aren't many restrictions you could say "Netanyahu, by nuclear weapon, at the Davos summit in 2025" in order to take out a whole bunch of the ruling class at once.

The other thing I'd try is writing "Elon Musk, guillotined by a revolutionary communist government made from the population of the former United States" to see if I could get regime change to happen.

I don't know if I'm remembering the plot correctly but I think you can control the actions of only the target individual and only in a way that's reasonably possible
- You are only able to specifically control the actions of the named target, but their death can involve another person.
  
  Ie you can say "so and so gets hit by a bus" and a random bus nearby will hit them, but you cannot say "so and so is killed by such and such" and have the second person kill the first. I believe both people die of a heart attack if you try.

Putin

Trump

Kim Jong Un

Netanyahu

All heart attacks, all at the same time. Play like Light except with world leaders. Undoubtedly I'm missing many, but I could add as needed. Minimal text size to leave space.

No public statements so I'm harder to trace. Then I save the page. If a world leader pulls some horrendous shit, down they go.

It would be flawed for the same reasons Light is, and it would be biased to my viewpoints, but I don't care. I cannot imagine the world would be a worse place with those people dead. And eventually people would spot the pattern and then leaders might think twice.

Although for the planet overall maybe it'd be better to use it for eco-terrorism

Most-importantly, don't also go kill anyone that says you're evil, just to stoke your ego.
- Yeah and the same if someone is chasing/suspecting you. They would never be able to prove anything if you don't make a mistake or draw attention to yourself. Also helpful that L is fictional
You've left off the upcoming president of the United States, Elon Musk
- Don't you have to be a natural born citizen for that?
- And he should get run over by an unmanned Tesla, just to drive the point home.
Add to it that they evacuate their bowels and are alive long enough to suffer embarrassment.
I really like this one. Maybe it would scare leaders to not become corrupt scum of the earth. Saving it for people who impact the most lived makes the most sense to me.

Write in pencil.

You're gonna need a lot of apples.

I just write, "FLORIDA".

Instructions unclear. Killed every single "FLORIDA" key chain instead.
Florida is actually a fairly common first name, you'll need to write Florida America.
- With a first name like Florida, they can go too, honestly.

Nothing

bold move.

say...could I get your autograph?
- Who should I dedicate it to?

I would continue Luigi's legacy by trying to fit as many names of c-suite personnel of evil corporations on it, font size 1.

Stop stripping Luigi Mangione of his right to presumption of innocence.
I suggest a microfiche printer.

Kms

I'd burn it. I'm not a murderer. Having a way to murder someone doesn't make me want to do it.

I'm a bit of a Buddhist myself, but knowing that I stopped billions from suffering for ending the lives of a few evil people, I could do it.

I could do it with my bare hands.
If you burn it, or fail to use it, someone you briefly thought maybe should go on the list gets to use it
- ?? I didn't "briefly think" to write any name, it goes straight to the gas stove.

Doesn't anyone here know that the Death Note (1) curses all those who use it with misfortune and (2) will trap your soul in limbo after use?

Nah, I'm good. Tweezers and a matchstick.

If I'm willing to cold bloodedly kill people for the "greater good", then I've definitely already accepted I'm shredding my soul.
will trap your soul in limbo after use?

Get to hang out with babies and people who died before christ was redeemed for all eternity.
But does that really count tho? You dont own any death note, just have one sheet.
- Why wouldn't it? It's literally a plot point of the show that individual pages still work the same.

You know that list of the richest people in the world?

You'd need to investigate their heirs first, because they'll just make s bunch of new oligarchs when they die and those will catch the pattern pretty quickly.

Putin falls to his death from an open window.

Wipe my arse with it so all the shits of the world die.

My first thought always goes for the bezos of the world but my immediate second thought is always about them undoubtedly having a legacy planned for passing their money to the next bezo. So then what’s the point?

Can’t do the US Supreme Court people I don’t like either.

I don’t personally have any one I’d write in.

Fuck it, I’m writing in Elon Musk gets imploded in a Tesla submarine by himself.

Money dilutes really fast after inheritance. Not only is the value distributed to a handful of people, but the income potential is reduced, as most the stock value is tied to that person being alive.

I'd probably just eat some chips or a cupcake while an entire police force discusses me for what feels like 600 hours and nothing at all ever happens

I think I’d just fold it up and keep it hidden somewhere until something crazy happens where the world would really actually strongly benefit. I don’t think right now is the time.

It is always the right time.

"Kolanaki, death by snu-snu."

Does it follow Death Note rules? Because I am not having my name written by no dadgum shinnygammy man

You don't own any death notes, you just get a A4 sized sheet of it. You don't even get a shinigami. You just randomly find the sheet one day and you just (by convienience of the plot) immediately know what it is and all the rules once you touch it.

Hang out with a cool ghost.

Cool ghost aint gonna be happy if you don't entertain them.

(btw, having posession of one sheet doesn't give you the cool ghost, you'd need the actual book)
- Do you have any evidence of individual pages having different rules than the book as a whole? It's a plot point in at least one episode (I think multiple) that individual pages ripped out can still be used (it's even the entire point of your hypothetical). Why do you believe you touching an individual page wouldn't let you see the Shinigami?

I'd save it exclusively for people who drive like donkeys. I'll solve bad driving once and for all.

This is the worst use of a Death Note I've ever seen that doesn't include race theory.
- It does include race theory, since some people apparently think, that public roads are for racing.

If erasable writing methods don't work, create a sheet document, set font size to 1 and reduce line spacing to its limits. Prepare the entirety of the list in advance without revealing anything; and print them all at once using a printer that works fully offline.

If the death sheet's output does not satisfy me, maybe I would consider doing that again to its back side. Though it likely would satisfy me.

What's the Death Note?

Basically write a name on a piece of paper and then they die. You can also choose the manner of their death if I remember right
- Neat! Thank you
A Japanese Manga and Anime from the 90s and 00s. It's a story about a kid who gets ahold of a notebook capable of anonymously killing people.
- Whats Anime?

I'd burn it cause I'm not a murderer 🙏

So about your consumption...

Light Yagami could get pretty elaborate with what he required people to act out in a Death Note, but I'm not sure exactly how to destabilize our globalist economy with only one page. It likely starts with using the leader of a capitalist country to kill a large swath of it's billionaire class at once, then forcing said leader to support the nationalization of healthcare, food production, transportation, mineral extraction, etc before trying to influence other capitalist nations to take the same path for the rest of their life before heart attack inevitably gets them. The problem is that I really think you only get to write this for one leader, due to the space requirements. I guess as long as the assumption that all the world's ills stem from America it's fine, but isn't Murdoch currently operating out of Australia? Missing even a few key billionaires with the initial murder leaves a lot of powerful opposition.

If you simply take the top 3-5 leaders in the top 20 countries by gdp, it would destabilize the world immensely. Even if they all just died of a heart attack and nothing else happened. That's 100 names, you could fit that in one side probably.
- Yeah but utter destabilization isn't the goal. A complete collapse of the current power structure would just allow corporate interests to assume direct control in the name of peacekeeping. The goal is to use my wishfish to get us toward an egalitarian society, not plunge us into chaos. Have to destroy the old ways while guiding to a new way.

Reverse the overton window.

https://youtu.be/nqRtzQOf0Xk

Does it have to be names, or can it be entire species?

I hope you are thinink of mosquitos, and if so make sure to only pick the ones that bite humans. There are a lot of other species that don't.

(I know which species you really mean)
- Ok, mosquitoes are on number 2, number 1 is panda's for sure. Fuck them wannabe land orca's being so dumb, they going backwards in evolution by eating the least nutricions food ever out there (next to McDonald's and other junkfood) while being a fucking bear. And then the odacity to be a political pawn for China, fucking disgusting. I'm a vegan because I love animals and am against animal abuse, so this says something coming from me.
  
  I change number 2 to humans, bats need to eat too, they love mosquitoes and bats are cute AF.
  
  That's my list. If anyone has extra names which couldn't fit on their list, I sell spots on my list for dead panda heads. I know, unnecessary when they are are on my list, but better to be sure.

Chatgpt suggests that with a 0.3mm tip pen, and writing letters no more than 2mm x 2mm, you could fit roughly 1000 names per side of an a4 sheet.

So if you’re fine with the default means of killing, and use both sides of the paper, you could take out about 2000 people.

As far as how I would personally use it? I’d put down maybe two or three names per month. I don’t have the greatest fine motor skills around, so I could fit maybe 250 names per side at most.

Who would I target? Idk. My first thought would be people like Putin & Kim Jong Un, but the concern there is if those two chucklefucks suddenly die, their countries will descend into chaos and there’s no telling what will happen to their nukes.

I think the goal would be to try and use it in a way that makes world leaders hesitant to do anything evil because they know their hearts can just explode if they get bad press.