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Sharks Gameday: The Torment of Living in Winnipeg

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The city of Winnipeg is officially a disaster, and it's clogging up my Twitter feed.

Tough times in Winnipeg.
Tough times in Winnipeg.

I've long had a fascination with Winnipeg, in much the same way that devout Catholics often develop a fascination with Hell.

Since the Sharks first played the Jets 2.0 several years back, I've enjoyed learning all I can about the strange and terrible place known as Winnipeg -- and I like to share what I discover with my readers. I wrote about all the awful things I learned from the Winnipeg Wikipedia page, I showed how hard it is to tell the difference between Winnipeg and Russia, and I've mocked their Mayor.

I've also had a lot of fun over the past few months following the City of Winnipeg's official Twitter account. I've featured some of their best tweets in Tweet of the Week articles in the past and the account even followed me for a brief and glorious moment so we could DM. Needless to say, I've been a big fan.

Unfortunately, I think I'm going to have to stop following the City of Winnipeg Twitter. It's just gotten too god damn bleak.

This has basically been all that the city of Winnipeg account has been tweeting about for the ENTIRE MONTH OF MARCH. Hundreds and hundreds of the same repeated warnings and advisories, mixed in with specific instructions for confused, frozen, thirsty residents letting them know they shouldn't take snow out of the gutters and put it into their mouths.

I understand that this is officially a disaster, and in times of crisis the main function of a city's social media should be to get citizens essential information...but I just can't take it anymore. You used to be fun, @cityofwinnipeg. Now you're just a bummer.

Unfollowed.


Sharks Gameday

Prediction: The Sharks win easily after all the Jets players become violently ill thanks to eating too much snow off the ground outside.

Video Gamery: My 8th-favorite video game is Plansecape: Torment. It was absolutely incredible and has never been equaled in its genre. The novelization, however, was garbage.