Everyone and their brother is doing Formspring, but I don’t need no stinking social networking wannabe to answer questions people have about me. I just ask people to send questions to me on Twitter or Facebook and then I answer them here. Easy as pie.

Not a ton of questions tonight, which is fine — I have to go watch Lost in just a bit.

@preden2 asks, “If you could get ANY guest for a Tipoaa show, who would you choose?”

I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit lately — I think we have a pretty nice opportunity on the new podcast to bring some really interesting people on from all walks of life, but on the other hand, the show is really a lot of inside jokes between Turpster and I, so it wouldn’t really be right to invite somebody like Greg Grunberg on (he and I are Twitter buddies, you know) and then laugh about fahjords and “how’s it going chat channel.” Given that those things are funny, of course, but it’s a fine line.

So I don’t know. Turpster and I will definitely invite on our buddies, and I’m hoping to bring in some new voices — some people we know who don’t necessarily play WoW, but would be really funny on a podcast. You’ll see — I guarantee we’ll have some new folks on very soon.

As for a pie in the sky kind of thing, I’d love to have someone like Patton Oswalt or Kristen Bell on — someone who’s really legitimately talented and funny. But I think the size and form of the show as it is right now (which is the way we want it, really) wouldn’t attract someone like that. Unless we happen to have some connection to them somehow. You never know — I’m meeting all sorts of people here in LA. In six months, maybe I will have Patton Oswalt’s number.

Speaking of talented, @maryvarn asks, “Nintendo 3DS: Gimmicky or Awesome?”

I’m happy to say that I got to break the news last night about Nintendo’s new handheld console on Joystiq — at the time, I was worried out of my mind that it was a hoax or a joke or that it was actually an old rumor or something, but no, turns out that they really did announce a new handheld, due out by this time next year, that will allow for 3D gaming without any sort of special glasses. There’s a few funny things here — first, I think it’s hilarious that they have announced a new version of the console just days before the DSi XL is set to release in the states — that’s like Apple announcing an iPad 2 right now before the first iPad actually gets to stores. Either Nintendo is really worried about the DSi XL (and want to make sure that low sales don’t freak out their investors), or they’re not worried at all, and expect that people will buy it anyway, even though it’ll be obsolete in less than a year.

But about the console itself, I think it’s closer to awesome than gimmicky. Obviously I haven’t seen it yet (there are no official pictures out there), and we have no idea what kinds of games will be on it. We don’t even really know what the technology is — will it be some sort of head-tracking software running through the camera that changes the screen based on where your head is, or will it be this “parallax” technology that pushes two different views to different areas in front of the screen? Or will it just be an accelerometer that changes the view based on how it’s tilted? We have no idea.

So there’s always the chance that Nintendo could jump the gun and screw it up (Virtual Boy), but I don’t think they will — remember than when the DS came out, everyone thought it was gimmicky, and now it’s the biggest handheld around. And remember that when the Wii came out, everyone thought it was a joke, and now Microsoft and Sony are scrambling to release motion controls. In other words, I wouldn’t bet against Nintendo — they’re a company that knows their trends, and it certainly seems like 3D is where gaming (and most of multimedia) is going. Plus, they’re exactly right — the most frustrating thing about 3D is the stupid glasses, so if they can come up with a working solution to do respectable 3D without glasses, and tie it into a Mario or a Zelda game or two, they’ll make their money back and then some.

Personally, I tend to skip every other generation of Nintendo’s handhelds — I bought a Game Boy, skipped the Color, bought the Advance, skipped the SP, bought the original DS Phat, skipped the Lite, and bought a DSi. I probably won’t count the XL, so I might skip the 3DS, but we’ll see — again, if Nintendo releases a beautiful Mario game tied to glasses-less 3D, I don’t know that I could really resist.

And speaking of Mario, @mockford wants to know: “I’m playing Super Mario Galaxy. When you did it, did you go back through as Luigi? I’m not there yet, but thinking about it. :)”

Wait, you can play SMG as Luigi? I thought that was a myth!

Holy crap you can!

I guess you need to collect all of the stars, which I don’t think I ever did. Right now I’m playing God of War III, and Final Fantasy XIII is supposed to show up sometime this week. After that, I’ve promised a friend that I will play Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 with him, and then I think I need to go back and play through Uncharted 2 and Mass Effect 2. But if I get bored sometime during all of that, I’ll pull SMG out again and try to get to Luigi as a playable character.

Oh, and I’m back playing WoW again — I’m working on the Guardian of Cenarius title. Because I needed something to work on, and I need a cool title, and I happen to be playing on the Cenarius server.

Finally, @Ziphz asks the most disturbing question: “If turpster was a woman would you date him?”

Ah, no. A female Turpster wouldn’t be my type (although I do like an English accent), and plus, s/he’d be in England, and I’m not down for a long distance thing. Plus, you know, that smell.

Although if Turpster was a woman, I bet our podcast would be more popular. Two dudes chasing after Swedish ladies can probably only go so far on the Internet.