Remy: Violent Video Games
In prison, Remy looks back on how he went astray.
In prison for life, Remy looks back on his violent past and contemplates where it all went wrong who's to blame.
Written and Performed by Remy
Shot and Edited by Austin Bragg and Meredith Bragg
Mastering by Ben Karlstrom
Music tracks by Grind Time Production Squad
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LYRICS:
In the clink
In the slammer
Yeah I'm doing hard time
For a crime that I committed
Back in 2009
See violent games lead to crimes
Wish I knew from the start
Before I ever got involved
In playing Mario Kart
I was hugging the turns
Heaving items for thrills
Ain't seen a toad so damaged by shell
Since that last oil spill
But something happens to your brain
Doing virtual wrongs
Woke up the next morning
And it wasn't too long before I was
Dropping bananas
Upon every street
Hurling turtles
Hurting every single person I see
Then I was road-raging at plumbers
Nobody could stop me
I'd run princesses off the road so much
I joined the paparazzi
Now I'm in prison doing 20 to life
How could such a game be legal man
The danger is rife
Well my fate is sealed
Won't be doing right
Because I'm playing violent video games tonight
And the things I do
I then do in life
It's a tragedy I'm gonna be in jail for life
Reminds me of another time
My life went astray
Playing a World War 2 game
Back in 2008
I was only playing a minute
Then I felt an unease
Next thing I did right after playing
I interred the Japanese
Years later I would pay the judges
To win every race
It's just what happens when you play
Too many games by EA
Now I'm doing life
With no chance of parole
Why didn't anybody ban these games
How was I to know
CHORUS
Expert here
And forgive me for stalling
But violent video games
The stats are appalling
Just look at this graph
And as you can tell
As gameplay's increased
Youth crime has as well
Uh - It's gone down
Well who needs a chart?
I took 400 grand in loans
So you know that I'm smart
Like a guy leaving the mohel
You're missing the point
Freedom's when you only get to play
The games we anoint
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I'm sure this is funny. I will enjoy watching it. Gosh I enjoy comedy.
Too bad you fired your damn comedian. Bring back Heaton, mother fuckers.
They fired Heaton? I thought it was just a mutual parting. Heaton was by far the best thing on this site while he was here. Hey, maybe that's why he was let go
Sick EA burn.
The new Fallout is looking pretty interesting!
I'd run princesses off the road so much
I joined the paparazzi
Shit, dude.
Yeah. Too soon, Remy. Too soon.
Like a guy leaving the mohel
You're missing the point
For this joke to work, I'm going to have to make some weird assumptions about Remy's penis.
We all do, which may have been Remy's goal.
Hold on... Channeling Remy, here...
Remy says that all will be revealed in his next show!!!
And if we'll show him ours, he'll show us his!!!
Joe Lieberman says it's for your own good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdojFVlAP-M
Interesting coincidence: As I recall the first first-person shooting game was Doom. It premiered in 1993.
That also happens to be the year that violent crime peaked in the U.S. It's been dropping ever since.
Kinda hard to convince me that violent video games are causing a flood of criminal violence, when the level is back to what I remember in the 1950s..
There were others before it. Wolfenstein and ultima underworld, off the top of my head
Hurling turtles? LOL
Remy is awesome.
Crime and Fighting games and Battle games affect most to young generation. Please avoid such games from kids to be safer.
What about be a good parent and allow kids to live their lifes? You think that when my parents told me not to watch Pulp Fiction i did not watch it? I just waited for them to leave and did it anyway. It is like guns you cannot tell your kid. Do not touch the guns. You have to teach your kid fire arm safety because telling someone to not do something many times is what makes them do it. In fact many times bosses that want certain rumors to get our will say hey i am telling you this but do not tell anyone. And then the whole office knows. We humans are complicated beings and hence we must be teach to safely use things as restricting them is pointless. It just makes repress individuals who could never play violent video games or could never drink but then they turn 18 and die from an alcohol overdose or play games and leave work because they were never allowed to do it.
As always remy is the spearhead that will help the libertarian party win the culture work. As someone from Argentina i am glad to report that small libertarian groups have been popping up here they use liberals as their name. Referring to clasical liberalism. Not the liberalism we know today. But still we can only hope that they help and many others like them wordwide. Because freedom must prevail.
Some people believe that these violent games can cause aggression in school and some of the video games promote aggressiveness in children. Violent video games have a negative effect not only to children but also to adults. Before purchasing any video games it is very important for parents to check out the rating system that will help them to understand the level of violence in the game. So, make sure to buy video games from Instant Gaming store where you can check out the ratings of the games before buying it.