Hannah Vintore is a great new character addition to the GTA series. She makes you get her coffee from starbuck's but not the one close by. the baristas there just don't make good enough skinny Lattes. There IS one in the peanutpacking district though that really knows what it's doing. steal a car, drive there, get me a latte, rob the place and kill a poorly dressed pedestrian. you have 7 minutes, Nico.

Unfortunately, Nick, I don't think you can enter the faux Conde Nast building in-game.

Can I just head-butt a bunch of assholes waiting in line to get in to the Steinway Beer Garden and call it a day?

While you're at it, pop all the little LED's on those running tickers at 1585 Broadway!

@TheHonJudgeSmails: You can, however, jump a fire truck off a ramp to blow up oil tankers in Greenpoint while listening to the Cro Mags, all in slo-mo, shot from multiple angles. As I did, for two hours nonstop on a Sunday night. Much better than terrorizing skinny bitches in pointy heels.

@TheHonJudgeSmails: True. Best you could do is maybe fly a helicopter into it or launch rockets at it. But those rockets are hard to come by.

@hamburgerhotdog: As an experiment, I got a cop car to chase me and then went off a ramp to see if he'd follow. He did! It was hilarious.

@hamburgerhotdog: @fiveinchtaint: For me, the most satisfying scenario I've arranged is flying a helicopter to the top of the Empire State Building, and proceeding to lob hand grenades down upon tourists on the observation deck.

God, Nick, some of us have lives you know.

(Can this wait until I get home tonight?)

@TheHonJudgeSmails: ok - time to get this damn game. i suppose i'll need the system to boot.

@TheHonJudgeSmails: You have a helicopter already?

@Conbon: If it makes you feel any better, I finally beat up Darden last night. I'm kind of slow.

why mow down the interns? they are but cogs in the machine. go straight for the editors.

@Conbon: Once you get to Algonquin, they are yours for the taking at the heliport. You can take a tour, or just steal them like any old car. I was shot down trying to enter Jersey too soon.

@fiveinchtaint: I did not know that. Can I park one outside my penthouse?

@Phyllis Nefler: Did you push him out the window?

@Conbon: Haven't tried that yet. That aspect of the game is inconsistent so far. Sometimes the car you show up in for a mission is there after the cut scene narrative, and sometimes it's not. I have the feeling a helicopter would be gone once you turn your back.

@Conbon: Yes! In fact, I stole his knife and stabbed him out the window! I rule. Except for the fact that it took me about ten tries to do so.

@fiveinchtaint: Know what really pisses me off? The hide behind stuff button. Packie and I were stealing a truck of meds last night. I walked around a shipping container and like 40 guys started shooting at me. I tired to run back behind the container and hit RB, but Niko decided to hide on the side of the container instead, vulnerable to the 40 guys' gunfire. I proceeded to hit RB 8 million times in order to get off the wall while getting shot, but Niko seemed content to just stay up against the container until he died. Ridiculous.

Also, the cell phone is too fucking small.

@Phyllis Nefler: Did you do the celebratory get-off-the-couch-and-dance-by-yourself-because-you-just-beat-a-mission-that-took-a-lot-of-tries-dance? No? That's just me? OK.

The game gets awesomer. I am way too far into the game for someone over the age of 16 with a full-time job.

@Conbon: My biggest problem is that when I get excited and move the joystick thing around a lot, I accidentally will press on it and he crouches down and like crab-walks.

To your other question: I did the celebratory text-message-my-much-better-than-me-at-GTA-friend-asking-how-to-save-my-progress-because-I-had-no-idea-how.

I also drove back to the safehouse at like 2 mph because I only had one measly health bar left. So that's what we're dealing with here.

@Conbon: Oh I get really pissed. Little things. It's too hard to run through a building because you seem to be magnetically attracted to door frames and beams that stop your forward progress. Cars only get in your way when you have three stars and then you get trapped inside the pay-n-spray because the cop was able to catch up and saw you enter. I can see the bad guy through the door, but aiming directly at him leads to me shooting the door frame while he pummels me. And on and on. But it's more good than bad so I keep going.

@fiveinchtaint: My advice to you: Start dating Kiki.

@fiveinchtaint: Agreed on the way more good than bad. Plus, I have an orange Ferrari 360. I put the Porsche Brucie gave me in the water though. Stupid stunt jumps.

@Phyllis Nefler: HA it saves for you when you beat a mission. Also, don't ever drive that slow ever again, or Niko will be on SNL complaining about you.

@TheHonJudgeSmails: Is she one of the girls on the dating website? I keep getting turned down by them - maybe I've missed Kiki. I did have a quick date with French Tom, though.

@Phyllis Nefler: Haha! That is hilarious. Right, now that you know about the auto save, tear it up. Don't tell me you stop at red lights.

@Conbon: When I did Brucie's race, there was suddenly a red Porsche parked around the corner from the new pad. I placed it in the parking space for future use. Otherwise, if I need a nice car I can always find one parked at Faustin's old place.

@fiveinchtaint: The date with French Tom is a mission, Dingus!

You can meet Carmen from the dating site. She's about the only one that hasn't turned me down.

Oh! And have y'all gone boating with Brucie yet? That's pretty sweet. I kinda wish there was an actual Poop Deck in the city!

@fiveinchtaint: She's listed as "LawChick". You have to complete a certain number of missions for her to say yes, though.

@DorothyMantooth: No, because Brucie is a weirdo.

@TheHonJudgeSmails: Do you have to go through a number for her to come up? She's the one that can help with your wanted rating, right? Haven't found her yet.

@Conbon: I fuckin' LOVE Brucie, man! Brucie's a winner! (Hee!)

@DorothyMantooth: I think you're genetically different, Mantooth.

@fiveinchtaint: @Conbon: I am blowing my carefully constructed image as a total cool kid by admitting: I did stop at red lights at first, especially if I thought a cop was nearby. I don't even do that in real life!

@Conbon: The ladies can sense that about me.