For anyone that doesn’t know about Death Note it’s a fictional notebook from a death god. If you write someone’s name in it while picturing thier face they die. You can also manipulate thier actions and method of death to some extent.

Death note rules.

    • astrsk@fedia.io
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      5 days ago

      Not if they’re picturing the correct person. Writing the wrong name but picturing the correct person will result in no death so as to keep the innocent or same-name people alive. It’s in the rules.

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        4 days ago

        Makes me wonder what would happen with JD Vance, actually. His last name has changed a couple of times, which of his names is the “real” one?

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          3 days ago

          It needs to be his legal name. That’s also addressed in Death Note, where the lead investigator goes by a moniker “L” and can’t be targeted by the Death Note until after Light learns L’s real legal name. Nicknames or incomplete names aren’t enough.

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      Think you need to have the person face in your mind when writing it so even if people share the name only the one you think about would die.