ANSWERING THE QUESTION!!!

Well, to answer “The Question” of “What will it take to answer ‘The Question’”? I listen every week, usually mid-late week (Wed/Thur). I subscribe on iTunes so I can listen to it on my iPod in my car. So I’ll listen in the car, “The Question” will come along and I’ll answer it to myself. Tell myself I’ll send in an answer. Then the Podcast ends, I move onto a different podcast and forget about “The Question” by the time I get home and I go about my business. I then listen to next week’s podcast, am reminded that I didn’t answer the the last “Question”, and commit to send in an answer to THIS “Question”… forget about it by the time I get home and the cycle continues. I think what would help remind me is a few hours before you record the next Mashcast, just pop a Tweet up reminding Mashcast listeners to send in their answers. That way while at work, I’ll check Twitter, realize I didn’t answer “The Question” and try to get one in before you record next.

NOW, concerning last week’s “The Question”, here’s what it would take to get me to pay $30 a year for Tetris…

Once a month… every month… EA needs to provide me with a “Real-Life Tetris Experience” weekend. And here is what that weekend would entail… They would fly a helicopter to my house, and in that helicopter would be Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of Tetris and Russia’s hottest mail-order bride, who I can personally select from a directory of mail-order brides. Pajitnov must be wearing a tuxedo and a white sash that reads “Comrade Awesome” and the mail-order bride must be wearing a red Baywatch-style swimsuit with a big hammer and sickle on the front. I will board the helicopter and it will fly us all to the nearest international airport. We will then board a flight to Moscow, where I will be treated in the finest of All-You-Can-Eat Russian cuisine (which I imagine is mostly Vodka and Potatoes, perfectly acceptable). “Comrade Awesome” and I will also enjoy some fine cigars, lit by burning all of the royalties he should have received between 1984 and 2004, when he finally secured the patent to Tetris.

Once we arrive in Moscow, we are transported onto another helicopter, which flies us directly to the Kremlin. In the backyard of the Kremlin, EA must have constructed a gigantic, multi-story rectangular glass tower, in which you can play real-life Tetris. The way it will be played, each Tetris square will be a 10 foot by 10 foot iron block, which will be arranged and constructed into the various Tetrominoes. Those enormous Tetrominoes will have to be lowered into the glass tower by extremely large, sophisticated cranes that I will be able to control using a handheld controller (preferably NES) and will turn the enormous iron block constructs, just like Tetris pieces. They will also have to develop some form of advanced technology that will cause the blocks to self-destruct upon you getting a line. When I’ve had my fun, EA must then fly me home, but this time Vladimir Putin will be my stewardess.

If EA can make that happen 12 times a year, they got my 30 dollars.

I will stop being lazy and answer all questions from now on. Honestly though sometimes I just forget to listen to the very end of the podcast to hear the question, but that doesn’t mean the podcasts are too long!(kinda miss the 2 hour ones, lol).